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Music genre

Eurobeat
Super Eurobeat Vol. 250 cover fine art
Stylistic origins	Hi-NRG[1] [2] Italo disco[a] dance-popular synthrock
Cultural origins	British Eurobeat: Mid 1980s, United Kingdom Contemporary Eurobeat: Tardily 1980s, Italian republic, Germany and Nihon
Fusion genres
J-pop[iv] [5]
Regional scenes
Great britain Italy Japan Federal republic of germany
Other topics
J-Euro Para Para Synthwave Stock Aitken Waterman

Eurobeat refers to 2 styles of dance music that originated in Europe: one is a British variant of Italian^[3] Eurodisco-influenced^[6] dance-pop, and the other is a hi-NRG-driven form of Italo disco. Both forms were developed in the 1980s.

Producer trio Stock Aitken Waterman and pop band Dead or Alive fabricated Eurobeat music more than popular in the U.s.a., where Eurobeat was historically marketed as hi-NRG (pronounced equally "high energy"). For a short while, it also shared this term with early freestyle music and Italo disco.

Overview [edit]

In the late 1970s, Eurodisco musicians such as Silvery Convention and Donna Summer were pop in America.^[7]

In the 1980s, A highly polished production with "musical simplicity" at its core — from Bubblegum Pop-like lyrics, catchy (in some cases Italian, in other Eurodisco-similar) melodies, to "uncomplicated" vocal structures — an average British Eurobeat vocal took very trivial time to complete.^[eight] Bananarama's "Venus" and Mel & Kim'southward "Showing Out (Get Fresh at the Weekend)" were said to exist completed in a day, according to Pete Waterman of Stock Aitken Waterman.^[eight]

Eurobeat lyrics and melody are very simple. Italo disco, sometimes fast and happy music like EDM, with a sequenced octave bassline. Many characteristic guitars equally a commencement department, followed past a thunderous, highly technical synthesizer riff^[9] which is then repeated afterwards the chorus. Songs usually repeat the verse, bridge, and chorus multiple times during the vocal. The beginning is typically like an instrumental rendition of the verse, bridge, and chorus, while the riff is a lot like an instrumental version of the chorus.

beginning (intro) → synth → A melo (poetry) → B melo (bridge) → chorus → synth → C melo → catastrophe

The intro is the introduction into the vocal, the sabi is the musical part without voices. The A melo, or a-melody is the first verse in the vocal, the B melo is the bridge of the song, and at that place is a song chorus. There is too a C melo afterward the first chorus, besides as another A/B melo variant after the 2d sabi.

Utilize of the term [edit]

British record producer Ian Levine's Eastbound Thruway, released the single "Y'all're a Beat" in recognition of the slower tempo of how-do-you-do-NRG music emerging from Europe. Many European acts managed to interruption through under this new recognition, namely the likes of Mod Talking, Bad Boys Bluish, Taffy, and Spagna. The term "Eurobeat" was subsequently used commercially to describe the Stock Aitken Waterman–produced hits by Dead or Alive,^[10] Bananarama, Jason Donovan, Sonia, and Kylie Minogue which were heavily based on the British feel with Italo disco. During 1986–1988, it was used for specific Italian 1980s Eurodisco imports, such as Sabrina Salerno, Spagna, and Baltimora just was too used in the United states as a catch-all term for UK-based trip the light fantastic toe and electropop groups of the time such as Pet Shop Boys, purported to have a "European beat", hence Eurobeat. Past 1989, with the advent of Eurodance and Euro business firm, the term was dropped in the Britain.

History [edit]

United Kingdom [edit]

"Information technology's a great hybrid with Motown-style lyrics, an Italian-fashion melody, and a Eurobeat. Information technology sounds actually bully on the radio."

—Waterman (1986) on Bananarama "I Heard a Rumour".^[8]

The trio of British record producers, songwriters, and former DJs Mike Stock, Matt Aitken, and Pete Waterman were involved in the British underground social club civilisation, encountering the Black American soul music-focused scene called Northern Soul, Italian pop-Eurodisco, and sped-up Motown Sound-inspired tracks. Every bit hush-hush record producers, they sought to recapture the "nostalgia" of Motown Sound with a hint of campy playfulness where the simplicity of musical structures, like in Italian disco, was preferred. This musical formula was proven to be successful enough to be capitalized on as they had a string of top 10 UK hits in the 1980s to the point of their version of Eurobeat becoming synonymous with British pop music as a whole.^[11]

Pete Burns of Expressionless or Alive regularly fought the production team over "[having to attach] to their production methods and concepts" which SAW were "quite firm about". Burns went on making a next album, produced by Burns and Dead or Live drummer Steve Coy, without them, chosen Nude. Epic (licensed by Sony Europe) was reluctant near releasing the album merely it turned out to be and so successful in Japan that it was awarded the Japan Tape Accolade M Prix for Best International Album of 1989 in the 'Popular' or 'Popular' Category.^[1]

Italian republic and Japan [edit]

"Past the Italians, for the Japanese" [edit]

"[A-Beat C, Time, Delta] have been with us for years now, and they believed in the states. Without them, nosotros couldn't have made it happen."

—avex trax's Haji Taniguchi (2000)^[12]

Meanwhile, in Japan in 1985, the term "Eurobeat" was applied to all continental-European trip the light fantastic toe music imports. These were mainly Italian and German-produced Italo disco releases. That sound became the soundtrack of the Para Para nightclub culture, which has existed since the early on 1980s. Japan experienced Italo disco through the success of the High german group Arabesque, which broke upwards in 1984. This did not prevent the release of two Italo disco-sounding singles in 1985 and 1986, produced and mixed by Michael Cretu (of Enigma). The later solo success of Arabesque's lead singer Sandra further introduced this audio to Japan. This attracted the attention of many Italo disco producers (generally Italians and Germans), though by the late 1980s the Germans had faded out of Italo disco and focused on more popular scenes, mainly trance. In Nippon, this music is chosen "Eurobeat", "Super Eurobeat", and "Eurobeat Wink".

Velfarre, a discothèque located in Tokyo, was considered a mecca of Eurobeat during the 1990s and 2000s.

The Japanese Para Para trip the light fantastic toe civilisation is influenced by Eurobeat. In the early 1990s, Eurobeat's popularity was gradually decreasing in Nippon. Two Japanese men, the owner and a managing managing director of Avex, a pocket-sized import record shop at the time, decided to release a compilation CD. They went to Italy and met Giancarlo Pasquini (later known every bit Dave Rodgers), then a member of the Italo disco band Aleph. Together they released the first Super Eurobeat, a compilation CD which saw instant success and re-ignited Eurobeat's popularity in Nihon.^[13] Avex also collaborated with foundational Eurobeat labels A-Crush C, Fourth dimension, and Delta long after Eurobeat'due south mainstream popularity peak.^[12]

Eurobeat's sound (in the Japanese market) is its principal link to its Italo disco origins, where it was simply ane of many different experiments in pure electronic dance. There are sure synth instruments that recur beyond the entire genre: a sequenced octave bass, the energetic (sometimes wild) and heavy use of synths, distinctive brass and harp sounds, and tight, anticipated percussion in the background.

The anime series Initial D, based on the manga by Shuichi Shigeno, uses Eurobeat music regularly^[14] in its episodes during racing scenes between the characters, and because of this it has come to the attention of some anime fans exterior Nippon. The serial, as well equally the video games, apply a big playlist of Eurobeat songs (for example, "Deja Vu" by Dave Rodgers' and "Running in the 90s" past Max Coveri). (Many of these songs also became memes.) In that location are too many Eurobeat songs based on the series itself, including: "Takumi" by Neo, "Speed Car" by D-Team, "Initial D Hell" by Dave Rodgers and "DDD Initial D (My Car is Fantasy)" by Mega NRG Man. In the picture version of this anime (Legend 1 Awakening, Fable 2, and 3), there is no Eurobeat and the movie has been criticized by fans for this reason.^{[ citation needed ]} The songs used in the films are instead modern-solar day J-rock songs.

In 1998, Bemani, a branch of the video game visitor Konami made a hit video trip the light fantastic machine, Dance Trip the light fantastic toe Revolution. The game acquired Eurobeat songs from the Dancemania compilation series published by Toshiba EMI. Though there was not much Eurobeat from 2006's SuperNOVA on, the series still features some tracks equally of 2021. Other music games in Konami's lineup feature a large number of Eurobeat tracks, including Beatmania, Beatmania IIDX, jubeat, and many more. The popularity of the genre as well led Konami to create a Para Para game, ParaParaParadise, though it was less successful than their other series.

J-Euro [edit]

There have been four types of music called "J-Euro" (Japanese Eurobeat out);

1. Eurobeat songs made in Italy, covered by Japanese artists with Japanese lyrics.

This blazon of "J-Euro" appeared starting time in the early 1990s. Notable artists of this type of "J-Euro" accept included MAX, D&D, V6, Dream, and the "Queen of J-popular" Namie Amuro.^[fifteen]

ii. J-popular songs made in Nihon, remixed in the manner of Eurobeat past Italian Eurobeat producers.

This blazon of "J-Euro" appeared starting time on the 1999 effect of Super Eurobeat, Vol. 100, with several tracks of this type of "J-Euro" by MAX, Every Little Thing, and Ayumi Hamasaki.^[xvi] This type of "J-Euro" has been popular in the para para scene since around 2000.^[17] Avex Trax launched the Super Eurobeat Presents : J-Euro serial in 2000. This serial included Ayu-ro Mix ane, 2 and iii, plus a fourth remix album missing the "Super Eurobeat" tag featuring Ayumi Hamasaki, Euro Every Little Thing featuring Every Little Thing, Hyper Euro MAX featuring MAX, Euro global featuring globe, Euro Dream Land featuring Dream, J-Euro Best, J-Euro Not-Terminate All-time,^[18] etc.

three. Eurobeat songs made in Japan, and sung past Japanese artists themselves.

This type of Eurobeat has e'er been present since the 2000s, just only started to proceeds attention once the para para scene began promoting songs in this way. Most songs are anime remixes or J-pop covers, which has led to some calling information technology an anime boom.^{[ tone ]}

Eurobeat labels that showcase this type of J-Euro are A-1, Akiba Koubou INC/Akiba Records, Eurobeat Union, Fantasy Dance Tracks, Plum Music, SuganoMusic and more than.

4. Songs made in Japan, remixed in the mode of Eurobeat past worldwide producers.

This type of Eurobeat has always been present since the 2010s. For example, one of the underrated female person Brazilian YouTubers made the beginning Eurobeat remix titled The Lost 1'south Weeping (KENN-Euro Mix), featuring the Japanese histrion and voice role player, KENN.

Para Para [edit]

One of the trip the light fantastic moves Eurobeat spawned was para para ( パラパラ ), a type of Eurobeat music-inspired Japanese youth social dance performed in unison.^{[xix] [xx]}

See besides [edit]

• List of artists
• Super Eurobeat
• Eurobeat Disney
• Initial D
• Italo disco

References [edit]

1. ^ Italy is a Eurobeat "Mecca" to either variant of Eurobeat; first produced in Italian republic^[iii] and Germany.^[3]

1. ^ ^{a b} Loonshit, James (2017). Europe'southward Stars of '80s Dance Popular. McFarland. p. 85. ISBN9781476630144 . Retrieved 2020-01-29 . . Relevant pages 29-32 (Pete Burns), Pages 44 & 85 (high-energy music). Page 29 quote: "I got really sick working with them during the making of the Mad, Bad album. I got actually, really sick." [...] The Stock Aitken Waterman team was reportedly quite firm virtually adhering to their product methods and concepts, which Burns said was a major source of friction. "That'southward why nosotros somewhen walked abroad from them. For instance, there was a lyric from 'Something in My House' [from the follow-up album, Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know] where I make a reference to a 'wicked queen.' The actual producer, Mike Stock, stopped me and said I couldn't utilize the term considering information technology would hateful the record is about gay people. I was like, 'Fuck this; information technology'due south going on!' They actually wiped the original vocal, simply so Pete Waterman came dorsum and said, 'Let [Burns] do it the way he wants to.' At that place you become."
2. ^ Cunningham, Mark "Good Vibrations: A History of Tape Production" (Sanctuary Music Library), Alan Parson (Introduction), Brian Eno (Introduction) Sanctuary Publishing, Ltd; 2 edition (1998, Digitized 20 May 2010). ISBN 1-86074-242-four, ISBN 978-one-86074-242-two
3. ^ ^{a b c} David D. Laitin, Robert Schuman Centre (2000). Culture and National Identity: "the Eastward" and European Integration. European Academy Establish. Page 14.
4. ^ Keizai, Kokusai & Zaidan, Kōryū (cont.) "Nihon Spotlight: Economy, Civilisation & History, Volume 23". Page 24 (Ng Wai-ming: "The Ascension of J-Popular in Asia and Its Impact"). Japan Economical Foundation & the University of California. 2004. Quote: "JAPANESE popular music is commonly I referred to every bit "J-pop", a term coined by Komuro Tetsuya, the "father of J-pop", in the early 1990s. The meaning of J-pop has never been clear. It was first limited to Euro-beat, the kind of dance music that Komuro produced. Yet, it was later also applied to many other kinds of pop music in the Japanese music chart, Oricon, including idol-pop, rhythm and blues (R&B), folk, soft rock, easy listening and sometimes fifty-fifty hip hop."
5. ^ Society for Asian Music (2003). "Asian Music: Journal of the Society for Asian Music, Volume 34, Issue 1". Folio 1 ("Japanese Popular Music in Singapore"). The University of California.
6. ^ Ang, Ien & Morley, David (2005). "Cultural Studies: Volume 3, Consequence 2". Routledge. pgs. 171, 173, 170. ISBN 9781134957927. "Eurorecords had to take firsthand cross-national appeal, musical simplicity was of the essence- a boisterous shell, just one chorus claw, elementary lyrics. The fun of these records was entirely a affair of audio quality, but in one case a record was a striking it took on a kind of sleazy, cornball charm of its own. It was precisely the brazen utility of these records, in short, that gave them gay disco consumer appeal too.[...] Eurodisco too had an obvious chemical element of camp -British club audiences took delight in the very gap between the chiliad gestures of Eurosingers and the vacuity of their songs."
7. ^ Krettenauer, Thomas (2017). "Hit Men: Giorgio Moroder, Frank Farian and the eurodisco sound of the 1970s/80s". In Ahlers, Michael; Jacke, Christoph (eds.). Perspectives on German Popular Music. London: Routledge. ISBN978-1-4724-7962-4.
8. ^ ^{a b c} BMI: The Many Worlds of Music. Broadcast Music, Incorporated, 1986. p. 17.
9. ^ "Eurobeat Creation Theory: Synth Riffs/"Sabi"s". Odyssey Eurobeat. 2010-08-06. Retrieved 2019-ten-22 .
10. ^ Kreisler, Lauren. "Inside The Hit Factory: Dead Or Live – You Spin Me Circular (Like a Tape)". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 21 Baronial 2021.
11. ^ Manning, Sean (2008). "Rock and Roll Cage Match: Music's Greatest Rivalries, Decided". Crown/Classic, Aug 26, 2008. Folio 69. ISBN 9780307449658.
12. ^ ^{a b} McClure, Steve. "Midem 2000: JAPAN: Execs Stress Dance & Urban". Billboard (Nielsen Business Media, Inc.). Jan 22, 2000. Page 80. ISSN 0006-2510. Quote: "[T]o maintain an existing human relationship with our clients nosotros want to show our special appreciation to our collaborators for the success of 'Super Eurobeat Volume 100,' which has sold more than than a one-half-million units since being released in Baronial," says Avex's Haji Taniguchi. [...] Taniguchi says the 3 companies to which Avex feels particularly grateful for their back up over the years are A-Shell C, Time, and Delta, all of which are from Italy."
13. ^ "Archived copy". triplei.hp.infoseek.co.jp. Archived from the original on 17 May 2006. Retrieved 17 January 2022. {{cite spider web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy every bit title (link)
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15. ^ Bakuren, Listing of J-EURO Original Tracks Archived 2008-10-ten at the Wayback Motorcar (in Japanese)
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17. ^ Tsutaya, J-Euro Non-Stop Best > Summary (in Japanese)
18. ^ Avex Trax, J-EURO (in Japanese)
19. ^ Karen Ma (1996). "The Mod Madame Butterfly: Fantasy and Reality in Japanese Cantankerous-cultural Relationships". Charles E. Tuttle. ISBN 9780804820417. Quote: "[T]he para-para girls-young women in their late teens and early twenties dancing in unison in Japanese trip the light fantastic toe steps to the sound of fast-tempo Euro-beat. Para-para dancing is non a new invention: it dates dorsum to the early eighties."
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