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Hi everyone!
I'm going to make a presentation showing to my class what is eurobeat (thought of this as a good idea to show what it is to people, because only one of my friends know what it is, because I told him ), the beggining, I'll talk a little about Initial D, Para Para, about the active labels, and show them an Eurobeat Song (Crazy on Emotion btw).
So, I'm building the slide and I really need to know, what image comes to your mind when you think about eurobeat? I need to make the slide very image heavy, so I need some help with this! As I'm going to talk about the genre, I need some help with at least an background image for the slide.
Btw, when I think of eurobeat Initial D/Dancing clubs with lots of people come to my mind. Maybe I should use this, or something a little flashy xD

ps: It's for tomorrow!!! Please comment xD

Anything to do with parapara, gyarus, yamambas would be great. Plenty of album cover images would work well too.

Dude, you gotta start working on your projects earlier!

To me, eurobeat is the feeling you get when speeding down a highway in your car, feeling the gravity push you back in your seat as you accelerate.

Darkholme wrote:Dude, you gotta start working on your projects earlier!

This was a last second project, because the teacher only told about it to us today xD

And yeah, I haven't found much images when searching google for "para para", but I'll see what I can do

Keep replying people!
I think this could be a great topic to also share "What is Eurobeat for you"

my thinking is simple
"Eurobeat is high speed dance music like Hardcore,but sometime can be slow as house music,she has a influence blood from her father Italo disco...

She is exclusive for Japan,but made in Italy
She can be happy or sometime serious..
She has a brighter,faster riff than eurodance ..

Ganguros, hotrods going way too fast at night, FIRE, THUNDER, and maybe some rocket ships or something

I can see that people have different images about eurobeat, but in the same way they are somewhat similar xD

Well, the presentation was good! Sucess.

But if you guys still wanna continue with the topic, talking about what eurobeat means to you, or what comes to your mind when thinking about eurobeat, feel free to do it

KoolKool wrote:my thinking is simple
"Eurobeat is high speed dance music like Hardcore,but sometime can be slow as house music,she has a influence blood from her father Italo disco...

She is exclusive for Japan,but made in Italy
She can be happy or sometime serious..
She has a brighter,faster riff than eurodance ..

It's funny seeing you refer to eurobeat as "she" to me, eurobeat is overwhelmingly a "he" in my mind.

I'm just really curious, but I would like to see what your presentation looked like. Will you share it with us? Not to bash on you or any mistakes or whatever, but like I said, I'm really curious how others present eurobeat to the world. :)

Of course I can share it!

I did a little presentation on Microsoft Powerpoint. I talked about the main things of eurobeat.

I started talking about the origins of eurobeat, what is eurobeat itself, what characteristics the eurobeat songs have, and such other general things.

Then, I move on to talk about the main labels of eurobeat, and that each one has a distinct "feel" to their music.

After that, I talked about ParaPara, and showed 2 videos to better demonstrate what is ParaPara (the second one is TechPara, but, oh well). I think the videos won't run in the file I'll provide, because they need to be in the same directory of the file...but I can provide the youtube link to them. (Whenever there is a black screen in the middle of the slide, it's a video).

I also talked a little about Dave Rodgers and that he is considered by many the most famous eurobeat artist out there.

Then I talked a little about Initial D, and that they used Eurobeat songs in the anime, and this helped Eurobeat too.

Then, I talked about the Super Eurobeat albuns, that it's the longest running Eurobeat compilation, and the most famous, an such things.

Then I moved on to talk a little about Ace (because the song I picked was Crazy on Emotion).

Basically, it had to be a not so lenghty presentation, but I think I could tell the main points of what is eurobeat, and what eurobeat sounds like. People seem to have enjoyed ParaPara

Here are the links to the videos, in the order they appear at the slide:

1st video: Brand New World ParaPara
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccXCNfrlsfE

2nd video: Techno Shock TechPara
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=firvfIBCbVY

3rd video: Message from Ace & Pamsy (I used it only to show the intro of the video, that shows all the Album Covers of SEB up to vol 230, so Ace and Pamsy didn't really appear at the video xD )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVMTJCDH ... e=youtu.be

4th video: Initial D AMV using Crazy on Emotion (This was the choosen song)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8ZAwhK3Ig4

Link to download the presentation:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/95wf1ilbg1a90 ... .pptx?dl=0

I hope you guys like it

PS: Crazy on Emotion was randomly selected because I couldn't decide between Gas Gas Gas, The Top, or Crazy on Emotion xD

I would have done more, briefly explaining the history from SEB 1 to 230 and showing the differences between 90s Eurobeat and 2010s. I would have a very brief mention about para in a eurobeat-focused presentation.

Loved how you set up the presentation. :D Well done. :)!

It's too bad that eurobeat and the culture around it is so big. You can't explain eurobeat in just 5 minutes. You have to make a selection. I hope you inspired some new fans, Vadio! :)

Tiger wrote:I would have done more, briefly explaining the history from SEB 1 to 230 and showing the differences between 90s Eurobeat and 2010s. I would have a very brief mention about para in a eurobeat-focused presentation.

I only talked about what is SEB, and the only SEB volume I did talk about was SEB 110 (because as far as I know, it was the most selling one, right?). I just talked about what is ParaPara, and that Dave Rodgers himself said that he thinks ParaPara is the only way to dance to Eurobeat, because it's "so fast" (Got this from Wikipedia, don't know if it's really true ).

MKwiakaku wrote:Loved how you set up the presentation. Well done. !

It's too bad that eurobeat and the culture around it is so big. You can't explain eurobeat in just 5 minutes. You have to make a selection. I hope you inspired some new fans, Vadio!

Thanks for that!
Well, I do agree that I just had a little time to talk about it, so I really only got the "main" points about Eurobeat (for me, that is). I hoped I could show some more songs, but it didn't happen

Well, even if it was short, I think that if more people can know about Eurobeat, the better xD

Those days, here on the forum (SEB 230 discussion I think) we were talking about this, and then I realized that it's the fans that don't let Eurobeat die...and that we have to show it to the world whenever possible. So I took the chance and choose Eurobeat to talk about.

Vadio wrote:
Dave Rodgers himself said that he thinks ParaPara is the only way to dance to Eurobeat, because it's "so fast" (Got this from Wikipedia, don't know if it's really true ).

Well yes, that is true. You can read the citation. He said "Eurobeat music is so fast that the only way to dance it is "parapara style" where you can see the dancers move a little bit the body but move a lot hands and arms." I am the maintainer of the parapara wikipedia page by the way Well, I've changed it the most and have written the most content.

Tiger wrote:Well yes, that is true. You can read the citation. He said "Eurobeat music is so fast that the only way to dance it is "parapara style" where you can see the dancers move a little bit the body but move a lot hands and arms." I am the maintainer of the parapara wikipedia page by the way Well, I've changed it the most and have written the most content.

I personally changed some things too. Especially, in the label parts. I think you should see into the "Wikipedia Warnings".