As most of you know in the past I've been a huge collector of Eurobeat music. I haven't always been a ''good guy'' (if you know what I mean) however I did collect a significant amount of absolute treasures whether (illegally) downloaded or physical albums. Today I have found the hard drive will all that data on it so I was really amazed by what I found.
I have never actually spoken about these albums or given information about where I got them from, and how I got information about their existance. Nor I've given tracklists or samples.
By opening this thread I'll give you an insight in some of the weirdest Eurobeat songs there are.
Currently I have 121 albums on my hard drive. Below I'm going to give some information about some of my ''masterpieces'' and whoever is interested can post in the thread in order to get more information about specific albums. However I'm afraid most of these are not for purchase anymore, and if so... it is extremely hard to get them.
China
A company in China has released several VCDs under names such as:
-Healthy Parapara Dance Vol. 1
-Joyful ParaPara Dance Vol. 1 and Vol.2
-Romantic ParaPara Dance Vol. 1 to Vol. 3
These VCDs contain Chinese dancers doing aerobic like Parapara dances. They don't dance the official choreographies and dance mainly to A-Beat C songs.
Another company, also in China has released mainly SAIFAM music under a CD compilation with at least two volumes: Parapara 123....
Japan
Japan, the country of Eurobeat. Yes, even here albums many of us don't know about yet have been released.How about this album which contains covers of songs such as Seventies, Try Me, Tora Tora Tora and Like A Virgin. The album's name is: Bass Patrol! Extra Euro Bass!
I remember that on the EuroPanic! series an artist named Danela was featured. Probably the only known song of her released was: ''Extra Lover'' but she released an album in Japan with other tracks such as Move To The Beat and Stormy Paradise. There are actually Hyper Techno songs on there! The title of the album is: Danela - Extra Lover
Then there's also this compilation series containing of 6 albums called Digibeat. It has a unique Eurobeat style and artists from the US sing these tracks. I've done some research to the label some years ago and I got to know quite much about the secrets of Digibeat. The music is really worth it to listen to. Digibeat has a very modern sound! Album titles are:
-Digibeat Euro Vol.1 to Vol.4
-Digibeat Euro Best I
-Digibeat Euro Platina
Euro Energy Vol.1 has been released probably somewhere in the 90s. If I remember correctly there's also a volume 2. It contains some covers of songs such as Seventies. But also music of the mysterious ParaPara Records label has been featured on this album. Some of you might know the label of artists such as Dionisius and Spurgear. If you like old style Eurobeat this is definitely worth listening to.
As some know J-Euro label Plum was founded by some people working at Fantasy. A producer of Fantasy has quite recently released some of their tracks on iTunes under albums Eurobeat Hits! Covers and Eurobeat Hits! Rares. I'd definitely like to recommend to listen to those on iTunes. Splash Wave by Norm Schiavone is one of my favorite tracks on there.
Then there's this one really strange album called EuroDrive 001. This album has been released by Fantasy and it was their first Eurobeat album. The music sounds a bit strange, but it is Eurobeat. There are a couple of songs on there wich are actually really good, of which Sky High is one. This was also the first album J-Euro artist Hitomi Sakuma was featured on. Below you can find the cover of the album.
Cyber-Eurobeat and Hiper Eurobeat No.1 belong to one of my favorite albums of the Eurobeat Treasues. Cyber Eurobeat has been released in both Japan and South-Korae and Hiper Eurobeat in Japan only. Both CDs are very rare. However Cross Over Records has recently published all songs on iTunes!
There are so many albums to talk abouts, such as the Ketteibann!! Mega Dance series, Melancholic Euro Discotheque, Onyanko Club, Neo Technopolis Euro-Don and Watch Me.
Then we have this old but very good quality Eurobeat music by ParaPara Records made in the mid-90s. The music has been released on several albums such as ParaPara Hi-BPM Vol. 1 to Vol. 4 and Parapara Summit Vol. 1 and Vol.2.
Regarding the Japan albums there is just way too much to talk about. Here follows a list of the most interesting Japanese albums I have found in my collection.
-Bass Patrol! Extra Euro Bass!
-Danela - Extra Lover
-Digibeat Euro Vol. 1 to Vol. 4
-Eurodrive 001
-Cyber Eurobeat 1
-Hiper Euro No.1
-Ketteiban!! Mega Dance Vol. 1 and Vol. 2
-Onyanko Club
-Para-Para Eurobeat All-Japan
-ParaPara Hi-BPM Eurobeat Vol.1 to Vol.4
-ParaPara Summit Vol. 1 to Vol. 2
-Euro Shizuka Kudo
-The Best Of Paradise Eurobeat Vol. 1 to Vol. 4
-Super Euro Train
-Twinstar -Pink lady Euro Tracks-
-ParaPara Taiyaki
Poland
A long time ago some Eurobeat albums have been released in Poland under the name Snake's Beat and Snake's Dance. But also on the 'The best of Italo Disco series.
Taiwan
Taiwan is known for the Faster Dance series. These CDs are no longer in production but contain some good work of SAIFAM. The albums are all mega mixes with some of them having a 3rd ''DJ friendly'' disc.
The serie consists of 8 albums each containing 3 discs. They're full of SAIFAM Eurobeat and are the megamixes have been given a very speedy feeling because of tire and other car sounds.
Russia
Many of you know about the existance of Russian Eurobeat albums containing mainly SAIFAM and Hi-NRG Attack songs.
Some of these albums are:
-600 Merce'Dance (casette tape)
-601 Merce'Dance
-Dance Boom - High Energy
-Euro Energy
-Euro Love
-Pop-Import: Eurobeat
-High Energy Vol.1 to Vol.3
-American Discothek - Eurobeat
-American Discothek - Best of
But what most of you don't know that some time ago Russia has released their own Eurobeat tracks with Russian vocals. They used SAIFAM and HRG instrumentals and made their complete own lyrics and more. Resulting in amazing songs. Some Japanese deejays know the biggest ''Russian hit'' as ''Donkey'' (which is not the actual Russian title of the track of course but it sounds alike what's sung in the chorus)
I have upload a sample for those who are interested below:
http://picosong.com/3zrJ/
I hope I have given you a nice insight in those Eurobeat Treasures and for those who're interested in knowing more about a specific album. Please let me know, but as there's like... nothing to find about most of the albums above it's gonna take some time for me to provide you with a tracklist for each individual album you want to know more about
I'm still trying to find a way to make some kind of a database for all these albums above (and the ones I even haven't mentioned in here)
