Eurobeat Flash 4
1.Princess F. - Technotronic Flight (HI-NRG Attack)
This track is one of the most famous HI-NRG Attack songs out there,
probably not the most famous one, but still pretty much everybody in the
eurobeat scene knows this track. The song has without doubt earned it's
position as a classic eurobeat song with an excellent chorus and some
simple but unbelievebly catchy sounds, and when the vocals complete the
song it's nothing but a masterpiece.
Rating : 10
2.Live Music Gang - This Is Para Para (On Stage Mix)
(HI-NRG Attack)
The high level continues as a slightly different HI-NRG Attack song takes
over, this song has awesome vocals and the song has some marvellous loops
that will surely keep you coming back for more. The song is simply catchy
and the sounds offer again more variety than other labels generally do.
The answer is ParaPara.
Rating : 9+
3.Lady Energy - Call Me Manuelle (HI-NRG Attack)
Well when this label uses synths they do it will style, and the same old
familiar beat isn't repeated that much. This song lacks the awesome edge
the two previous songs had, as the song only sounds really catchy in the
chorus, if the verses had the same edge then this would've been solid
gold, now it's still above the general level.
Rating : 8+
4.Steve Tempest - Break Down The Crime (HI-NRG
Attack)
The level of the album decreases a bit again as some more high energy is
presented, but this time the high energy could be called low energy more
like it. The track is rather mid tempo and it's missing the normal energy
and catchiness this label puts in most of their songs. Not a bad song by
any means, but it's just not good either.
Rating : 7-
5.Lisa Johnson - Paradise (Time)
It's quite amazing when Time manages to surprise me this big time, when
there are only 2 songs from different labels than HI-NRG Attack on the
album I had prepared in advance that these 2 songs would be the worst, but
boy was I mistaken.
Lisa Johnson has a great voice and this track
gives her talents enough room to shine brightly. A simply irresistible
song with an excellent bass in the backgrounds, a galloping tone to it and
it gives the song a really distinctive sound. There's practically
everything right with this song. A solid classic for this compilation
series.
Rating : 10
6.Baby Gold - You Catch My Broken Heart (HI-NRG
Attack)
An interesting intro, exactly the kind of material we've come to wait from
HI-NRG Attack. They offer us a lot of cool sounds and some magnificent
vocals by
Baby Gold. The song has a really cool chorus that gets
even better as the c-melody starts playing. Simply magnificent once again,
not a perfect track but very well produced.
Rating : 9
7.Nikka Hollywood - Loose Your Fantasy (HI-NRG
Attack)
I've said this before, and I'll say it again: What makes HI-NRG Attack a
supreme label is their capability to produce so wickedly different and
still awesome songs. The tracks have very distinctive sounds but still
they retain the basic eurobeat sounds. This track takes yet another
direction and is slightly more serious than the previous track, but it
still works very well. The rather calm vocals at first sounded a bit out
of place but slowly they grow on you and in the end I enjoyed them to the
fullest.
Rating : 9+
8.Cy-Ro - I Want Your Fire (HI-NRG Attack)
A male vocalist changes the style again, but this time it's probably not a
wise move. This track sounds like some Finnish eurodance acts who had
vocalists who pronounced English very badly, I can just imagine the
ancient band who had
Raymond Ebanks (later on he worked in
Bomfunk MC's for example) singing doing this track. This song left me
feeling cold, even though it has a really energetic melody with some cool
sounds, not bad, nor good.
Rating : 6½
9.Leslie Hammond - Friends In The Name Of Love (HI-NRG
Attack)
This track has a rather common tone to it, the basic ingredients are here
and it has some cool moments like the c-melody, but yet they don't manage
to impress me all that much. The vocals aren't very good and they take
some time to get used to, another reason why I didn't fall in love with
this track. The good moments are limited to a few highlights, but they
manage to lift this song a bit higher in the grades.
Rating : 7
10.Dolly Pop - Black Vampire (HI-NRG Attack)
Sometimes the intros just don't really fit this track, and this time the
song turns out way better than the intro at first seems. The vocals are a
strong part here and the lyrics are cool as I've got one or two fetishes
related to vampires. This isn't very imaginative, but still it works like
a charm.
Rating : 8½
11.Les Blue Belles - Telephone (Time)
As the previous Time song surprised me a lot I had even bigger
expectations for this song (you know, I was thinking this would suck) and
I was surprised again. This song sounds a lot like something that HI-NRG
Attack would produce which makes it perfectly suitable for this album, the
sounds are magnificent and the melody is really catchy.
Rating : 9-
12.Joe D. Toaster - Beautiful (HI-NRG Attack)
The album is getting closer to the end and some jewels are still in store
for us. This track was probably the one which made me realize how good Joe
D. Toaster actually is. This track has some magnificent moments due to the
vocals, and most of the edge in the song is created mainly just because of
the vocals.
Rating : 9-
13.Nikita Jr. - Dancing In The Jungle (HI-NRG Attack)
And the end of the album blows the bank completely. I adore
Nikita
Jr. as she reminds me of
Blümchen, the awesome German happy
hardcore/technopop artist who was my main inspiration for a long time (well
it was before Eurobeat, but I still value her very much).
The
similarities between these two are quite identical, they both were very
young when they began doing tracks and they got really great songs to
perform as well.
Dancing In The Jungle is a marvellous example of
how irresistible music can be, the song is rather midtempo but the hooks
and jigs that are scattered all around the track make it sound plain
perfect. The lyrics haven't got a lot of sense to them, but that hasn't
been a problem before either, so the album couldn't have ended much better
than this.
Rating : 10+++
Final Words :
This album was pretty much the first Eurobeat Flash that made me realize
how good the compilation series actually is. There are some really
memorable moments on the album thanks to HI-NRG Attack and Time. This
album left me feeling really good, and I'll definitely come back to it
over and over again. There aren't really any bad songs at all, which also
lifts the whole mood of the album in the end, really worth of getting if
you're into eurobeat.
Final Score : 8½
Reviewed by Bore