So What is Euro dance anyways?....
Hmmmnnn.....
What the hell am I talking about? I hear you shout.... Euro is just dance music, a rapper and a vocalist...blah blah
Well you really think so? so what do u call Puff Dadee and Mace? or Will Smith? or even DJ Visage - The return?
They are rappers, but still fit into the vocalist, rapper, dance music category... http://mercury.spaceports.com/~vibes/eurodance.htm
So were does that leave us?
Well I was right there in the middle of it when it started! So i will attempt explain just how do u label a song Eurodance?
Anyways, the genre really started in the early days of 1993/1994, when it became mainstream over Europe, especially Germany, Italy, Sweden, Belgium and others...People say that Italy was the mother of Euro and I tend to agree.
Back then, EURODANCE artists all had a similar style or beat if u can call it that! But each and every one was different...
How so? Well listen to the following: Ice Mc, Alexia(later on), Maxx, Capella(got an autograph from them!), E-type(made in sweden singles), Masterboy, Double you, B-Cap(with only one single as far as i know!), 2 brothers on the 4th floor, DJ Bobo, 2 unlimited(original cast), Mc Sar and the Real Mccoy, Amadin with make me feel alright....and soooo many others i cant even begin to mention!
What do you hear? they are all the same kind of music, but every single song sounds different and has a character to it!
Check out the latest single from real mccoy - its on you99, a remix of an old old song they made...this was pure euro like the stuff they used to make(i.e. runaway, one more time etc)
Now moving on to my favourite(whom i even met and have an autograph from
) ICE MC!
He was undoubtedly the KING of the Eurodance scene...how coudnt he be? with the popular reggae rap style of his and ALEXIA as his vocalist and ROBYX his producer??? Hits after hit...from take away the color, its a rainy day and think about the way, to his latest album Dreadatour! (small hacked up mix of the coolest songs on the album)
(whatever happened to ICE MC? anybody know email me plz)
~ (ROBYX is probably the father of euro, he did the music for alexia, ice mc, double you and countless others under the DWA and extravaganza labels)
His songs had a type of energy to them, like a drug.. when u heard a new ice song on the radio, you'd get sooo damn happy!
(now im talking about people who actually like dance music, a hardcore rapper isnt gonna feel anything...right?)
Then came Alexia.... The Voice! The style, the look the music. Just hear the beginning lyrics to summer is crazy....
or me and you... if that voice doesn't touch you deep inside...nothing will! (at least for a music fan!!!)
Ok now these tunes seem a bit simple in construction compared to modern dance/trance stuff like goureyla, cream, quake etc... but we are talking about 4 and 5 year old tunes, and i personally don't mind listening to them NOW!
Only time will tell if the new styles we are into now will last the test of time!
1999! Surprisingly, this is the year euro returns...oh yeah not in full force, but more than enough to please us fans!
~To prove a point, listen to the following new euro tunes and see how u get the same feeling, the same style as the old ones up there! stuff like amore - stop the rain, Eifell65 - blue (kinda of a new style i think though
, masterboy - pour que te vas, blue lab - i promise, Reset - blue
see a similarity?
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that similarity, that uniqueness of style...that energy...
That, my friends...is what we call EURO DANCE!