Eurobeat
Sign in to saveEurobeat refers to two styles of dance music that originated in Europe: one is a British variant of Italian Eurodisco-influenced dance-pop, and the other is a hi-NRG-driven form of Italo disco. The former was developed in the 1980s, while the latter was developed starting from the early 1990s and continuing in the following decades, distancing itself from its Italo disco origins as time went on.
Key facts
- Music genre.name
- Eurobeat
- Music genre.image
- Super Eurobeat Vol.250 cover art.png
- Music genre.caption
- Super Eurobeat Vol. 250 cover art
- Music genre.cultural_origins
- British Eurobeat:Mid 1980s, United KingdomContemporary Eurobeat:Late 1980s, Italy, West Germany and Japan
- Music genre.fusiongenres
- J-pop
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- music genre
- Subclass of
- electronic dance music
- Country of origin
- Italy
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- different from
- Eurodance
- topic's main category
- Category:Eurobeat
- inception
- 1988-01-01
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Overview
- Use of the term
- History
- United Kingdom
- Italy and Japan
- J-Euro
- Para Para
- See also
- Notes
- References
Eurobeat refers to two styles of dance music that originated in Europe: one is a British variant of Italian Eurodisco-influenced dance-pop, and the other is a hi-NRG-driven form of Italo disco. The former was developed in the 1980s, while the latter was developed starting from the early 1990s and continuing in the following decades, distancing itself from its Italo disco origins as time went on.
Producer trio Stock Aitken Waterman and pop band Dead or Alive made Eurobeat music more popular in the United States and Southeast Asia, where Eurobeat was historically marketed as hi-NRG (pronounced as "high energy"). For a short while, it also shared this term with Italo disco.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Eurobeat” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.