Category Archives: Non-Avex Reviews

How To Save Eurobeat: An Introduction

Posted on February 13th, 2012

This is the first post in a new series I hope to maintain and update continually regarding the continuation and health of Eurobeat as a commercially viable genre. In… less flowery prose, I’ll be writing about what it’ll take to keep Eurobeat alive. As the hearsay of Eurobeat’s impending doom grows louder and louder with [...]

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On dubstep and Old-School-Only’s knife in Eurobeat’s back

Posted on September 22nd, 2011

Oh put your bloody pitchforks and torches away. I’m not suggesting that Eurobeat should become more like Dubstep for the rest of its days (or even vice versa… though I doubt an experiment would go unappreciated). And no, I’m not out to taint your “old-school-only” mentalities by comparing Eurobeat to a genre that’s just now [...]

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How to listen to J-Euro (for those who don’t like JPop)

Posted on June 4th, 2011

How does one learn to appreciate some of the most unique Eurobeat on the market without causing their eardrums to bleed? This is meant as more of a guide for the intermediate Eurobeat fan who’s ready for more than just Avex’s “top 50″ Eurobeat releases on iTunes or Amazon or whatever.

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Fantasy Job for Eurobeat fanatics like me

Posted on April 11th, 2011

So I gave it some thought and I realized that, if such a position existed, I would gladly toss my other prospects to the wind and pursue it. Yes, there are jobs one could conjure of such caliber that could drive me to cast aside my lifelong ambitions if it meant this could work. My [...]

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CONFOUND THESE PONIES… they drive me to remixes.

Posted on March 27th, 2011

Up until recently, I’ve done a great deal of “Underground” remixing as “Eurobeat Brony” in the new and unusually demographic-defying “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic”. It’s a charming show that’s surprisingly more than tolerable for the adult demographic, with music that lends itself VERY well to Eurobeat. After what I thought was some mere [...]

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