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Eurobeat refers to two styles of dance music that originated in Europe: one is a British variant of Italian Eurodisco-influenced dance-pop, and the other is a hi-NRG-driven form of Italo disco. The former was developed in the 1980s, while the latter was developed starting from the early 1990s and continuing in the following decades, distancing itself from its Italo disco origins as time went on.
Producer trio Stock Aitken Waterman and pop band Dead or Alive made Eurobeat music more popular in the United States and Southeast Asia, where Eurobeat was historically marketed as hi-NRG (pronounced as "high energy"). For a short while, it also shared this term with Italo disco.
In the late 1970s, Eurodisco musicians such as Silver Convention and Donna Summer were popular in America.
In the 1980s, a highly polished production with "musical simplicity" at its core. An average British Eurobeat song took very little time to complete. Bananarama's "Venus" and Mel & Kim's "Showing Out (Get Fresh at the Weekend)" were said to be completed in a day, according to Pete Waterman of Stock Aitken Waterman.
In the mid-1980s, Japanese label Alfa Music offered a deal with Italo disco singer, songwriter and producer Mauro Farina in search for music to target to Japanese discoteques which were very few and had limited access to suitable dance music.
In 1990, then small Japanese import record shop Avex, following expansion plans, bought the Super Eurobeat compilation series, which had its first volume that same year, and partnered with newborn Italian label A-Beat-C.
A-Beat-C was the first label to progressively detach the term Eurobeat from being synonymous with Italo disco in Japan, establishing it as a distinct genre.
Italian Eurobeat lyrics have varying degrees of complexity and themes and are accompanied by very complex melodies. Many songs produced starting in the mid-1990s feature electric guitars throughout the song, along with a thunderous, highly technical synthesizer riff (also known as the sabi) which can be composed of up to 20 audio tracks layered together. The sabi is heard after the introduction and after the chorus. Songs usually repeat the verse, bridge, and chorus multiple times during the song every time with a different arrangement, keeping the listener eager to discover how the next iteration is gonna be. The introduction can resemble an instrumental rendition of the verse, bridge, or chorus, while the riff can bare close reassembles to an instrumental version of the chorus. The general structure of a Eurobeat song is as follows:
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Eurobeat
Eurobeat refers to two styles of dance music that originated in Europe: one is a British variant of Italian Eurodisco-influenced dance-pop, and the other is a hi-NRG-driven form of Italo disco. The former was developed in the 1980s, while the latter was developed starting from the early 1990s and continuing in the following decades, distancing itself from its Italo disco origins as time went on.
Producer trio Stock Aitken Waterman and pop band Dead or Alive made Eurobeat music more popular in the United States and Southeast Asia, where Eurobeat was historically marketed as hi-NRG (pronounced as "high energy"). For a short while, it also shared this term with Italo disco.
In the late 1970s, Eurodisco musicians such as Silver Convention and Donna Summer were popular in America.
In the 1980s, a highly polished production with "musical simplicity" at its core. An average British Eurobeat song took very little time to complete. Bananarama's "Venus" and Mel & Kim's "Showing Out (Get Fresh at the Weekend)" were said to be completed in a day, according to Pete Waterman of Stock Aitken Waterman.
In the mid-1980s, Japanese label Alfa Music offered a deal with Italo disco singer, songwriter and producer Mauro Farina in search for music to target to Japanese discoteques which were very few and had limited access to suitable dance music.
In 1990, then small Japanese import record shop Avex, following expansion plans, bought the Super Eurobeat compilation series, which had its first volume that same year, and partnered with newborn Italian label A-Beat-C.
A-Beat-C was the first label to progressively detach the term Eurobeat from being synonymous with Italo disco in Japan, establishing it as a distinct genre.
Italian Eurobeat lyrics have varying degrees of complexity and themes and are accompanied by very complex melodies. Many songs produced starting in the mid-1990s feature electric guitars throughout the song, along with a thunderous, highly technical synthesizer riff (also known as the sabi) which can be composed of up to 20 audio tracks layered together. The sabi is heard after the introduction and after the chorus. Songs usually repeat the verse, bridge, and chorus multiple times during the song every time with a different arrangement, keeping the listener eager to discover how the next iteration is gonna be. The introduction can resemble an instrumental rendition of the verse, bridge, or chorus, while the riff can bare close reassembles to an instrumental version of the chorus. The general structure of a Eurobeat song is as follows: