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.
- A cover of El Bimbo, titled EL BIMBO, can be found in MAMBO A GO GO.
- An 8-bit arrangement of EL RITMO TROPICAL appears in DanceDanceRevolution GB.
Trivia
- This song has different backgrounds, banners, jackets, or other related images. For more information, please see this page.
- "El ritmo tropical" is Spanish for "the tropical rhythm".
- While the song would not properly appear until DanceDanceRevolution 2ndMIX's LINK VERSION upgrade, EL RITMO TROPICAL was already finished during the game's original release, with its charts and graphics being found unused within the game's data.
- In DanceDanceRevolution 2ndMIX LINK VERSION, EL RITMO TROPICAL's artist was misspelled as DIXIES GANG.
- EL RITMO TROPICAL has unused graphics in the data of DanceDanceRevolution 2ndMIX LINK VERSION and DanceDanceRevolution 2ndMIX with beatmania IIDX CLUB VERSiON.
- An unused Double MANIAC chart for EL RITMO TROPICAL can be found in the DanceDanceRevolution 2ndMIX LINK VERSION data.
- EL RITMO TROPICAL received brand-new Single BEGINNER and Double MANIAC charts in Dancing Stage EuroMIX.
- It received a new BEGINNER chart in DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME.
- EL RITMO TROPICAL is not a constant 132 BPM. The tempo fluctuates throughout the song, ranging from 125 to 141 BPM.
- 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.
- On the DanceDanceRevolution 3rdMIX ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK album, EL RITMO TROPICAL's title was changed to EL RITMO TROPICAL (El Bimbo).
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 | - | 2 | 6 | 7 | - | 4 | 5 | ⁑N/A | - |
| DanceDanceRevolution 3rdMIX→3rdMIX PLUS | - | 2 | 6 | 7 | - | 4 | 5 | - | - |
| Dancing Stage EuroMIX | ※1 | 2 | 6 | 7 | - | 4 | 5 | 7 | - |
| DanceDanceRevolution 4thMIX→4thMIX PLUS | - | 2 | 6 | 7 | - | 4 | 5 | 7 | - |
| DanceDanceRevolution USA | ※1 | 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 | - |
※ This chart is different from the later BEGINNER chart (total notes: 87).
⁑ Denotes chart is unused and cannot be accessed through normal gameplay. (total notes: 164).
DanceDanceRevolution Solo
| Game | 6 Panels | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | Trick | Maniac | |
| Notecounts | 124 | 198 | 247 |
| DanceDanceRevolution 4thMIX Solo→4thMIX PLUS Solo | 2 | 6 | 7 |