Joga
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Joga is an Italian
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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 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...
non-stop megamix series, and among players of Bemani
Bemani
is Konami's music video game division. Originally named the Games & Music Division, or simply G.M.D., it changed its name in honor of its first and most successful game, Beatmania, and expanded into other music-based games.-Bemani video games:...
games. Of their three major songs, Dam Dariram and Bye Bye Baby Balloon are considered the most famous releases, with No Nobody's Love still popular among fans, but not featured outside of Dancemania X7. White Christmas was added to the Trance X-Mas compilation (Polystar Records, 2003), and this song has to date been their last collaboration as producer and singer.
Nathalie, whose nickname is Joga, has moved on to other smaller projects in her home town of Venice, Italy, such as singing in bars or clubs. As for what Joga means, Nathalie has stated it means "beautiful eyes" in an old European language.
Nick has moved on to manage his own record label, "Music In Head". Taken from Nick's page on Discogs, "...He defines [Music In Head] as 'My ideal space to share my music vision along with top songwriters and producers around the globe'. Few months after the birth of Music in Head, his first works as an independent producer were topping charts around UK, Germany, Australia, Canada, Benelux and Scandinavia. His own discography features now more than 50 records released in more than 40 countries worldwide."
Appearances
- DancemaniaDancemaniaDancemania 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...
: Dancemania X3 (1999), Dancemania Delux 4 (2000), Dancemania Euro * Mix Happy Paradise (2000), Dancemania Speed Best 2001 Hyper Nonstop MegamixDancemania Speed Best 2001Dancemania 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...
(2000), Dancemania Speed 4Dancemania SpeedDancemania 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...
(2000), Dancemania X7 (2000), Dancemania 20 (2001), Dancemania Best Red (2002) - Dam Dariram first appeared in Dance Dance Revolution 3rd Mix, and also appeared in Dance Dance Revolution BEST HITSDance Dance Revolution Best HitsDance Dance Revolution BEST HITS is a music video game that is part of the Dance Dance Revolution series. It is developed and produced by Konami, and was released in Japan on December 21, 2000 for the PlayStation video game console. The game, as the title implies, is a compilation of some of the...
, Dance Dance Revolution 4th Mix, Dance Dance Revolution 5th Mix, Dance Dance Revolution ExtremeDance Dance Revolution ExtremeDance Dance Revolution Extreme is a music video game by Konami and is the eighth release in the main Dance Dance Revolution series. It was released on December 25, 2002 for Japanese arcades and on October 9, 2003 for the Japanese PlayStation 2...
, Dance Dance Revolution Party CollectionDance Dance Revolution Party CollectionDance Dance Revolution Party Collection is a music video game that is part of the Dance Dance Revolution and Bemani series. It is developed and produced by Konami and was released in Japan only on December 11, 2003 for the PlayStation 2 video game console...
, and Dance Dance Revolution ULTRAMIX 2Dance Dance Revolution Ultramix 2Dance Dance Revolution Ultramix 2, or simply Ultramix 2, is a music video game released on November 18, 2004 by Konami in North America for the Microsoft Xbox.-Music:...
. In Europe, it made an appearance on the arcade version of Dancing Stage EuroMIXDancing Stage EuroMIXDancing Stage EuroMIX is the 2nd release of the Dancing Stage series, the European version of Dance Dance Revolution series of music video games by Konami. The arcade version was released in 1999, followed by the Sony PlayStation version in 2001...
. It has also made its return to DDR in the arcade version of Dance Dance Revolution X2Dance Dance Revolution X2Dance Dance Revolution X2, abbreviated DDR X2 or simply X2, is a music video game, and a part of the Dance Dance Revolution series. The arcade version of DDR X2 was revealed by Konami on November 20, 2009. A sequel to the Dance Dance Revolution X, X2 began public beta testing on November 25, 2009...
in 2010. - Bye Bye Baby Balloon first appeared in DDRMAX: Dance Dance Revolution 6thMIXDDRMAX: Dance Dance Revolution 6thMIXDDRMAX Dance Dance Revolution 6thMix is the 6th game in the Dance Dance Revolution series of music video games. It was released in the arcades by Konami on October 19, 2001. Although only officially released in Japan, units exist worldwide. 6thMix contains a total of 42 songs, 36 of which are new...
, and appeared in Dance Dance Revolution ULTRAMIX 3Dance Dance Revolution ULTRAMIX 3Dance Dance Revolution ULTRAMIX 3 is the tenth home version of Dance Dance Revolution released in the United States. It was released by Konami on November 15, 2005, for the Microsoft Xbox video game console. About 70 songs are available in total in this version... - Dam Dariram was remixed for Dancemania SPEEDDancemania SpeedDancemania 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...
by Japanese DJ, KCP, as a 170-bpm hardcore remix, and was playable again in Dance Dance Revolution 5th Mix. It has not appeared again in any newer DDR games. - Dam Dariram was also remixed for DancemaniaX 2nd MixDance ManiaxDance Maniax is a game from the Bemani series of rhythm games, published by Konami, with songs mostly from the Dancemania series of music, and shares many songs with Dance Dance Revolution...
by another Japanese DJ, B4 ZA BEAT. - All songs listed above are edited to approximately 1min 30sec in length, and those can be found on the soundtrack for the Bemani game in which it first appeared.
- No Nobody's Love was not available in any DDR incarnation, but has remained a favourite choice in the DDR simfile community.
A cover of Dam Dariram appeared on Dancemania BASS #9, sung by BOOM TOWN CREW.