¶ Club Fantastic: Synthetic Dance 2020
Club Fantastic provides high-quality, free-to-play, and legally-unencumbered tracks for the competitive dance game community. Inspired by In The Groove (ITG), our content is both tournament-ready and welcoming to newcomers.
Club Fantastic: Synthetic Dance 2020, our first release, is ready to install on any PC and gives you an instantly playable StepMania setup. We've built on the community-standard Simply Love, included our songs and high-quality arrow designs, then put it all together in one package – making it easy to bring home the club and start dancing.
If you're an existing In The Groove or StepMania player, you can also download our content packs separately.
Check out the Club Fantastic: Synthetic Dance 2020 Trailer on YouTube!
¶ About The Project
It's 2020: the dance game community is playing at home with StepMania. Club Fantastic is our way of providing the scene with completely fresh songs, steps and art – with an attention to quality and without any legal concerns. Furthermore, it’s a way for us to give something back to the grassroots ITG movement and pay homage to a series that changed dance games forever.
We know it can be hard to get started with StepMania – for outsiders, it's tough finding songs, installing themes, and setting things up like the arcade. Our all-in-one package makes it easy to get stepping.
Also – you might notice we refer to Club Fantastic: Synthetic Dance 2020 as “Season 1”. We plan to continue the series with a Season 2 release in early 2021!
¶ Downloads (All-In-One)
- Full Windows Installer: https://download.clubfantastic.dance/ClubFantasticSeason1.exe (300+MB)
- NOTE: This is a new project, and Microsoft hasn't seen our installer very often. You might need to bypass some warnings to run the installer. If you're an experienced computer user, you might want to check out the Portable Package below.
- Portable Package: https://download.clubfantastic.dance/club_fantastic_season1_portable.zip (300+MB)
- This version can be placed anywhere on your system and doesn't require installation.
- Other Platforms: macOS and Linux versions of Club Fantastic are coming soon!
Note that our all-in-one installer includes step files with the ITG +9ms bias, making it easier to play ITG-style content. If you're experiencing problems with songs being off sync, read our notes about sync troubleshooting.
¶ Downloads (For Experienced Players)
- Song Pack for In The Groove players ("9ms offset"). Download this if you primarily play ITG-style songs: https://download.clubfantastic.dance/club_fantastic_season1_songs_9ms.zip (100+MB)
- Song Pack for StepMania players ("null offset"). Download this if you primarily play DDR-style songs: https://download.clubfantastic.dance/club_fantastic_season1_songs.zip (100+MB)
- Note Skins: https://download.clubfantastic.dance/club_fantastic_season1_noteskins.zip (1MB)
- All StepMania Content (Songs, Theme, Note Skins) with 9ms offset: https://download.clubfantastic.dance/club_fantastic_season1_complete_9ms.zip (250+MB)
- All StepMania Content (Songs, Theme, Note Skins) with null offset: https://download.clubfantastic.dance/club_fantastic_season1_complete.zip (250+MB)
Our tracks should work with any version of StepMania, but you'll get the best experience with StepMania 5. The Full Windows Installer and Portable Package both include our custom build of StepMania 5.
If you're experiencing problems with songs being off sync, read our notes about sync troubleshooting.
The current version is Release 4, uploaded on 11/21/2020. We keep a change log describing content updates, bug fixes, and new features.
¶ Tracks
Club Fantastic is lucky to involve incredible electronic musicians and step artists.
Featuring music from…
- Sonic Mania composer Tee Lopes
- A_Rival of Crypt of the Necrodancer / Cadence of Hyrule
- Rhythm game producers Frums (Cytus II, Arcaea) and Ash Astral (StepManiaX)
as well as many more amazing artists you're going to love. Finding new and unique music has always been the best part of rhythm games, and Club Fantastic is no exception! You can also download the soundtrack on Bandcamp!
Check out the full track list for Club Fantastic: Synthetic Dance 2020:
¶ ctrl+r w/ HEDDIE - BACK UP / Electro House / 133 BPM
¶ BABYPOWDER - BOSSY / K-Pop / 101 BPM
¶ Frums - COOL_EXCEPTION / Optimism / 111-191 BPM
¶ team BOUNCE - Can't You Bounce!? / Trap / 195 BPM
¶ T2KAZUYA - Dysangel / Hardcore / 170 BPM
¶ Quad Star System - Fantastic World / EDM 2014 / 128 BPM
¶ Verve - Horsepower / Speed House / 150 BPM
¶ Ohayo Rivers - Melody Mountain / Super Bluegrass / 210 BPM
¶ xaimus - Oceania 909 / Premodern Trance / 138 BPM
¶ MegaSphere - Roadman / Hardstyle+Trap / 150 BPM
¶ Tee Lopes - Shoes (Club Fantastic Edit) / UK Garage / 114 BPM
¶ Verve - Six Million / Dubstep / 150 BPM
¶ A_Rival - Wandering (VIP) / Drum & Bass / 174 BPM
¶ ÆSC - Y.E.A.H. / Dubstep / 150 BPM
¶ Who made this?
Club Fantastic is the product of dozens of people working hundreds of hours in their spare time. We're very grateful to the musicians, graphic designers, illustrators and step artists involved in the project. We wanted to make the best possible art for the community that means so much to us.
Each track has its own page on this website. If you want to learn more about the artists involved in a track, visit that page! If you like a particular track from somebody, there's probably another amazing song a few clicks away.
We've compiled an extensive Credits page with everyone involved in the project. Check it out -- you might see someone you know!
¶ Feedback, Questions and Support
We want to know what you like about Club Fantastic. How could we make it even better? Follow @SF_EVOLVED on Twitter and tell us what you think!
If you're having issues with the packages or something seems broken with the content, please let us know ASAP. This is our first release, and we need all the feedback we can get!