#endless fantasy

Cryptrik is a ripper I've wanted to talk about on the blog ever since it started, yet thus far I've only done so once on Halation Generation. They're amidst the pantheon of rippers who have stayed with the channel ever since its first season, and Cryptrik remains one of the most distinctive on the team in terms of their typical style. That style, as you may already be familiar with, is very DJ-esque - several rips they've made are pretty much entirely original arrangements with heavy rave/electronic/dance feel to it, and I'm dying to cover some more of those in particular.

Granted, Give Me the Fantasy is a bit more of a traditional rip than the other Cryptrik works I'm alluding to - its a mashup between Pitbull's Give Me Everything and Endless Fantasy by Anamanaguchi. It plays off of a big part of the appeal of both KFaD Tournaments, that rips no longer had an obligation to come from video games so long as they were tied to a tournament contestant. Rips have of course never *required* explicit ties to video games, but tournament entrants like Pitbull gave rippers a clear theme to center around that wasn't related to video games, to great success.