Crockett wrote:For you too:
Crockett wrote:I'm curious where is a fan from, which knows Eurobeat since late 80's ?
Italy, Holland, Mexico, Japan? It's rather the whole list of possibilities.
Where are any good informations, what you can both guys present for fans never seen any event, real artists and their careers from the time, when it was the most important in Japan?
I'm serious.
Really I would like to know, do you have something more than CDs to support people keeping Eurobeat interesting ? I collect everything.
Don't sit here anonymous if you could help
Well, there is not really much to tell. In parts of Europe, italo disco was somewhat popular. German ZYX records released many songs on vinyl, which could be easily found in regular shops. ZYX also released 'The Best of Italo Disco' CD series, but after vol.13 (early eurobeat) the series changed into italo house style.
Specialized import shops also sold vinyl from the US and many European countries, such as Italy. There one could find the releases on original italian label. However, no information on artists was available, other than what was printed on the record sleeves. It was clear that at some point in time, most of the eurobeat songs were released by Factory Sound Studio in Lugagnano. We only knew that by reading the credits.
However, nobody knew anything. There was no information. There was no internet for ordinary people. At a certain moment in 1990, we thought that it would be the end of Time Records, because over a rather long period, Time released only a handful eurobeat style songs, along with hiphouse and house. In 1994 or 1995, KL Jones was released (I think it was Don't Cry, but it could also be Funny Funny Dance) and that was about it for AbeatC. For months, no AbeatC record was released. One store manager thought the label had stopped, and Time was the only label left. We didn't know what Avex was still releasing 7 AbeatC songs a month on Super Eurobeat!
In the very early 90s, once in a while, I could get hold of very rare ALFA INTERNATIONAL albums or compilations (That's Eurobeat) but these were extremely expensive and hard to get. Later, I think in 1992, I got a Super Eurobeat compilation. The ALFA cds had booklets with photographs and lots of information. But everything was in Japanese. I couldn't read that.
I should say that there actually was one source of information: I Venti d'Azzurro. Their chart sometimes gave some extra info they got from the music creators themselves.
