Hi,

I've noticed there are quite a few forums out there that discuss SM and OpenITG, and I'm not sure which would be the most appropriate for my question. So I'm experimentally sidestepping all of the forums and asking here directly just in case that puts me closer to someone who knows someone who might be able to answer this. If there's a particular forum that would be ideal for this question, please let me know!

So, a few months ago I got my first exposure to StepMania when an OpenITG machine was temporarily installed in a mall and left in freeplay mode as part of an event. Naturally, I was really bad. (That was the day I learned how much coordination it was possible to not have. Ouch.)

The song selection was really obscure, and I kept cycling back through to the menu in search of something engaging to work with. (There were few people around, so this was okay.) As I repeatedly moved through the different screens I kept hearing this one particular background music track which I decided I really liked. It was deliberately simple but really catchy (which makes sense, I now realize it was designed for the machine's attract mode).

One of the first things I'd noticed about the arcade console was that it openly advertised it was running OpenITG 3; I'd never seen a GitHub link on a computer screen in the wild before. So (of course) I got OpenITG running on my own Linux box (and marvelled at how well it ran on a decade-old computer), but the visual appearance was totally different. Eventually I found https://github.com/openitg/itg3theme which got my install looking like the arcade's, but as I moved around I never heard the tune the arcade played!

Eventually I found it inside the theme directory: it's ScreenEnding music.ogg [rawgit link that most browsers should open and play]! I was hearing this one one of the screens shown after skipping through playing a level. I'm mildly curious why my OpenITG config seems to never play it, but that's not my question.

Rather, I'm curious who made this piece of music. I'm guessing it was an artist contracted to work on StepMania back in the day.

Ultimately I'd love to get my hands on a non-3rd-world-quality MP3 of this; the higher frequencies in this track have incredibly noticeable artifacts in them. I realize this may be tricky because of StepMania's virtually-exclusive focus on ogg audio, but asking can't hurt...

I'm equally interested in finding out who the artist is, because I like this style, and I can see myself quite possibly liking other things they've made (for other games, personally or whatever).

Finally, I'm very happy to receive recommendations for other equally catchy sounds/tunes like this one. I do have to admit, the track sounds really good on StepMania arcades that have bassboost turned wayyy up. :D

ogginfo reports:

Vorbis headers parsed for stream 1, information follows...
Vendor: AO; aoTuV b5d [20090301] (based on Xiph.Org's libVorbis)
User comments section follows...
        title=Oasis
        artist=Unknown artist
        date=2005

So, the track name is Oasis, and it's from 2005. This post is the only acknowledgement of the track's name in Google. (Well, unless I've been redirected to ask this elsewhere, then it'll be one of a handful of mentions of it.)