CHICKYMIX 4

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Table of Contents |
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Introduction
Song list
Course list
Image credits

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Introduction |
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It’s been a while, hasn’t it?

If you don’t know who I am, let me introduce myself. My name is Chicky. I’ve been playing dance games since I was 10 years old and I’ve been making stepfiles since around 2005. Perhaps my biggest accomplishments in making stepfiles are advancing pretty far in StepMix 2 for stepfile for DM Ashura’s “Seven” (with graphics created in MS Paint!), being a finalist in StepMix 5 for my file for ParagonX9’s “Infiltration”, and for creating a stepfile for BanYa’s “Beethoven Virus” that was the most played steeple on Flash Flash Revolution for years. I don’t even have that file anymore, but you can still see the Standard chart I wrote for it in this YouTube video that has 400,000+ views! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgM1PWAWnD8&t=38s) I used to upload individual files to a freely-hosted website that has long since vanished, which culminated with ChickyMix 3, which wrapped up around 2007/2008. I started working on ChickyMix 4 in 2009. 

Well, obviously it’s not 2009 anymore.

I had grand visions for creating a singular mix of around 75 songs. Things went pretty smoothly at first, and there’s even a YouTube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xQuh8cKX5M) of what the mix was looking like around 2010 that was upload by a friend of mine who was nothing but patient and kind when I asked him to playtest basically every song. You’ll even notice in the video that several songs from the earliest iterations of ChickyMix 4 - “Colours”, “Flight”, “One Room Disco”, “Paris”, “Solitude Sun”, and “Strobe”, all made it to the final version. I almost finished completing the mix at several points, but over the past eight years this mix has gone under several transformations. First it was a pack with DDR-style charts, then it was a pack with ITG-style charts, then it was a pack with Creative Commons-only songs. Around 2013, I couldn’t use the software I was using to edit songs with anymore, so I shrugged my shoulders and just left it at that. I didn’t even play Stepmania for a long time.

But then in the summer of 2016, when I was essentially doing nothing but working, I decided once and for all that I was going to finish this mix, one way or another. I’ve worked really hard for the past year or so on the mix, and I’m honestly pretty proud of it. I ultimately decided to go with a DDR-style pack that’s sort of a reflection of the American console versions of DDR: several Dancemania licenses, regular licenses, Bemani tracks, and a selection of songs with their challenge versions. I added some doubles charts because I recently got into playing doubles, but only about half the songs have these charts mostly because I really wanted to just be done and put this mix out into the world, and partially because I don’t think that the doubles charts I make right now will be as good as the singles ones, just because I’m not as good at doubles as I am at singles (yet). 

To finish off, I’d just like to say thank you to all of you who downloaded this pack and played it (and an especial thank you if you decided to open up the Readme file for this mix and then actually read this bit). It really means a lot to me. I’d also like to thank all of my friends who indulged me in my interest in dance games at any point, from those who tested these songs to those who waited patiently for me while I stopped and played a round or two (or ten) at an arcade, to those who’ve given me encouragement on my DDR scores on Snapchat. Also, wherever you guys are, I’d like to thank all of you who I used to talk to way back in the day on the Stepmania/Kita Khyber forums.

Now, let’s get to the good stuff.

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Song List |
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A * indicates the song has doubles charts.

All My Love // Tomosuke x SABRINA [from Dance Maniax] *
Atlas // Battles
Ayla (Veracocha Remix) // Ayla [from Dancemania Best of World Trance FantasiA] *
Beast Mode // xKore
BeatFeever // Waterflame
Begin // Riyu Kosaka [from GUITARFREAKS 8th mix & drummania 7th mix] *
Bright Lights Bigger City (Dave Wrangler Remix) // Cee Lo Green *
Bubble Pop! HyunA 
Colours // The Prodigy
Concerto // Sanxion7 *
Confusion // Tess [from Dancemania 22] *
Csikos Post // BanYa [from Pump It Up Rebirth]
Dance Apocalyptic // Janelle Monáe
Destroyer // xKore
Discipline // Nine Inch Nails *
Discipline (Binary Audio Remix) // Nine Inch Nails *
Donkey Donk // Ryu* [from beatmania IIDX 23 copula]
Don’t You Just Know It // Captain Jack [from Dancemania EX 4] *
Euphorium // DM Ashura
Evil Eye // Franz Ferdinand *
Fade Away // Susanne Sundfør
Finale // Madeon *
Finale (Dillon Francis Remix) // Madeon *
Flight // Waterflame
Frontload // Freezepop *
Frontload (Designer Drugs Remix) // Freezepop *
Fuaraya // pulstate
Gee // Girls’ Generation
Get ‘Em // Wolfgang Gartner feat. Eve
Getaway // Koko [from Dancemania Speed TV]
Get Lucky // Daft Punk feat. Pharrell Williams *
HyperioxX // ParagonX9
I Can Talk // Two Door Cinema Club
I Love Your Smile (Superspeedo vrs) // Speedmaster feat. Angelica [from Dancemania Speedrive] *
Invisible Border // world sequence [from jubeat Qubell]
Inspector Norse // Todd Terje
Into You // Ariana Grande
Jeffer // Boys Noize
Karasu // L.E.D.-G *
Kind Lady (Future Trance Mix) // Okuyatos *
Last Burning // Dirty Androids [from beatmania IIDX 17 Sirius] *
Meow // Anamanaguchi
Mozart Is Back // Rose *
Mirando // Ratatat
One Room Disco // Perfume
Open The Door! // Kid Whatever * 
PARANOiA Dreams // DC17 *
Paris // MSTRKRFT *
Primal Soul // Mutsuhiko Izumi [from GUITARFREAKS 2nd Mix & drummania] *
Rabiosa // Shakira feat. Pitbull
Rain // dj TAKA [from Reflec Beat VOLZZA] *
Reminder // Moderat
Rhinestone Cowboy (Giddy Up Giddy Up) // Rikki & Daz feat. Glen Campbell [from Dancemania EX3] *
Rock Star (Jason Nevins Remix) // N.E.R.D
Sapphire // kors k [from Reflec Beat VOLZZA] *
Sense of the Scamper // Yasushi Asada [from GITADORA TRI-BOOST] *
Seventeen Years // Ratatat
Sir Duke // Captain Go!! [from Dancemania Speed G2]
Softpretty // Doss
Solitude Sun // DJ Sharpnel
Someone Great // LCD Soundsystem *
Something Good Can Work // Two Door Cinema Club *
Something Good Can Work (The Twelves Remix) // Two Door Cinema Club *
Start the Riot // JAKAZiD
Strobe // deadmau5 *
Text Me Too Much // Lucky Princess
Text Me Too Much (The Disko-Warp Speed-Dial Remix) // Lucky Princess
Transport // Sota Fujimori [from beatmania IIDX 23 copula] *
Twilight // Rookie.F [from GITADORA Tri-Boost] *
Tom Ford // Jay-Z *
Traces // TaQ [from beatmania IIDX 7th style] *
Traffic // Tiësto
Une mage blanche // Dormir [from REFLEC BEAT limelight] *
Up! (The Dance Remix) // TK [from Dancemania EX 9] *
We Are Explorers // Cut Copy
Ye Ye // Daphni
You’ll Find a Way // Santigold
You’ll Find a Way (Switch and Sinden Remix) // Santigold
X // D.J.Amuro [from beatmania IIDX 23 copula] *
やれよ。// Charisma.com *
Zadamga // onoken [from pop’n music lapistoria] *

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Course List  |
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NONSTOP

4X IIDX: Donkey Donk (H)/Last Burning (S)/Traces (S)/Beyond The Seven (H)/
All Over: Gee (S)/Twilight (S)/Zadamga (L)/Twilight (S)/Beast Mode (S)
Dancemania Forever: Up! (The Dance Remix) (L)/Rhinestone Cowboy (Giddy Up Giddy Up) (L)/Ayla (Veracocha Remix) (L)/Confusion (L)
Electrocution: Last Burning (S)/Heads Will Roll (A-Trak Remix) (L)/Strobe (L)/やれよ。(S)
Entranced: Beyond The Seven (H)/Fuaraya (S)/Kind Lady (Future Trance Mix) (S)/Ayla (Veracocha Remix) (S)
Full Ten: Flight (B)/Inspector Norse (L)/PARANOiA Dreams (B)/Strobe (L)/やれよ。(S)/Csikos Post (S)/Softpretty (H)/You’ll Find A Way (Switch and Sinden Remix) (O)/Reminder (H)/HyperioxX (O)
Hit Parade: Bright Lights Bigger City (Dave Wrangler Remix) (L)/Get Lucky (L)/Rabiosa (L)/Into You (L)
RMX Of Hope: Frontload (H)/Frontload (Designer Drugs Remix) (O)/Something Good Can Work (H)/Something Good Can Work (The Twelves Remix) (O)/Discipline (H)/Discipline (Binary Audio Remix) (O)
RMX Of Speed: You’ll Find A Way (H)/You’ll Find A Way (Switch and Sinden Remix) (O)/Finale (H)/Finale (Dillon Francis Remix) (O)/Text Me Too Much (H)/Text Me Too Much (The Disko Warp Speed-Dial Remix) (O)
Rock Steady: Discipline (L)/I Can Talk (L)/Seventeen Years (L)/Evil Eye (L)/Sense Of The Scamper (L)
The Fortress: Paris (H)/PARANOiA Dreams (H)/Karasu (H)/Destroyer (H)
Upside Down (mods): Fade Away (S)/Begin (H)/Invisible Border (S)/BeatFeever (S)/Someone Great (H)

ONI

Ascent: Fade Away (S)/Jeffer (S)/Sapphire (H)/Mirando (S)/Dance Apocalyptic (S)
Bemani Sampler: Invisible Border (S)/Rain (S)/Zadamga (L)/Twilight (S)/Traces (S)
Boogie Nite: Get Lucky (L)/Inspector Norse (L)/Bright Lights Bigger City (Dave Wrangler Remix) (L)/All My Love (L)
Collapsed (mods): Start the Riot (S)/Euphorium (S)/All My Love (H)/Mozart Is Back (H)/Heads Will Roll (A-Trak Remix) (S)
Descent: Meow (S)/Open the Door! (S)/Euphorium (S)/Atlas (S)/Get ‘Em (S)/Someone Great (M)
Intimidator: Zadamga (H)/Strobe (H)/Solitude Sun (H)/Csikos Post (H)/Ayla (Veracocha Remix) (H)
Old School: Concerto (S)/Csikos Post (S)/X (S)/Mozart Is Back (H)
Proving Ground: Get Lucky (L)/Evil Eye (L)/HyperioxX (L)/Something Good Can Work (L)
Rap Stars: Tom Ford (S)/やれよ。(H)/Rock Star (Jason Nevins Remix) (S)/Get ‘Em (H)
Speedmania: I Love Your Smile (Superspeedo vrs) (S)/Don’t You Just Know It (S)/Getaway (S)/Sir Duke (S)
Technophilia: Softpretty (S)/Traffic (H)/Transport (S)/Flight (S)
World Beat: Primal Soul (L)/Bubble Pop! (L)/Une mage blanche (L)/Ye Ye (L)/One Room Disco (L)

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Image Credits  |
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For all banners and backgrounds created for this mix, the original images are all licensed to their respective authors. For each image that I used for a background or banner, changes were made in some way. For all banners and backgrounds that were created with an image licensed under a Creative Commons license, that banner or background is licensed under the same Creative Commons license as the base image. Note that for some photographs and illustrations, I am unable to determine who the proper author of the images in question are.

Songs:

All My Love - https://pixabay.com/en/love-hearts-valentine-s-day-pink-581582/
Ayla (Veracocha Remix) - https://pixabay.com/en/abstract-ball-colorful-colors-1840439/
Beast Mode - https://pixabay.com/en/foggy-mist-forest-trees-spooky-545838/
Begin - https://pixabay.com/en/abstract-background-pattern-shapes-1742515/
Blow - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosion#/media/File:Explosions.jpg
Bright Lights Bigger City (Dave Wrangler Remix) - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_York_City_at_night_HDR.jpg
Bubble Pop! - https://pixabay.com/en/bubbles-space-cartoon-design-582540/
Cake by the Ocean - https://pixabay.com/en/wave-sea-water-blue-surf-1215449/
Civilization - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Petra_by_Night.jpg
Dance Apocalyptic - https://pixabay.com/en/fireball-explosion-disaster-422750/
Discipline - https://pixabay.com/en/abstract-architecture-building-1852931/
Fade Away - https://pixabay.com/en/sky-clouds-sunlight-dark-690293/
Finale - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Exploding_Flower_Bed_fireworks.jpg
Get Lucky - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roulette#/media/File:Roulette_wheel.jpg
I Can Talk - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurse_(Lichtenstein)#/media/File:Nurse.jpg , https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Into You - https://pixabay.com/en/couple-kissing-snowy-night-snowing-1149677/
Karasu - https://pixabay.com/en/bird-tree-black-and-white-sadness-2071185/
Kind Lady (Future Trance Mix) - https://pixabay.com/en/background-futuristic-abstract-1735997/
Meow - https://pixabay.com/en/cat-pet-striped-kitten-young-1192026/, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
Mozart Is Back - https://pixabay.com/en/background-old-fashioned-music-1363069/
Paris - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eiffel_Tower_at_night,_Paris_20_April_2013.jpg https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en
Primal Soul - https://pixabay.com/en/maya-cube-grid-render-3d-stone-664680/
Reminder - https://pixabay.com/en/tree-silhouette-mysterious-407256/
Rhinestone Cowboy - https://pixabay.com/en/monument-valley-utah-sunset-1863977/
Rock Star (Jason Nevins Remix)- https://pixabay.com/en/concert-music-crowd-dancings-1149979/
Sapphire - https://pixabay.com/en/cube-cubic-design-3d-shape-square-1002897/
Sense of the Scamper - https://pixabay.com/en/background-scrapbooking-abstract-2090705/
Softpretty - https://pixabay.com/en/butterfly-pink-green-flowers-1437743/
Sir Duke - https://pixabay.com/en/piano-keys-piano-keys-1099352/
Something Good Can Work - https://pixabay.com/en/woods-forest-nature-landscape-tree-1072819/
Traces - https://pixabay.com/en/fractal-red-brown-glass-fantasy-2133856/
Up! - http://www.freestockphotos.biz/stockphoto/10013, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
X - https://pixabay.com/en/antique-backdrop-background-baroque-990349/
Pare yo.  - https://pixabay.com/en/texture-surface-structure-neon-1912889/
You’ll Find A Way - https://pixabay.com/en/route-usa-arizona-travel-america-1128816/
Zadamga - https://pixabay.com/en/kaleidoscope-dream-illusion-647456/

Courses:

4X IIDX - https://pixabay.com/en/background-scrapbooking-paper-1995637/
All Over - https://pixabay.com/en/directional-lines-stripes-movement-1296613/
Bemani Sampler - https://pixabay.com/en/circle-concentric-green-background-1777546/
Boogie Nite - https://pixabay.com/en/disco-ball-mirror-about-ball-483829/
Collapsed - https://pixabay.com/en/memphis-pattern-geometric-abstract-1788465/
Dancemania Forever - https://pixabay.com/en/background-color-pattern-abstract-1187047/
Entranced - https://www.flickr.com/photos/taymazvalley/9713311518 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
Full Ten - https://pixabay.com/en/abstract-low-poly-low-poly-orange-188631/
Hit Parade - https://pixabay.com/en/background-abstract-1503732/
Intimidator - https://pixabay.com/en/environment-photovoltaic-energy-218236/
Rap Stars - https://pixabay.com/en/black-and-white-abstract-background-1780210/
RMX of Hope/RMX of Speed - https://pixabay.com/en/equalizer-eq-sound-level-digital-255396/
Rock Steady - https://pixabay.com/en/abstract-fire-light-distorted-810167/
Speedmania - https://pixabay.com/en/speedometer-speedo-rush-vollgas-653246/
The Fortress - https://pixabay.com/en/castle-mystical-mood-moonlight-1483681/
World Beat - https://pixabay.com/en/atlas-geography-guidance-map-1869680/