- litmus* / Ester
He is a great artist which mostly makes electronic songs and BMS charts. He is currently very active as he is featured artist on many music games like VOEZ, Dynamix etc. His electronic songs are catchy and would be really fun to map like Tokamak etc., he also made some artcore songs like Dizzolve as his alias Ester.

- Lunatic Sounds / Cosmograph
A great artist who makes different kind of songs, electronic, artcore, dnb. He also makes BMS charts and he is featured artist on many music games like VOEZ, EZ2AC. He already has some ranked songs on osu! such as CassiopeiA
The song that made him really popular may be Dataerr0r or Dropdown, he got the highest impr. score, ahead some popular artists like xi, street, feryquitous etc.

- Widowmaker (it may be an alias)
A great artist who deserves more attention, who mix wubs and instrument like M2U songs like Widow's kiss. He also made BMS charts. He may be an alias of another artist.

- Kenshiro "WHITEFISTS"
An awesome guitarist and composer which makes Art Rock songs, he made a BMS chart once with his incredible song VECTOЯ. His style is really something interesting and unique maybe, it would bring a lot of diversity on osu. He clearly deserves more attention.

i may add more later...

eicateve:
Homepage
Soundcloud

Really underrated BMS artist which style goes from hardcore to trance, even artcore (He recently gained a lot of popularity from his R.I.P. song) . A wide variety of genres to please lots of people!. He has also been included in various indie popular rhythm games like MUSYNC & Tone Sphere

LeaF:
Homepage
Soundcloud

Really well known artist due to his chaotic music style, mostly every osu player/mapper knows & loves his music, appearing in various games like CHUNITHM, SDVX, etc... it would be an amazing addition to the osu! featured artist team!

Silentroom:
Homepage
Soundcloud

A BMS artist that is also gaining a lot of popularity due to his diverse music style, from neurofunk, to chiptune, artcore & even future bass! His music has been included in videogames like MUSYNX, SDVX & even Arcaea

Lee Brotherton/Bentley Jones:
Homepage
Spotify

He once worked for SEGA to produce Silver the Hedgehog's main theme "Dreams of an Absolution" for SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 2006, but right now he is independent, he has made pop to trance & R&B aswell, really refreshing lyrics & amazing songs on his musical history

Time to use this thread myself rolls sleeves

Nanahoshi Kangengakudan

also known as FujuniseikouyuuP / HujuniseikouyuuP, this artist has historically been incredibly popular on osu! with numerous iconic maps such as Talent Shredder, Rubik's Cube, With a Dance Number, Meikaruza, anoko dokonoko, and more. With over 15 ranked maps, more in loved, and numerous maps having 100s of thousands or even millions of plays, he certainly is a perfect fit for featured artist! I'm surprised he hasn't been suggested already with how many iconic maps are of his works.
It's probably because people don't realize it's the same composer since so many maps put Hatsune Miku as the artist

Ranked (hopefully all, may have missed a few because of the multiple aliases)
https://osu-ppy-sh.zoneani.me/s/33651

His YouTube , nicovideo , piapro, website

有機酸/ewe aka uki3/ewe aka Kamiyama Yoh

A rising star, uki3/ewe aka Kamiyama Yoh makes very unique and often rhythmically interesting music, 2 songs of which are ranked on osu!. He was a vocaloid producer under the uki3/ewe alias with works such as quiet room, but has also self-covered most of those songs. He now works as Kamiyama Yoh, releasing hits such as YELLOW.

https://osu-ppy-sh.zoneani.me/beatmapsets/664182#osu/1673578

Example of Vocaloid song with alternative self-cover version: Vocaloid, self-cover

Recent song as Kamiyama Yoh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boZLBkfSp_Y
His YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw1U9K3S8WVWp7REGaHIW0A/

seeeeecun

A producer which makes mainly rock music at high energy. He presently simultaneous releases vocaloid versions on nicovideo, and his sung versions on YouTube. This producer also has a collab circle called Doctrine Doctrine with Miyashita Yuu, a popular utaite, where they released an album of Miyashita Yuu singing seeeeecun's songs. While they do not appear in ranked maps on osu! yet, I believe they have potential to be very popular.

Also I think osu! FA could use more rock .

His YouTube , nicovideo

Album crossfades
as seeeeecun: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm31103316 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktLwtaMEaFc , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBBauGz7nM4

with Miyashita Yuu in the Doctrine Doctrine circle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzaVerZeBiI


finally....
Trial & Error - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjJOpieAczo , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMD1yylYFPc , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfhdFGjVpQg , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH5JcqbDT84 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8OXdRbkQcw

I scrolled through the thread all the way, and surprisingly no one has suggested Teminite.

Dude needs no introduction I think. I wasn't active the time he became popular here but, the dude keeps on making music.

https://soundcloud.com/teminite

2

A.SAKA

Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/a-saka1
Twitter - https://twitter.com/ay_saka
Official website - http://sakamt.web.fc2.com/

A.SAKA is an oriental-styled composer from Japan who's been popular in osu! for a while, notably because of 2 ranked maps of his Nanatsu Issenzakura, both with over 700k playcount (Hollow Wings' set having over 1m!), along with a few others with ~100k.

His songs allow for intricate patterning that can be used in all modes for mapping.

Some of them have also have been featured in other games like STELLIGHTS and Arcaea.

Neko Hacker

Neko Hacker was formed in 2018 by of Field of Forest, Sera and Sho, with the goal of spreading japanese music all over the world with their own genre called Kawaii Future Rock.

https://www.youtube.com//23dtmJP/videos
https://soundcloud.com/23-sc
https://twitter.com/23_twt

found the song "YY" from random youtube suggestions, got hooked on the producer
style is mix of happy miku and american trap/rap, has great colourful storyboarding potential and sounds fun to map.

they've been producing for like 5 years with not much of a big following, deserves some more love

Shirobeats
https://soundcloud.com/shiro-beats
They really want to be a featured artist as well, so if you ask it's going to be a yes

Raon Lee

Amazing covers and originals would fit into the current meta of music on osu!

https://open.spotify.com/artist/6grPDYoluzn0yi8qloRKst
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQn1FqrR2OCjSe6Nl4GlVHw/featured
business email on youtube

Feint would be a nice FA addition. He mostly produces DnB tracks and his music is very popular on osu! with 40 ranked maps in total and many of them having millions of plays.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkAwRcT2YMLJtcvLbAvP66A
https://soundcloud.com/feintdnb
https://open.spotify.com/artist/6RQ9kYbHisp1UUbnfwHNeU

KAMOME SANO:

https://soundcloud.com/kamomesano
https://twitter.com/kamomesano
http://kamomesano.info/

Maps: " "</emotional>" and more.

KURORAK

https://soundcloud.com/kurorak
https://twitter.com/kurorak
https://kurorak.bandcamp.com/
https://www.youtube.com//SgtTraveler
https://open.spotify.com/artist/5EUMytKyaQzV3oXIRvEycu
https://music.apple.com/id/artist/kurorak/1388863326

I think it's nice idea to have local composer rhythm game music to be osu!FeaturesArtist. Also, he is from Indonesia. He was known when his works "Jakarta PROGRESSION" use for Cytus II and VOEZ and "Tunnelling" use for Dynamix. His music genre mostly Dubstep.

ELFENSJóN

https://elfensjon.bandcamp.com/
https://elfensjon.site/ep01/
https://elfensjon.site/ep02/
https://twitter.com/nox_en_closer

I think they would be a great addition to osu!. They kind of remind me of ICDD and ther allready is a ranked beatmap for them, which is really nice.

1.Hyper Potions
Hyper Potions is a two video game composers (Sonic Mania,Mario Oddysey,Rocket League etc) that have a unique combined chiptune with future bass which is really interesting to map/play. besides, Hyper Potions isn't a new face in osu! since the first mapset that is Hyper Potions - Porta Vista had been ranked on 2017.
Official Website : https://www.hyperpotions.com/
Youtube Channel : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbczsMZXABNe7o1oUrMAxVw
Soundcloud : https://soundcloud.com/hyperpotions
Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/hyperpotions
Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/hyperpotions/

2.ARForest
ARForest is a south korean drum and bass/artcore composer that is well known on some of rhythm games such as Arcaea and Lanota. his music type is chill and relaxing, so I think it's good for mapping/playing. currently there are 5 ranked mapsets in osu! which is proved that the community should be familiar with this composer.
Youtube Channel : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAXhLouU7YAFmjyiEw3TKYQ/about
Soundcloud : https://soundcloud.com/arforest
Twitter : https://twitter.com/ARForest_main

3.Lifetheory
Lifetheory is an orchestral and DnB composer that osu! community really familiar with his track which is Lifetheory - Daisy that got the first ranked mapset on march 2014 and also got a 3 million playcounts, and currently it has 8 ranked mapsets which is quite well known on osu!.
Official Website : https://www.lifetheory-music.ru/
Soundcloud : https://soundcloud.com/lifetheory
Youtube Channel : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCVHO3Di-SKZnaPCNcl1Ulw
Bandcamp : https://lifetheory.bandcamp.com/

Miyolophone

"his music tells stories" - Amateurre, 2019 (c)

he makes different varieties of music ranging from classical, jazz, to dnb and sometimes even mix the styles into one song. osu could really need different more genres so it wont become too stale with the same music new featured artists provide.

link to where you could find his music: https://miyolophone.newgrounds.com/audio/

examples of good music made by him:
Amoris
Ivory Dance
Stray
astrEnfant

-Joni- wrote: d5y5t

KAMOME SANO:

https://soundcloud.com/kamomesano
https://twitter.com/kamomesano
http://kamomesano.info/

Maps: " "</emotional>" and more.

She is one of the artists that did a takedown.. so we don't want that happening again.

Unlucky Morpheus

Unlucky Morpheus is a Japanese power metal(?) group that does both Touhou and original compositions.

They have a couple popular maps, most notably Faith. In total they have 7 ranked maps.

I believe they are aware of osu!'s existance because they mentioned it on a YouTube stream when they saw some of us talking about it in chat, but I'm not sure what they were saying because I don't speak Japanese lol.

Official website: http://sound.jp/ankimo/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ankimo_official
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKQPvkXu59Ei4nHyl83dF2g

Ruby My Dear

osu! needs more breakcore, especially the hardcore and experimental one, and this is how Ruby My Dear's music is described. His music is very uncommon for someone who likes breakcore. It's melodic, lucid, artistic and very expressive. The album "Brame" was produced by Igorrr, the person he worked with on EP "Maigre", combining both their styles into a one big juicy album, which is always pleasing to listen to. "Brame" offers 12 tracks of different themes and sounds to map or just listen to. Ruby My Dear is overall a nice addition to current breakcore FA scene.

"Brame" bandcamp: https://rubymydear.bandcamp.com/album/brame
"Maigre" youtube (bandcamp link doesn't exist anymore): https://youtu.be/psVN9s7CBLQ
RMD soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/dearmyruby

dead poet society https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSIDln9BMrcXa6Pmeu7NDew
https://deadpoetsocietyofficial.bandcamp.com

is this possible? they not seem to be so big, yet they make real bangers
also yeah most of their songs have fucked up timing but i'd be glad to see them on osu anyway, can even help with timings if needed

Scooter!

https://scootertechno.com/

True, they are not so unique these days, because they are tailored to the market, but their old Scooter songs would bring uniqueness to the osu!

Some old songs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wquCCFvbNhI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMI1-pdm81A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YxTa1AUqps

Ken Ashcorp

"Silly songs about Video Games, Cartoons and generally absurd stuff that can't hack it in a mainstream environment!"

He has a huge variety of styles and genres in his music and are usually related to weeb or nerdy stuff ranging from electro to some...kinda electro rock fusion to ballads etc. His unique blend of genres + variety within his music would allow for many fun opportunities for mappers to experiment with his cool stuff plus my mans has some bangers

Despite releasing music once in a while he still seems to be pretty active on his social media

1. Bandcamp
2. Youtube Channel
3. iTunes

I don't really know if it was because I was heard over here, or if getting Teminite onboard was already a plan, but either way I love all of you guys and you have made my day

I want to try my luck again by suggesting now another artist: Kero Kero Bonito

Would be a really cute addition to the featured artists roster with lots of variety in their catalogue. Everyone knows their flamingo song, and I think reception in the community would be positive. Not sure if it's feasible, they're biggish but not super ultra big so, who knows.

Krewella
Website: https://www.krewella.com/
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/krewella
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDY_0WzkHyj0A1ev6RTql1Q
Misc: https://www.facebook.com/krewella/?ref=aymt_homepage_ , https://www.instagram.com/krewella/ , https://twitter.com/Krewella

It would be my dream for Krewella to be a featured artist. They have made a huge selection of amazing songs for mapping, and with a new album being released will have even more. They host such a diverse range of songs (for example Ghost, Mana and Greenlights are all songs on their new album coming out soon that are just so unique and incredible to listen to). Furthermore, they have many songs which have a really strong nostalgia feel to them (such as Enjoy the ride, Alive and Say Goodbye). I feel like players and mappers alike will really be hyped and appreciate if this could happen. Not sure if it's that feasible considering how popular, but Teminite became a thing so maybe?

Turbo, TurboA, TurboAutism
yt: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCus8EVJ7Oc9zINhs-fg8l1Q
yt 2: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmh7WlCTsd4y7vcZx4N5Yfw

Eurobeat remixes are badass, especially of songs that are popular on osu!

Dissolve (/ DisSolve?)

1. SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/dissolve4
2. Bandcamp: https://dissolve3.bandcamp.com/
3. Twitter: https://twitter.com/DJKuroneko1

Interesting (mostly) anime-influenced breakcore stuff. Not sure if most of these songs are using samples from licensed sources (and thus may cause licensing issues, like goreshit's lolicore stuff I guess?) though, but assuming we're clear on that front, I think this artist can deliver quite the variety in breakcore content to the FA library.

Ariabl'eyeS
Website: http://ariableyes.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Lyse_ariableyes

Japanese fast paced gothic rock/metal with various interesting rhythms that could be mapped and they are ed in the ranked section with multiple maps already. We don't really have any fa that goes quite in a direction like that, closest one being recently added Elfensjon but thats still a bit off.

Chroma
https://twitter.com/c_h_r_o_m_a
https://www.c-h-r-o-m-a.jp/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/2Gtmf2gf0Rs6NN2RTld3O2?si=5o9S0Y96R12DaemFmAYXAg

He's done work for other rhythm games such as SDVX and there are even a few songs of his mapped in osu! already. His music is highly energetic and has difficult rhythms so I think that he would be a nice addition to the roster of featured artists.

Frank Klepacki 1r15k

Official Website | Spotify | Facebook | Twitter

The mastermind behind the exceptional soundtrack of Command & Conquer games. Although, there are very few beatmaps available in osu! (only 2 in ranked section: HM2) his unique style would certainly benefit the ever-growing beatmap library. Aside from C&C franchise, there is a huge list of games Klepacki played a key role as a composer. To be fair, most of his popular songs are relatively old, considering how irrelevant C&C games are in 2020. However, Klepacki still continues performing on stage (i.e. MAGFest 2019) and producing new soundtracks for various games.

Here are some of my favourites:

1. Grinder - The iconic main menu song from C&C: Red Alert 2
2. Machines Collide - A very funky song that reflects Klepacki's industrial style perfectly.
3. Blow It Up - The name tells us all. An upbeat music full of explosions.

Also shout-outs to all C&C fans out there!

CROSS VEIN
Website: http://www.crossvein.net/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CROSSVEIN_TW

Another similar heavily underrated gothic japanese metal artist with clean female vocals who could use a bit more recognition considering they have a fast variety of songs in general with 3/4 and 1/3 rhythm usage in some. They don't have that many albums but they are fairly active on social media and such and as far as I know they dont really have any rhythm game history.

Weird Genius

1. Website: https://weirdgenius.id/
2. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa_RUwqQU0oAxEI2lh4RvEQ
3. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weird.genius/

Indonesian-based artist; mainly delves in the electronic genre, though I think their offerings are quite... fresh? compared to the current electronic artists in the FA library. Dunno how to explain it properly, but their tracks are kinda quirkier (Big Bang) & more "danceable" (Sweet Scar) (is this even a word), and at times even approaching the darker/heavier side of EDM in general (LUNATIC & i r u k a n d j i), with the occasional Indonesia influences, as heard in DPS, WKWK Land, and Lathi.

1. PSYQUI : https://soundcloud.com/psyqui
very legit future core song
2. android52 : https://soundcloud.com/android52
very legit future funk song

BLANKFIELD would be a nice addition since lately we've been getting many electronic artists, and having another metal artist in the FA listing would be nice, most of the songs are fast tempo which could make for interesting and challenging maps :wink:

Official BLANKFIELD Page
BLANKFIELD's Bandcamp
BLANKFIELD's Twitter
BLANKFIELD's Soundcloud
BLANKFIELD's YouTube

- ulko - osu! profile
Very interesting artist, with many degrees of various genres of music, can even make the noise a beautiful sound.
(stream ulko)

- Jacob Collier - https://www.jacobcollier.com/
Experimental Jazz Artist, with a multitude of complex rhythms, from time signatures, to unusual snaps.

- 100mi - https://soundcloud.com/100mi
Quite interesting artist, since they put a nice spin towards the music they make.

- Ice - https://soundcloud.com/Iceloki
Professional and beautiful composer, you might know him from Cytus, very good focus made to the old instruments, with a more modern twist.

- DM DOKURO - https://soundcloud.com/dm-dokuro
Very varied composer, with a very unique style towards common instruments, bringing the best out of them.

- Tomppabeats - https://soundcloud.com/tomppabeats
Very relaxing artist, using very creative ways to sample music to a much more lo-fi feeling. Uplifting overall.

- AAAA - https://soundcloud.com/ricora
Upbeat Chiptune composer, with a very recognizable style that can be found towards their music.

- Pierce The Veil - https://piercetheveil.net/
Surpribeat Rock group, with a very edgy style that can bring a very beautiful emotion.

- BLANKFIELD - http://blankfield.but.jp/
Very intense metal group, can really give plenty of energy with their songs, and sometimes with a very distinctive feeling with each song released.

- Kikuo - http://kikuo.jp/
Experimental Vocaloid artist, with amazing performances on various genres, very pleasant to listen to.

- arai tasuku - https://www.araitasuku.com/
Interesting Dark Composer, can really give a very pleasing feeling on their songs, as well as a sudden, more creepy spin towards them.

- Mili - http://projectmili.com/
Very rich with emotional lyrics, and a matching feeling from the song itself, a very talented artist.

- Igorrr - https://igorrr.com/
Amazing frenchcore artist, with a very beautiful talent to evoke a strong feeling in a very upbeat way.

- world's end girlfriend - https://worldsendgirlfriend.bandcamp.com/
Very underrated artist, very talented with evoking many feelings regarding their simple yet powerful songs.

- Coldplay - https://www.coldplay.com/
My favourite artist to date, with progressively going from a relaxing genre, to a very uplifting and upbeat pop genre, both of which I love dearly.

Twilight Force
Website: http://www.officialknights.com/

Similar artist compared with DragonForce with their fantasy style power metal and majority of their songs being over 5 minutes long with their longest being 12:30. Majority of their songs are double pedal "deathstream" type while they offer quite a lot of variety with slower and calmer sections as well as amazing orchestal background elements and choir.

1. Geoxor:

https://soundcloud.com/geoxor
https://www.facebook.com/Geoxor/
He's making awesome electro dance music.
I think his music pretty good for techno mapping!

Sungazer

Bandcamp - https://sungazermusic.bandcamp.com/
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/sungazermusic

Super interesting songs which leave so much room for experimentation

TUYU

Official YT - https://www.youtube.com//EXSpins
Official Twitter - https://twitter.com/TUYU_official
Composer's Twitter - https://twitter.com/Pusu_kun
Illustrator's Twitter - https://twitter.com/omrice4869


Releasing first their track in June 2019 band was only becoming more and more popular both within youtube and osu! community. In february got their first album called "やっぱり雨は降るんだね" released. Currently have 8 ed on YouTube MVs as well as 3 more unique tracks in the album.
As for osu! I believe that their tracks are incredibly fun both to play and map

https://soundcloud.com/gangstertime2official (gangstertime2)
i think I should be a FA
all of my songs will work thx

Redalice

Twitter: https://twitter.com/REDALiCE
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjnLK82NrgJhhSAxd5boLIw

Some of his most known songs

DJ Yoshitaka - Flower (Redalice Remix) - https://youtu.be/fTWOi3S6FHU

Touhou - Bad Apple (Redalice Remix) - https://youtu.be/5rknykyTY4k

Redalice - Alive https://youtu.be/LnRDWyhef0M

- mother mother

- girl in red

- caravan palace

- pinnochioP

- ic3peak

- yohio

all those artist are pretty much popular and most of theyre songs have a really good rhythm so i think it would be really fun to play their songs

Pratanallis

1. Website: https://www.pratanallis.net/
2. SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/hinode-2
3. Bandcamp: https://pratanallis.bandcamp.com/
4. YouTube (auto-generated content): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4Zo2XXT0WchQG8JuWkHWGg

J-Rock, more specifically symphonic metal I suppose? They're somewhat in line with, say, ELFENSJoN, but their songs have a more "graceful" feel to it, compared to ELFENSJoN's rougher "folk"/"fantasy" vibes ( assuming whatever I said made sense).

A particular track that I liked:

Time to drop a bunch of more vocaloid suggestions!! (please more vocaloid in FA)

雄之助 / Yunosuke
Electronic, mainly EDM vocaloid producer, famous of some of few songs but other than didn't really got much recognition - which is a shame, since his tracks are very catchy and could make for some really fun maps. He also does instrumental works and remixes!!
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHB0d0ZPeG0
Bandcamp: https://yunosuke-official.bandcamp.com
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/bass_ynk

ひとしずく×やま△ / Hitoshizuku x Yama△
Two amazing vocaloid producers, famous mainly for their Bad End Night series; they do great catchy, low bpm and 1/3 songs (c'mon, we need to get some 1/3 songs to FA!)
Official page: http://yamashizuku.web.fc2.com
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com//fackingbee
Nico Nico Douga: https://www.nicovideo.jp//3397653

Soh Yoshioka
Vocaloid complextro producer with great atmosphere in the songs. Definitely could make up for amazing content for all those tech mappers out there!
Bandcamp: https://sohyoshioka.bandcamp.com/
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/soh-yoshioka
Nico Nico Douga: https://www.nicovideo.jp//3936107

I think Anamanaguchi would be an excellent addition, that band has composed songs for videogames like BIT.TRIP and even the soundtrack of Scott Pilgrim: The Videogame. Their chiptune would fit perfectly in osu!

Streetlight Manifesto/Toh Kay

Ska. osu! needs ska. I think the band fits on the featured artist listing because of how lacking the listing is of rock/punk stuff. In addition to that, it would be cool to see more tracks similar/in the lines of Thank You Scientist's track listing. In the case of Toh Kay, the listing also needs more of the "chill" vibe similar to Ricky Montgomery with the lyrics of Streetlight Manifesto (literally) with a hint of some originals from him.

Website (streetlight): https://www.streetlightmanifesto.com/
Youtube Link (streetlight): https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCOwqsnaH5sjvLZrCRq8hAUA

cannot find links for toh kay im sorry found one mb

Website (Toh Kay): http://www.tohkay.com

not an artist per se but you guys might find this to be useful / interesting

https://www.jasrac.or.jp/ejhp/index.htm

could be used to connect to a wide variety of japanese artists

Jonathan Coulton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Coulton_discography

he made a lot of songs themed around science/math/ nerd culture in general and I think at least a good portion of them would work well in a rhythm game.

gmtn. (witch's slave)

SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/gmtn
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4jJ9UMWpzUMIyTgRGIKvhA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/gumtune

It's so odd that no one has suggested witch's slave as a Featured Artist, considering some of their songs went on to be extremely popular within osu!, examples such as artefatto vita to name a few very brief examples.

Their hardstyle-sounding music style plus having been featured in other rhythm games like Arcaea make them a no-brainer choice to include in osu! too.

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Halozy

Official Website: https://halozy.com/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/Ul56-fa1UNAdq25CIpo1Lg
Twitter: https://twitter.com/halozy_official

Another suggestion I'm actually relatively surprised wasn't suggested either. Halozy has been consistently relevant within the osu! community for over a decade, having some of the most famous maps in the game itself, a good example of which could be Hollow Wings' maps of Deconstruction Star among many other famous maps within the game. Halozy has left a sizeable footprint within osu! so it'd make sense to bring them aboard.

They have collaborated with many independent creators in the past too, examples being Nanahira & macaroom, to release plenty of iconic songs during their time.

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Demetori

Official Website: http://demetori.xii.jp/

This one skipped my mind completely when I was writing but I might as well edit my post with a 3rd suggestion. Demetori has always been a classic artist for osu!, with songs being mapped as far back as 2009 with Ghostly Eyes by happy30. Demetori has remained relevant in osu! for well over 11 years at this point with new Ranked maps appearing as recent as April 2020.

Demetori has a reputation in osu!, for a lot of newer players they're seen as the "final boss" maps to test their mettle, and for top players - a way to challenge themselves. With metal guitar solos to rival the likes of DragonForce. Not to mention they've teamed up with nao under the alias DystopiaGround. Demetori seems like a total no-brainer for osu!

I'd like to suggest onoken/axsword to be featured. He already made a wide variety of different styles of music, with much rhythm variety and some of his songs have also been mapped as well on osu. I think he'd make a great addition for every mapper, seeking a challenge or getting started.

http://www.axsword.com
https://soundcloud.com/onoken-1/popular-tracks

Demetori

Website http://demetori.xii.jp/

Classic in the osu! community, with many popular maps such as World's End, Sentimental Skyscraper by Happy30, etc.

Demetori has been in the osu! community for ~11 years, which is why they should be a FA.

I’m surprised I don’t see her name more when talking about FAs, but Reol feels like the perfect fit.

VINXIS’ set of No Title is the most played map in the game outside bundled maps, and the 2nd most favorited outside bundled maps (behind High Score, made by Panda Eyes and Teminite, the latter of which is a featured artist).

Reol and the group REOL are absolutely legendary in the community, and having them as featured artist would be a dream come true for many osu! players. Judging that Reol’s utaite roots have given lots of vocaloid covers over the years, a lot of their songs are already recognized and loved by the community, even if they didn’t originally come through Reol/REOL.

I want to suggest Dirty Palm. I think he's a fairly underrated EDM artist. Most of his music belongs to the Bounce, Future bounce and Future House genre, but his style has evolved into something even more wild recently.
I suggest him, because the kind of music that he makes is pretty much non-existent in osu! and even the EDM genre as a whole is still the minority here.

I'm not sure whether all of his songs can be found on his soundcloud, but it's probably the most appropriate platform to link here https://soundcloud.com/palmkillit .

silentroom i know its coming already just release it earlier https://slrm.bandcamp.com/

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MYUKKE. I stumbled upon this the other day, and just wow... As I listened to the discography, song after song, I couldn't help but think: "damn this would make a neat beatmap." This is GOLD!

https://myukke.work/
https://myukke.bandcamp.com/music

Hello~ I'd like to suggest TheFatRat as a featured artist.

This is because he is an amazing EDM artist who makes songs in a wide variety of EDM genres. He doesn't copyright his music on YouTube and actively encourages people to remix his music and use it in their videos. His music is also often seen in ESports competitions. As for his popularity in osu, his song "Mayday" has over 14 million plays on osu beatmaps, spread across three different ranked mapsets, with one of them being a nightcore mix. Considering unranked mapsets, there seems to be tons of them out there.

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/TheFatRat
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheFatRat/
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/thefatrat
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3OKg7YbOIatODzkRIbLJR4
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/artist/thefatrat/395664545
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ThisIsTheFatRat
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/thefatrat

^^^ gotta agree here

co shu nie? im too lazy to write something :v

Rabbit House

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ri_Neb
Soundcloud: https://www.soundcloud.com/dksslqj

Since he also known as Nakagawa-Kanon (which made a map "FREEDOM DiVE"), it's a big honor if he want to become osu!FA.

factal https://factal.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/factal
https://twitter.com/factalmusic

ty for sielntroom xDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

1.Laur

Bandcamp : https://last-labyrinth1.bandcamp.com/community
Soundcloud : https://soundcloud.com/laur_10
Twitter : https://twitter.com/LAUR1200
Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvDFVqslkZ4he3z3NmXu1sw

his popular song from osu called "Sound Chimera" mapped by Nattu

2.Team Grimoire

Soundcloud : https://soundcloud.com/team-grimoire
twitter : https://twitter.com/teamgrimoire

he make music with laur called "Grievous Lady" which loved 4 days ago mapped by Feruver

Pogo g6u5l

Website: https://pogomix.net/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/PogoMusic
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1ng3xz2dyz57Z1WpnzM2G7
Bandcamp: https://pogomix.bandcamp.com/
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/pogomix
Twitter: https://twitter.com/OfficialPogo
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/officialpogomusic/

I think his vocal focused songs would be intressting thing to see mapped, Data & Picard
Some of his old songs that are more instrumental focused would be intressting to see too!
I think Pogo would fit the roll for featured artist greatly!

BROCKHAMPTON?

so, i think brockhampton could be a possible good featured artist for osu, and can provide edgier mappers (like myself) something to map. a lot of fa's appeal to either tech mappers, or to people in mappers guild, and there's not really any fa's that can appeal to edgy/movement mappers such as myself.

with em0nky's map "NO HALO" getting ranked, i think introducing more brockhampton maps can appeal to the osu community. now, they are mainstream, unlike other fa's, but i think it won't really be that bad. their songs appeal to more of the edgier mapping community, and i think that could be a good change in osu's fa listing. plus, more people might come over to osu (but we have to make sure they aren't anti-weebs)

i think with them being fa, we could introduce more western music to osu, and yeah, a few of their songs are tik tok trends, but so what?

youtube channel
website

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Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUXfRsEIJ9xO1DT7TbEWksw

Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/artist/58oPVy7oihAEXE0Ott6JOf?autoplay=true

Deezer
https://www.deezer.com/us/artist/69128312/radio?autoplay=true



I think that osu should have more japanese indie artists. And his songs are great I find them fun to play.

1. Chipzel
https://www.youtube.com/c/chipzel

2. LemKuuja
https://www.youtube.com/c/LemKuuja

3. drey_o3o
https://www.youtube.com/c/dreyo3o

4. Geoxor
https://www.youtube.com/c/Geoxor

5. NDXL
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA8L4mIDso99FJfrowQj_5w

6. Shirobon
https://www.youtube.com//ShirobonTV

These artists make very great music and some of them are very underrated. Their music would fit almost perfectly in osu.

Chipzel and Shirobon are also known in other games such as Just Shapes & Beats, Project Arrhythmia, and Super Hexagon.

1.) 1nf1n1ty

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/1f1n1ty
Newgrounds: https://1f1n1ty.newgrounds.com
Soundcloud: https://www.soundcloud.com/1nf1n1ty

2.) Lemkuuja

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/LemKuuja
Newgrounds: https://lemkuuja.newgrounds.com
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/lemkuuja
Facebook: https://facebook.com/LemKuuja
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/LemKuuja

I chose these two since their songs are pretty popular in the Geometry Dash community (such as 1nf1n1ty's remix of "Within the Sadness", "Calm Craggy Area", and Lemkuuja's "Whats the Future Funk?" and "Ouais Ouais")

I would love to see the osu! version of these artist and I'm happy with them being featured.

DEMETORI

Demetori fa when?

let me be featured artist so that my entire jelly shitpost folder is licensed for use in osu which means i get almost 100 songs in my listing

Whispered

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7daCsikke2DDjSG27xcOWw
Twitter: https://twitter.com/whisperedmetal
Website: https://www.whisperedband.com/

Mappers seem to have taken a liking to these guys seeing how there are already a few ranked maps for their songs, so I hope we can get them featured!

monaca:factory

He's an amazing vocaloid producer, underrated imo and pretty small. Small enough that when you search monaca:factory in google it doesn't take long so see some osu-stuff. I'll write more later.

Bandcamp: https://monacafactory.bandcamp.com/album/moon
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/monaca10p/
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/monaca-factory
Twitter: https://twitter.com/monaca10p?lang=fr
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT8GGMRqqz8 just a random video

thanks =w=

SCARWORN

I just have discovered this group and i'm already under its charm lol. They just have released a new song and the drummer of this band actually plays osu!

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/scarworn/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/scarwornband?lang=en
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/scarworn
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGr7oqckz9-qMHzwOpR9tyw

Here is the profile of the guy : s/4471879

It would be really cool for them and their songs have so much potential!

Hello there!
These are artists who often make hardcore music. I really love their songs and I can see the potential of having them as featured artist in this game.

1-Ebimayo
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ebimayo3150/
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/3131m47o
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/EBIMAYO3150/featured
Bandcamp: https://ab-sounds.bandcamp.com/

2-Hommarju
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Hommarju
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/hommarju
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeM3yBtl23Gve0_Lcytup5Q
Bandcamp: https://hommarju.bandcamp.com/
Personal website: https://hommarju.wixsite.com/home

3- C-SHOW
Twitter: https://twitter.com/c_show_dtmer
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/c_show
Bandcamp: https://c-show.bandcamp.com/
Personal website: http://c-show.jp/

4-Hardcore Tano*C
Twitter: https://twitter.com/tanoc_official
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/hardcoretanoc
Website: http://www.tano-c.net/
Bandcamp: https://tanoc.bandcamp.com/

Owner of Hardcore Tano*C:
-REDALiCE (he's also a music artist)
Twitter: https://twitter.com/REDALiCE

Artists included in Hardcore Tano*C (just to name a few):
-USAO
Twitter: https://twitter.com/USAO926
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4soYiYq08HZjfgERQD4v5F
Youtube https://www.youtube.com/USAO926
Bandcamp: https://usao.bandcamp.com/

-T+Pazolite:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/tpazolite
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/tpazolite_jp
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/t-pazolite
Personal website: http://c-h-s.me/

-Laur:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LAUR1200
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/laur_10
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvDFVqslkZ4he3z3NmXu1sw
Personal website: http://lastlabyrinth.net/agm/
Bandcamp: https://last-labyrinth1.bandcamp.com/releases

Sorry if the list is long but they make very good music and I think they should be featured in this game because mappers will enjoy using more of their songs. Not to mention that these artists also make songs for other rhythm games as well.

Thanks!!!

Arch Echo
okay these guys just fucking slap
i discovered them by accident few days ago, and well, i was blown away. amazing progressive metal band that has a lot of low bpm songs with interesting rhythm and epic keyboard solos
i'm genuinly surprised why no one ever mapped them on osu so far, i think its a great material for mapping, especially when most of their stuff is over 5 minutes
featuring them would prob also give them some attention which they totally deserve!

official site: https://www.archecho.com
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiXDVCqPmUHMcl0R1rfERpw
bandcamp: https://archecho.bandcamp.com/album/arch-echo

Wave Meow

Their music has a cute, fun feel to it that I think would lend itself well to beatmapping for various modes. From what I can tell they seem to be a relatively small-time artist.

bandcamp: https://wavemeow.bandcamp.com/music
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf0ikN1Z-LtPrAJ2yOs44bg/featured
soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/wavemeow

WOTAKU

Definitely some of the most hardcore vocaloid music out there. Not many songs of theirs have been mapped seemingly. If they have they have very little attention.

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChl7kAxzdXCUQDQzk5Qm30g

This song in particular is a great example: https://youtu.be/M-5OSd5x2uc

Kozato Snow

Made beautiful songs that have been used before such as 45nen No Yukizakura, Tsuki -Yue- and others.

Here are some maps of his songs:

45nen No Yukizakura: beatmapsets/50771#osu/155929
Tsuki -Yue-: beatmapsets/286411#mania/646606
Izayoi Sakura: beatmapsets/162371#osu/396105
Rengetsu Ouka: beatmapsets/24765#osu/89856

It's like traditional japanese music but remixed. I think he deserves a spot as featured artist

He also has a new YouTube where he is ing new music

YT: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXzU1ERT21Xa0Pe_tvHVtdg

1. ak+q
   1. Twitter: https://twitter.com/akqmusic
   2. Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/ak_q
   3. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw2v0tSH-v3Fn5qkqeacRWQ
   4. Bandcamp: https://ak-q.bandcamp.com

1. a_hisa
   1. Twitter: https://twitter.com/a_hisa
   2. Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/a_hisa
   3. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjT5KZ2nf6uKf-8qAaS8fHA
   4. Official Website: http://hisaweb.com

Their songs are Artcore-styled and fit rhythm games quite a lot. The mapping community also seems to have liked both of these and this can be seen due to the amount of ranked maps of songs by these artists.

NANORAY
- Bandcamp: https://nanoray.bandcamp.com/
- Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/nanoray
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/Nanoraydx
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/62JS3xgd6kKS7OjzHNSFv1

NANORAY is a drum'n'bass artist reminiscent of the late 90's and early 00's scene mixed with modern style of vaporwave. They're a very talented and diverse artist that is extremely underrated and their music is entirely original, having a couple of their albums already on spotify. I think they would be an excellent artist for all game modes as they strongly have similarities to artists that are already popular such as Iglooghost.

The Caracal Project
- Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/thecaracalproject
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1m3Z3kHjeDDFzKNWqvTlYN?si=ti_wzD19T2uW4MMDRuvDUA
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/felixcaracal

The Caracal Project is a dark drum'n'bass artist with slight influences of neurofunk & dubstep, they have a really unique style. The material is very unusual for DnB and it's very fast and intense, this kind of thing would be extremely well suited to the osu! standard gameplay, and the artist has similarities to other popular artists we have here such as Rusty K, Dictate and so on.

garlagan 11206c

they make fairly low bpm experimental (not really) electronic music. basically a tone down version of camellia is an easy way to put it. could be good for beginner mappers learning how to make a tech map.

website: https://garlagan.com/
twitter: https://twitter.com/garlagan
youtube: https://www.youtube.com//garlagan
soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/garlagan

THE BINARY
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCavdjylCke3KvJNCCxjZiCg
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/BNRY_official
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/60X2RP6vK5pB964r0LyK5X
- Website: https://the-bnry.com/

THE BINARY is a j-rock group with slight jazz influences. They're a really talented and diverse artist that is quickly rising in popularity in the JP scene. They follow the recent trend of popularity in j-rock artists like Yorushika and YOASOBI, and their songs offer really interesting rhythms and instrumental solos that lend themselves to great beatmaps.

Some of my favorite songs I've already ranked, so I'll link them below:
花に雨を、君に歌を - THE BINARY's first song featuring both , mido and あかまる
Other songs:
呼吸する春たち - This song is part of a 3 song series, with this one featuring mido, another featuring あかまる, and the last one featuring both of them in a sort of melding of the two songs.
EgoもIdも単純に - This song is so lively and is one of the first songs they released.

Hi! I suggest Dreamcatcher.

They're a kpop group mainly rocking the rock genre but many of their songs sound like anime openings lol. They're already known to make songs for games, too! Also need more kpop, there are many Dreamcatcher fans out there in osu! and kpop fans in general. Dreamcatcher just really suits osu! the most.

1. (Made for a game) 잠들 수 없는 슈팅 액션 RPG ‘걸카페건’ OST Release. Dreamcatcher(드림캐쳐) ‘R.o.S.E BLUE’
2. Here's what I mean by rock theme Dreamcatcher(드림캐쳐) ‘Break The Wall’
3. Here's what I mean by "some songs sound like anime openings" (obviously osu! players really enjoy those) Dreamcatcher(드림캐쳐) ‘하늘을 넘어’ (Over the Sky)
4. Their most recent title song Dreamcatcher(드림캐쳐) ‘BOCA’

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/Dreamcatcherofficial/
Company Happyface entertainment: https://twitter.com/_happy_face

SVΞNS or SVENS

one of great artist electronic music, that making a lots electronic music such retro, chill and many more.
the genres chosen is great calming songs. bring more experience to mapping itself!

recently, one of their music just qualified in osu!mania beatmapsets/1088978

- osu! profile s/12096335
- soundcloud https://soundcloud.com/svens_project
- vk https://vk.com/svensink

My suggestion is the band Whispered.

A quick summary of the group would be: Finland meets ancient Japan.

Why should you have them as featured artists? Inspired by ancient Japan, they combine death metal with oriental vibes and folk instruments like no other Featured Artist - and they do it right.

Examples of their work: https://youtu.be/zyZp2ksMY_Y & https://youtu.be/MBgdo1W9Tcc

Related Links:

Website - https://www.whisperedband.com/

YouTube - https://www.youtube.com//whisperedofficial

Twitter - https://twitter.com/whisperedmetal

Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/0cBiR10Zh0R2zJJmcxhNFS

SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/whisperedband

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/whisperedband

Three / すりぃ
-popular in osu! especially in Nevo's maps lol
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHGKS3VDKxu3N1u9naM0XYA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/iii0303_8?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author

Yoh Kamiyama / 神山羊
-you introduced me to this artist, Noffy! he's gained a lot of popularity on osu! since you did and he's grown a lot bigger, but perhaps still not too big for FA status?
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw1U9K3S8WVWp7REGaHIW0A
Website: https://yohkamiyama.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yoh_kamiyama/

monaca:factory / 10日P already posted but just want to emphasize my interest
-I have three pending maps from this artist which I'm quite happy with (so far lol). But there is a ranked map, yes, a few of this song: beatmapsets/466647#osu/998643
Bandcamp: https://monacafactory.bandcamp.com/album/moon
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/monaca10p/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT8GGMRqqz8&fbclid=IwAR3eGONbsb1uoT3R0DyR4uaG2nxjII7n8EwvN9QbRRSGc7IeQovL8lSbeog

I would really like to suggest a special and wonderful artist.
She is a trip hop/dubby electronic composer and is called "CloZee"
Imagine to play her music in Mania SV maps, for example That would be sincerly absolutey high pleasurement. <3

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CloZeeOfficial/

Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/clozeeofficial/?fbclid=IwAR1T5vFKWRwtsEHjRtNMvaBsoN4YfLaHGak1E7TlenUWXuB2ksecDJJtlV4

Example for softer compositions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soLrXM0EQ8c
Example for rhythmic composition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk9mVDChEwM
Example for (her) asian-influenced composition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QvMcQ2Eejo
Example for her most known title: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHUAwlOHsJM

I think she fits perfectly the osu!-feeling - everytime i hear her, i want to play osu! *grinning*

Kano

Would really like to see her as a featured artist here since she is already popular in the osu! community with most of the mapsets of her songs having more than a million plays.

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com//bambinoonico/about
Twitter: https://twitter.com/kano_2525
Website: https://kano-official.amebaownd.com

Slugdge

A fairly underground metal band that has a lot of very varied music. "Cosmic Cornucopia" is 3 album's worth of songs that rarely resemble any of the others. Their recent album "Esoteric Malacology" has very interesting diverse metal tracks. I think it would help a lot to diversify the metal FA line-up by including them, since right now it is pretty weak in my opinion.

Bandcamp: https://slugdge.bandcamp.com
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcxgNMfxuYABXMwDlqR0hGA
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Slugdge
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Slugdge
Website of their label: http://www.willowtip.com/bands/details/slugdge.aspx

Examples of their work as maps: beatmapsets/787331#osu/1652503

Elroy
https://soundcloud.com/elr_oy
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ2-ajQm0rsXI5Qs3YuDmsA

a small producer/songwriter who would bring in some more genre variety (indie/hip hopish). he keeps his instrumentals really fresh for different sections which makes his songs really rewarding to map, heres an example: beatmapsets/1194835#osu/2489207

he seems very reachable and i think he'd be a breath of fresh air

Sieudiver

Reason: I mostly like his Touhou arrangements and I think he would be a somewhat good contribution to song diversity. He made some work with Milky chan but he might be considerd unkown in general. Finding new music is one of the good things with osu! right? He also been making music over a long period of time and he seem to experiement or try out new things so im expecting more and better music in the future.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF8sADcZsvs&feature=youtu.be&t=13 Two songs id say would be pretty good for osu!
https://youtu.be/P84W6slVvz8?t=220

https://sieudiver.bandcamp.com

https://www.youtube.com//Timo0041

I made a list of artists i want featured
http://aminoapps.com/p/ombvr8

Belmont

https://belmont-il.bandcamp.com/

https://open.spotify.com/artist/6hxiY0CFXTibGUtp8TdCxp?si=FxmgHcHEQsmDHuOenMjKMA

https://twitter.com/BelmontChicago?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Belmont is a pop punk/easycore band out of Chicago. They have their signature high-tempo punk music as well as their latest EP "Reflections", which borrows elements from hip-hop. Their fantastic drummer Brian Lada makes each of their songs rhythmically interesting and energetic.

These are some of my favorites from them:

https://belmont-il.bandcamp.com/track/stay-up

https://belmont-il.bandcamp.com/track/step-aside

https://belmont-il.bandcamp.com/track/overstepping

TUYU
https://www.youtube.com//EXSpins
the community LOVE this band, with quite a lot of mapset already ranked for them which all recieve quite a ton of from the community
fa-ed this artist would be pog af

I want to suggest two possible artists, but i forget the other one. Here's Heart fo Jordan: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/723158231740055603/794483703719788564/Screenshot_2021-01-01-12-33-13-983_com.google.android.youtube.jpg

Their links:
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2LVrQhb
Apple Music: https://apple.co/2YEgBzM
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heartofjord...
Twitter: https://twitter.com/heartofjordan
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/heartofjorda...
Bandcamp: https://heartofjordan.bandcamp.com

I just ed the other one, WeAreFELICITY. Their links:
Spotify: http://spoti.fi/2CeFbcr
Apple Music: http://tinyurl.com/zb7np5e
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/WeAreFelicity
Twitter: https://twitter.com/WeAreFelicity
Instagram: https://instagram.com/WeAreFelicity

Here to suggest Within Destruction! I think they'd be another awesome addition to the heavier side of artists that we have in FA, they also do their own AMVs for their music so what's not to love??

Here's a link to their music releases on their website: https://sadboikroo.com/pages/music

Their most recent release "YŌKAI" (Bandcamp link: https://withindestruction.bandcamp.com/album/y-kai) is an incredible mix of trap, metalcore + deathcore and would bring a massive new sound to the existing lineup.

Stessie

An EDM producer who explores different genres such as future bass/hardcore/house, drum'n'bass or (melodic) dubstep. Stessie makes a lot of happy and energetic songs that would be perfect in osu!.

Website : https://stessiemusic.com/

Other : https://stessie.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/stessieofficial

DJ SHARPNEL

Soundcloud
Website
Bandcamp

An artist who makes a lot of hardcore and electronic stuff using anime and video game samples. Their songs are high bpm and very engaging, which would make for some good maps. A lot of their songs have already been mapped before, and I would consider some of those maps such as IVALTEK to be pretty iconic and well known

Antti Martikainen
His music is, like he describes himself "epic soundtrack music" - featuring a lot of symphonic, melodic tracks mixed with medieval and celtic folk, sometimes even using metal and electronic elements.
No idea what else to write here - just check him out, his every album is something different! I'd personally recommend checking Northern Steel :}
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Edit: forgot to mention we actually heavily lack folk based stuff in featured artist, so thats also why he would be a great addition~

Dance Gavin Dance

Hailing from the same musical realm as Featured Artist PUP (Rise Records) Dance Gavin Dance is one of those strong, powerhouse metal bands with rhythm game friendly music (at least, instrumentally). A lot of songs are fast, with some featuring multiple tempo and style changes. With a very large catalogue of music to choose from, with multiple songs ranked or loved (NASA / I'm Down With Brown Town, Tree Village, and Frozen One), they are among metal acts that could truly shine in the modern mapping scene

WEBSITE: https://www.dancegavindanceband.com/

SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6guC9FqvlVboSKTI77NG2k?autoplay=true

MrKoolTrix

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/MrKoolTrix

Eve 6n4x5m

Website : https://eveofficial.com/
Twitter : https://twitter.com/oO0Eve0Oo
Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUXfRsEIJ9xO1DT7TbEWksw

E ve is a Japanese Vocaloid producer and singer-songwriter. He signed to Toy's Factory in 2019. He is also a guest in "SCHOOL OF LOCK!" by Tokyo FM.

His music has been featured in the anime Dororo and Jujutsu Kaisen.

paraoka

paraoka is a well-known Japanese doujin artist who has produced tracks for years, focusing primarily on the Denpa and J-Pop genres.
Many of his songs have been charted in various rhythm games and he was a prolific BMS composer as well.
He has collaborated as a part of the Diverse System circle and Koujimachi Yousankan/Koujimachi-ongen with haru*nya.
Many of his works as part of Koujimachi Yousankan have been mapped and ranked in osu! and they have held up well for a long time (Dreadnought, Manima ni, petal-go-round, Rampage, ponytail)
It would be very nice to see him as a Featured Artist in osu! after all these years.

1. Bandcamp: https://koujimachi-ongen.bandcamp.com/
2. SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/paraoka
3. VGMDB: https://vgmdb.net/artist/2467

Taishi

Taishi is a notable Japanese producer specializing in trance and other forms of electronic and EDM.
He has worked on doujin albums, Vocaloid tracks, and even anime soundtracks.
Even if you don't recognize his name directly, he has worked on various songs which have achieved high popularity in the osu! community:
He has worked with Yoshiharu Kato under the name Electro.muster (A Sugar Business) and collaborated with Ringo Aoba as part of Träkker (Trail of Dust, Rootus).
He also has lead the music production for the Ongaku Shoujo project, providing many popular tracks (Justability, Winteright, Perfect Free, Back to Marie)
Having Taishi as a Featured Artist would be exciting to see as his music is high quality and have been the foundation for the beatmaps we know and love.

1. Bandcamp: https://compllege.bandcamp.com/
2. Website: https://compllege.com/
3. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5cv7w3Fjid2lE7Srf7b2hT
4. VGMDB: https://vgmdb.net/artist/2454

nmk

nmk is a producer primarily focused on Eurobeat and Touhou doujin works. He has worked on BMS tracks (notably sola which has 4 ranked maps) and has produced under many Touhou circles (EastNewSound, SPACELECTRO, SuganoMusic).
His music is highly fitting for rhythm games and it would be interesting to see more of his works be exposed to a larger audience and elaborated on by the community's beatmaps; I believe he should be considered for being a Featured Artist.

1. Website: https://miomiohosina.wixsite.com/dtxf-nmk
2. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXp7JsOWuU8Jffp3eunAkyw

DJ Command

DJ Command is a Eurobeat producer who is well-experienced with Touhou doujin music and rhythm game soundtracks.
He has produced for years and many of his contributions are well-known in the osu! community, as part of circles such as A-One (Magic Girl !!, Bamboo Dance) and NJK Record (WARNING!, Crazy Hot, Spring of Dreams).
He currently works under the Eurobeat Union circle (which might be worth considering as a whole, with FN2 and NU-KO also being notable artists!)
Considering the popularity of his music in the rhythm game scene I believe he would be a good fit as a Featured Artist.

1. Website: https://eurobeatunion.com/
2. SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/eurobeat_union
3. VGMDB: https://vgmdb.net/artist/9029

Memme

https://soundcloud.com/Parkmemme

a well known artist know with very known songs mapped like Plasma Gun