Fast or Slow?

[jeurobeat]

Eurobeat became faster and faster. I think it's a good thing that there are slower songs again.

[drnrg]

The good thing about it is that the producers can come up with different melodies and play around with the riffs again now that the music is a little slower in BPMs.

[Justican]

If there are 13 eurobeat tracks on an album, would prefer 5 of them fast, 3 of them medium and 4 of them slow, a pretty equal on both ends with some good, average songs in the middle. SEB has variety, I like variety in the speeds aswell.

[UFOPOLI]

I can't cast a vote because I'm a crazy paralist who prefers to *dance* slower

[Lebon14]

I already said my preference fast but I just want to mention that slow and medium speed Eurobeat shouldn't the other half of a Eurobeat compilation. Fast stuff should overhead slow and medium by far like (on 14 tracks), 12 are fast and 2 are medium and slow. Medium for me is 138-145 BPM. Slow is slower than 138 BPM.

[para_rigby]

Oddly there are some slower BPM songs that still sound fast in my head...could be that some riffs that are faster than the back beat.

I don't much care for the aishu sound myself (except for Norma Sheffield's songs like "Love Collision" and "Ladies"), but I know some people do.

I would keep with middle and upper tempo songs on the albums.

[drnrg]

Even the slowest HRG Attack tracks nowadays are still conciderably faster or almost alike as in the 90s boom.

AbeatC's first songs like Wild Reputation, Your Body Lies, pocket TIME were only a fraction BPM faster than Pasquini's works at Flea.

The thing about the slower BPM's is that it gives more space for the producers to insert more melody into the riffs.

It really all boils down to the melody of the songs

If you speed up Dark In The Night it sounds horrible and if you slow down Nite Of Fire, it sounds even worse.

I'll take the best of both worlds so long as AVEX respects the original bpms the songs were produced at,that way I can enjoy both styles;Fast and slow, on every cd.

[Lebon14]

djnrg, I know what you mean but... that era is in the past... we must move forward and today's beat is faster than it was back then. Keeping it slow is really boring. Fast all the way.

[SuperEuroJimmy]

I disagree that slow is boring. If we only go faster and faster, we end up with stuff like this; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCJXIhEHSRk

[jeurobeat]

It's been this fast for 15 years already. Maybe it's time for a change

[Lebon14]

I disagree that slow is boring. If we only go faster and faster, we end up with stuff like this; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCJXIhEHSRk

Not THAT fast lol. Now, there's no melody with that. I mean, keeping it in the traditional speedy songs... in that I mean 155-170 BPM.

[drnrg]

To me Hi Energy Eurobeat has never been about the speed. It always been about the melody,synth riff and POWER. Songs like Mike Hammer- Shock Me, Alphatown- Japan Japan, Edo- Black Night were conciderably slower in BPMs, but possesed incredible power. Enough to put to rest half of the 155-170 bpm songs of the speedy era

[Bonkers]

What era of SEB was in the 160-170 bpm range, cause that's verging on Happy Hardcore's tempo.

[Megan188]

What era of SEB was in the 160-170 bpm range, cause that's verging on Happy Hardcore's tempo.

Really, the genre's never gotten that fast. It gradually increased in tempo as it evolved throughout the early-to-mid 90's but hasn't changed much since. The closest to the 160-170 range you can really get is the early Euromach era, especially Euromach 1, in which most of the songs are sped up a bit, some of them clocking over 160, which is generally the fastest a "normal" eurobeat song gets. Keep in mind that this is nonstop format, though.

[Jay]

I enjoy both styles/speeds of eurobeat. WHOA SHOCK HORROR.