Get in the Groove with Classic Albums: The World's Eurobeat – Recommended Popular Tracks
Eurobeat is a genre that gained popularity as a mainstream form of dance music in the 1980s.
Although the boom overseas lasted only until the early 1990s at most, in Japan it has been loved for a long time, with Eurobeat being used widely across many types of media up through the 2000s.
This time, we’re introducing some classic Eurobeat tracks!
From songs everyone has heard at least once to timeless hits covered by Japanese artists—check out this curated selection of must-hear classics!
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[Grooving to Masterpieces] Eurobeat Around the World: Recommended Popular Tracks (71–80)
DANGERTHE FLIRTS
This is a track that encapsulates the process of techno evolving into eurobeat in a single song—one that illustrates the origins of eurobeat.
The handclaps are used effectively, indicating that eurobeat is a culmination of techno, soul, and various other musical styles.
Coco JambooMr. President
A track released as a single in 1996 by the German Eurodance group Mr.
President.
It reached the Top 10 on charts around the world.
It was sampled in Djdanc’s 2015 track “Coco Jambo.”
Hot LoveJenny Kee
It might be fair to call it the final form of Italo disco at the dawn of eurobeat.
By this stage, the baseline and rhythm already establish the core template of eurobeat.
If you add metallic percussion, shouts, orchestral hits, and a distorted guitar sound, then speed up the tempo, you get the basic form of later eurobeat.
Does that give you a rough picture?
Santa Mariatatjana
Eurobeat was born as a culmination of various musical styles, but when you listen to this track, you can already hear the footsteps of the next movement: hip-hop.
Eurobeat remains popular even now, yet this song shows how its birth had a profound influence on the music that followed.
Don’t GoYazoo
Yazoo, formed by Vince Clarke, a founding member of Depeche Mode, and Alison Moyet.
Although this track received little airplay on radio stations, it was highly acclaimed in the American club scene and reached No.
1 on the dance chart.
Get-A-WayMAXX
A track released as a single in 1993 by MAXX, a Eurodance duo from the ’90s.
It became a hit in Canada, Australia, and various European countries.
It was sampled in Shaun Baker’s 2000 track “On a Helium Trip.”
Master Blaster (Remix)MAIO&CO
I think this is the Eurobeat sound that’s widely known in Japan.
Avex distributed this kind of Eurobeat under the name “Super Eurobeat,” which made it widely recognized.
It was also used many times in the anime Initial D, leading people from a broad audience to become familiar with Eurobeat.
Maio & Co.
is one of the aliases of Italian Eurobeat producer Laurent Gelmetti.