SEB Package to be released on iTunes in November

[Jay]

Damn. Now some of my vinyl extendeds won't be that rare anymore.

Good news for the general eurobeat community though.

[DJ Mike TJG]

I started compiling where Avex/the labels were up to in terms of releasing Euromach extendeds a while back. For quality reasons I exclude vinyl and downloads of a bitrate less than 256kbps (so excluding crappy WMAs).

The label breakdown of Euromach songs is:

A-Beat C: 61 songs
Delta: 12 songs
Hi-NRG Attack: 130 songs
Saifam: 22 songs
SCP: 74 songs
SinclaireStyle: 14 songs
Time: 20 songs
Vibration: 19 songs
TOTAL: 352 songs

I haven't updated the chart in a while, so my stats on Hi-NRG are way out of date (and will take a while to correct). HOWEVER...

Hi-NRG (who make up more than a third of all Euromach tracks) have faired massively better than the other major Euromach labels (A-Beat C and SCP). In fact, at this point, I think it's easier to count the tracks HRG haven't released rather than the ones they have.

Delta, Saifam and Vibration are the only labels to have had all of their songs released in Extended at this point (via Juno, iTunes, etc.)

Time Records is the worst - none of their material has been released extended in an easily accessible form.

If it interests anyone, here's what the labels/Avex still haven't released in extended, easily-accessible form yet (excluding Hi-NRG as my stats are outdated):

A-Beat C

Ace Warrior - 24 Hours A Day With You
Ace Warrior - Black Roses
Ace Warrior - Blem Blem
Ace Warrior - Feel The Fire
Ace Warrior - King Of The Nightmares
Go Go Girls - Baby Can You Love Me
Go Go Girls - Going Home
Go Go Girls - I Want Your Kiss Boy
Go Go Girls - Love Me Tonite
Go Go Girls - Walking Around The Town
Karen - Ride Like The Wind
Lolita - Baby Baby Blue
Lolita - Just A Little Love
Lolita - Macho Man
Lolita - Sexy Lover Sexy Night
Marlene - I'm Coming
Marlene - Kiss And Hug Me
Mickey B. - Wind & Fire
Norma Sheffield - Little Love
Norma Sheffield - My Friend
Norma Sheffield - My Love For You
Sonya - Follow Me Now
Susan Bell - A Little Goodbye
Susan Bell - Break The Silence
Susan Bell - Curious
Susan Bell - Gimme The World
Susan Bell - Happy To Dance
Susan Bell - I Just Wanna Dance
Susan Bell - Love Is The Way
Susan Bell - Music Is Love
Susan Bell - One Night To Remember
Valentina - Don't Stop The Music
Valentina - Trust Me Now
Virginelle - Brother & Sister

SCP

Christine - Crazy Generation
Christine - Heartbeat
Christine - It's A Beautiful Life
Christine - Let Me Be Your Angel
Christine - Till The End Of Time
Christine - To Be Your Angel
Christine - You & I
Christine-N. Joy - Lovin' You Lovin' Me
Dave McLoud - Fightin' The Night
Dave McLoud - Go! Get Ready!
Dave McLoud - Street Of Fire
Doctor Stranger - Gotta Be My Babe
Doctor Stranger - Touch Me Baby
Dusty - Hey Ho Let's Go
Dusty - Solid Gold
Dusty - Stop & Go
Fancy - Ciao Ciao Ciao
Kika - In Your Eyes
Kika - Party Girl
Kika - Top Of The World
Kiki & Fancy - Dance Little Sister
Kiki & Kika - Eurobeat Beat Boom
Kiki & Kika - Jungle Night
Kiki & Kika - Sunshine In My Life
Kite - Always On My Mind
Lucya - All The Love Inside
Lucya - Give You My Love
Lucya - Hey, You!
Lucya - History
Lucya - Kiss Me Tonight
Lucya - Sentimental Song
Lucya - The Look Of Love
Lucya Feat. Ace - Sweet & Tender Lies
Mel & Kim - Go Go To Heaven
Melissa White - Don't Go Playing With My Heart Again
Melissa White - L.O.V.E. You & Me
Messalina - Call Me
Nick Mansell - Freedom Wild
Nick Mansell - Spirit Of The Night
Nick Mansell - Stop Lookin' Back
Rocky - Nightmare
Tiger Shark - Be One
Tomas Lee - Midnight
Vanilla - Crazy

Sinclaire Style

Drama - Feelin' Alive
Drama - Slave To The Rhythm
Eurobeat Girls - People Come On!
Eurobeat Girls - Turn Me On
Leila - Happy Happy
Mako - Rain
Suzy Lazy - Big Time
Suzy Lazy - Suzy Lazy

Time Records

Alexis - Calling My Number
Alexis - Night Angel
Arena 69 - Tokyo
Atrium - Zorro Zorro
Eurosisters - Ready 4 Your Lovely Game
High Level - Take My Time
Karina - Don't Go Breaking My Heart
Linda Ross - Sugar Sugar Honey
Lisa Johnson - Your Passion (Catch My Life)
Love & Pride - Move On
Macho Gang - Go Superman
Mike West - Highway Star
Mr. M - Love Gun
Mr. M - Walking To My Life
Silver - Brave Heart
Susan Key - Love Train
Symbol - You Shot Me Down
Toby Ash - Love And Fever Tonight
Vanessa - The Final Countdown
Victoria - Love Rhapsody

Here's hoping for some of those at some point soon!

[Mikaeru]

Dave McLoud - Street Of Fire

It was on one of the Initial D soundtracks in extended.

A very interesting set of releases, though. Looking forward to it.

A lot of Kiki & Kika/Fancy I guess means not to look forward to an artist compilation down the line. But the relative lack of Christine and total lack of Lucya...

The cover art is rather... uninspired, though looks cheery enough. And lol at "Rodgers & Contini" and not A-Beat C.

[Nine]

I sense trouble. Is HRG going to get banned from self-releasing as did Delta? Say it ain't so!

I doubt it, but I don't see why AVEX is wasting their time releasing Hi-NRG Attack tracks, regardless of them being Euromach themed Special Collections, since Hi-NRG floods iTunes and Juno with their stuff themselves

[drnrg]

DJ Mike TJG

I started compiling where Avex/the labels were up to in terms of releasing Euromach extendeds a while back. For quality reasons I exclude vinyl and downloads of a bitrate less than 256kbps (so excluding crappy WMAs).

While I love the lists you compiles of Euromach's missing extendeds; it also kinda pissed me off to see so many songs that I still don't and might never have in extended

[DJ Mike TJG]

What concerns me is that, in all these compilations that've been released, we haven't seen a single Time Records release - is it possible they're not allowing these worldwide catalogue releases?

[zoupzuop2]

What concerns me is that, in all these compilations that've been released, we haven't seen a single Time Records release - is it possible they're not allowing these worldwide catalogue releases?

Perhaps avex is just taking their time to reach them? (Perhaps as punishment for something? I dunno.)

[drnrg]

Time Records

Alexis - Calling My Number
Alexis - Night Angel
Arena 69 - Tokyo
Atrium - Zorro Zorro
Eurosisters - Ready 4 Your Lovely Game
High Level - Take My Time
Karina - Don't Go Breaking My Heart
Linda Ross - Sugar Sugar Honey
Lisa Johnson - Your Passion (Catch My Life)
Love & Pride - Move On
Macho Gang - Go Superman
Mike West - Highway Star
Mr. M - Love Gun
Mr. M - Walking To My Life
Silver - Brave Heart
Susan Key - Love Train
Symbol - You Shot Me Down
Toby Ash - Love And Fever Tonight
Vanessa - The Final Countdown
Victoria - Love Rhapsody

or just saving the best for last

[Tiger]

Go! Get Ready was released under 9LoveJ Super Collection extends and Touch Me Babe on SEB197 extends.

[Mikaeru]

Go! Get Ready was released under 9LoveJ Super Collection extends and Touch Me Babe on SEB197 extends.

Same with Kika - In Your Eyes, but I'm guessing they weren't counted since they're only available as 128 from iTunes Japan, not the 256 iTunes+ format that the Special Collections are released under.

[DJ Mike TJG]

I haven't counted them because, yes, they're only in 128kbps format, but more importantly they're really not that accessible unless you go down the obtuse "get a Japanese iTunes card" route, which I don't have the slightest bit of patience to do. Plus the DRM annoys the crap out of me.

[the_ditz]

I haven't counted them because, yes, they're only in 128kbps format, but more importantly they're really not that accessible unless you go down the obtuse "get a Japanese iTunes card" route, which I don't have the slightest bit of patience to do. Plus the DRM annoys the crap out of me.

Speaking of which, I'm extremely hacked off that SEB 199 extended versions still haven't appeared on iTunes Japan yet. Anyone know what the delay is? It's almost two whole months since the disc was released, and the wma files have been on Morawin for weeks now...

[drnrg]

AVEX fell asleep at the wheel

[Tiger]

the collections are on JP itunes now, but are not on US yet

[Nine]

They're up in the US and Canada stores.
I'm not a big fan of the Euromach series, but I did grab the three Go Go Girls songs from the Rodgers & Contini album.