December Spin Celebration – Holidays Approaching!
Saturday is upon us once again, but fret not, you won’t be bombarded by another marathon post, but there is still a good amount of new material to be found in Spin It Up. It’s week three in the December Spin Celebration and if you can’t guess what today’s theme is, perhaps you should take a good look at a calendar.
In recognition of the holidays, you can now find three new songs in Spin It Up, modeled after the merry holiday of Christmas, all produced by on-site regulars:
{Christmas Grooves} by cornandbeans – difficulty level 1 by nestlekwik
A Christmas Nightmare (Vocal Mix) by /DJS\ – difficulty level 5 by SulferDragon
Jingle Bells by DJ Scratchin’ – difficulty level 1 by MixMasterLar
And, of course, I realize not everyone celebrates Christmas, but, unfortunately, I couldn’t find any other traditional holiday songs, so in the spirit of Dec. 22, the first official day of winter, here are three winter-themed songs that join the game along with the SiU staples Snowfall [Final Mix] (difficulty 3) by ArcSynth and Field of Snow (difficulty 6) by KgZ:
Snow by Cranky – difficulty level 5 by nestlekwik
Snowstorm by -API- – difficulty level 1 by -Kitsune-
Cold Breath by Shiki – difficulty level 5 by jugglinguy
On two other notes, at this time, we realize the Spin It Up multiplayer is currently not working. We will have the matter fixed as soon as possible. On a better note, MixMasterLar and I have recorded all of the top 10 scores of difficulties 1-4 as of Friday, Dec. 21. You can view the updated top 10s in the Spin It Up forum’s dedicated thread. Tomorrow, we also anticipate updating the personal player rankings thread to reflect the updated top 10s.
Thank you for everyone’s support of Spin It Up through the year as we near the final update of 2007 for the game. I’ve seen many of our Spin It Up players are not visiting the forum, where you can receive a boatload of information, learn how to contribute to the game and register for temporary top 10 rankings, so don’t delay any further – get over to the Spin It Up forum now!
Day 8 – No Time For News!
I have to run off to the airport in an hour, and have to pack and stuff still… so, no time to write up a full news story on today’s songs. But, there are 4 of them. They are really fun. And they are in Hip-Hop. That is really all you need to know. I’ll give a full write up on them + tomorrow’s songs tomorrow.
Nestle’s quick reference of added song titles until Tass updates:
Shin Trigger, Same Dream, Hadazumi Rittou, Clockwork Genesis
And in case you missed the skill token announcement among the T-Shirt design entry: FC RainDrops with 463+ Perfects to unlock RainDrops v2.
Peace Out Homies
-Tass
FFR T-Shirt Design Contest!!! Plus New Skill Token!
I’ve mentioned it a few times over the past few months, and it’s finally a reality. We’re holding a contest to design the next FFR T-shirt! The winner will have their design used for our next shirt AND will receive the first shirt, hot off the press, for free.
Things to know or keep in mind:
-Needs to be done in 300dpi or higher OR in vector (think illustrator)
-The more colors in the design, the more the shirt will cost (so try to limit it to 2 colors)
-Shirts with front and back designs (vs just front) will cost more as well
-The design shouldn’t be bigger than 12″ wide by 14″ tall
-We’ll be choosing finalists based on design as well as cost to produce
Designs can be PMed to Tasselfoot. From there, the admin team will convene in our secret lair and decide on a few designs as finalists. Then everyone will get to vote on their favorite from the finalists. The design with the highest vote total will win. The rest of the finalists will receive subscription prizes!
Artists have until January 7th, 2008 to get their submissions sent in. Discussions/Designs can be posted in the official thread. Official Logo image can be downloaded from: FFR Official Logo
-Tass & The FFR Guy
PS – New ST… FC RainDrops with 463+ Perfects to unlock RainDrops v2. Enjoy. Stepfile by Vote4Nixon, a 7.
Day 7 – Tass Accidentially Deletes His Spreadsheet
Unbelievably annoying, but true. So for the final half of this event, I’ll be trying to re-create what I had originally laid out. I’ve got a pretty good memory, but it won’t be 100% the same as it otherwise would have been. Feel free to mock me, I deserve it. My apologies.
In better news, there are 4 songs in today’s release! Comptine D’un Autre Ete Techno Mix is, clearly, a remix of a French song. I don’t really know much more about it. It’s fun to play though! And it’s our first song by BreeD, who goes by TK_Breed on our site. Stepfile is by Kotarouchan, her 2nd. I give it an 8 in difficulty for it’s long 16th stream and jump triplets.
Hero’s Theme (w.i.p.) is yet another cornandbeans song without braces. Amazing. This song is pretty epic… similar to DarkeSword stuff, only better IMO. Stepfile is by brothaice and is fairly unique. It has a long 8th jump section with 16th thrown in that I find extremely hard to PA, along with a 12th stream section with 8ths in it and a 16th staircase section with 32nds thrown in. Check it out for yourselves… I find it to be a 10 in difficulty because of the hardness to PA the unusual patterns.
Finally, our first song by rock group Machinae Supremacy, Koala in the Spider’s Web. It’s a pretty downtempo song, and a bit repetitive, but still very chill to listen to. Stepfile is by first-timer three17s. Initially I thought it was a 4, but then there were some 8th chains so I thought it was a 5, but at the end there were 2 small 16th staircases that made it a 6. Enjoy.
Oh, wait… I said 4, right? Well… the fourth isn’t out yet. Won’t be out til the evening. And you’ll have to have some SKILL to get it. Hint Hint.
These 3 are in Hip-Hop, 4th will be somewhere else… will put another blurb up when that goes live.
-Tass
Spontaneous T-Shirt Night
So check this out. This is about as spontaneous as it gets.
Most creative fax sent to 1-630-***-**** before 9pm Central tonight (7pm Pacific) will get an FFR T-shirt of their choice for the Holidays.
GO JOE!
Cheers,
*EDIT* Congrats to guyofgod for tonights winning entry. I have included the thumbnail (click to load full version) and will include a .pdf tomorrow of the best entries. There were like 5-10 others that tied for second place. Thanks for using up my fax ink cartridge tonight you bastards! 
Guyofgod, we will send you a coupon for the shirt so that you can pick any shirt and size that you want.
Day 6 – Legendary Lunar Saturation Etude
For those who enjoyed Pupil of Frenzy yesterday, we’ve got a back-to-back touhou sighting with today’s release of Lunar Saturation, and SUN3 arrangement of the song by ZUN. Stepfile is by Rebirth0, so you know it’s good. 24 4-framers fill this 185bpm file, with most coming in an intense ending. Definitely a 10.
Legendary Etude is our first song by AEROJET since last year’s FFRmas event, when we released Kick It. Stepfile is by hi19hi19 and is a pitch-relevant classical remix type song. Not too bad, 150bpm streamy song with lots of trills and runningmen. But watch out for the ending! 9 on the difficulty scale.
Songs in Hip-Hop… and I’m hungry.
-Tass
Upgrades
We will be moving chat and multiplayer services onto a new server today. If you notice any downtime with those specific services, it is only temporary. The rest of the site will not be affected.
Btw, you all kick ass.
Cheers,
Synthlight
Day 5 – I can’t come up with a catchy title for today’s songs. :’(
So, I’ll just get right into the nitty-gritty. Pupil of Frenzy is a killer progressive rock and touhou remix song by dBu. If you like Synaxis Symphony, The Brain of the Moon, or anything else similar… you’ll love this song. Even if you don’t… you’ll love this song. It’s long too, so there is a lot to love. Just a hair under 4 minutes. File is full of long 16th bursts, 8th chain sections, and even has a nice white-note gallop section. Comes it at a 9 in difficulty, stepped courtesy of Neonatrias.
There was a thread going around talking about the lack of in-house artists being featured in FFR recently. As always, just a coincidence… but we’ve got 2 featured in today’s songs. Air Breeze is a techno song by Wickedawesomeful and stepped by FFR’s 2nd most underappreciated stepfiler (next to Stargroup100), Vote4Nixon. If you need practice on short rolls, this is the song for you. It’s pretty much full of 3 note long rolls in succession. Comes in at an 8 on the Tass-O-Hard meter. Secondly, Dragons Bane is a wicked sweet (I’m not from Boston, I swear!) tune from DJSBX under alias D-Latch. Stepped by the master of the 12th note, hi19hi19, this song will have you playing it repeatedly, just to listen to it again and again. It’s also a bit tricky, with some 24th rolls at the beginning and end. Definitely a 9.
Finally, (yes… you get four songs… again. I think I broke random.org with all the 4s I rolled) our first song by ASK since Sympathizer way back in June. Life Light is a up-tempo (190bpm) song that’ll make you want to run and lift weights (at the same time!). Stepfile is by Cyanite, and it has 28 4-framers in it, most in the last 35 seconds.
Songs are in Hip-Hop… and darn am I tired. Night y’all.
-Tass
Day 4 – Dot Matrix Hero’s Fantasia Syndrome on Beaker Sunset
Four more files for everyone today. Yay! Dot Matrix Hero is an 8-bit mix by Sabrepulse with a bit of a DnB feel. The 2nd half is mostly from Super Mario Land 1, but I don’t recognize any of the other games in it. The song is 190bpm, so 4-framers are unavoidable… 27 of them. Stepped by ElectricWerewolf, it’s a 10 footer with 1000 notes on the dot.
Fantasia is a Happy song by our resident happy artist, Smiley. Usual fair for a Smiley tune, it’s full of 8th chains and 8th jumps, with a few 16ths thrown in for good measure. Also, no shocker, the stepfile is by Eastsideman09, who has the corner on the Kyle Ward market, it seems. File is a low 8 footer.
Beaker Sunset is our 3rd addition from the Alphabasic collection of Benn Jordan, aka The Flashbulb. More in line with Do Not Sex To This than Lawn Wake IV, this file comes in at as a 6 footer for 16th bursts to the DnB sections, but mostly 4ths to everything else. Of course, just like DNSTT… the file is by l Endorphin l.
Finally, Syndrome Craze is our first song in FFR by Youaremyfavoritefood. He has the distinction of being the artist in FFR with the most letters in his name (of those with only 1 word names), passing Wickedawesomeful. The song is a pretty short and straightforward techno piece, which disappoints me a bit, because it’s good… but it ends way too soon. Anyway, the stepfiler is BEN.(SPEIRS) 7.5, who has the distinction of having the worst username to have to type out repeatedly of all time. File itself is a 7.
Once again, all files can be found in Hip-Hop currently. Discuss here.
-Tass
drugstore edit – The song is actually called Syndrome Craze.
