Meteo5cience (GADGET mix)

Meteo5cience (GADGET mix) arrived in Pump It Up XX on April 25, 2019 through the v1.02.0 update. It is a remix that stitches together two of Paul Bazooka's earlier tracks from PIU 2015 PRIME, Meteorize and Mad5cience. Their original tempos of 136 and 130 BPM were nudged upward and unified at 140. The key signatures, however, were never reconciled and remain as they were in the source songs (Cm and Gm), which leaves a few of the transitions feeling slightly abrupt. Even so, the remix was generally well received.

At launch the song was displayed simply as Meteo5cience. Because of this, many players wrongly assumed that Paul Bazooka, the composer of the originals, had produced the remix himself. He strongly protested to Andamiro, and the GADGET mix tag was added afterward to make the remix authorship clear.

The S18 builds on the ideas of Meteorize S15 and Mad5cience S15 with a modest buff; it is comfortable for the level, though the doublestep section near the end can trip players up. The S21 leans heavily on the doublestep patterns familiar from Mad5cience S20 and punishes mistakes, so the combo needs care; the three-note burst late in the chart is actually all freeze notes, so you only have to keep them held. The D18 was rated 19 in XX before being demoted to 18 in PHOENIX. The D22, like the S21, is built around doublestep and draws excellent reviews, an outcome that stands out given how often this concept divides players. In PHOENIX, clearing the S21 with an SSS rank or higher unlocks the [BRACKET] LV.3 title, and doing the same on the D22 grants [BRACKET] LV.6.