Get Out / Ayaka Ikio
From the album "Gossip" (also featured in beatmania IIDX 18: Resort Anthem)

Stepped by Xythar (gmmazz@hotmail.com) for DDREvolved.com Hits of 2010

Background is from what I assume is a promotional shot (got it from Google image search), banner was made by me in an attempt to create a similar background to the official CD cover for Gossip. The title text is by me, the artist text is the official artist text taken from the CD cover. Video is the official video, downloaded from Youtube.

Ayaka Ikio is an up-and-coming singer/model in Japan who has worked with producer Masayuki Kumahara (previously in Fantastic Plastic Machine) to produce two mini-albums so far featuring their trademark hard electro sound. They're not unlike capsule in that regard, so how could I say no? :P

I think my favourite part of the Heavy steps is the verse (since the rest of the song leads to fairly samey steps, though I did what I could to mix it up). You may or may not notice that I designed the steps so that all of the 16th gallopy things start on the right foot in the first half, and then they all start on the left foot in the second half. I dunno, I thought it was kind of neat.

Finally, a few words regarding the overall vision behind my Hits of 2010 entries - in this pack, since I haven't been paying much attention to pop music lately, I decided that I'd recap what 2010 meant for me in terms of stepfiling. So, I've included one stepfile representing each competition I entered this year - Yellow refers to Best-Mix 4 (same artist as Far Away, my DDR entry), Ochame Kinou refers to Cheesemix 6 (same artist as PoPiPo, my judged entry) and Get Out refers to Spookymix 2010 (same artist as Scream, one of my three Spookymix files). Well, technically four Spookymix files since I also did Ievan Polkka. Sorry.

As for Love or Lies, each End Of Year Bonus Pack so far I've alternated between Perfume and capsule (Perfume in '06, capsule in '07, then Perfume in '08 again) and since I missed out on the '09 pack, it's capsule's turn again. That is of course assuming I actually finish and submit the file, it's not quite done yet >_>

Hope you enjoy these files, and I'd also like to wish you all a merry (if somewhat belated) Christmas and a happy new year!

--Xythar