Dancemania Speed is a sub-series of Toshiba EMI's Dancemania compilation series. This series features faster, further remixed versions of recordings from previously released Dancemania albums or faster remixed covers of various famous songs. Unlike the main series mostly consisting of Eurodance, this series largely consists of hardcore techno crews from the UK, the home of happy hardcore, and some Eurobeat Italians who are very much experienced in high BPM dance music.
The first issue, titled Dancemania Speed, was released on 23 September 1998 with Chumbawamba's "Tubthumping" as its beginning track along with 24 other tracks [1] including Bellini's "Samba de Janeiro", Captain Jack's "Together & Forever", Me & My's "Dub-I-Dub", and E-Rotic's "Willy Use A Billy...Boy". [2] The second issue, Dancemania Speed 2, was released on 3 March 1999 [3] with tracks including "My Heart Will Go On", "Jump", "Butterfly", "Captain Jack", "Turn Me On" and "Techno Wonderland". [4] The albums have appeared on the Oricon charts of best-selling albums since the first was released. Speed 1 reached number 8 in the weekly album chart in October 1998, [5] Speed 2 reached number 7 in the same chart in March 1999 [6] and ranked number 72 in the yearly Top 100 best-selling album chart in 1999 with 322,860 copies sold. [7] Speed 3 reached number 5 in the weekly album chart in September 1999. [8] Several tracks from 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 were later included on the 2000 greatest hits compilation Best 2001 Hyper Nonstop Megamix . [9]
| Title | Date | Tracks | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dancemania Speed | 23 September 1998 |
| [11] [12] |
| Dancemania Speed 2 | 3 March 1999 |
| [4] [14] |
| Dancemania Speed 3 | 8 September 1999 |
| [15] [16] |
| Dancemania Speed 4 | 8 March 2000 |
| [19] [20] |
| Dancemania Speed 5 | 20 September 2000 [21] |
| [24] [25] |
| Dancemania Speed 6 | 16 March 2001 |
| [26] [27] [28] |
| Dancemania Speed 7 | 27 September 2001 |
| [29] [30] |
| Dancemania Speed 8 | 6 March 2002 |
| [31] [32] |
| Dancemania Speed 9 | 26 September 2002 |
| [35] [36] |
| Dancemania Speed 10 | 18 December 2002 |
| [37] [38] |
| Title | Date | Ref |
|---|---|---|
| Dancemania Speed G | 21 May 2003 | [39] |
| Dancemania Speed G 2 | 27 November 2003 | [40] |
| Dancemania Speed G 3 | 23 June 2004 | [41] |
| Dancemania Speed G 4 | 30 March 2005 | [42] |
| Dancemania Speed G 5 | 30 September 2005 | [43] |
| Title | Date | Ref |
|---|---|---|
| Dancemania Speed Best 2001 Hyper Nonstop Megamix | 29 November 2000 | [44] |
| Dancemania Speed Presents Happy Ravers | 31 January 2001 | [45] |
| Dancemania Speed Presents Trance Ravers | 19 December 2001 | [46] |
| Classical Speed | 11 December 2002 | [47] |
| Dancemania Speed: Best of Hardcore | 3 March 2003 | [48] |
| Speed SFX | 18 September 2003 | [49] |
| Christmas Speed | 29 October 2003 | [50] |
| Dancemania Speed TV | 28 April 2004 | [51] |
| Classical Speed 2 | 18 August 2004 | [52] |
| Speed Deka | 25 November 2004 | [53] |
| Anime Speed | 25 May 2005 | [54] |
| Speedrive | 31 March 2006 | [55] |
| Anime Speed Newtype edition | 19 July 2006 | [56] |
| Happy Speed Best of Dancemania Speed Giga | 18 April 2007 | [57] |
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