Dance Dance Revolution/Awesome Music


 * Butterfly always finds a special spot in my head.
 * And then they make it 100% cuter with Pikachu.
 * Sakura from EXTREME (Original from IIDX).
 * Dynamite Rave by the aforementioned Naoki Maeda, from Dance Dance Revolution 3rd Mix.
 * Max 300 from Dance Dance Revolution 6th Mix (also known as DDRMAX). Oh, my goodness, Max 300.
 * And of course, the sequel from DDRMAX 2- MaxX Unlimited. The long sequence of jumps near the end is awesome.
 * MAX would go on to become a series institution, with DDR EXTREME producing The legend of MAX.
 * Fascination MAXX. Taking leg-breaking insanity Up to Eleven and sounding awesome while doing it.
 * The less-remembered 2MB remix MAX. (period), available only on the Japanese console version of Extreme. It was the utter peak of difficulty escalation in DDR before In The Groove's challenge-oriented design forced Konami to up the ante to match. The fourth wall gets a beating - the background video depicts recording sessions and the distorted voice is whispering "WHY DO YOU NEED KONAMI ORIGINAL SONGS?". The normally silent slowdown has a tiny glimpse of nostalgia to the first ever DDR mix, with the faint background music and step patterns taken from PARANOiA, the first boss song of the series. After a few seconds of standard MAX fare, the speed rockets to a staggering six hundred beats per minute, the fastest official song scrolling speed around that time. The rest of the MAX songs skirted the line between "legitimate song" and "difficulty justification", but MAX. is an unabashed attack towards the player.
 * PARANOiA HADES from Dance Dance Revolution SuperNOVA 2. Think of it this way - one of the hardest songs in the game. Halfway in, the song drops in speed, then speeds up slightly again. Partway through that speed up (at 1:26 in the video), the build-up begins. Every time without fail, this part makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end, as if to say "This next part is going to kick your ass." Add to that the disturbing backing video, and you actually fear the next part of the song, in the most awesome way.
 * Hana Ranman -Flowers- by TËЯRA from DDR SuperNOVA. It also later appeared in Beatmania IIDX 15: DJ TROOPERS.
 * And now we have the full version
 * Kakumei by dj TAKA with Naoki; a remix of Chopin's "Revolutionary" Etude no. 12, and the One More Extra Stage for beatmania IIDX 7th Style and DDRMAX2: 7th Mix.
 * WONDERLAND (UKS MIX) by X-TREME from Dance Dance Revolution 3rdMIX. Posted the full version to save people the trouble of finding it.
 * ORION.78 (Civiliation Mix). A combination of an old Okinawan folk song and a pumping techno beat.
 * All four versions of Roppongi Evolved from DDR X2.
 * DEE DEE ARE ECKS TWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
 * Valkyrie Dimension from DDR X2 AC.