Another hidden gem from a name lost to time.
For Great Justice!‘s best known works were featured on Flash Flash Revolution, a web-based clone of the well-known arcade game. The community who built it up were a varied group of high-scoring rhythm game fanatics, talented developers and chart mappers, and countless EDM producers and garage rock bands whom I haven’t heard before nor after; yet there was a remarkable bar of quality for both the songs and the step-charts submitted to the game, and its players seemed to bridge, grow and draw attention to many parts of the wider rhythm game community. On top of being a great motivator to finish my IT classwork early, I think FFR exemplifies one of the highlights of the early 2000s internet.
Dendrite is an atmospheric, almost minimalist drum-n-bass track, defined by a distorted sub-bass melody that loops throughout. I can’t name another song with an instrument used in the same imposing style, with the sub-bass and breaks having more intricate melodies than the actual bass and lead instrument loops. Still, I would love to find or create a remaster of this song. All of For Great Justice!‘s tracks feature some really underappreciated ideas in my opinion, but 2005 bitrates just doesn’t do them… well, justice. If you’re also a finger-dancing enthusiast, I’d recommend tapping along to it in FFR too.
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