''Dancemania Speed'' is a sub-series of Toshiba EMI's ''

Dancemania ''Dancemania'' is a series of remix compilation albums by i-DANCE. The series deals primarily with dance music, especially Eurodance. Despite many of its tracks being made by various musicians from all over the world and mainly from the European ...

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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 Eurodance (sometimes referred to as Euro-NRG) is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in the late 1980s in Europe. It combines many elements of Hip-hop, rap, techno and Eurodisco. This genre of music is heavily influenced by the use ...

, this series largely consists of

hardcore techno Hardcore (also known as hardcore techno) is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany in the early 1990s. It is distinguished by faster tempos (160 to 200 BPM or more) and a distorted sawtooth ...

crews from the UK, the home of

happy hardcore Happy hardcore, also known as 4-beat or happycore, is a subgenre of hardcore dance music or " hard dance". It emerged both from the UK breakbeat hardcore rave scene, and Belgian, German and Dutch hardcore techno scenes in the early 1990s ...

, and

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Artists from Italy

History

The first issue, titled ''Dancemania Speed'', was released on 23 September 1998 with

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's "

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" as its beginning track along with 24 other tracks including Bellini's "Samba de Janeiro", Captain Jack's "Together & Forever",

Me & My Me & My is a Danish Eurodance duo, formed by sisters Susanne Georgi (born 27 July 1976) and Pernille Georgi (born 24 July 1974) in 1995 in Kolding. The debut album '' Me & My'' has sold more than 2 million copies, and the debut single '' Dub-I- ...

's " Dub-I-Dub", and

E-Rotic E-Rotic is a Eurodance duo act formed in 1994 by German record producer David Brandes. The act is best known in Europe for the hits " Max Don't Have Sex With Your Ex" and " Fred Come to Bed". E-Rotic originally consisted of German born singer ...

's "Willy Use A Billy...Boy". The second issue, ''Dancemania Speed 2'', was released on 3 March 1999 with tracks including "

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", " Jump", "

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", " Captain Jack", "Turn Me On" and " Techno Wonderland".

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Dancemania Speed 2
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charts of best-selling albums since the first was released. ''Speed 1'' reached number 8 in the weekly album chart in October 1998, ''Speed 2'' reached number 7 in the same chart in March 1999 and ranked number 72 in the yearly Top 100 best-selling album chart in 1999 with 322,860 copies sold. ''Speed 3'' reached number 5 in the weekly album chart in September 1999.Oricon Database
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Several tracks from ''1'', ''2'', ''3'', ''4'', ''5'' were later included on the 2000

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compilation '' Best 2001 Hyper Nonstop Megamix''.

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