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Eurodance is a style of dance music, popular in Europe, Oceania and South America between 1990 and 1995.
It is characterized by female or male vocals, with simple chorus, male rap parts,and a strong beat from 110 to 150 BPM with synthesizer riffs. One important cliche in eurodance was sung parts that consisted of meaningless lyrics (such as "Um-bap-paa-ea-ea Um-bap-paa-oo" in Daze's hit single Superhero or "Da Ba Dee Da Ba Die" in Eiffel 65's hit Blue (Da Ba Dee)) [See Scat singing ].
Eurodance is named from the fact that it was mainly popular in Europe and produced mostly in Italy, Germany, Sweden and Netherlands. In addition to the most popular groups, there were hundreds of Eurodance projects.
Eurodance is very much commercial music. It can be even seen as a some kind of culmination of commerciality in music business. Some producers, like Swedish Max Martin or Italian Larry Pignagnoli, were behind dozens of bands. If band members became too demanding, they could be fired and replaced by others. Only few bands survived more than one or two records. The most successful groups are arguably Dutch 2 Unlimited, Italian Eiffel 65, and German Scooter (although Scooter contain strong rave elements in their music and are not at the heart of eurodance).
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2Step
Acid house
Chicago house
Deep house
Disco
Eurodance
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Freestyle house
Funky house
Garage
Ghetto house
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Hi-NRG
Hip house
Italo disco
Italo house
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Pumpin' house
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Spacesynth
Tech house
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