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. Unlike the main series mostly consisting of Eurodance, this series largely consists of hardcore techno crews from the UK, the home of happy hardcore, and Eurobeat Artists from Italy
History
The first issue, titled
Dancemania Speed, was released on 23 September 1998 with
Chumbawamba's "
Tubthumping" as its beginning track along with 24 other tracks
[Amazon.co.jp, Dancemania Speed ] including
Paffendorf's "Samba de Janeiro", Captain Jack's "Together & Forever", Me & My's "
Dub-I-Dub", and
E-Rotic's "Willy Use A Billy...Boy".
[Toshiba EMI, Dancemania Speed ] The second issue,
Dancemania Speed 2, was released on 3 March 1999
[Amazon.com, Dancemania Speed 2] with tracks including "My Heart Will Go On", "Jump", "Butterfly", "Captain Jack", "Turn Me On" and "Techno Wonderland".
[Discogs, Dancemania Speed 2] The albums have appeared on the
Oricon charts of best-selling albums since the first was released.
Speed 1 reached number 8 in the weekly album chart in October 1998,
[Oricon Database, Oricon Album 1998.10.19 ] Speed 2 reached number 7 in the same chart in March 1999
[Oricon Database, Oricon Album 1999.3.15 ] and ranked number 72 in the yearly Top 100 best-selling album chart in 1999 with 322,860 copies sold.
[Oricon Database, Oricon Album 1999 Top 100 ] Speed 3 reached number 5 in the weekly album chart in September 1999.
[Oricon Database, Oricon Album 1999.9.20 ] Several tracks from
1,
2,
3,
4,
5 were later included on the 2000
greatest hits compilation
Best 2001 Hyper Nonstop Megamix.
[HMV, Dancemania Speed Best 2001 ]
Releases
Main series
|
| Dancemania Speed | 23 September 1998 |
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[Accurate title is "Time#Vinylgroover."]
[Discogs, Dancemania Speed][Electronic Emotion, Dancemania Data > Dancemania Speed (cover info)]
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| Dancemania Speed 2 | 3 March 1999 | | [Electronic Emotion, Dancemania Data > Dancemania Speed 2 (cover info)] |
| Dancemania Speed 3 | 8 September 1999 | | [Discogs, Dancemania Speed 3][Electronic Emotion, Dancemania Data > Dancemania Speed 3 (cover info)] |
| Dancemania Speed 4 | 8 March 2000 | | [Discogs, Dancemania Speed 4][Electronic Emotion, Dancemania Data > Dancemania Speed 4 (cover info)] |
| Dancemania Speed 5 | 20 September 2000[Techpara.jp, Dancemania Speed ] | | [Toshiba EMI, Dancemania SPEED 5 ][Electronic Emotion, Dancemania Data > Dancemania Speed 5 (cover info)] |
| Dancemania Speed 6 | 16 March 2001 | | [Discogs, Dancemania Speed 6][Electronic Emotion, Dancemania Data > Dancemania Speed 6 (cover info)] |
| Dancemania Speed 7 | 27 September 2001 | | [Discogs, Dancemania Speed 7][Electronic Emotion, Dancemania Data > Dancemania Speed 7 (cover info)] |
| Dancemania Speed 8 | 6 March 2002 | | [Discogs, Dancemania Speed 8][Electronic Emotion, Dancemania Data > Dancemania Speed 8 (cover info)] |
| Dancemania Speed 9 | 26 September 2002 | | [Discogs, Dancemania Speed 9][Electronic Emotion, Dancemania Data > Dancemania Speed 9 (cover info)] |
| Dancemania Speed 10 | 18 December 2002 | | [Discogs, Dancemania Speed 10][Electronic Emotion, Dancemania Data > Dancemania Speed 10 (cover info)] |
G series
Others
|
| Dancemania Speed Best 2001 Hyper Nonstop Megamix | 29 November 2000 | [Discogs, Dancemania Speed Best 2001] |
| Dancemania Speed Presents Happy Ravers | 31 January 2001 | [Discogs, Dancemania Speed Presents Happy Ravers] |
| Dancemania Speed Presents Trance Ravers | 19 December 2001 | [Discogs, Dancemania Speed Presents Trance Ravers] |
| Classical Speed | 11 December 2002 | [Discogs, Classical Speed] |
| 3 March 2003 | [Discogs, Dancemania Speed: Best of Hardcore] |
| Speed SFX | 18 September 2003 | [Discogs, Speed SFX] |
| Christmas Speed | 29 October 2003 | [Discogs, Christmas Speed] |
| Dancemania Speed TV | 28 April 2004 | [Amazon.co.jp, Dancemania Speed TV ] |
| Classical Speed | 18 August 2004 | [Discogs, Classical Speed 2] |
| Speed Deka | 25 November 2004 | [Discogs, Speed Deka] |
| Anime Speed | 25 May 2005 | [Discogs, Anime Speed] |
| Speedrive | 31 March 2006 | [Discogs, Speedrive] |
| Anime Speed Newtype edition | 19 July 2006 | [Discogs, Anime Speed Newtype Edition] |
| Happy Speed Best of Dancemania Speed Giga | 18 April 2007 | [Amazon.co.jp, Happy Speed Best of Dancemania Speed Giga ] |
