Thick Konami rhythm game grooves spanning hip hop, funk, house, and Latin beats. 573 (Konami's number, naturally) pulls tracks from across the beatmania and adjacent arcade catalogs into one stacked compilation. "GRADIUS" shows up twice here, bridging their shooter legacy into rhythm game form.
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"love's theme of beatmania" is peak mid-2000s Konami club production, all slick bass and filtered vocals. "mambotango no.5" throws Latin percussion into the mix like it belongs in a PS2 arcade port, because it does. This thing is massive.
Hip hop joints sit next to house bangers sit next to whatever "超楽C-E-Z" is doing. Throw this on if you want to remember when Konami was the coolest music label disguised as a game company.