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Picking up from yesterday.

Matador - 11/2096 - 1940; 595 750 428 187 284 B -388 Fail: Staccato song with a lot of three and four white note jacks while a note stream runs under current. Difficult chart. OK song, if a little unfocused and repetitive.

Mazy Mermaid - 12/1632 - 2012; 786 440 300 68 83 A -164 Fail: Empty melody with horrible Japanese singing. Could use more balance in having the counter melody strings beefed up and having more resonance in the bass. Pretty bad.

melody_express - 11/1174 - 1767; 669 429 54 10 33 AA -59 Pass: Neat chart. Song has nice evolution of one theme to the next but its not exactly something that one would listen to for the pleasure of enjoying music.

NEXT STAGE!! - 12/1897 - 2304; 827 650 197 91 317 A -222 Fail: Song has a fanfare feel to it. Many hold notes on a very busy chart with plenty of phrases which include 32nd note rolls over the four whites.

Nice magicgirls vs scary Walpurgis - 12/2188 - 1700; 602 496 547 249 608 C -244 Fail: Song starts with a nice fade in of simple notes that you play and from there picks up into unrelenting shitstorm of notes.

noir_noir - 0/986 - 1279; 439 401 104 20 48 A -35 Pass: Pretty good. Balance between slow piano with acceptable singing which picks up into piano refrain over double time drum and bass backing. Probably a 10* difficulty, at least with regul speed.

Nostalgic Memories - 9/917 - 1351; 537 277 85 10 16 AA -75 Pass: Reminds me of songs like World Wide Love from 8th. Singing is just above bad, probably because it's male and more baritone than a helium breathing female. Some tricky drum parts, for it being rated a 9*.

Party Time - 10/1152 - 1632; 651 330 134 25 26 AA -160 Pass: Very amateurish sound, with not much kick in the melody or bass back. Somehow both upbeat and depressed, as in feeling like it's heavy.

Phantom Ensemble (MarisaB remix) - 12/2444 - 2702; 927 848 353 117 398 B -13 Fail: Ow my arms. Good song I think overall. Dark sounding bassline. Most of the melody is in pure 16th streams which are groups of 2 note rolls in groups of four and gets very tiring. Random will be such fun with this.

Programmed Utopia - 12/2127 - 1761; 629 503 517 195 520 C -129 Fail: Amen Break spotted. Very difficult chart. Song seems decent.

Rebirth Castle - 12/1520 - 1971; 732 507 138 30 179 A -55 Fail: Pretty good song. Most of it is complex percussion on one hand while the other runs scales, but I can't seem to tell exactly what most of the scaled notes are keysounded with.

Ride To Hard - 11/1363 - 1772; 662 448 144 40 97 A -45 Fail: Good song - nice driving rave beat. Chart gets very busy once halfway through. 11* might be underselling it.

Rush Hour - 11/1563 - 2435; 958 519 53 8 38 AAA -343 Pass: Better than OK song which is a bit repetitive at times. Nice hand shuffling percussion rolls for most of the chart, but there's one break that has some quick 3 chord jacks which kill in a hurry.

SCCCQB - 10/805 - 992; 380 232 130 34 48 A -81 Fail: Maybe I'd like the chart better without hold notes. Too irritated to remember anything else.

Scenario - 11/850 - 1148; 460 228 100 36 33 AA -174 Fail: Good ideas but sounds flat all together. Could probably use another countermelody to mix things up and give it more depth. Lots of scratching at the end threw me off.

sekilishuken - 12/1331 - 1340; 449 442 172 107 279 B -138 Fail: Very difficult chart. Middle part of the song sounds very stupid.

September Wind - 12/1078 - 1296; 449 398 145 31 106 A -141 Fail: Solo piano opening led me to believe this would be different than how it ended up. Strongest part is the end where there is a full mix of all the melodic lines. OK song overall.

She's an Esper -Esper Mode- - 13/1559 - 1866; 663 540 188 67 196 A -212 Fail: Yes, it does sample the traditional FF theme. Second half gets very busy with notes which I'm not sure are as prominent as they should be. Not a bad song.

SHI☆O☆KA☆RA☆ - 11/1327 - 1652; 648 356 258 36 59 A -117 Fail: Pretty rough chart for a strange song. It has some features of the a-typical happy high energy song and nice big bass, yet features electric voice samples for talking on scratches. Melody refrain is strange. I didn't hate the song, at least, I guess.

SOLROS - 11/1390 - 2016; 760 496 91 16 58 AA -146 Pass: Very nice! Rich instrumentation, rhythmic percussion, and melody which recalls something of a European folk dance type of air. Nice chart to boot.

StalkeR[Adult] - 12/830 - 979; 382 215 148 33 84 A -127 Fail: Decent instrumentation with something of a clumsy melody. Chart is a clusterfuck of accidental chord runs on one hand for most of the difficult parts. I've heard worse.

TAVADELIC CYPHER GATE -TAVATARISM LOVE AND FOREVER- - 12/1719 - 1752; 562 628 318 90 180 B -158 Fail: Phew. Lot of jack parts which feel like something out of Click Again in some phrases. Turntable battle for some of the second half. Rather difficult chart. OK sounding song with driving counter melody.

Tears of Blood - 12/1159 - 1431; 542 347 102 73 154 A -114 Fail: Now featuring hold note phrases which one note is held through several bars while you use fingers on either side of the held note to hit other beats. Fuck you.

Tell the Truth - 11/1704 - 2458; 949 560 176 12 19 AA -192 Pass: Good song. I wonder where the vocals came from? Busy chart but not a lot of tricky bullshit.

The Lamia 170 - 12/1694 - 1733; 604 525 251 99 360 B -149 Fail: Scale runs all up creation and a very loud song. Some volume balance and not having the whole song play at fortissimo would be a plus.

THE MIGHTY SECHIGALIZER - 8/912 - 912; 369 310 213 14 13 A -168 Pass: Evocative of LED's Jaeger series, which I think was deliberate. Awkward chart with most of it being bass on one hand with a 3 note 16th curl over and over. Average song.

throng - 10/821 - 1085; 379 327 77 19 40 A -9 Fail: Clipped by the end thanks to the end solo of dual scratching. Click house garbage song. No thanks.

Tranquility Tree - 9/679 - 1092; 455 182 24 10 13 AAA -113 Fail: Never got to red gauge. Thanks, hold notes. Boring song, but not gratingly bad.

U.N.オーエンはニコ厨なのか? ~狂気のXG厨~ - 12/2121 - 2783; 1034 715 186 78 236 A -45 Fail: Shitstorm chart with a garbage song. All three songs made by this team were quite bad, I think Go Rewrite is better than this at least. Melody here is similar to Nu Known. I wonder if there's a reason for that.

uncaged - 12/1621 - 1638; 595 448 346 88 218 B -163 Fail: Bad singing and a chart which starts out pretty rough and ramps up rapidly at the end. Pretty much trash.

VG (radio edit) - 10/1060 - 1463; 560 403 92 19 20 AA -185 Fail: 78% at last note thanks to bad holds. Pretty good song, upbeat and flowing.

てんてん - 12/1745 - 2155; 855 445 347 45 119 A -171 Fail: Vocal duet over bouncy light upbeat rhythm. Not good but I've heard much worse in this style.

アップダウン峠 -FULL ACCELL- - 12/1460 - 1764; 626 512 164 55 158 A -182 Fail: Moves at a rapid 222 BPM, and has an ending like Spooky with the BPM ramp up for a single stealth note. OK instrumentation and structure, but somehow bland.

アイーシャの剣-Forcing breakthrough- - 12/1423 - 1794; 633 528 106 53 166 A -103 Fail: Good song. Some amount of piano scale masturbation but not enough that it saturates the entire song. Good transitions between melody and percussion leads.

ネガイカナウヒカリ sun3 RMX - 11/1125 - 1596; 623 350 113 18 34 AA -154 Pass: If the main voice sample that is jacked through the song was maybe half of its frequency, this song would be much better. Interesting stuff elsewhere in the song. Decent.

ゴクラクハスノウテナ - 11/1775 - 2266; 842 582 275 44 57 A -100 Fail: That was mine to lose - had it knocked down in the middle but brought it back up, and I couldn't hold out the refrain to clear. Tricky melody phrase seemed to tire me out. Very hyper song. Not bad.

永続的物欲 - 10/871 - 910; 343 224 209 47 76 B -57 Fail: Even with the default Hard judgement I'm not sure why this isn't at least an 11*. Upbeat and deep techno with a repeated percussion phrase that has a lot of white notes shifting on 16ths. Tricky.

遠く、遥か遠く - 11/1293 - 1997; 801 395 44 17 51 AA -14 Pass: Close one. Reprise and end of song doesn't feature hold note stuff as was right before it so I was able to recover from the bottom. Song is 110 BPM but feels upbeat. Singing is tolerable. OK for the type of song that it is.

玉の緒よ - 11/934 - 1138; 424 290 81 52 123 A -107 Fail: Hold note hell. Already forgot the rest, other than that it was trying to be soulful.

静かなる東方のワルツ - 10/854 - 1276; 498 280 46 6 45 AA -52 Fail: Ah, thank God it had no singing. Typical waltz sound with harp and orchestral backing. Killed by ending ritardando.

秩序の秋桜 - 12/2804 - 2466; 771 924 537 274 536 C -26 Fail: Jesus Fuck. This chart rivals if not surpasses BeachSide Bunny for scratch craziness, despite it only being the most prominent in the beginning and end. Very good sound design otherwise. Likeable song. "Impossible" chart.

追憶ノ時 - 11/1144 - 1795; 749 297 32 32 48 AAA -238 Fail: Dramatic sounding song with a lot of staccato drum jacks, which is what ultimately failed me out. I think the jacks lent to the song feeling stilted. Average.

闘気に満ちた草原 - 12/1564 - 1939; 708 523 130 68 273 A -146 Fail: Slightly reminiscent of Nekomata songs like Beyond the Earth. Killed by hold notes.

風の塔 - 11/1471 - 2126; 822 482 87 25 84 AA -162 Fail: Starts out with chiptune sounds and then morphs into something totally else and keeps changing thorughout. Feels like it's a lot of percussion and scales for the pure sake of it. Not impressed.

夢語 - 13/860 - 620; 213 194 137 111 316 C -144 Fail: Dumb chart. Song tries to present something of a "light side transforms to dark side" type of feeling, but that could be more accomplished by having more than just echoing bells in the former and scale masturbation in the latter.

That's all of them that I can play on Double.