Dancemania Speed Presents : Best of Hardcore, or simply Best of Hardcore, is a compilation album

Compilation album

A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...

 of Dancemania

Dancemania

Dancemania is a series of remix compilation albums by i-DANCE. The series deals primarily with dance music, especially eurodance. Despite its tracks have been made by various musicians from all over the world mainly from the European continent, the albums have been released exclusively in Japan.The...

s Speed

Dancemania Speed

Dancemania Speed is a sub-series of Toshiba EMI's Dancemania compilation series. This series features faster, further remixed versions of recordings from previously released Dancemania albums or faster remixed covers of various famous songs...

 sub-series, released by Toshiba EMI in the early 2003.

With the leading mixer DJ Evil, the album features happy hardcore music

Happy hardcore

Happy hardcore, also known as happycore, is a genre of music typified by a very fast tempo , often coupled with solo vocals and sentimental lyrics. Its characteristically 4/4 beat "happy" sound distinguishes it from most other forms of hardcore techno, which tend to be "darker". It is typically in...

 and various happy hardcore artists who have appeared on the Speed series.

Many tracks on the album can also be found on other Dancemania albums, especially those of the Speed series including Best 2001

Dancemania Speed Best 2001

Dancemania Speed Best 2001 Hyper Nonstop Megamix, or simply Dancemania Speed Best 2001, is a greatest hits compilation album of Dancemanias Speed series, released by EMI Music Japan in 2000...

, Happy Ravers

Dancemania Speed Presents Happy Ravers

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 and Trance Ravers

Dancemania Speed Presents Trance Ravers

Dancemania Speed Presents Trance Ravers is a compilation album of Dancemanias Speed series, released by EMI Music Japan in the late 2001....

.

Tracks

#	Track	By	Ref
1	Follow The Sun	Triple J
2	Love, Life & Happiness	Stealth
3	Together Forever	Hixxy Hixxy Hixxy or DJ Hixxy, born Ian Hicks, is a British UK Hardcore and previously happy hardcore DJ and musician from Portsmouth, England....  & Bananaman
4	Let's Fly	DJ Breeze Mark Breeze Mark Breeze, also known as DJ Breeze , is a UK Hardcore producer based in the United Kingdom. He is most known for his songs "Let's Fly" and "Jump A Little Higher", and frequently contributes DJ mixes to hardcore compilation series such as the Clubland X-Treme Hardcore series.He is mostly known in...
5	Delirious	Double Dutch
6	Techno Wonderland Can't Help Falling in Love "Can't Help Falling in Love" is a pop song originally recorded by American singer Elvis Presley and published by Gladys Music, Elvis Presley's publishing company. It was written by Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore, and George David Weiss. The melody was based on "Plaisir d'Amour" but with a different...	10 Whites Recordings
7	SMD 5	SMD
8	Eye Opener	Brisk & Trixxy
9	Shooting Star	Bang!
10	Hands of Destiny	Cru-L-T & DJ Evil
11	Control Your Mind	Brisk & DJ Fade
12	Vortex	DJ Fade
13	Now Is The Time 2000	Scott Brown Scott Brown (DJ) Scott Alexander Brown is a Glasgow-born Scottish DJ and music producer, now living in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. Brown produces and plays a variety of genres commonly called rave. Although he is most associated with bouncy techno, his music ranges from happy hardcore, through hard trance, to...
14	Let It Be Let It Be (song) "Let It Be" is a song by The Beatles, released in March 1970 as a single, and as the title track of their album Let It Be. It was written by Paul McCartney, but credited to Lennon–McCartney. It was their final single before McCartney announced his departure from the band...	Sound Assassins
15	Time After Time Time after Time (Cyndi Lauper song) "Time After Time" is a song by American singer Cyndi Lauper, released as the second single from her album She's So Unusual. It reached number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart on June 9, 1984, and remained there for two weeks...	Sound Assassins
16	Here I Am	DJ Ham, DJ Demo & Justin Time
17	99 Red Balloons	Jimmy J
18	Power of Love 2001	Q-Tex
19	Flashdance (What A Feeling)	MC Magika MC Magika MC Magika, sometimes credited as M•A•G•I•K•A, is a British MC, music producer and rave promoter. He has been regularly featured on the UK breakbeat compilation Dreamscape series, and on the mega-hit dance music compilation Dancemanias Speed sub-series...
20	Serious Hardcore	Brisk & DJ Ham
21	Run To Me	E-Logic
22	So Real	Vinylgroover
23	The Beating of My Heart Live to Tell "Live to Tell" is a pop ballad by American singer-songwriter Madonna. Originally written by Patrick Leonard for the soundtrack of the film Fire with Fire, the song was shown to Madonna, who decided to use it for then-husband Sean Penn's film At Close Range...	DJ Storm
24	Come and Follow Me	DJ Stompy
25	Checkin' Da Cutz	Brisk & Vinylgroover
26	Movin' On	Double Dutch
27	Heaven (Here Comes The Noize) Heaven (Bryan Adams song) "Heaven" is a power ballad written by Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance and performed by Bryan Adams. The song first appeared on the A Night in Heaven soundtrack album in 1983 and was later included on Adams' album Reckless in 1984...	Double Dutch
28	Fly Away	Visa

Further details

The album's overall average tempo is 177 bpm.

The lowest bpm is 174; #17

The highest bpm is 179; #7–10

The non-stop mixing

DJ mix

A DJ mix or DJ mixset is a sequence of musical tracks typically mixed together to appear as one continuous track. When a DJ mix or DJ mixset is recorded onto some medium, it is often referred to as a mix tape...

was done by DJ Evil.

#	Track	BPM	Ref
1	Follow The Sun	178
2	Love, Life & Happiness	178
3	Together Forever	178
4	Let's Fly	178
5	Delirious	178
6	Techno Wonderland	178
7	SMD 5	179
8	Eye Opener	179
9	Shooting Star	179
10	Hands of Destiny	179
11	Control Your Mind	178
12	Vortex	176
13	Now Is The Time 2000	176
14	Let It Be	176
15	Time After Time	175
16	Here I Am	175
17	99 Red Balloons	174-6
18	Power of Love 2001	176
19	Flashdance (What A Feeling)	177
20	Serious Hardcore	177
21	Run To Me	177
22	So Real	176
23	The Beating of My Heart	176
24	Come and Follow Me	176
25	Checkin' Da Cutz	176
26	Movin' On	176
27	Heaven (Here Comes The Noize)	176
28	Fly Away	176