My Idea/Suggestion:
Bring Eurobeat artists over to America to do a few panels, maybe do something on Stage Zero, and DEFINITELY play on the main stage!
It'd be perfect! We could have Dave Rodgers, Mauro Farina, John Desire... and they could talk to the future Eurobeat artists out among us! And PLAY music! And... OOH!
If this was all that happened at Fanime, I'd most likely still come.
Actually that's not a bad idea, though it would be a lil difficult to pull off without connections and planning... why not suggest it to some of the staff at the next Fanime meeting? I rather love eurobeat music myself and that would be something interesting to see and I would love to hear while I am working at the con XD Why not talk to Wendell and Sean Barber and us other Stage Zero staff about it if you also may want it on Stage Zero? ^^
I vote "YES" on Eurobeat. XD
Eurobeat king isn't Eurobeat enough for you Zoup?
But yeah, I support this idea too :D
im still oblivious to what eurobeat IS...
I just looked it up:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurobeat
Hope that helps.
Quote from: "Tetsunai"Eurobeat king isn't Eurobeat enough for you Zoup?
But yeah, I support this idea too :D
xD Bwahaha... just think if all eurobeat ppl were like Al. Thousands, upon thousands of Al's roaming Fanime and stalking women for their pictures on their downtime. Good luck on the idea though. ^_^ You get my support.
What if I brought over move? Just curious.
Quote from: "Tony"What if I brought over move? Just curious.
YOU DO THAT AND I WILL MAKE YOU KING OF FANIME, NO QUESTIONS ASKED. :p
Quote from: "Tony"What if I brought over move? Just curious.
We would all love you and spend lots of money on Eurobeat products.
As awesome as "move" sounds... who IS "move"? A eurobeat group?
If so, I would probably, like, lurb you for, like, ever and all that stuff. Oh, and I'd... um... do something. ...celebratory. ...-ish.
Quote from: "zoupzuop2"As awesome as "move" sounds... who IS "move"? A eurobeat group?
If so, I would probably, like, lurb you for, like, ever and all that stuff. Oh, and I'd... um... do something. ...celebratory. ...-ish.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.O.V.E
I'm a big fan of theirs. They really should come to Fanime hehehe
Quote from: "RyuHayabusa"Quote from: "Tony"What if I brought over move? Just curious.
YOU DO THAT AND I WILL MAKE YOU KING OF FANIME, NO QUESTIONS ASKED. :p
You do that and I think everyone will make you the GOD of Fanime
Just a friendly reminder...
"God of Fanime" and "King of Fanime" are two titles (among many) that are currently taken. Thank you, have a nice day. =)
Quote from: "MPLe"Just a friendly reminder...
"God of Fanime" and "King of Fanime" are two titles (among many) that are currently taken. Thank you, have a nice day. =)
Thanks for defending my titles, buddy. You will be promptly rewarded.
As long as it's eurobeat groups that have been involved in anime such as Initial D, I'm down.
If they're unrelated, I think they'll be out of place.
Ec-squeeze me? So Franz Tornado and other HI-NRG Attack people aren't good enough for you? *hrmph*. I see how it is.
Whatever happens in this department is most appreciated, though. It'd be awesome to have Eurobeat artists come to Fanime.
I'm for it.
I like to resurrect this topic by saying that Fanime should try to talk with AVEX Japan and see if they can get M.O.V.E to be a musical guest of honor.
So far they are planning to by at the upcoming Seattle Anime Con called Sakura Con. More info is here:
http://www.sakuracon.org/index.php
Another good Japanese Eurobeat/J-pop Group I want to suggest to the con would be Hinoi Team lead by Hinoi Asuka. They did the closing song of the Ichigo 100% Anime.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinoi_Team
These are suggestions I would like the Fanime Higher ups and staffers to consider and look into for this years con. :idea:
Eh, Eurobeat(in the sense... that you guys are talking about it) has died drastically in the past two years. There's still a few lingering, but the entire Para/SEB thing is virtually dead(in Japan).
Even Club Velfarre closed down last year, and that was basically the final nail in the coffin. Move's popularity has died drastically as well. A lot of basically no named bands to US fans are way more popular than them now.
I still enjoy a handful of MOVE's songs, and a few of the newer(note... newer) Eurobeat stuff that comes out, but for the most part, it should be left to die. It's like those people that tried to revive disco in the 80's... ... ... and failed miserably at it.
Oh just to add...
Move isn't Eurobeat.
Quote from: "Tsuchimi Rin-chan"Another good Japanese Eurobeat/J-pop Group I want to suggest to the con would be Hinoi Team lead by Hinoi Asuka. They did the closing song of the Ichigo 100% Anime.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinoi_Team
AWP! Hinoi Team??? I hate to say it, but as big as Fanime is, I doubt it has enough power to request the one and only Hinoi Team. It'd almost be easier to request George W. Bush to come down cosplaying Sailor Moon. While it'd be an EXCELLENT idea, and I'd be all for it, AVEX is a God amongst music entities. What Sony and MCA are to America (really big names that you pretty much can't escape), AVEX is to Japan and just about anywhere else it happens to touch. If they were the ones in charge of releasing Reel Big Fish's albums to Japan, and manage a Hip Hop, Eurobeat, Rock, J-Pop... it's just hard to see a huge tycoon giving up one of their prized moneymakers for a "small deal" like--
Wait a minute. m.o.v.e is from AVEX too, isn't it? That means--
--oh, wow. We could actually do that. However, it'd be better to let m.o.v.e do their thing and let AVEX see if it's profitable enough to send their prized moneymaking music team over here. (Bonus points if we can bring Franz Tornado and his Bazooka family over here too!)
I can mix Eurobeat woohoo.
Who oh WHO would revive this topic other than myself? Hmmm...
...anyway, given that MOVE was granted some space to travel the conventions of America, I think it gives Fanime some leway to try to book them (as well as some other Big acts... even Dave Rodgers himself once said he wanted to do some touring in the United States) for 2008.
Crackpr0n made a fair point... Eurobeat (in Japan) is dying down. But, does that necessarily mean that its popularity amongst some American fans is doomed to die as well? I've seen more people getting INTO Eurobeat lately than people getting OUT of it. If it was such a dead genre, why would they be putting out more albums (and having them sell quite well, even in the cold-to-it Japan)?
Or, IF it's such a dying genre in Japan, and it's grown less important, I'm sure that Avex would not mind so much to let the artists try their hand in some small American jaunts 'n whatnot. Y'know, a genre's dying wish or something.
Eurobeat in 08!!!
They had ZZ last year which wasn't Eurobeat but they were on the Avex Mode label which also distributes the Super Eurobeat albums and if you could contact those guys you could see what happens.
Quote from: abcbadcat on October 24, 2007, 01:10:55 AM
Eurobeat in 08!!!
They had ZZ last year which wasn't Eurobeat but they were on the Avex Mode label which also distributes the Super Eurobeat albums and if you could contact those guys you could see what happens.
That's TRUE! I totally forgot about that!
As for whom to book, while I'd imagine that ABeatC would be the SIMPLEST to request, I doubt they'd be the EASIEST to book. They've got a bit more star-power than the other labels and would be, I imagine, in higher demand. However, the chance to come over to America might be just interesting enough to at least have consent on both ends of the divide. Push comes to shove, though, I imagine that AVEX Mode would be more willing to send someone from, say, Delta, Akyr, SCP, or Hi-NRG Attack. TIME would be a poor choice because they don't promote their artists well enough to have enough recognition, and their only really big name (Symbol) is sort of short on material. SAIFAM wouldn't work because Mauro Farina's in just too darn high demand in Italy. Then again, we'll just have to see what happens if this were to take place. :)