DanceDanceRevolution A20 (AC)

Getting Snail's House, TeddyLoid, and TORIENA to make DDR originals for the first time?
Now's that kick-ass.

Yeah.
Not gonna lie, these new songs look quite solid.

Ujico is a big rhythm gaming fan so this felt like it had to happen sooner or later, has a song in taiko so was hoping one day DDR

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The first two songs seem interesting, so does the next Gold League song, I also can't wait for the Sky High Remix.

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In case any of you are wondering what the Future Tom Tom song sounds like:

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Seems like it will be a nice little update.

ooh sky high I forgot that was one of the more feasible SOLO songs considering it was on DDR EXTREME AC and all
and we have our first BEMANI crossover as well took this long hahaha

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Holy smokes that sounds epic. Is this a crossover song from Pop or IIDX? Well then, time to take a trip to Remywiki.

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Nope, it's from Future Tom Tom, like I said. Also, since FTT isn't even catalogued in RemyWiki, there's no page for the song yet, since it didn't cross over to any other series.

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DJ Miko's version of Sky High is a cover of a song with male vocals, so it isn't too out of the blue for the Anniversary version to have male vocals.

With that video. I lose the hype

It would be funny if it's from sky high by Lucifer with Dj Miko jacket reference. haha but probably it won't happen it.

Ok. I'm confused for the artists for this Sky High cover so I will wait until it's out.

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I just did some extended research on Remywiki and found out the guy who made Future Tom-Tom is Kiyoshi Murai who also made songs like Pink Rose from Keyboard Mania and DDR Extreme, Leaving... from DDR X2, and Tir na n'Og from Pop n Music and DDR Universe 1 so no wonder why this sounds good.

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Well, he's done...a lot.

It strikes me how someone who can make something like fffff be responsible for 鉄甲乙女 -under the steel-, legit one of my least favourite BEMANI songs of all time.

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Writing credits confirm it's the one by DJ Miko

I find kinda funny how a few were talking about the Solo series and now the next 20th Anniversary cover is a song from Solo 2000 lol

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I thought it was kind of strange that it was a Solo license, but it was included on Party Collection, so Konami does seem to like it.

The current trend seems to indicate that these 20th anniversary mixes will uniformly consist of rearrangements of Dancemania remixes of relatively well-known musical acts. I know that a significant portion of Dancemania music consists of remixes, whether of licensed music or in-house material, but the four released 20th anniversary mixes are remixes of covers of pretty established stuff (Aqua's Cartoon Heroes is debatable). This lends credence to the prospect of something like XANADU, SMOKE, or LET'S GROOVE getting a 20th anniversary remix and flattens that of songs like SO DEEP, CONGA FEELING, and stomp to my beat, which are obviously more obscure. There also seems to be a partiality towards giving new(er?) vocalists the opportunity to display their talents, which makes me think Konami is prioritizing licenses with vocals in them, further diminishing hopes for a SO DEEP remix.
I didn't think this until I saw the remix for, of all things, DJ MIKO'S SKY HIGH, which is a song I politely pass up whenever I play my local EXTREME machine and one that I didn't think had any real demand or popularity. It felt like a stretch to me given the plethora of better Dancemania tracks, but if they are trying to stick to this formula the choice makes more sense.

stomp to my beat and CONGA FEELING are more likely as well tbh, even if they do appear in their original form in DDR before, KONAMI has certainly seem to think they're not that obscure, moreso stomp to my beat. Anyways let's see what the 5th track will bring us, if it's an vocal song, then I guess we can trash the hopes of an instrumental cover. Also your theory gave me hope of I'M IN THE MOOD FOR DANCING's inclusion yay!

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Would be good if they could also do 20th anniversary mixes on stuff from A Different Drum or Maximum Dance a.k.a unknown licenses from the Ultramix games, but since legacy licenses are mostly for Dancemania, I can throw my hopes for a Life is a Game or Skulk 20th Anniversary mix.

Edit: Theirs another brick in the way of Ultramix license remixes happening, the Ultramix and Universe games was when Jason was around so if they can they would have to get Jason to rejoin Konami and considering it's Konami, that won't happen.

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Skulk is one of my favorites songs that ever appeared on DDR, the Konami Mix is just fantastic

If you're talking about Jason Borenstein, I can see how it would be difficult to employ a man who has been dead for over a decade.