More Bemani arcade gold from 2001, and this mix leans even harder into genre-hopping madness. Guitar Freaks 6thMIX and Drummania 5thMIX packed their setlist with everything from Latin grooves to power pop to full-on progressive rock.
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"Brazilian Anthem" does exactly what you'd expect with flair, "hypnotheque" pulls into this cool, trance-adjacent space, and "Yellow Panic Time" is frantic arcade energy distilled into a single track. The licensed stuff hits different here.
"Long Train Runnin'," "THE POWER OF LOVE," and "YOU GIVE LOVE A BAD NAME" sitting next to originals like "plastic imitations" and "A Kid's Sketchbook" creates this wild playlist energy. "MIDNIGHT SUN" and "Herring roe" are tracks you'd never put together, but somehow they share a disc.
Long versions that let the songs breathe past their arcade time limits. If you miss the days when rhythm games introduced you to music you'd never find on your own, this setlist still delivers surprises.