Super Eurobeat Presents Euro Dream Land | |
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Remix album by Dream | |
Released | September 20, 2000 [1] |
Genre | Electronic, Pop [2] (Hi-NRG, J-pop) [2] |
Length | 60:00 [3] |
Label | Avex Trax [1] |
Super Eurobeat Presents Euro Dream Land is a remix album, consisting of recordings by Japanese all-girl dance band Dream, released in the late 2000 by Avex Trax. [2]
A remix album is an album consisting of remixes or rerecorded versions of an artists' earlier released material. The first act who employed the format was American singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson. As of 2007, the best-selling remix album of all time was Michael Jackson's Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix (1997).
Avex Trax is a record label owned by Japanese entertainment conglomerate Avex Group. The label was launched in September 1990, and was the first label by the Group.
As an album in the Super Eurobeat Presents : J-Euro series, [4] Euro Dream Land mainly features eurobeat remixes of previously released Dream's songs. The album also contains one megamix and several cover versions of eurobeat songs originally made in Italy. [5]
Super Eurobeat is a CD compilation series of Eurobeat music in Japan. The series itself is the longest running music compilation in the entire world. It has been running for over twenty-five years and the current list consists over 240 volumes. Originally, Time Records, Flea Records and Discomagic were some of the record labels that appeared on the original Super Eurobeat albums. The series began as an Italian Beat Freak release. After eight non-stop albums, the series was changed over to Avex and thats when A-Beat C joined in. The first 10 volumes of Super Eurobeat are mostly Italo disco, which is quite different from the modern Eurobeat. The slower beats and serious '80s tone make this music stand out from the rest.
Eurobeat refers to two styles of dance music that originated in Europe: one is a British variant of Euro disco influenced by dance-pop, and the other is a Hi-NRG-driven form of Italo disco. Both developed in the 1980s.
A megamix is a medley remix containing multiple songs in rapid succession. There may be only one verse or even just a brief chorus of each song used, sometimes in addition to samples of the same or other songs. To unify the songs together smoothly, a single backing beat may be added as background throughout the megamix, although this is not a must. This backing beat is kept basic so as to simplify mixing and to not compete with the music. These mixes are usually several minutes long at minimum, going up to a half-hour or an hour, or even more sometimes.
# | Track | Length | Ref |
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1 | Reality (Euro-dream Mix) | 4:37 | [2] |
2 | Send A Little Love (Eurobeat Mix) | 5:30 | [2] |
3 | Private Wars (Dream Land Mix) | 5:15 | [2] |
4 | Start Me Up (Sweet Dream Mix) | 5:22 | [2] |
5 | Heart On Wave (Eurobeat Mix) | 5:03 | [2] |
6 | Breakin' Out (Euro-Power Mix) | 5:09 | [2] |
7 | Movin' On (Eurobeat Mix) | 5:47 | [2] |
8 | Jealousy | 4:07 | [2] |
9 | Hello Goodbye | 3:36 | [2] |
10 | Do You Wanna Dance | 4:14 | [2] |
11 | Night of Fire | 4:07 | [2] |
12 | Euro Dream Land Hyper Non-Stop Megamix | 7:05 | [2] |
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Euro Dream Land is an album in the Super Eurobeat Presents : J-Euro series launched in 2000, along with Ayu-ro Mix 1 – 2 featuring Ayumi Hamasaki, Euro Every Little Thing featuring Every Little Thing, Hyper Euro MAX featuring MAX, Euro Global featuring globe, J-Euro Best and J-Euro Non-Stop Best . [4]
The Super Eurobeat Presents Ayu-ro Mix remix album was released by Ayumi Hamasaki on February 16, 2000. The album became the second highest selling remix album in Japan of 2000 with 650,000 copies sold. The album became Hamasaki's longest charting remix album with over 31 weeks on the chart. It is the 4th best selling remix album in Japan and also the 9th best selling remix album worldwide of all time.
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The album appeared on Oricon's weekly album chart six times and reached #10 by November 6, 2000. [6]
Oricon Inc., established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan. It started as Original Confidence Inc., which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc. was originally set up as a subsidiary of Original Confidence and took over the latter’s Oricon record charts in April 2002.
# | Track | Written by | Composed by | Remixed by | Ref |
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1 | Reality (Euro-dream Mix) | Mai Matsumuro | Y@suo Ohtani | Dave Rodgers | [7] |
2 | Send A Little Love (Eurobeat Mix) | Mai Matsumuro | Hideaki Kuwahara | Luca Degani & Sergio Dall'ora | [7] |
3 | Private Wars (Dream Land Mix) | Yuko Ebine | D.A.I | Bratt Sinclaire | [7] |
4 | Start Me Up (Sweet Dream Mix) | Yuko Ebine | Hideaki Kuwahara | Delta Team | [7] |
5 | Heart On Wave (Eurobeat Mix) | Yuko Ebine | Kazuhito Kikuchi | Luca Degani & Sergio Dall'ora | [7] |
6 | Breakin' Out (Euro-Power Mix) | Yuko Ebine | Kazuhito Kikuchi | Dave Rodgers | [7] |
7 | Movin' On (Eurobeat Mix) | Yuko Ebine | Hideaki Kuwahara | Luca Degani & Sergio Dall'ora | [7] |
8 | Jealousy | Yuko Ebine | A. Contini, G. Pasquini, S. Oliva | — | [7] |
9 | Hello Goodbye | Yuko Ebine | G. Foglia - C. Moroni | — | [7] |
10 | Do You Wanna Dance | Masumi Iizuka | G. Pasquini, S. Oliva | — | [7] |
11 | Night of Fire | Mai Matsumuro | A. Leonardi | — | [7] |
12 | Euro Dream Land Hyper Non-Stop Megamix | Various | Various | Katsunari Mochizuki, Seiji Honma | [7] |
Track 12 is a megamix with 7 tracks. [7] The non-stop mixing was handled by Katsunari Mochizuki and Seiji Honma. [2]
A DJ mix or DJ mixset is a sequence of musical tracks typically mixed together to appear as one continuous track. DJ mixes are usually performed using a DJ mixer and multiple sounds sources, such as turntables, CD players, digital audio players or computer sound cards, sometimes with the addition of samplers and effects units, although it is possible to create one using sound editing software.
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# | Track | Ref |
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12-1 | Reality (Euro-dream Mix) | [7] |
12-2 | Breakin' Out (Euro-Power Mix) | [7] |
12-3 | Private Wars (Dream Land Mix) | [7] |
12-4 | Start Me Up (Sweet Dream Mix) | [7] |
12-5 | Heart On Wave (Eurobeat Mix) | [7] |
12-6 | Send A Little Love (Eurobeat Mix) | [7] |
12-7 | Movin' On (Eurobeat Mix) | [7] |
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