Nothing says "Song of the Week" more than a tune firstly-made-playable for that very same week, isn't it? You guessed it: it's another of those times for us!
Bassline Yatteru? wara Camellia feat. Nanahira
ベースラインやってる？笑／かめりあ feat. ななひら
| Game | Genre |  |  |  |  |  |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AC Nijiiro (Y7) |  | ★3 128 | ★4 236 | ★6 447 | ★9 711 | - |
128
???These past renditions of the yearly Amusement Music FES joint concert for Japan-based music game franchises have always meant for Taiko a slight sneak peek at original scores that are yet to come, with the 2024 concert being the first public recorded instance of (a small snippet from) Toroika 2000 and 2025's venue playing SORA-VIII Nebula Trail for the first time. This year's outing, on the other hand, didn't bring any unpublished original tunes, but rather the promise for a couple of upcoming releases: a third playable music medley from Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune and a popular shuffle piece from Camellia and Nanahira, which is already playable on nationwide Nijiiro Version cabs. Between the two having original song slots among the 25th Taiko anniversary originals (and the former's Tatsujin 2026 Ranking Dojo seating) and this joint hit's porting, it really has to be said: this duo is truly unstoppable. Not even the ongoing ALL.Net-pocalypse can rain on their drumming parade!
Bassline Yatteru? Wara (lit. "Do you have a Bassline? lol") comes from Comiket 93's 4ORCE! (ふぉーす!) doujin album release as its fifth track, donning a puntastic title double-play around the eponymous EDM music subgenre and the Asian-exclusive social network app LINE. The track's initial rise to fame is all owed to the mobile scene, novering lowiro's Arcaea and TeamArcStar's OverRapid as the front-runners and PeroPeroGames's Muse Dash joining the fun a few more years down the line; it's owed to these games the fact that we got a "localized" English name for the song as 'Can I Friend You on Bassbook? Lol', referencing a worldwide-available social network at the cost of losing out on the pun's original meaning (aka no, 'Bassbook' as a term in music lingo does not exist). This quirky shuffle tune also got different means to join game centers, thanks to the long-gone WACCA from Marvelous and Sega's very own Triple Threat Triad in music gaming, with Ongeki getting first dibs and the veteran maimai/CHUNITHM following suit in the months after. In 2019, two years since the 4ORCE! doujin album's debut, a remix of the song by Cranky was released as the final track of Comiket 96's GOIN'! (ごーいん！).
Lo and behold, we came to see the day in which a Camellia-composed tune in Taiko gaming doesn't come with a fiendish 10-star Ura Oni! It's nothing to slouch around either at its Oni self, with backbeat-based charting as far as the eye can see and a few lenghty places to drum around a single, compact note cluster. The silver lining lies on its no-frills-attached base scrolling view, so that its chart can be read well in advance by everyone, even without employing fancy scroll-modifying setups for slower tunes with similar charting methods a-la DEBSTEP!
