Conflict

Tagged with the genre HARMONIC SCHRANZ, "Conflict" is built on the meeting of two very different sensibilities: siromaru, long known for schranz (a German strain of hard techno), and Cranky, famous for melodic eurobeat and rave. The magic is in how siromaru's heavy, driving beat locks together with Cranky's solemn, march-like melody without either side overpowering the other. The genre label even leans into the irony, pairing "HARMONIC" with a title that means conflict, and yet the two halves fit seamlessly. The female vocal is handled by pico, while the male lines come from voice sampling.

The track was a team's flagship entry at THE BMS OF FIGHTER 2011, the edition subtitled "Intersection of conflict." "Conflict" won the individual standings by a crushing margin and held the all-time highest score for roughly five years, until Aleph-0 finally broke the record at BOFU2016. Tellingly, despite that individual dominance the team finished second overall to 削除's solo project, narrowly missing a historic clean sweep. The words pico sings are written in an invented language with no real meaning, a quirk that later turned into an affectionate meme in Japan.

The BGA by iimo unfolds a science-fiction story in violet tones built around a laser weapon, synced tightly to the music and overlaid with an English narration about light against darkness, trust, and betrayal. Treated as a rhythm-game anthem, "Conflict" is the most widely ported BMS-born song in history: around 35 works as of September 2023, including 11 arcade platforms. On top of that there are numerous official remixes (lapix, siromaru + cranky themselves, VILA and others), an instrumental version, and a VOCALOID cover, an unusually lavish legacy for a track that started in the BMS scene.