Super Eurobeat

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SUPER EUROBEAT Vol.162 Cover Art - © Avex Trax, Japan.

Super Eurobeat (Japanese: スーパーユーロビート also "SEB") is a Japanese CD compilation series of Eurobeat music. The series itself is one of the longest running in the entire world. It has been running for over fifteen years and consists of over 170 volumes. Originally, Time Records, Flea Records and Discomagic were some of the record labels that appeared on the original Super Eurobeat albums. The series began as a Beat Freak release, which lasted for 8 albums, after that the series was changed over to Avex, and that's also when A-Beat C joined in. The first 10 volumes of Super Eurobeat are mostly italo-disco, which is quite different from the modern eurobeat. The slower beats, and serious 80's tone make this music stick out from the rest. (Credit: Eurobeat Prime.)

1 Release Information
2 Current Super Eurobeat Labels
3 Highlights from Super Eurobeat History
4 Super Eurobeat presents
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] Release Information

After Super Eurobeat had transferred to avex trax, the CDs themselves were released at a constant rate for the most part, save a few instances where two CDs came out the same day and that Super Eurobeat was not produced for a good portion of a year. In 1994, the original 8 Super eurobeats were also re-released under avex trax. The pattern of Super Eurobeat albums were usually 2-3 regular albums, a nonstop album, 2-3 albums, a nonstop album, 2-3 albums, and a large compilation album (usually a request countdown). These compilation albums generally fall on every tenth album. Early regular albums contained 13 extended tracks, while recenty regular albums contain 18 CD-edit tracks.

Since the 150s, every SEB has been a normal 18 track release with every 10th album being a compilation album with an extra DVD usually containing ParaPara. 150 was an Anniversary mix with Disc 1 being the History of Eurobeat and Disc 2 being the History of J-Euro (this is out of the oridinary), and 160 was a request countdown (like the other tenth albums of the 100s are). This pattern is expected to continue.

[edit] Current Super Eurobeat Labels

[edit] Highlights from Super Eurobeat History

21.01.1990 - Super Eurobeat - 001 - The Beat Freak Time Collection is released.
21.11.1990 - Super Eurobeat - 008 - The last Beat Freak Super Eurobeat is released.
25.11.1990 - Super Eurobeat - 009 - A-Beat C joins in.
10.11.1994 - Super Eurobeat - 001 - 004 - Re-released on Avex.
21.10.1994 - Super Eurobeat - 050 - The first bigger compilation with all of the biggest hits.
10.12.1994 - Super Eurobeat - 005 - 008 - Re-released on Avex.
21.12.1995 - Super Eurobeat - 062 - The last 13 track extended format SEB.
21.02.1996 - Super Eurobeat - 064 - Delta joins in. The new 18 track radio-edit format is introduced to SEB.
21.03.1997 - Super Eurobeat - 076 - The Super Remix Collection bonuses are introduced to SEB.
04.08.1999 - Super Eurobeat - 100 - The big 100 is released.
22.01.2003 - Super Eurobeat - 134 - The 18 track format suddenly changes to 15 songs.
18.06.2003 - Super Eurobeat - 139 - The last 15 track SEB.
18.09.2003 - Super Eurobeat - 141 - HI-NRG Attack, SCP and Vibration join in.
17.03.2004 - Super Eurobeat - 146 - The old 70min. 70songs concept is introduced to SEB.
04.08.2004 - Super Eurobeat - 150 - The next big milestone.
22.06-2005 - Super Eurobeat - 159 - Vibration's final new track on SEB is released.
28.09.2005 - Super Eurobeat - 161 - Boom Boom Beat joins in to replace Vibration
21.06.2006 - Super Eurobeat - 169 - Boom Boom Beat's final track on SEB is released.
03.08.2006 - Super Eurobeat - 170 - Super Anniversary Non-Stop Mix 2006
27.09.2006 - Super Eurobeat - 171 - Boom Boom Beat is not present. The 5 regular labels still present.

(Credit: Eurobeat Prime.)

[edit] Super Eurobeat presents

Besides the main compilation series, Albums with different themes are also released with the Super Eurobeat name. These are called the "Super Eurobeat presents" compilations. Some of the most famous include: