13 May 2023
New Featured Artist: cygnus
by pishifat

New Featured Artist: cygnus

by pishifat

Do you believe in simulation theory? If not, disregard this message and carry on with your day. Otherwise, you might want to check out our newest Featured Artist.

cygnus (known here on osu! as Matrix) is the embodiment of the circle clicker's dream: living in Japan and producing rhythm game songs all day every day.

While he began as a pioneer of AR 11 gameplay and later shifted his attention towards mapping, he's recently discovered that music is his favourite form of expression. Inspired by creators like our very own -45, onoken, and SHIKI, cygnus pulls off a distinctly old-school style through both his compositions and nostalgic sample choices.

23 tracks are patiently waiting for your editor magic on cygnus's Featured Artist listing!

Given cygnus's presence in the mapping community, it's no surprise that he wrangled a fair share of the mapping community into creating maps for his music. Below are a few examples of the awesome maps that have been made in the last few months, including maps by the artist himself:

cygnus - STRIKER+

Play through this soon-to-be-Ranked map with an 8-star top difficulty and guest difficulties by the no caps crew: rrtyui, mithew, semaphore, and fanzhen0019!

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cygnus - The Evolution of War

Resident 4K Featured Artist mapper FAMoss is here to deliver this map to all of osu!'s piano smashers.

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cygnus - Shinseki Yomotsu Hirasaka Ifuyasaka Densetsu

Experience this newly ranked map hosted by Mirash!

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cygnus - Parasitic Cell Type D

Or try out some low-BPM streams on this map hosted by stacker!

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cygnus - Psycho Gene

Try the first Ranked cygnus map hosted by Matrix (a.k.a. cygnus!)

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cygnus - 2007clocktower

Try the map from the liveplay video above hosted by Matrix!

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cygnus - Prophecy of the Black Sun

Or explore another self-made map!

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cygnus - Rengoku Mania

If you want another map, Dada created this one just for you.

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cygnus - Dream Emulation

To round things out, try playing the literal matrix hosted by allein!

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If you ever wondered how a rhythm game player creates rhythm game music, look no further than cygnus's Featured Artist listing and its endless supply of pre-timed beatmap templates.

While you're clicking on stuff, the @osugame Twitter is a good place to go for news on the next Featured Artist (which is coming next week, by the way). If you're more in the mood to share your maps though, check out the #featured-artists channel in the osu! Discord server!

Stay tuned.

—pishifat

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oh

YES!!!

isnt cygnus matrix

diamondBIaze xbdgerxferyfne

yea its in the second paragraph of the post

xbdgerxferyfne diamondBIaze

i forgot about that

LETS GOOOOO

Luschka when

coooooool actually

GOOD!

HOLY SHIT
@#&r%!()!R$%(HJO)$*!jfn
desolve<the<puzzlie.

LIVE AND LEARN
HANGING ON THE EDGE OF TOMORROW
LIVE AND LEARN
YOU MAY NEVER FIND YOUR WAYYYYY

what

ok matrix

YOOOOOOOO

congrats man

Farnese [Peter Griffin]

Hi Peter

OH SHIT

neeto

ohhhh hell yes

😳

LogChamp

wait wtf nice

The Vincent van Gogh of our generation.

congratz!

Too bad matrix's other personal ventures are not safe for osu

DR3AMLiKE Uberzolik

huh?

Uberzolik Uberzolik

Huge tho. Congrats

finally

Gratz, happy to hear the stories of how osu! changed someone's life <3

semaphoredeleted
The Cube semaphore

egg

-Kori semaphore

sup

yay

that was so fast since he started wow grats

rip ponbot

lets gooooo !!!

the infinity

LETS GET ITTTTT

nice

hello again

YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

deserved

!

upgraded to featured artist man. congratulations!

Matrix Ephemeral

i'm glad to know the other one is gone LOL

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congratulations to cygnus of Camel Audio

Matrix allein

Thank you user07202012 of blood bath Audio.

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Thank you user07202012 of blood bath Audio.