Dancemania Speed Best 2001
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Dancemania Speed Best 2001 Hyper Nonstop Megamix, or simply Dancemania Speed Best 2001, is a greatest hits
compilation album
of Dancemania
s Speed
series, released by EMI Music Japan in 2000. The album features selections chosen from previously released five Speed albums, mostly from the earlier four issues which reached number 1 on the Oricon
Foreign-music Chart respectively.
30 of the tracks are from previously released Speed albums;
The rest 3 are unique tracks made or remixed for this album. One of the unique tracks, "Kick The Can " (#32), was later included on the 2002 Speed album Classical Speed 1
.
The non-stop mixing
was done by the team KCP; Akira "Momo" Kanazawa and Kohji "K.O.G" Morita, with the adviser Masahito Fujino.
Greatest hits
A greatest hits album is a music compilation album of successful, previously released songs by a particular artist or band...
compilation album
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...
of 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...
s Speed
Dancemania Speed
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...
series, released by EMI Music Japan in 2000. The album features selections chosen from previously released five Speed albums, mostly from the earlier four issues which reached number 1 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...
Foreign-music Chart respectively.
Tracks
# | Track | By | Ref |
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1 | Synchronized Love | Joe Rinoie Joe Rinoie is a music producer, singer, keyboardist, saxophone player and composer.His father is Japanese while his mother is an Han Chinese in Japan, thus he is mixed half-Chinese, half-Japanese. He is a former member of Romantic Mode. After spending many years as a studio musician, he became a producer... |
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2 | If You Were Here | Jennifer | |
3 | Dynamite Rave | Naoki | |
4 | Wonda | MM | |
5 | Rhythm And Police | CJ Crew CJ Crew CJ Crew are a dance music DJ duo, consisting of Chris Bucknall and John Briely. Other aliases include Big Vin & Hugh Jardon, Chi K Monkey, Chi K Munki, Connie and the Plainsman, Demanche Noir, Muff and the Munchers, Nancy and the Boys, The Orff Ki Ensemble, Pyan Issim, Pynck Hobo, Terry and the... feat. Christian D |
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6 | Shooting Star | Bang | |
7 | Do It All Night | 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:... |
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8 | Captain Jack | 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... |
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9 | Brilliant 2U | Naoki | |
10 | Dam Dariram | Joga Joga Joga is an Italian Europop act produced by Nick Ferrando with Nathalie Aarts featured on vocals. Aarts had released four singles commercially in Europe: Dam Dariram, Bye Bye Baby Balloon, No Nobody's Love, and White Christmas. Joga is claimed to be quite popular among listeners of Toshiba-EMI's... |
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11 | Hero | Papaya Linnéa Handberg Lund Linnéa Handberg Lund, also known as Papaya , Miss Papaya, or Lynn. Born Linnéa Handberg 22 October, Hillerød, Denmark, a Danish eurodance musician... |
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12 | 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... |
Smile.dk Smile.dk Smile.dk is a Swedish bubblegum dance group with Veronica Almqvist and Cecilia Reiskog as the current members. The band is well-known around the world partly due to their many songs in Dance Dance Revolution, including "Butterfly", "Golden Sky", "Boys", "Mr... |
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13 | Samba De Janeiro | 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... |
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14 | Eyes On Me Eyes on Me (Faye Wong song) "Eyes on Me" is a pop ballad performed by Chinese diva Faye Wong as a love theme for the video game Final Fantasy VIII. The song's lyrics, written in somewhat imperfect English by Kako Someya, unveil the hopes of a night club singer for romance with a member of her audience.-Single:The song was... Featured In Final Fantasy VIII Final Fantasy VIII is a role-playing video game released for the PlayStation in 1999 and for Windows-based personal computers in 2000. It was developed and published by Square as the Final Fantasy series' eighth title, removing magic point-based spell-casting and the first title to consistently use realistically... |
Faye Wong Faye Wong Faye Wong is a highly successful and influential Chinese singer-songwriter and actress who is usually referred to as a diva . Early in her career she briefly used the stage name Shirley Wong . Born in Beijing, she moved to Hong Kong in 1987 and rose to stardom in the early 1990s by singing... |
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15 | Let It Be Let It Be (song) "Let It Be" is a song by The Beatles, released in March 1970 as a single, and as the title track of their album Let It Be. It was written by Paul McCartney, but credited to Lennon–McCartney. It was their final single before McCartney announced his departure from the band... |
Sound Assassins | |
16 | I Don't Want To Miss A Thing | Deja Vu feat. Tasmin | |
17 | My Heart Will Go On My Heart Will Go On "My Heart Will Go On" is the theme song/love theme of the 1997 blockbuster film Titanic. With music by James Horner, lyrics by Will Jennings, and production by Simon Franglen, James Horner and Walter Afanasieff ,, it was recorded by Céline Dion... |
Deja Vu feat. Tasmin | |
18 | Turn Me On | 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:... |
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19 | 99 Red Ballons | Jimmy J | |
20 | WWW. Blonde Girl | Jenny Rom Jenny Rom Jenny Rom is an Italian dance singer known for her high-pitched, fast-paced dance music. Jenny Rom is produced under SAIFAM Publishing Group Italy also known just as SAIFAM. Her songs have been featured in Japan's Dancemania music compilation series, especially its Speed sub-series, as well as on... |
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21 | Dub-I-Dub | 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... |
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22 | Twilight Zone Twilight Zone (2 Unlimited song) "Twilight Zone" is a 1992 single released by the Belgian-Dutch Eurodance group 2 Unlimited. It reached #2 in the UK and #5 on the U.S. Dance chart, thus becoming their biggest hit on that chart. The UK release of the single was the first 2 Unlimited single in that country to include the vocals by... |
2 Unlimited 2 Unlimited 2 Unlimited is a Dutch Eurodance/Hi-NRG act formed in 1991. The project was the brainchild of Belgian producers Jean-Paul DeCoster and Phil Wilde, and was fronted by a Dutch duo, rapper Ray Slijngaard and singer Anita Doth. During five years of enormous worldwide popularity, the act scored 16 chart... |
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23 | Ninzaburo | CJ Crew CJ Crew CJ Crew are a dance music DJ duo, consisting of Chris Bucknall and John Briely. Other aliases include Big Vin & Hugh Jardon, Chi K Monkey, Chi K Munki, Connie and the Plainsman, Demanche Noir, Muff and the Munchers, Nancy and the Boys, The Orff Ki Ensemble, Pyan Issim, Pynck Hobo, Terry and the... feat. Sedge |
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24 | Flashdance (What A Feeling) | M.A.G.I.K.A. MC Magika MC Magika, sometimes credited as M•A•G•I•K•A, is a British MC, music producer and rave promoter. He has been regularly featured on the UK breakbeat compilation Dreamscape series, and on the mega-hit dance music compilation Dancemanias Speed sub-series... feat. Stixman |
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25 | 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... |
Bus Stop Bus Stop (band) Bus Stop were a British dance act best known for their single "Kung Fu Fighting", which reached #8 in the UK Singles Chart in June 1998. The song sampled the original vocals by Carl Douglas, the original being a UK #1 hit in 1974, with added rap verses. The group then released three further... |
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26 | Boom Boom Dollar | King Kong & D.Jungle Girls | |
27 | Follow The Sun | Triple J | |
28 | Doo-Be-Di-Boy | Smile.dk Smile.dk Smile.dk is a Swedish bubblegum dance group with Veronica Almqvist and Cecilia Reiskog as the current members. The band is well-known around the world partly due to their many songs in Dance Dance Revolution, including "Butterfly", "Golden Sky", "Boys", "Mr... |
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29 | Hiho | 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... |
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30 | Fly Away | Visa | |
31 | 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... |
10 Whites Recordings | |
32 | Kick The Can | Bus Stop Bus Stop (band) Bus Stop were a British dance act best known for their single "Kung Fu Fighting", which reached #8 in the UK Singles Chart in June 1998. The song sampled the original vocals by Carl Douglas, the original being a UK #1 hit in 1974, with added rap verses. The group then released three further... |
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33 | Livin' La Vida Loca Livin' la Vida Loca "Livin' la Vida Loca" is a song by Puerto Rican singer Ricky Martin. It was released on March 23, 1999 from Martin's self-titled debut English album. The song was composed by Desmond Child and Draco Rosa and topped the charts during 1999... |
CJ Crew CJ Crew CJ Crew are a dance music DJ duo, consisting of Chris Bucknall and John Briely. Other aliases include Big Vin & Hugh Jardon, Chi K Monkey, Chi K Munki, Connie and the Plainsman, Demanche Noir, Muff and the Munchers, Nancy and the Boys, The Orff Ki Ensemble, Pyan Issim, Pynck Hobo, Terry and the... feat. Giorgio |
Further details
The album's overall average tempo is 172 bpm;- The slowest track is "Eyes On Me" (#14) at 168 bpm.
- The fastest track is "Livin' La Vida Loca" (#33) at 198 bpm.
30 of the tracks are from previously released Speed albums;
- 8 tracks are from Speed 5.
- 7 tracks are from Speed 4.
- 7 tracks are from Speed 2.
- 5 tracks are from Speed 3.
- 3 tracks are from Speed 1.
The rest 3 are unique tracks made or remixed for this album. One of the unique tracks, "Kick The Can " (#32), was later included on the 2002 Speed album Classical Speed 1
Classical Speed
Classical Speed is a sub-series of the Dancemania Speed compilation series, with uptempo dance remixes of famous classical music compositions.-History:...
.
The non-stop mixing
DJ mix
A DJ mix or DJ mixset is a sequence of musical tracks typically mixed together to appear as one continuous track. When a DJ mix or DJ mixset is recorded onto some medium, it is often referred to as a mix tape...
was done by the team KCP; Akira "Momo" Kanazawa and Kohji "K.O.G" Morita, with the adviser Masahito Fujino.
# | Track | Length | BPM | From | Ref |
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1 | Synchronized Love | 3:10 | 170 | — | |
2 | If You Were Here | 2:11 | 170 | Speed 4 | |
3 | Dynamite Rave | 1:58 | 170 | Speed 4 | |
4 | Wonda | 2:21 | 170 | — | |
5 | Rhythm And Police | 2:37 | 170 | Speed 5 | |
6 | Shooting Star | 2:27 | 170 | Speed 1 | |
7 | Do It All Night | 2:06 | 170 | Speed 5 | |
8 | Captain Jack | 2:32 | 170 | Speed 2 | |
9 | Brilliant 2U | 1:32 | 170 | Speed 4 | |
10 | Dam Dariram | 2:03 | 170 | Speed 4 | |
11 | Hero | 2:28 | 170 | Speed 4 | |
12 | Butterfly | 2:12 | 170 | Speed 2 | |
13 | Samba De Janeiro | 2:31 | 170 | Speed 1 | |
14 | Eyes On Me Featured In Final Fantasy VIII | 2:18 | 168 | Speed 4 | |
15 | Let It Be | 1:54 | 170 | Speed 5 | |
16 | I Don't Want To Miss A Thing | 2:14 | 170 | Speed 3 | |
17 | My Heart Will Go On | 2:37 | 170 | Speed 2 | |
18 | Turn Me On | 1:43 | 170 | Speed 2 | |
19 | 99 Red Ballons | 1:31 | 170 | Speed 3 | |
20 | WWW. Blonde Girl | 2:38 | 170 | Speed 5 | |
21 | Dub-I-Dub | 2:49 | 170 | Speed 1 | |
22 | Twilight Zone | 2:15 | 170 | Speed 5 | |
23 | Ninzaburo | 2:20 | 170 | Speed 5 | |
24 | Flashdance (What A Feeling) | 2:04 | 170 | Speed 3 | |
25 | Jump | 1:55 | 170 | Speed 2 | |
26 | Boom Boom Dollar | 2:21 | 170 | Speed 3 | |
27 | Follow The Sun | 1:41 | 170 | Speed 2 | |
28 | Doo-Be-Di-Boy | 1:52 | 172 | Speed 5 | |
29 | Hiho | 2:42 | 173 | Speed 5 | |
30 | Fly Away | 2:04 | 177 | Speed 3 | |
31 | Techno Wonderland | 2:16 | 179 | Speed 2 | |
32 | Kick The Can | 2:10 | 180 | — | |
33 | Livin' La Vida Loca | 2:55 | 198 | Speed 4 |