EL RITMO TROPICAL
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EL RITMO TROPICAL
Song Information
Artist: DIXIE'S GANG
Composition: Claude Morgan
Album: Dancemania SUMMERS 2 (1999)
BPM: 132
Length: 1:31
First Music Game Appearance: DanceDanceRevolution 2ndMIX LINK VERSION
Other Music Game Appearances: None.
Lyrics
Carnaval! Ayayayayai! Carnaval! El Mundo, El Cielo, celebra Carnaval! (Lala lala lala) Carnaval! (lala lala lala lala) Ayayayayai! (lala lala lala lala lala lala lala lala) celebra Carnaval! Have a party Shake your body Do the limbo Dancin' a la Bimbo Do it all night See the sunlight We go on and on and on We gonna have a party It's time to shake your body Come on and do the limbo Dancin' a la Bimbo We can do it all night 'til we see the sunlight We go on and on and on (lala lala lala) Carnaval! (lala lala lala) Ayayayayai! (lala lala lala lala lala lala lala lala) (lala lala lala) El Ritmo Tropical El Ritmo Tropical (lala lala lala lala) El Ritmo Tropical celebra Carnaval! (lala lala lala lala) El Ritmo Tropical El Ritmo Tropical (lala lala lala lala) El Mundo, El Cielo, celebra Carnaval!
Song Connections / Remixes
- EL RITMO TROPICAL is a remixed cover of Claude Morgan's El Bimbo.
- An in-house cover of El Bimbo can be found in MAMBO A GO GO.
- An 8-bit arrangement of EL RITMO TROPICAL appears in DanceDanceRevolution GB.
Trivia
- "El ritmo tropical" is Spanish for "the tropical rhythm".
- In DanceDanceRevolution 2ndMIX LINK VERSION, EL RITMO TROPICAL's artist was misspelled as DIXIES GANG.
- EL RITMO TROPICAL has unused and alternate graphics in 2ndMIX LINK VERSION and DanceDanceRevolution 2ndMIX with beatmania IIDX CLUB VERSiON.
- EL RITMO TROPICAL received a Double MANIAC chart in DanceDanceRevolution 4thMIX.
- EL RITMO TROPICAL received a BEGINNER chart in DanceDanceRevolution CS (North America). This chart was carried to the arcades in DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME.
- EL RITMO TROPICAL is not a constant 132 BPM. It ranges from 125 to 141.
- Despite that EL RITMO TROPICAL's BPM is listed as 132, it mostly runs at 133. This was never fixed.
- In DanceDanceRevolution GB, EL RITMO TROPICAL runs at 127 BPM.
Song Production Information
Untranslated.
Difficulty & Notecounts
DanceDanceRevolution difficulty from the original game to 2ndMIX rated from 1 to 8, 2ndMIX CLUB through 5thMIX (and the Solo games) rated from 1 to 9, and 1 to 10 from DDRMAX2 to SuperNOVA2.
DanceDanceRevolution
| Game | Single | Double | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beginner | Basic | Difficult | Expert | Challenge | Basic | Difficult | Expert | Challenge | |
| Notecounts / Freeze Arrows / Shock Arrows | 75 / 0 | 124 / 0 | 198 / 0 | 247 / 0 | - / - / - | 163 / 0 | 174 / 0 | 217 / 0 | - / - / - |
| DanceDanceRevolution 2ndMIX LINK VERSION→3rdMIX PLUS | - | 2 | 6 | 7 | - | 4 | 5 | - | - |
| Dancing Stage EuroMIX | - | 2 | 6 | 7 | - | 4 | 5 | - | - |
| DanceDanceRevolution 4thMIX→4thMIX PLUS | - | 2 | 6 | 7 | - | 4 | 5 | 7 | - |
| DanceDanceRevolution USA | - | 2 | 6 | 7 | - | 4 | 5 | 7 | - |
| DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME | 1 | 2 | 6 | 7 | - | 4 | 5 | 7 | - |
| DanceDanceRevolution 2ndReMIX | - | 2 | 6 | 7 | - | 4 | 5 | - | - |
| DanceDanceRevolution GB | - | 2 | 6 | 7 | - | - | - | - | - |
| DanceDanceRevolution CS US | 1 | 2 | 6 | 7 | - | 4 | 5 | 7 | - |
| DanceDanceRevolution Party Collection | 1 | 2 | 6 | 7 | - | 4 | 5 | 7 | - |
DanceDanceRevolution Solo
| Game | 6 Panels | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | Trick | Maniac | |
| Notecounts | 124 | 198 | 247 |
| DanceDanceRevolution 4thMIX Solo→4thMIX PLUS Solo | 2 | 6 | 7 |