Pure late-2000s doujin rhythm game fury. Stepmania Panzer Force pulled together artists like Erasure Deplorer, DJ Deplorer, and gmtn. for a ten-track set of hardcore remixes that feel like they were engineered to break your fingers on a dance pad.
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"ABSOLUTE ZERO -ELECTROSHOCK EXTENDED-" opens with relentless BPM and never lets up, while "Snow, Moon, and Flowers -HARDCORE REMIX-" takes something traditionally Japanese and runs it through a distortion blender. "NU STYLE CHEETAHMEN" is exactly the kind of meme-aware remix culture that made the Stepmania community so fun.
Even "Solitary Melody" at the end keeps the intensity. If you lived in custom Stepmania packs and IIDX forums back in '09, this hits like a time machine.