The Music of ''Dance Dance Revolution X'' is a collection of tracks that are playable on ''

Dance Dance Revolution X ''Dance Dance Revolution X'' is a music video game developed by Konami. A part of the ''Dance Dance Revolution'' series, it was announced in 2008 for Japan and on May 15, 2008 for the North American PlayStation 2. The arcade version was announced ...

'', a music video game first released in

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on December 24, 2008, then later in

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on June 3, 2009 and

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on June 9, 2009. The soundtracks for the different releases are primarily

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, hip hop, and

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based with additional tracks covering multiple other genres. This mix features the return of several licensed songs from the

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music compilation series, re-edited into new song cuts dubbed ''"2008 X-edits"''. It also marks the first arcade DDR appearance of synthpop licenses from

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Records, which originally made their debut on

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Lists of songs

These are the lists of songs across the different releases of ''Dance Dance Revolution X''. They are in release order, then sorted as the songs are organized and displayed in game (otherwise grouped by category and alphabetized). The songs with a padlock are not available in-game until certain conditions are met. A

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indicates that the song has its original, or a custom-made music video that can be seen during play.

Arcade

This is the soundtrack of the arcade release of ''Dance Dance Revolution X''.''Dance Dance Revolution X'' first Japanese location test, AM PIA Kawasaki Daisu,

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(July 17, 2008 to July 23, 2008)''Dance Dance Revolution X'' second Japanese location test, Amyujiamu Chayamachi,

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(July 25, 2008 to July 31, 2008) There are a total of 391 songs (387 in the North American and European releases), 88 for this version.

Course

This is the list of courses on the arcade version. There are 3 types of courses, CONCEPT COURSE, DRILL COURSE, and RANKING COURSE. The color indicates the difficulty played. The number next to the song refers to the song difficulties. Yellow represents Basic. Fuchsia represents Difficult. Green represents Expert. Purple represents Challenge.

Concept Course

The Concept Course is the usually-themed course from previous games. This is considered as a replacement to both Nonstop and Challenge modes.

Drill Course

The Drill Course is used to measure the dance level of players, with each song grows harder as they level up (similar to Danintei Mode from Beatmania IIDX). The courses are also different in Single and Double Play. There is only one difficulty per course.

Ranking Course

As the name implies, this course is used specifically for Internet Ranking.

PlayStation 2

North American Version

This is the soundtrack for the North American PlayStation 2 release of ''Dance Dance Revolution X''. The game was released September 16, 2008.

Japanese Version

This is the soundtrack for the Japanese PlayStation 2 release of ''Dance Dance Revolution X''. The game was released January 29, 2009.

Differences

Due to licensing issues on certain music, in the North American and European arcades, ''DYNAMITE RAVE'' has been rerecorded and contains new lyrics and vocals. The original and all remixes of ''DYNAMITE RAVE'' as well as ''END OF THE CENTURY'' have been removed for the same reason in the North American and European arcade releases Dance Dance Revolution X, although the original version and "AIR" Special's charts were kept for the new version.

Music

New music from the North American PlayStation 2 version of Dance Dance Revolution X: ;"30 Lives (Up-Up-Down-Dance Mix)" ;"Always on My Mind" ;"Big Girls Don't Cry" ;"Boy (DJ Irene Rockstar Mix)" ;"Boys (2008 X-Edit)" ;"Butterfly (2008 X-Edit)" ;"Dance Celebration" ;"Dance Celebration (System 7 Remix)" ;"Dance Floor" ;"Dream Machine" ;"Dub-I-Dub (2008 X-Edit)" ;"Feel" ;"Flight of the Phoenix" ;"Get Up'N Move (2008 X-edit)" ;"Ghetto Blasta Deluxe" ;"Happy" ;"Here It Goes Again" ;"Here We Go" ;"Hero (2008 X-edit)" ;"Horatio" ;"Inspiration" ;"Lift You Up" ;"Make Me Cry" ;"On the Break" ;"On the Bounce" ;"Open" ;"Party Lights" ;"Playa (Original Mix)" ;"Put 'Em Up" ;"Reach Up" ;"Saber Wing" ;"Saber Wing (Akira Ishihara Headshot Mix)" ;"Slip Out" ;"Slip Out (Bounce in Beat Mix)" ;"Sound of Freedom" ;"Swingin" ;"Synthesized" ;"Taj He Spitz" ;"Taj He Spitz (Tommie Sunshine's Brooklyn Fire Re-Touch)" ;"Take a Chance" ;"Ticket to Bombay" ;"Till The Lonely's Gone" ;"Tracers (4Beat Remix)" ;"Trigger" ;"U Can't Touch This" ;"Waiting 4 U" ;"We Come Alive" ;"We've Got To Make It Tonight" ;"Wine Red (Tommie Sunshine's Brooklyn Fire Retouch)" ;"Xmix1 (Midnight Dawn)" ;"Xmix2 (Beats 'n Bangs)" ;"Xmix3 (Stomp Dem Groove)" ;"Xmix4 (Linear Momentum)" ;"Xmix5 (Overcrush)"

Soundtrack

The

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for ''Dance Dance Revolution X'' was released in Japan on January 29, 2009, coinciding with the release of the PlayStation 2 version of X. The soundtrack consists of 3 CDs, which feature the songs from the game, songs from the

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release '' Full Full Party'' (the Japanese version of '' Hottest Party 2'') and a nonstop megamix disc. Pre-orders of the PlayStation 2 version of X will come with the album.

Downloads

''Dance Celebration'', ''Flourish'', ''Party Lights'', and ''Flight of the Phoenix'' became available to purchase on Konami's mobile music download service on December 23, 2008.

References

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