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| Title: BALALAIKA, CARRIED WITH THE WIND
| Artist: Julie ann Frost
| From: GUITAR FREAKS 6thMIX & drummania 5thMIX (DDR UltraMix DLC)
| Genre: RUSSIAN POP
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Not much to say about the song; it was one of the 4 songs sung by Julie Frost for BEMANI (unlike what the genre may indicate, this is not in russian). 
Quite short song, it appeared originally on GUITAR FREAKS 6thMIX & drummania 5thMIX, and then later on ee'mall/pop'n music and on a DLC for some DDR UltraMix title.
This also got remixed on DDR UltraMix 3, by Jondi & Spesh.

This track was composed by Mutsuhiko Izumi, one of the main contributors to GF/dm and now to jubeat. Julie Frost was contracted by KONAMI to sing some songs for DDR (Share My Love, Remember You) and for GF/dm/KBM (Mr.Moon and BALALAIKA, CARRIED WITH THE WIND).

STEPCHARTS:
Beginner: 2 (X Scale: 2)
Light: 3 (X Scale: 5)
Standard: 5 (X Scale: 7)
Heavy: 7 (X Scale: 9)
Challenge: 8 (X Scale: 11)

BPM: 134

This file has a long story. I originally started this as an original simfile like.. 3-4 years ago? But then this got on DDR and I scrapped the file (I never released it)...

...until now. Looking through my backup DVDs, I found the file on where I was working on. Since the GF/dm and DDR cuts are the same, I chose this for the Z-I-v's Summer Contest 2010.

Now, the problem that I had was that my 3-4 years old steps were quite bad. So I ended deleting everything that I had except for the Heavy chart. I reworked the old Heavy and it's now the Challenge chart of this.

So, what about the other difficulties? The BALALAIKA charts on DDR were quite weak in my opinion, and didn't follow the 'feeling' of the song. Hopefully my charts do.
I didn't want to follow the drummania chart, though. No Doubles charts for now, sorry.

The graphics are inspired on the SuperNOVA's banner. I added this song's lyrics as well.

Enjoy!
-DMAxel