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Artist: Hyparpax
Genre: VGM-STYLE TECH HOUSE
7KEYS:
- NORMAL 4
- HYPER 8
- ANOTHER 9

This was made in 2019, for a "works" THE CHALLENGER WANTED competition, though it was not accepted. For some reason I had previously uploaded it to soundcloud, so it ended up being my only available original track that I could use for the "Let's BMS Edit!" event. It's nice to make use of something that's been sitting around for so long.
The original track's structure is very disjointed, and I'm not sure how I feel about it overall nowadays, but I think it works surprisingly well when cut down to rhythm game length. (Maybe a little sad I couldn't include the piano melody from the break.) I polished the mix a bit, too. The next time I compile the tracks from my BMS works into a release again I'll probably release a similarly touched up version of the original track.

Since the setting of the track is very neutral, I didn't have anything specific in mind for the BGA, and thought the simple style of "generic MV" you might see in the older versions of the other rhythm game would be most fitting. (To begin with, I feel this song is similar in direction to "Brace for muddy terrain.", which has similar BGA direction as well. But there are no cute girls this time.) It's pretty simple, but I like how it looks! The patterns are also lower-level and a little awkward, also to invoke older versions of the other rhythm game.

That's all. The track is a few years old now, and I don't really remember what was running through my head when I made it, so I don't have too much to say. I think the "html" part of the name is because the melodic sections ended up reminding me of the internet overworld music from the Mega Man Battle Network series or something. Will I ever learn to make normal music within a genre without turning it into video game area music??? If I keep sneaking in riffs that resemble Grand Dad into TCW submissions, will I eventually get accepted????????