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House Nation ~Dansei Vocal~
Release Date: 7/24/13
Price: 450 yen
Avex really went HAM last week in revisiting old series. In addition to Super Best Trance and Cyber Trance, they also released 5 House Nation digital EPs. This first release features male vocals.
Asa kara 100-bai Genki ni Naru High Tension Song Best (Top Cheer Up Songs (Morning Edition))
Release Date: 5/22/13
Price: 900 yen
Sequel to Kaji ga 100-bai Hakadoru High Tension Song Best, a.k.a. Top Cheer Up Songs (House Keeping Edition). The track list mostly consists of pop songs from the ’00s and ’10s, but not much related to Dancemania this time around.
Available on iTunes Japan and other digital services.
Cyber Trance – EP
Release Date: 7/24/13
Price: 450 yen
Avex’s recent digital releases don’t stop with Super Best Trance. They also released a single Cyber Trance EP featuring 5 songs.
Drive ga 100-bai Tanoshiku Naru Girls Pop
Release Date: 7/24/13
Price: 1905 yen
EMI’s Drive ga 100-bai series continues with a new entry focusing on female vocal pop. Judging by the track lengths, this won’t be a non-stop mix and will instead collect full versions.
Super Best Trance presents X’mas Trance – EP
Release Date: 7/24/13
Price: 450 yen
What better way to celebrate summer than with an X’mas Trance EP? This one mostly has songs that appeared on the Cyber Trance presents X’mas Trance series. For some reason it also has a cover of Blondie’s “Maria,” which is apparently a Christmas carol now?
Anyway, this is the last of the SBT EPs released on July 24th. It remains to be seen if Avex will keep this up and release more SBT EPs in the future.
Whatever Harajuku
Artist: Mademoiselle Yulia
Release Date: 9/18/13
Price: 1886 yen
Mademoiselle Yulia’s second album, following 2011’s Mademoworld.
Super Best Trance presents Summer Trance – EP
Release Date: 7/24/13
Price: 450 yen
What better way to celebrate summer than with a Summer Trance EP? And in typical Avex fashion, it has a repeat! That’s right, for no reason other than to screw people over, this has “Santa Maria (DJ Ten Remix),” even though the second EP already had it.
DJ Kaori’s Party Mix 5
Release Date: 8/21/13
Price: 2286 yen
The latest release in the hugely popular DJ Kaori’s Mix series, which has sold over 4 million copies over the years since its debut in 2005. You can visit the official website for more info on previous entries. A lot of EDM tracks on this one.
Super Best Trance presents Overhead Champion – EP
Release Date: 7/24/13
Price: 450 yen
Another SBT EP, this time featuring OHC songs.
EDM Anthem 2
Release Date: 7/24/13 ? 8/14/13
Price: 2190 yen
Another EDM release that’s been delayed a few weeks. The final list appears to be out, though.
Super Best Trance II – EP
Release Date: 7/24/13
Price: 450 yen
Avex’s second digital SBT EP features songs from SBT IV, VII, VI, and 10. I definitely recommend the John Robinson and Delaction songs, but I’m not too fond of the DJ Ten remixes.
No.1 Party Mix -World Famous R&B- mixed by DJ Satoshi
Release Date: 6/19/13
Price: 1714 yen
House compilation from VillageAgain. Sequel to No.1 Party Mix -R&B House Best-. The music is mostly by Power Music, but unfortunately it doesn’t appear that there are any remixes by DJ Satoshi or DJ U*Hey?
Available digitally on iTunes Japan.
Super Best Trance I – EP
Release Date: 7/24/13
Price: 450 yen
HOLY CRAP! It’s been 4 years since the last Super Best Trance release, so it came as quite a shock when I saw a series of new SBT releases on iTunes. Each release has 5 tracks and costs 450 yen for the entire release, which is a steal compared to the prices the vinyls have been going for. The track lists are seemingly random, pulling tracks from various SBT releases over the years. This first one has tracks from SBT V, ZIP Dance Nation, SBT II, SBT presents X’mas Trance, and Ultra Z-Trance 03.
Dance! Dance!! Dance!!! mixed by DJ Satoshi
Release Date: 7/13/13
Price: 1714 yen
DELACTION ARE BACK!!! This is such a complete surprise, but this new dance compilation from VillageAgain is like Mega Trance × Dancemania. In addition to Delaction, who contribute a brand new cover of Smile.dk’s “Butterfly,” Threemason/DJ U*Hey? is responsible for tons of 90s dance pop covers including “Dub-I-Dub,” “Hero,” “Santa Maria,” and more! Whoever put this list together was clearly a big Dancemania fan.
The album also contains a lot of more recent dance pop covers produced by Power Music. The physical CD is only available for rental at Tsutaya Records, but it’s also available digitally on iTunes Japan. There’s also a very good chance that they’ll release full versions on iTunes in the future.
Update (8/3/13): The CD will also be available for purchase on September 9 from major retailers, including CD Japan.
Akiba Koubou presents Utatte Mita Collection
Release Date: 7/24/13
Price: 952 yen
All releases from Akiba Koubou’s Utatte Mita Collection series will finally be available at major retailers. That’s 18 singles at 1,000 yen and 1 album for 1,500 yen. That’s almost $200 for the whole collection. o_O Hopefully they just release them all digitally.
Edit (7/31/13): All of the singles and the album are up on iTunes Japan. The singles are 800 yen each, while the album is 1,800 yen.
DanceMaster | 
07 30th, 2013| 
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