Bring Back The Beat

The song joined the lineup in PRIME 2 as Lunatic Sounds' first work in Pump It Up, following a run of submissions to EZ2AC. Its BGA is one of the more fondly remembered for the sheer absurdity of its plot: Lunatic Sounds' pet pig sets out to assassinate its owner, and the reason is simply that the musician makes songs that are too good. The story ends with the pig blowing up his DJ rig and pulling the job off. That pig became a recurring in-joke for the artist, reappearing on the back cover of the WE ALIVE album and in the BGA of "Comet," a track submitted as a BMS.

In PHOENIX the song offers Single charts at S7, S12, S17 and S19, plus Double D8 and D19; the S19 was added in PRIME 2 patch 1.07.0. The S12 was built by its designer as a twist-training chart: it feels akin to Dignity S14, but where Dignity ramps up irregularly, these patterns rise in a tidy, textbook fashion, and the generous note spacing keeps the clear fairly easy. The S17 plays above its rating, with 32-beat bursts scattered throughout and a long late run laced with direction changes; it lands closer to a high 17 or low 18, something the maker admitted he had unintentionally pushed up to around 18. The S19 is among the most chaotic at its level, with a mid-BPM 16-beat backbone peppered by gimmicks, jacks and 24-beat runs that arrive almost without rest.

The D8 is a clean low-level chart, while the D19 is a weight-shifting affair that keeps the body moving side to side and can feel physically taxing; even so, at 160 BPM it can be cleared by calmly working through one bar at a time. PRIME 2 also added a quest-zone-only chart, a D20 subtitled "Bring back the Huge," introduced in patch 1.05.0. The EXPERT pattern was ported in the update of June 30, 2022.