Dancemania Speed is a sub-series of Toshiba EMI's Dancemania

Dancemania

Dancemania is a series of remix compilation albums by i-DANCE. The series deals primarily with dance music, especially eurodance. Despite its tracks have been made by various musicians from all over the world mainly from the European continent, the albums have been released exclusively in Japan.The...

 compilation

Compilation album

A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...

 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

Eurodance

Eurodance is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in the late 1980s or early 1990s primarily in Europe. It combines many elements from House, Techno, Hi-NRG and especially Italo-Disco...

, this series largely consists of hardcore techno

Hardcore techno

Hardcore techno is a type of electronic music typified by the rhythmic use of distorted and atonal industrial-like beats and samples...

 crews from the UK, the home of happy hardcore

Happy hardcore

Happy hardcore, also known as happycore, is a genre of music typified by a very fast tempo , often coupled with solo vocals and sentimental lyrics. Its characteristically 4/4 beat "happy" sound distinguishes it from most other forms of hardcore techno, which tend to be "darker". It is typically in...

, and some eurobeat

Eurobeat

Eurobeat is a form of italo-disco/hi-NRG music that developed in the late 1980s.In the United States, Eurobeat was sometimes marketed as Hi-NRG and for a short while shared this term with the very early freestyle music hits....

 Italians who are very much experienced in high BPM dance music. Dancemania Speed became a million-selling series, and have been particularly popular among regional ravers, techno-oriented gyaru

Gyaru

is a Japanese transliteration of the English word gal, that of girl being . The name originated from a 1970s brand of jeans called "gals", with the advertising slogan: "I can't live without men", and was applied to fashion- and peer-conscious girls in their teens and early twenties. Its usage...

s, modernized yankees, and car drivers on methamphetamine.

History

The first issue, titled Dancemania Speed, was released on September 23, 1998 with Chumbawamba

Chumbawamba

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's "Tubthumping

Tubthumping

"Tubthumping", informally known by its prominent lyric "I Get Knocked Down", is the title of a song released by the Anarcho-punk band Chumbawamba on 11 August 1997 through Universal Records and EMI Electrola. It was their most successful single, peaking at number 2 on the UK Singles Chart...

" as its beginning track along with 24 other tracks including Bellini

Paffendorf

Paffendorf, also known as Bellini, is a dance project from Cologne, Germany. The project consists of Ramon Zenker, also producer of Fragma, Gottfried Engels, Nicolas Valli and Sven Thiel, who also represents Paffendorf as a DJ act...

's "Samba de Janeiro", Captain Jack

Captain Jack (band)

Captain Jack is a musical duo, specializing in Eurodance music, originating from Germany.- History :Its members were Francisco Alejandro Gutierrez , and Sunny...

's "Together & Forever", Me & My

Me & My

Me & My are a Danish Eurodance-Bubblegum sister duo signed under the EMI record label. They are best known for their first international hit song "Dub-I-Dub" , which has been featured on many compilations including the Dancemania series albums...

's "Dub-I-Dub", and E-Rotic

E-Rotic

E-Rotic is a German Eurodance project. They are mostly known for their use of sexual topics and innuendo in their music. Some of the female vocalists who fronted E-Rotic over the years also fronted Missing Heart vocals.-History:...

's "Willy Use A Billy...Boy". The second issue, Dancemania Speed 2, was released on March 3, 1999 with tracks including "My Heart Will Go On

My Heart Will Go On

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", "Jump

Jump (Van Halen song)

"Jump" is a song by the American rock group Van Halen. It is the only single the group released in their career to reach number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. It was released in 1984 as the second track on the album 1984...

", "Butterfly

Butterfly (Smile.dk song)

"Butterfly" is one of Smile.dk's most popular songs and featured on their 1998 album Smile.The song gained popularity outside of Sweden when it was included on the first version of Konami's music video game, Dance Dance Revolution and Dance Dance Revolution 3rdMix...

", "Captain Jack

Captain Jack (band)

Captain Jack is a musical duo, specializing in Eurodance music, originating from Germany.- History :Its members were Francisco Alejandro Gutierrez , and Sunny...

", "Turn Me On" and "Techno Wonderland

Can't Help Falling in Love

"Can't Help Falling in Love" is a pop song originally recorded by American singer Elvis Presley and published by Gladys Music, Elvis Presley's publishing company. It was written by Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore, and George David Weiss. The melody was based on "Plaisir d'Amour" but with a different...

". The albums have appeared on the Oricon

Oricon

, 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 , which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc...

 charts of best-selling albums since the first was released. Speed 1 reached number 8 in the weekly album chart in October 1998, Speed 2 reached number 7 in the same chart in March 1999 and ranked number 72 in the yearly Top 100 best-selling album chart in 1999 with 322,860 copies sold. Speed 3 reached number 5 in the weekly album chart in September 1999. Several tracks from 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 were later included on the 2000 greatest hits

Greatest hits

A greatest hits album is a music compilation album of successful, previously released songs by a particular artist or band...

 compilation Best 2001 Hyper Nonstop Megamix

Dancemania Speed Best 2001

Dancemania Speed Best 2001 Hyper Nonstop Megamix, or simply Dancemania Speed Best 2001, is a greatest hits compilation album of Dancemanias Speed series, released by EMI Music Japan in 2000...

.

Releases

Main series

Title	Date	Tracks	Ref
Dancemania Speed	September 23, 1998	/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
Dancemania Speed 2	March 3, 1999	/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
Dancemania Speed 3	September 8, 1999	/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
Dancemania Speed 4	March 8, 2000	/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
Dancemania Speed 5	September 20, 2000	/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
Dancemania Speed 6	March 16, 2001	/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
Dancemania Speed 7	September 27, 2001	/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
Dancemania Speed 8	March 6, 2002	/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
Dancemania Speed 9	September 26, 2002	/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
Dancemania Speed 10	December 18, 2002	/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /

G series

Title	Date	Ref
Dancemania Speed G	May 21, 2003
Dancemania Speed G 2	November 27, 2003
Dancemania Speed G 3	June 23, 2004
Dancemania Speed G 4	March 30, 2005
Dancemania Speed G 5	September 30, 2005

Others

Title	Date	Ref
Dancemania Speed Best 2001 Hyper Nonstop Megamix Dancemania Speed Best 2001 Dancemania Speed Best 2001 Hyper Nonstop Megamix, or simply Dancemania Speed Best 2001, is a greatest hits compilation album of Dancemanias Speed series, released by EMI Music Japan in 2000...	November 29, 2000
Dancemania Speed Presents Happy Ravers Dancemania Speed Presents Happy Ravers Dancemania Speed Presents Happy Ravers is a compilation album of Dancemanias Speed series, released by EMI Music Japan in the early 2001...	January 31, 2001
Dancemania Speed Presents Trance Ravers Dancemania Speed Presents Trance Ravers Dancemania Speed Presents Trance Ravers is a compilation album of Dancemanias Speed series, released by EMI Music Japan in the late 2001....	December 19, 2001
Classical Speed Classical Speed Classical Speed is a sub-series of the Dancemania Speed compilation series, with uptempo dance remixes of famous classical music compositions.-History:...	December 11, 2002
Dancemania Speed: Best of Hardcore Best of Hardcore Dancemania Speed Presents : Best of Hardcore, or simply Best of Hardcore, is a compilation album of Dancemanias Speed sub-series, released by Toshiba EMI in the early 2003....	March 3, 2003
Speed SFX Speed SFX Speed SFX is a compilation album of Dancemanias Speed series, released by EMI Music Japan in the late 2003.As a special edition in the Speed G series, the album features uptempo remixes of popular theme songs for various films, mainly those of science fiction.Different remixes of the album's...	September 18, 2003
Christmas Speed	October 29, 2003
Dancemania Speed TV	April 28, 2004
Classical Speed 2 Classical Speed Classical Speed is a sub-series of the Dancemania Speed compilation series, with uptempo dance remixes of famous classical music compositions.-History:...	August 18, 2004
Speed Deka	November 25, 2004
Anime Speed Anime Speed Anime Speed is a megamix compilation album of Dancemanias Speed series, released by EMI Music Japan in 2005. The album features uptempo cover remixes of popular theme songs for various anime works such as Dragon Ball Z, Slam Dunk and Neon Genesis Evangelion...	May 25, 2005
Speedrive	March 31, 2006
Anime Speed Newtype edition	July 19, 2006
Happy Speed Best of Dancemania Speed Giga	April 18, 2007