eHOLE rating: 58% (41/71)
This mix includes both Sandstorm and I Like to Move It, which gives it a higher meme quotient than any other NA home release on record.
Favorite song: INSERTiON. The grand tragedy of Naoki Maeda is that, despite having a larger fingerprint on Bemani than any of Konami's other in-house musicians, nearly all the DDR music he attached his name to and thus became widely known for was awful. This primarily applies to his "Eurobeat," which he ALWAYS seemed to claim credit for and which is as repetitive and lifeless as anything calling itself dance music could ever be. His trance, however, is pretty solid, and in cases like INSERTiON sometimes quite good. I like the dark rumbling bass, the dramatic jangly piano, and the way the synths come roaring back in at the end of the song after the slowdown. It's got atmosphere! The stepchart is also quite unique, super messy and full of dumb tempo changes but possessed of its own internal logic. A really fun cata (that's a 9-difficulty song, youngins!) that does something with the rating besides just nonstop stream.
This mix includes both Sandstorm and I Like to Move It, which gives it a higher meme quotient than any other NA home release on record.
Favorite song: INSERTiON. The grand tragedy of Naoki Maeda is that, despite having a larger fingerprint on Bemani than any of Konami's other in-house musicians, nearly all the DDR music he attached his name to and thus became widely known for was awful. This primarily applies to his "Eurobeat," which he ALWAYS seemed to claim credit for and which is as repetitive and lifeless as anything calling itself dance music could ever be. His trance, however, is pretty solid, and in cases like INSERTiON sometimes quite good. I like the dark rumbling bass, the dramatic jangly piano, and the way the synths come roaring back in at the end of the song after the slowdown. It's got atmosphere! The stepchart is also quite unique, super messy and full of dumb tempo changes but possessed of its own internal logic. A really fun cata (that's a 9-difficulty song, youngins!) that does something with the rating besides just nonstop stream.