DanceDanceRevolution A20 (AC)

Two things of note here

1. It was probably in jest. Tone in a tweet is hard to convey, and probably even worse in another language one isn't familiar with.
2. At least one of them clearly knows something about the charts, which is interesting in its own right.

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See, that's what caught my eye here. Maybe the artists get to see charts to their songs before they go live...?

Full difficulty listings are on the official site.

HAVE YOU NEVER BEEN MELLOW: 2/4/6/10, 4/6/10
Get On Da Floor: 2/5/8/11, 4/8/11
Helios: 4/8/12/15, 8/12/15
Skywalking: 4/7/10/14, 7/11/14
SODA GALAXY: 3/6/9/12, 6/8/12
Toy Box Factory: 3/7/11/14, 7/11/14

HAVE YOU NEVER BEEN MELLOW Remix DP:

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Have you never been mellow remix a lvl10? LoL, what a shame

Hell yeah, 10s have been super good.

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I'm ok with Have you never been mellow being a 10. Not every song in a game should be difficult, and this mix in this early state has a lot of +14 songs

EDIT: Helios ESP https://twitter.com/Alstroe0929/status/1110714836487274497

The chart is pretty normal (no gimmick at all), but i can't hear anything about this song sadly

HAVE YOU NEVER BEEN MELLOW -EDM mix-: https://twitter.com/Alstroe0929/status/1110716181982281728

Get On Da Floor: https://twitter.com/Alstroe0929/status/1110717098316066817

Toy Box Factory (a.k.a ska a go go pop'n style. I like this chart, is pretty fun): https://twitter.com/Alstroe0929/status/1110718536966520832

SODA GALAXY: https://twitter.com/Alstroe0929/status/1110720066830557184

Skywalking: https://twitter.com/Alstroe0929/status/1110721181026443267

Yeah, I cant hear a whole lot, but the song sort of sounds under-stepped? We will have to wait for a line-out to start that argument though. It definitely doesn't look BAD by any means.

Edit: HYNBM remix sounds gorgeous. Its a real surprise to me that it took this long for another licence by NC. Genie in a Bottle was really good, I wonder what took so long?

Have you never been mellow remix sounds pretty cool to be honest, and the stepchart is fun, harder than te average lvl10, so i'm ok with that. Helios looks a little tough for a 15, it's a hard one (at least harder than Neverland and Procyon)

Yeah... The remix reminds me more of the original song, especially in the intro and outro. I wonder I how the doubles chart looks like, given S- chart using spins in abundance.

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Dang, the new music actually sounds good. Helios kind of reminds me of R5 on Ultramix 2.

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I was expecting a Hardcore Rave song from DJ Shimamura, and instead it brings an 80's style song.

Also i was expecting a Trance song from Nhato, and instead it brings a more speedy and joyful song.

I fucking love this mix

Well. All news songs are great. About Have you never been mellow I felt it a little tender and sweet. It sound good. The artist made a good jod for HYNBM.

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it really does give the essence of an 80s song without having to resort to the usual generic outrun synthwave type
skywalking reminds me of an darwin song omg
toy-box genuinely sounds like an carnival crane game bgm omg
konami really snatched my wig with this update

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what do you think of the musical direction (so far)? I really like Dead Heat and Prycon

But I think there's too much dubstep. I mean I know dubstep is perfect for a game like DDR but the genre is a bit passé imo.

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Eh, dubstep's old at this point and I like it more than the hardstyle songs, so it's fine. It makes good stepcharts. Plus, I really don't care that there's still a ton of hardstyle tracks being released since we're getting some great old-skool stuff and good English vocals again! At a pretty steady rate too! Really appreciate them doing some good stuff for old-skool fans along side content for their current audience.

And that "Have You Been Mellow" remix is fuccin rad! Really like Carne Asada's vocals on these old songs waaay more than Starbitz stuff in Dancerush. Can't really vibe with that Youtaite accent she's got going.

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I really loved that Have You Never Been Mellow remix, it kinda reminds me of Novaspace's cover of Time After Time, both have a "dreamy" feeling to their covers. I liked Toy Box Factory as well, I'd never thought they'd do a ska a go go-like pattern again (that song also sounds like a more calmer Rampage Rag?)

I'm really digging these new songs, it seems A20 might end up being a really great mix by the end of its lifecycle

Edit: I just noticed HYNBM uses part of MM GROOVIN remix's lyrics. Pretty cool huh. Also what's up with "Jasmine"? Is it a reference to someone else or it's just a random part on Asaba's name?

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So NONSTOP/CLASS are coming tomorrow.

https://p.eagate.573.jp/game/ddr/ddra20/p/info/index.html#info07

The NONSTOP courses seem to be in a "medley format" according to that news post. 🤔