As for all the talk about drop sales of Eurobeat. I got news for you. It isn't only Eurobeat. It's music in general. That is why hardly any new music is released nowadys. You got the same old Lady Gaga goo from last year and the same old played out hip hop with your occasional Nickelback/Daughtry track in the top 20 to balance things out. It's completely pitifull what's happened to the music industry.
Here is were I thank GOD that Eurobeat is still going strong. Weather it be parapara dance, cartoons, video games. I wouldn't even care if some new Diaper wearing, mowhawk sporting trend of dancers started listening to Eurobeat as long as they keep producing it.
I'm still against too much experimentation in Eurobeat. It was cool in the mid 90's cause almost all the songs sounded aggressive. Esp. TIME's songs, which coincidentally more than half were coproduced by Live music Team. You can add these effects in the intro, but I don't really care for the song when it carries a trance or house vibe from start to end. To me that veers too far from Traditional Eurobeat. I do however love the slower Bpms that are making an appearance here and there and the occasionnal Disco beat song that pos up here and there. I think the labels feel the same and that is precisely the reason they use other aliases to pruduce Trance, Techno and whatever style of songs that are not Eurobeat.
Jay
I think this depends on how strong the original was? I'll even state a few exapmles of good rehashing.At the end of the day, nobody wants to listen to the same rehashed song, do they?
My argument for the rehash effect stems from the fact that as long as a song doesn't completely sound like the other one, it's basiacally o.k. Take Franz Tornado's Suck A Bazooka and the , Suk El Kazoo. They are very similiar, infact almost identical in the chorus, but at the same TIME sound different once you hear the whole piece. The riffs are completely different and the intros, esp. Suk El Kazoo try different ideas by adding the Kazoo effects. We can praise the Euromach days all day and say that HRG's hey day is in the past, but the truth is as great as the Euromach era was, you have to admit that nowadays HRG is using a lot more instrumental soundworlds than say, the CHIME BELL era.
Another producer that can use his rehash effect quite stunningly is Dall Ora. this is most evident in Hey Boy and Playboy, yet there is enuff diversity to keep the listener interested to spot the differences. AbeatC someTIMES rehashes too much of the initial song and sound too identical. There was a TIME when MIlan Milan MIlan was the backbone of every Dave & Mega NRG Man song, but likewise thay are getting alot better than previous years.
As for the argument about AVEX being Eurobeat's demise or salvation;
I think I'll use the labels in these topic of how to better Eurobeat's future, cuz ultimately it's up to the labels and not AVEX to keep producing the music, so they should give em alot more freedom than they are now. The problem I see with AVEX is that they think they know what's best, but the reality is that the lables were allready making the music long before AVEX was even contemplating picking up and marketing the style of music. AVEX didn't make Eurobeat, but they can sure break it.
...and I still don't get what's up with Darksky all of the sudden rooting for AVEX? is Dima ProAvex or something? I admire Newfield ,because he sticks it to AVEX every chance he gets and he is still around. Same with Dall Ora.
to sum it up I think DJ Mike TJG said it best below-
Scarely thought, but its true.Can I make one point:
You should be happy that so many people in this forum post so many opinions about Eurobeat. Clearly a lot of people are passionate about it and that means that they're still listening. There'll be songs people like and songs they don't like, but that's fine because you really shouldn't expect everyone to like everything.
If we ever reach the day a new SEB is released, and no one says even one word about it, THEN you know that something is REALLY wrong. It's that sort of reaction you should genuinely be worried about. Because then Eurobeat will have truly lost its audience.
,but I'm serious some unreleased SCP, TIME or AbeatC songs would sure fill that ever changing gap with those two last spots on the cd..
