Review by Javier Morel

This CD is one of the weaker ones in the SEB 160s, great tracks like Pride by Dave (which is possibly the best track from TIME Records in a long time), Go 2 - Looka Bomba, and Mad Cow - Bazookistan save this CD. Some tracks leave you wanting to listen to something else (Mako - IN THE NIGHT IN THE FIRE, Alexis - Blue, Dave Rodgers - Make A Movement). Not the best SEB to come out but definitely not the worst.

A bit disappointed when I found out this was a nonstop mix, I thought (and was glad before this) that the SEB nonstops were gone for ever, but no this 30 track nonstop mixed by DJ Boss nixed that dream. It's basically a best of SEB 163 and 164 with a few tracks from 162 and 161 thrown in. Oh of course there are 3 new eurobeat tracks plus a euro house track from Saifam. The biggest upset probably is the house track considering there is a great eurobeat remix for that song. Another let down is that alot of fast songs were slowed down. (i.e. Like A Fire, Tam Arrow Go!, China, Queen... basically Hi NRG Attack and Saifam songs). The mixing also got predictable which made the nonstop even less appealling. The only thing that saves this album from being a flop is the nice selection of songs.

This release has some really stale and old techno tracks with some pretty bad new ones. If it wasn't for the DVD I would probably have sold this on EBay. A few saving graces for the mix are Capella - U Turn Me On, Tokyo Girls - Like A Fire, Techno Mob - Face Off. Unfortunately horrible tracks like Ban Ban Fight Back and Hypercondriac outnumber the good.

A good mix of eurobeat and trance with some okay techno thrown in. The Nonstop CD starts off with some fast paced eurobeat from the Asia Records label maintains the energy even though the speed gets slower further in the mix as it turns into techno with tracks from Masaha feat Vito and Void. In the trance portion you have a great choice of songs with track remixes of Axel F Theme and Holy Virgin. After this part the mix goes back to high speed eurobeat but not before a jpop track and a awesome eurobeat cover of Strike's Inspiration. Of course this album includes the eurobeat smash hit "Spiderman" by Mark Foster... again, which personally I thought it could have been just as well without it. The DVD is a ParaPara DVD of about 5 songs with a bank robbery theme. All and all great mix (look out for Love Sis' - Dancing Queen and Eri - Inspiration as well as Groove Coveragre - Holy Virgin [Rob Mayth Remix]) and a must have if you are into eurobeat and parapara!

Ok so the mixing has been left out to K.O.G who seems to have ditched the name and is calling himself DJ Kohji Morita. The mix is ackward at first since it starts with a track at 184BPM then jumping to 192BPM before it goes back to 170BPM and goes up from there. The mixing is just what you would expect but the surprise is that all LED tracks are original songs as well as Runaway Music has an original song as well. Unfortunately Saifam still seems to be in it's coverfest mode leaving the only original song to be Jenny Rom - Be My Cowboy (Speed Mix). Tracks to look out for a Emeralds - Do It For Love (incorrectly label as either Maria Short - Do It Love or Emerals - DO It Love) and VAGABOND - Poisonous.

Long gone are the days when a DDR Soundtrack caused excitement in its fans... Maybe that is because long gone are the days when DDR has diverse music. Just like the current releases this soundtrack is filled with techno trance some R&B (if you would call it that) with a few euro influenced tracks from Naoki. Disc 1 accomplishes it goal no better and no less than you expect, it contains only game versions. Disc 2 is a big disappointment because half of it crammed with menu music from the two games (most of which sounds the same), leaving only about 35 minutes for the nonstop mix, which used to be the highlight of the OSTs, leaves usually less than a minute for each track and for some pretty bland transistions which with those time constraintants I only wonder why DJ Boss of Y&CO even said yes to do the mix. But alas if you are a completionist then you should probably get this as it has a few gems in it such as Akira Yamaoka - Inside Your Heart,Naoki feat Paula Terry - Passion Of Love and nc feat NRG Factory - Genie In A Bottle.