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Waitwaitwaitwait... are you telling us that SEB is not ending but only changes content?vinyl12 wrote: ↑03 Mar 2018, 06:34 A japanese monthly magazine Nikkei Entertainment issued an interview with DJ BOSS regarding SEB series. I can't clarify this, but some Japanese people on Twitter who read the interview said that it was mentioned that Avex is considering about including songs made by Japanese producers after SEB 250.
There is nothing more than these sentences (translated by a japanese friend, but the accurate meaning is sometimes impossible to reach):vinyl12 wrote: ↑03 Mar 2018, 06:34 A japanese monthly magazine Nikkei Entertainment issued an interview with DJ BOSS regarding SEB series. I can't clarify this, but some Japanese people on Twitter who read the interview said that it was mentioned that Avex is considering about including songs made by Japanese producers after SEB 250.
Dated: April 17, 2018"Eurobeat" CD, What is 250 popularity recurring?"
A compilation album "SUPER EUROBEAT" series (hereinafter "SEB") which collected pieces of music of Eurobeat, a genre of dance music, has been released since the release of "VOL.1" in 1990, and this "Vol. 247 "released. It is planned to reach 250th in the month of August. In the late 1980s, the popularity of the disco and the boom of Eurobeat has occurred, but recently the number of fans of the young generation is beginning to increase.
The red line shows the image of the boom rising
Eurobeat is a kind of dance music. In the late 1980s, songs produced in Europe gained popularity in Japanese disco, and since then, they have evolved independently in Japan with close relationship with "Parapara" where everyone dances with the same choreography. At the time of the release of "VOL.1" in 1990, the middle of the first parapara boom. It is the beginning of "SEB" that Mr. Katsuhito Matsuura, President of Avex, requested Italian creators "Songs that match the epidemic of Japan".
About 2000, Parapara came to the "third boom", and "VOL.100" and "VOL.110" of "SEB" achieved sales of 700,000 copies. However, "It is a boom triggered by sluggishness" and "SEB" producer DJ BOSS analyzes. "The number of songs that the difficult choreography and tempo are fast and I can not easily dance has increased, and I became" maniac. " Also, some people had an image that "Parapara is out of date" due to the reaction of the boom. Poppara population has decreased, and "SEB" sales also declined. In December 2000, we began considering including abolition, we reduced the number of releases per month to 1 per month and the number of tracks we have reduced from 18 to 15.
However, recently, it is said that signs that the tide is likely to change can be seen. Fans of young generation who do not know the tertiary boom are starting to increase. The number of young people coming to the event of Disco tends to increase. Avex enhances promotion aimed at this, such as using SNS. Also on February 28, the idol group フェアリーズ (Fairies) released a single "HEY HEY ~ Light Me Up" covering Eurobeat songs. The choreography of the song is taken care of by choreographer akane at Tomioka High School Dance Department that gathered the topic in "Babylon Dance". First of all, it's a strategy to get to know the pleasure of dancing to the eurobeat.
According to DJ BOSS, after "VOL.250", he is also considering recording Japanese production music. With a major milestone for the 250th release scheduled for August, there will be a possibility that the popularity will reignite as the limelight comes again to the Eurobeat.
(insert pic of DJ Boss and SEB 247 cover here)
So...what that article is saying is that Eurobeat is gaining popularity again and won't die again? Forgive me if I'm wrong, what did I miss?Lebon14 wrote: ↑18 Apr 2018, 02:48 EDIT: Same article than the magazine article mentionned above; just made available to general public.
So, this appeared on my Twitter feed today:
https://style.nikkei.com/article/DGXMZO ... 10C1000000
Google Translate:Dated: April 17, 2018"Eurobeat" CD, What is 250 popularity recurring?"
A compilation album "SUPER EUROBEAT" series (hereinafter "SEB") which collected pieces of music of Eurobeat, a genre of dance music, has been released since the release of "VOL.1" in 1990, and this "Vol. 247 "released. It is planned to reach 250th in the month of August. In the late 1980s, the popularity of the disco and the boom of Eurobeat has occurred, but recently the number of fans of the young generation is beginning to increase.
The red line shows the image of the boom rising
Eurobeat is a kind of dance music. In the late 1980s, songs produced in Europe gained popularity in Japanese disco, and since then, they have evolved independently in Japan with close relationship with "Parapara" where everyone dances with the same choreography. At the time of the release of "VOL.1" in 1990, the middle of the first parapara boom. It is the beginning of "SEB" that Mr. Katsuhito Matsuura, President of Avex, requested Italian creators "Songs that match the epidemic of Japan".
About 2000, Parapara came to the "third boom", and "VOL.100" and "VOL.110" of "SEB" achieved sales of 700,000 copies. However, "It is a boom triggered by sluggishness" and "SEB" producer DJ BOSS analyzes. "The number of songs that the difficult choreography and tempo are fast and I can not easily dance has increased, and I became" maniac. " Also, some people had an image that "Parapara is out of date" due to the reaction of the boom. Poppara population has decreased, and "SEB" sales also declined. In December 2000, we began considering including abolition, we reduced the number of releases per month to 1 per month and the number of tracks we have reduced from 18 to 15.
However, recently, it is said that signs that the tide is likely to change can be seen. Fans of young generation who do not know the tertiary boom are starting to increase. The number of young people coming to the event of Disco tends to increase. Avex enhances promotion aimed at this, such as using SNS. Also on February 28, the idol group フェアリーズ (Fairies) released a single "HEY HEY ~ Light Me Up" covering Eurobeat songs. The choreography of the song is taken care of by choreographer akane at Tomioka High School Dance Department that gathered the topic in "Babylon Dance". First of all, it's a strategy to get to know the pleasure of dancing to the eurobeat.
According to DJ BOSS, after "VOL.250", he is also considering recording Japanese production music. With a major milestone for the 250th release scheduled for August, there will be a possibility that the popularity will reignite as the limelight comes again to the Eurobeat.
(insert pic of DJ Boss and SEB 247 cover here)
Some edits by me.
That's what it says. Except it's regaining popularity using remixed cult classics and not on brand new material.johnjohnjohnnycake wrote: ↑20 Jul 2018, 14:02 So...what that article is saying is that Eurobeat is gaining popularity again and won't die again? Forgive me if I'm wrong, what did I miss?
