Speedy Techno Remake

A song remade into a fast Techno version. Could be a remix, which uses most of the actual recording, or a rearrangement, which is a whole new recording which incorporates the lyrics or tune of the song, but adds in a lot more.

Could be any kind of song, even Gregorian chants if someone felt like it. Many of the songs in the DanceDanceRevolution games are these kinds of remakes, since "speedy" also means "harder" most of the time.

Note that if only part of a song is used in a speedy techno song, that's just Sampling.

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Examples (sorted by original song's genre):

Alternative Rock

• ADAM feat. Amy - "Zombie", Eurodance cover of the Cranberries song and before that Ororo made a happy hardcore version
• "74-75" by The Connels was covered as a rave anthem by Hands On Bell.
• Marc van Dale remade The Verve's "Bittersweet Symphony" as "Waterverve". Not technically speedy, but much faster than the original power ballad.
• Discotronic and Tevin made a hard trance cover of Savage Garden's "To The Moon and Back".
• Dario G. remade Dream Academy's "Life in a Northern Town"(as "Sunchyme") and The Cranberries' "Dreams" as "Dream to Me".
• The Eurodance group The Real McCoy did this for Shania Twain's "(If You're Not In it For Love) I'm out of Here".
• Snake River Conspiracy's cover of The Smiths' "How Soon Is Now?" has the "Back 2 The Future Club Mix" by Jason Nevins and Michael Nigro.

Classical

• Dj Tiesto's version of Barber's "Adagio for Strings". Doesn't seem speedy until you realize the original plays at half the tempo.
  • Before that, there was the Ferry Corsten remix of William Orbit's version.
  • A more speedy version is K-Complex "Adagio".
  • Also, Albinoni/Giazotto's "Adagio in G Minor" was remixed by Above & Beyond, as well as Tiesto.
• "Carmina Burana", remixed by Apotheosis/Excalibur.
• "Speed over Beethoven" by Rose (not to be confused with the Eurobeat artist) is a happy hardcore rendition of "Fur Elise". "Can't You Feel My Love" by the same artist is based on the "Presto Agitato" movement of the Moonlight Sonata.
• V (for Extreme) from DDR is a dance remix of the Allegro movement of the Winter concerto from Vivaldi's The Four Seasons.
  • Also from The Four Seasons, the first and third movements of "Summer" were remade by Digital Explosion as "Summer in Belize"(featured in DDR fangame In the Groove 2), and Vanessa-Mae as "Storm", respectively.
• Trance versions of the "Canon", "Ave Maria" and "Air on the G string" by Angels.
• Mars - "Pachelbel 8000" (remake of Pachelbel's Canon in D)
  • And his remix of the Jungle Brothers' "Ital Stew", as "Ital Step".
    • Pachelbel's Canon is a very popular candidate for remixes. Here's one by Ban Ya (Canon D: Part of The Memories) that appears in Pump It Up. It's not as sped up, but it's still an awesome remake. In fact, it seems that the Koreans are very fond of this trope with classical music- At least a quarter of Pump It Up's track list is made up of sped up classical music.
• "Raving to the Fifth" by Tecknophonia Ltd. is, as its name suggests, a rave remix of Beethoven's 5th Symphony.
  • Walter Murphy did Beethoven's 5th in disco format as "A Fifth of Beethoven". This was used on the soundtrack to the 1978 version of Ice Castles.
• Take Christian Petzold's Minuet in G Major, slap lyrics on it, give it the 50's equivalent of a Speedy Techno Remix, and you get "A Lover's Concerto''. Then run it through this trope the second time around a few decades later, and you get SA's Delight.
• Aria's "Willow" and "Dido" are neoclassical electronica remakes of Verdi's "Willow Song" and Purcell's "Dido's Lament", respectively, and in turn received awesome trance remixes by DJ Tiësto and Armin van Buuren, respectively.
• The Swan Lake overture was remade as "Swan Rave".
• Joy by Apollo 100 is an instrumental remake of "Ode to Joy", by Beethoven. There's also "End of the Century" in the DanceDanceRevolution series.
• The "Finale" of Gioacchino Rossini's William Tell Overture was remade as "Tell" by Symphonious (one of Kyle Ward's many names) for In the Groove 2.
• Edvard Grieg's "In the Halls of the Mountain King" has been remade as "This Club Is Closed Forever" by Razzia, and "Dream a Dream" by Captain Jack.
• Wendy Carlos adapted the March movement of Henry Purcell's "Music For the Funeral of Queen Mary" for the main theme of A Clockwork Orange, then two decades later, German trance artist Cygnus X remade that as "The Orange Theme".
• Andrea Bocelli's "Con te partiró" has a speedy trance remake as "I Will Fly With You" (not to be confused with the Gigi d'Agostino song) by Revolution.
• Art of Trance remade Erik Satie's "Gymnopedie No. 1" as "Panorama".

Country

• "Hampsterdance" was the result of speeding up and looping a section of Roger Miller's "Whistle Stop". Technically, the techno mix was made after that.
  • Also by Hampton the Hampster is "The Birdie Song", a techno version of "The Chicken Dance".
• DJ Speedo feat. Angelica - "There You'll Be", a eurospeed/eurobeat cover of the Faith Hill song. Lyrical Dissonance, of course.

Dance

• Dune did a happy hardcore remix/cover of Rozalla's "Are You Ready to Fly". Although not quite as speedy as the former (but faster than the original), Blümchen did a loose German cover of "Everybody's Free" titled "Ich bin wieder Hier", and Richard "Humpty" Vission remade EF with Rozalla herself in 2000.
• Leland Jazz Radburn - "Never Gonna Give You Up"(!)
  • The same label, Disko Warp, also did a happy hardcore remake of Ke$ha's "Tik Tok".
  • Sevdaliza's "Nothing Lasts Forever" is already pretty speedy, but the KI/KI remix turns into a Trance jam.

Disco

• The TIME Eurobeat label did this with many of their old Italo-disco songs. For example, "Perfect Time" by Rose and its 2007 remake.
  • Asia Records/SAIFAM also did this with several old songs, eg FCF - "Bad Desire" => FCF - "A New Bad Desire", and Mike Hammer - "Divine" => Mark Foster - "Kiss Me Divine".
• Coo Coo - "Upside Down (Hyper Euro Mix)", which got sped up even further by Y & Co.
• ABBA: "Lay All Your Love on Me", remade by Sylver, and "Mamma Mia", remade by Veronica.
• The Nolan Sisters' "I'm In The Mood for Dancing" received a Eurobeat remix by Ventura (under the artist name Sharon, though the original vocals are still used) for Dancemania Happy Paradise Vol. 2, which was licensed in DDRMAX and DDR Extreme.

Electronic

• Grimes released a "Nightcore" remix of her song "We Appreciate Power," complete with the pitched up vocals. The Remix Album Miss Anthropocene: Rave Edition turns nearly every song on Miss Anthropocene into this.

Eurobeat

• King Kong & D Jungle Girls - "Boom Boom Dollar: Red Monster 2000 Mix" and "KOG G3 Mix".
• The Hi-NRG Attack label did a number of techno remixes of their old-school material.

Eurodance

• "Caramelldansen" is techno, but not speedy. Then we have the Speedycake Remix. It also makes their voices go higher, which is very common in this trope.
  • The remix also spawned the Caramelldansen Vid meme.
  • An Ascended Meme as they released a music video doing the "Caramelldansen" dance to the Speedycake remix with the Japanese mondegreens.
• "Cartoon Heroes" by Aqua, and the speedy mix.
• "Baby Boy" by Me & My, the sped up version was given a similar treatment to "Under My Skin" and "Caramelldansen": the "Pappara". The original remake depicts a scene from the opening of Galaxy Angel Rune.
• Everything by Lia seems to be remixed. Even "Tori no Uta". We are not kidding.
  • The awkwardness of Ana (Teranoid and MC Natsack Remix) has to be noted.
• Smile.dk: Butterfly (Upswing mix) and Boys (Euro mix)
• Netzwerk - "Memories", remixed by Scott Brown.

Folk

• Modo - "Eins Zwei Polizei", a techno rendition of a German counting rhyme.
• Basshunter sped up Loituma's version of "Ievan Polkka" and the result is well liked among leekspinners.
• Oscillator X did this with "London Bridge", In the Style of Basshunter.
• The Irish folk song "She Moved through the Fair" was remade as "Part of Me" by Solarstone featuring Elizabeth Fields.
• Scooter's "How Much is the Fish?" is a remake of the Breton folk song "Son ar Chistr (Song of Cider)". Likewise, "I'm Raving" is this for "Scotland the Brave".
• La Bouche's version of the Christmas standard "Do You Hear What I Hear?".
• Book of Love did a techno-pop version of "We Three Kings".

Funk

• "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" by Daft Punk uses a sped up version of "Cola Bottle Baby" for its sample. Kanye West then reversed it by slowing it down and remixing it as a hip-hop song. Impressively, all three are actually pretty good.

Hard Rock

• Eurobeat artist Niko, of "Night of Fire" fame, covered Bon Jovi's "Livin' on a Prayer" and "It's My Life".
• Cherry (aka Clara Moroni aka Leslie Parrish etc.) did a speedy Eurobeat remake of Billy Idol's "Rebel Yell".

Heavy Metal

• Zany & MC DV8 - "Nothing Else Matters" is a speedy techno hardstyle cover of Metallica's Black Sheep Hit of the same name.
• Elisa's Eurobeat cover of Alice Cooper's "Poison".
• Apoptygma Berzerk, during their Futurepop phase, covered Metallica's "Fade To Black".

Jazz

• Venetian Snares - "Öngyilkos Vasárnap", originally "Gloomy Sunday", the Hungarian suicide song.
• Cutoff - "Summertime", a remake of the George Gershwin lullaby.
• Elvis Presley's "Can't Help Falling in Love with You" was remade as "Tekkno Wonderland" by Zoëë, which in turn got an even faster bootleg remix by Ravers Choice, perhaps the Ur-Example of Nightcore.

Industrial Metal

• Marilyn Manson - Almost every single contains at least one, if not several, sometimes only on some nations' editions. It started with the I Don't Like The Drugs (But The Drugs Like Me) single's remixes, and just sort of exploded from there. With Slo-Mo-Tion he seems to have finally have gotten bored with these... in favor of speedier dubstep remixes.

New Wave

• Eurobeat artist/producer David Dima covered Duran Duran's ballad "Save a Prayer".
  • The trance group Aurora covered "Ordinary World".
• Happy hardcore remake of Nena's "99 (Red) Balloons". Blümchen/Blossom also covered "Nur ger Traumt(Just a Dream)" in both German and English.
• There have been several of these of Real Life's "Send Me an Angel", such as this one by Mythos 'n DJ Cosmo.
• Plastic Noise Experience covered Bronski Beat's "Smalltown Boy" in this style.
• Information Society sped up Devo's Beautiful World and added chiptune elements.
• Tears for Fears' "Shout" has a trance remix/remake by Sagittaire.
• Alphaville's 1984 ballad "Forever Young" has several of these, including a Eurodance version by DJ Company, and a happy hardcore version by Interactive.
• Pete Shelley's "Telephone Operator" has the Tony Castle Mobile Mix, licensed in DanceDanceRevolution 4th Mix and DDR Extreme.
• Peter Schilling's "Major Tom (Coming Home)" got a techno remake in 1994, both in German and English.
• A Flock of Seagulls' Greatest Hits Remixed is an entire album full of techno remakes of their classic (and not-so-classic) songs.
• Euro-trance duo Novaspace did this for Ultravox's "Dancing With Tears in My Eyes", Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time", Midnight Oil's "Beds Are Burning", and The Police's "So Lonely".
• German techno group Music Instructor remade Ultravox's "Hymn".

Pop

• "Caipirinha" by Carinho is sped up and turned into a "Caipirinha Dance" with a certain Genki Girl from Azumanga Daioh. By the way, caipirinha is the national drink of Brazil.
• Ska band Reel Big Fish did a cover of "Gigantic" by The Pixies In the Style of euro-techno.
• O-Zone - "Dragostea Din Tei (Eurobeat Remix)"
• Newton - "Sky High (Euro-Type Mix)" (adds to the Lyrical Dissonance), itself a cover of the Jigsaw song. There's also a speedy remix of DJ Miko's version.
• Prodigal Son - "Stalk Her", a smashing remix of Dido's "All You Want".
• DHT - "Listen To Your Heart (Furious F-EZ mix)" (cover of Roxette)
• Kelly Clarkson - "Behind These Hazel Eyes": Speedbreaker Remix and Lost in Paradise Euro Mix.
• Roberto Rossini - "That's Amore"
• Eurobeat Lovers - "Yozora no Muko (Over the Time)", a Gratuitous English Translated Cover Version of the Suga Shikao/SMAP song. By the same guys who covered Hot Limit.
• Madonna - "What It Feels Like for a Girl (Above & Beyond remix)", this is also the version used in the controversial music video.
• Jesse McCartney's "Because You Live" was covered as Eurobeat by Milky MC (Cristian De Leo).
• Arguably, John Desire's cover of the notorious "Hot Limit" (a.k.a "We Drink Ritalin") qualifies. The original by T.M. Revolution (the same T.M. Revolution in this Engrish poster) is a tad slower. As a reminder, this is how John Desire's version of the song sounds like in DDR 5th Mix.
  • And apparently before that, High and Mighty Color's cover.
• Nicky French's 1994 cover of Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart" isn't necessarily speedy itself, but it later had a Eurobeat remix.
• The Olsen Brothers' "Fly on the Wings of Love", winner of Eurovision Song Contest 2000, was remade by XTM.
• Ricky Martin - "She's All I Ever Had (Pablo Flores remix)". Not speedy by any means, but much faster than the original, which was a glacial power ballad.
• Jordin Sparks - One Step at a Time (Phaze 2 remix)
• Genki Rockets - Heavenly Star (Reizxxx Trance Mix)
• The bubblegum Eurodance group Cartoons covered David Seville's "Witch Doctor", then sped it up further with the "Giant Toons Mix", featured in the DanceDanceRevolution series.
• Statement of Power's "All I Want For X-Mas" is a happy hardcore remix of Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You".
• Rebecca Black released an official one for Friday on its tenth anniversary, featuring 3OH!3, Dorian Electra, and Big Freedia.
• Dusty Springfield's "I Only Want To Be With You" has many of these, e.g. Samantha Fox's 1989 Hi-NRG version and Jenny ROM's 2012 Eurobeat version.
• Canadian Eurodance project Outta Control covered Joan Osborne's "One Of Us" and Moroder & Oakey's "Together in Electric Dreams", as well as "Sinful Wishes" from Barry Harris's previous band, Kon Kan.
• Taylor Dayne's "Tell It To My Heart" has a Eurobeat remix by DJ SKYR 3 SH.

Punk

• Refused's song "New Noise" and the remix.

R & B

• t.A.T.u. - "All Things She Said"
• Michael Jackson - "One More Chance (DnB remix)"
• Music/070Shake's "Nice To Have" was remixed by Fred Again, renamed "Danielle (smile on my face)" after 070 Shake's real name.
• Trie Oh Fie's remix of Kelela's "Waitin."

Rap

• Eminem:
  • Eminem meets Dillinja
  • "Lose Yourself (DnB remix)" (or this one)
  • Do you remember Eminem's line "nobody listens to Techno" in "Without Me"? Then pick a group of club house artists making fun of his song after this line.
• Eric B. & Rakim - "I Know You Got Soul (Drum & Bass remake)"
• Babelcolour presents: The Babelcolour Rap- which remixes Eminem’s "Without Me" with "Yakety Sax", resulting in a mix with the lyrics of the former set to the pacing of the latter. ^note And to top it off, it’s set to the worst Special Effects Failure scenes of Doctor Who

Reggae

• Benny Benassi meets Sean Paul
• Sean Paul - "Get Busy (DnB remix)"

Rock

• Scooter - "Ramp! (The Logical Song)", originally by Supertramp.
• 2 Brothers on the 4th Floor - "There's a Key" uses the tune of Aphrodite's Child - "Rain & Tears".
• P!nk's "Sober" has one of these, which is kind of missing the point: The song is about a woman regretting and/or giving up her party girl lifestyle (or dying; the lyrics can be read either way), so you make a techno dance remix of it?
• Eurodance group Kandystand did this with The Cult's "(She Sells) Sanctuary" (with somewhat creepy vocoder vocals), Heart's "Alone", Phil Oakey's "(Together in) Electric Dreams", and Sonny Charles & The Checkmates' "Black Pearl". They also covered Gary Moore's "Empty Rooms", although it's quite a bit slower than the previous examples.
• Mindless Self Indulgence's cover of Rush's "Tom Sawyer" definitely qualifies
• The Frozen Autumn's "This Time(Electro Mix)" is about 15 bpm faster than the original version.
• The aforementioned Vanessa-Mae sped up It's a Beautiful Day's "White Bird", and in turn, her version was remixed by the trance duo Airscape.
• Cursor Miner remade Van Halen's "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love".
• German trance group York did this with Chris Rea's 1986 hit "On The Beach".

Soundtrack - Anime & Manga

• A disco version of the Space Battleship Yamato theme was actually used in the show itself.
• Then there's the high-speed version of the Lupin III theme in DanceDanceRevolution 4th Mix. Remix, original
• Two words: EXIT TRANCE. If you thought the Lyrical Dissonance in "Komm, Susser Tod" couldn't get any thicker, you haven't heard the remix (just search for it on youtube).
  • EXIT TRANCE also has a habit of turning songs into Awesome Music. Their epic remixes of "Naraku no Hana", the aforementioned "Komm, Susser Tod", "Lilium", "RESONANCE", and "Triangler" are arguably better than the originals.
  • Additional awesome remixes are "World End", "Only My Railgun", "PSI-missing" and yes, even Space Battleship Yamato.
• Another very cheerful Komm, süsser Tod remix: the Happy L.C.L. Mix
• "Cat's Eye" by E-Rotic is a Eurodance cover of the Theme Tune of a little-known anime series of the same name (here's the original version). There's also the faster "Ventura Mix" featured in DanceDanceRevolution.
• As if the original Hajimete no Chuu (First Kiss) from the anime Kiteretsu Daihyakka wasn't catchy enough, it received a Para Para Remix (essentially an Eurodance cover meant to be danced to said dance style) by, according to Youtube, Sore with Dohkies. Aside from that, it also received a sped-up punk-rock cover (and translated into English no less) by Hi-Standard. And then there's a straight-up techno remix.

Soundtrack - Films — Live-Action

• This has its roots in disco, with the Star Wars disco song.
  • Laserdance did a space-synth/techno rendition titled "War Between The Stars" on their appropriately named Laserdance Strikes Back album, which also includes a remake of the Love Theme from Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet (1968) titled "Voyage of Discovery"
  • Disco versions of classical music were quite popular. See a fifth of Beethoven and "Hooked On Classics".
  • The band Stars On 45 made their entire career out of covers of mostly non-disco songs set to a disco beat, all strung together in a medley like a non-funny version of Weird Al's polka medleys. (That's why the first one he did was called "Polkas on 45").
    • Their cover of Gordon Lightfoot's "If You Could Read My Mind" actually topped the charts in Asia.
    • Parodied by Ivor Biggun in "Bras On 45", which adds plenty of boobs to the medley.
  • Celldweller produced a dubstep cover of the Imperial March, and Klayton's synthwave project Scandroid did this for the Force theme.
• "Lux Aeterna", remixed by Sauekid and Tactix
• M-A-G-I-K-A featuring Stixman - "Flashdance (What A Feeling)", remake of the titular song from the movie, featured in DanceDanceRevolution: 3rd Mix.
• Mythos & DJ Cosmo - "Heart of the Ocean", a trance remix of the Titanic (1997) theme. And there are many remixes of "My Heart Will Go On", such as this Eurobeat version.
• Headhunterz - "Last of the Mohicanz" is a hardstyle re-arrange of the Last of the Mohicans main theme.
• DJ Tiesto's remix of the Pirates of the Caribbean theme.
• Ryuichi Sakamoto's theme song to Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence has had at least two. The first being a trance version by Watergate entitled "Heart of Asia" released in 1999. In 2007, UK hardcore artists Brisk and Vagabond collaborated with Japanese hardcore artist Uraken to produce an even speedier rework of the Watergate version entitled "Tokyo Rush".
  • Watergate also did trance covers of "Chi Mai" by Ennio Morricone, and "Mull of Kintyre" by WINGS (retitled "The Battle").
• The Eurobeat Disney remakes of songs from Disney films, many of which were featured in DanceDanceRevolution: Disney Mix, such as Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious from Mary Poppins. While the game did not receive any sequels, there are actually around 5 or so Disney Eurobeat CD releases with one special release centered around Winnie the Pooh.
• Terminator theme trance remix
• DJ Sakin & Friends - "Protect Your Mind" (Braveheart theme remix)
• One of DHT's early songs, "Magic Melody", is a remake of "Come Little Children" from Hocus Pocus.
• "Arrival To Earth" from the Michael Bay Transformers Film Series has dozens of techno remixes, such as those by DJ O2Pac, Submergence, and Tranzero.
• Solarstone's "Solarcoaster" is a trance remake of Withnail and I's main theme.
• Marusha did this with "(Somewhere) Over the Rainbow" from The Wizard of Oz.
  • Me First and The Gimme Gimmes meanwhile made a punk rock cover of said song.
• While still on the topic of Rainbows and Me First and The Gimme Gimmes, they also produced a punk rock cover of The Rainbow Connection
• Idina Menzel's "Let it Go" from Frozen has a Eurobeat remix, a trance remix by JayB, and a dubstep remix by The Living Tombstone. There's also a mashup of Demi Lovato's version with the similar-sounding Eurobeat song "Ari Oh" by Jenny Kee.
• The Little Mermaid: "Under the Sea" (DJ TiezkOz remix).
• The Jaws theme was remade as "Der weisse Hai" by Out of the Ordinary.
• The Oompa Loompa song from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory has one by Robbie Tronco.
• There are least two hard trance remakes of the Halloween theme: one by Da Boy Tommy, the other by Dj RAVE (commonly mislabeled as Mars & Mystre).
• The Olivia Project remade the title song of Xanadu, originally performed by Olivia Newton-John and Electric Light Orchestra, as a hi-energy Eurodance anthem.
• 1492: Conquest of Paradise, scored by Vangelis, has at least two notable examples:
  • Blue Nature's "Return To Paradise" is a vocal trance remake of the title theme.
  • "Tenshi" by Gouryella, the then-duo of Ferry Corsten and DJ Tiësto, is an uncredited adaptation of "Light And Shadow".

Soundtrack - Live-Action TV

• Amazingly enough, the German band CosMix did this to Sesame Street. See for yourself. There are also other remixes, but they're all but impossible to find without actually buying the CD.
  • Rubber Ducky (German Techno Remix), probably from said band, became popular worldwide due to Memetic Mutation in the early 2000s.
  • And from the UK: "Sesame's Treet" by Smart E's. Believe it or not, this reached #2 in the UK singles chart in 1992.
  • The pinball "12" sequence got a breakcore rework by none other than Venetian Snares, Amen break and all. Enjoy.
• "It's Nannerpuss!"
• This remix of the CASUAL+Y theme.
• DJ Dado remixed The X-Files theme In the Style of Robert Miles' "Children".
• Ramin Djawadi's themes to Prison Break and Game of Thrones were remixed by Ferry Corsten and Armin Van Buuren, respectively.
• DJ Sakin & Friends' "Nomansland (David's Song)" is a trance remake of the main theme from the 1978 miniseries adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped(not to be confused with the 2006 series of the same name).
• Axel Force produced a rave version of the Mission: Impossible theme. The 1996 film's arrangement of the theme likewise has a speedy techno remix by Junior Vasquez.
• A proto-example is Patrick Cowley's 1981 hi-NRG take on the theme from Sea Hunt (1958).

Soundtrack - Theatre

• "Let The Sun Shine" by Alec Empire.
• The Pet Shop Boys did a Euro-trance cover of "Somewhere" from West Side Story.
• "Alegria" by Jonatan F. is a trance remix of the title song from the Cirque du Soleil show of the same name. Delirium also had a house version titled "La Nova Alegria".

Soundtrack - Video Games

• One of the most famous takes on this trope would be adaptation of the "Bandit Radio Song" from S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Clear Sky into the infamous "Cheeki Breeki Hardbass Anthem". Doubles into Parody Displacement territory as well, since a whole lot of people (even those who have never played the game) recognize the latter song more, due to being heavily associated with the Gopnik culture.
• In Super Smash Bros.. Brawl, "Tal Tal Heights" from The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening and the Star Fox 64 main theme got turned into speedy techno. The Stickerbush Symphony remix borders on this too.
  • Those videos have been removed, but Yusuke Takahama arranged the first two, and "Stickerbush Symphony" is called "Bramble Blast" in Brawl, arranged by Michiko Naruke.
• "Still Alive", the Theme Song for Portal, was remixed like this about five times over.
  • Same goes for the other "Still Alive", from Mirror's Edge.
• "Never Surrender" by Nile Rodgers & Nataraj, a techno remix of the Halo theme. Halo: Reach even has a techno version of the Easter Egg song "Siege of Madrigal", heard at Club Errera in New Alexandria after hitting a switch on the roof.
• Longcat's song is actually a sped-up remix of Shii's song, which itself is a pitch-shifted version of "The Boat Song, aka Wind Nocturne", from Lunar: Silver Star Story.
• In Final Fantasy XIII, "The Sunleth Waterscape" is a speedy techno remake of the game's main leitmotif tune with happy upbeat lyrics slapped on.
  • Then there's the numerous Chocobo ride themes, one of the two recurring tunes spanning the series. Final Fantasy VI has a techno remix of the tune, but it isn't speedy. Final Fantasy VII onwards has at least one chocobo tune that's a sped-up remix of the base chocobo tune.
  • The Dissidia Final Fantasy soundtrack is a trance remix of Final Fantasy IX's battle theme.
• Final Fantasy XIII-2 features "Aggressive Mixes" that cross-fade from the environments' original background music when monsters show up to attack Serah and Noel. Most of them simply increase tempo, but a number offer substantial variation. "Plains of Eternity" loses its vocals and re-synthesizes the violin with slight distortion effects while "Augusta Tower" ditches the ambient sounds altogether for a classical speed-up and synth drum background. That said, given how quickly battles start from the monsters' first appearance, players rarely hear all of these changes.
• There are quite a few of "Korobeiniki" from Tetris, including Doctor Spin's "Tetris", Lesi Ortestral's "Vodka Fisa", and Basshunter's "Plane to Spain".
• The songs in Super Robot Wars Judgment are about twice as fast as the originals, making in several cases for more fitting battle music.
• The main theme from Twinbee was remixed as "Twinbee (Generation X)" in beatmania III and DanceDanceRevolution.
  • Likewise, "Burning Heat" from Gradius II got this treatment as the "Full Option Mix" in beatmania IIDX, and the "3 Option Mix" in DanceDanceRevolution Extreme.
• The theme for the first two Bowser levels in Super Mario Galaxy is actually a trance remix of "Road to Bowser" from Super Mario 64.
• Johan Agebjorn did a remix medley of Mega Man II's title and Wily Stage 1&2 themes.
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2: "Airport Stalk (drum & bass remix)"
• A-One's Toho Eurobeat series consists of Eurobeat remakes of songs from the Touhou Project games. Some of the songs feature vocals by the below-mentioned Odyssey, who also produced his own remakes of "Septette For The Dead Princess"(as "Chained Lady"), "Necrofantasia"(as "Deadly Fantasy"), and Marisa's Theme (as "Magical Girl").
• I. M. Meen: The title theme has been remixed with Furries in a Blender's Crazy by one CommanderGwowam. The end result? I. M. Crazy, a speedy techno remix combining the lyrics of the former with the pacing of the latter.
• Mass Effect 3: "An End Once and For All" dubstep remix by Cypherix 93.
• Along with Zombie Nation's well-known "Kernkraft 400", there are many speedy techno remixes of the music from Lazy Jones, such as Instant Remedy's trance megamix.
• Contra series:
  • In Contra: Hard Corps, "Simon 1994RD" is a hardcore techno remake of "Vampire Killer" from fellow Konami series Castlevania.
  • The first game's Stage 1 theme got a techno update in Contra: Shattered Soldier.
• In Perfect Dark, each mission's BGM has a sped-up "X" remix heard during urgent situations.
• Mando Pony did this for the first Splatoons final boss theme, which in turn got the "nightcore" treatment.
• Doujinshi artist nijeil produced an album of Ninja Gaiden speedy techno remixes titled Ninja Gaiden: Steel Dragon/Beat Blade. His arrangement of "Ryu's Determination" is the most awesome among these.
• Metroid Prime uses a faster techno arrangement of Ridley's theme from Super Metroid for the Meta-Ridley boss fight.
• Synesthesics, previously known as Mellow Sonic, has an album titled Need for Speed Reloaded, consisting of Speedy Techno Remakes in many songs that are already Speedy Techno by default. The result? A Speedy Techno Remake with the top speed of a McLaren F1, that's what!
• Mitch Murder did a synthwave remake of the Space Harrier theme.

Soundtrack - Web Original

• There's at least one of these of The Angry Video Game Nerd's theme song.

Soundtrack - Western Animation

• Happy hardcore remix of the Heffalumps and Woozles song from Winnie the Pooh. By the same guy who made the infamous Cillit Bang! remix
  • Information Society and Ayria likewise produced a hardstyle cover of "Heffalumps and Woozles", featured on the former's Cover Album Orders or Magnitude.
  • Tomosuke/U1-Asami: "It's A Small World (Ducking Hardcore Mix)" from DanceDanceRevolution Disney's Mix qualifies.
  • JAKAZiD has also made remixes of the theme from Doctor Who and "Toki o Kizamu Uta" from CLANNAD among many other things.
  • Possibly this remix of the Pink Elephants song (part of Disneyland's Fantasmic! stage show).
• Adventures of the Gummi Bears became "Gelatin Crusaders".
• Speedy Techno Remakes of music from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic has been made by an artist known as Eurobeat Brony (also known as Odyssey and Ken Blast - he appeared on Super Eurobeat as Ken Blast). A YouTube user known as Fluttershy Elsa takes these remakes and adds the show's vocals on top of them. "Call Upon the Seaponies"(from the G1 series), "Art of the Dress", "Winter Wrap Up", "At the Gala" and tonnes more.
  • Furthermore, Delta Brony's Super Ponybeat Ultimate Cross album mixes Eurobeat Brony's MLP arrangements with tunes from video games.
  • DJ Gestap did an awesome trance remix of "Celestia's Ballad" from the Season 3 finale. There's also a more speedy drum & bass remix by Aftermath.
  • Foozogz, AKA PepperBrony, has done happy hardcore remixes of many of the show songs, including "Smile", "Find a Pet", "Love is In Bloom", "Make a Wish", "Celestia's Ballad", and "Hearts Strong as Horses".
  • "You'll Play Your Part": Hydra remix and µThunder remix.
• The theme for The Flintstones was remade as "Fred Gabberstein Loves Wilma" by ASSI.
• The Squirrel of Life, created by Andrew Kepple for a Valentines Day fanimutation in 2005, is a noticeably sped up version of The Circle Of Life mashed up with a sample of Frank van der Plas (as Ome Henk) chanting in Opblaaskrokodil and a beautiful piano improv by Kepple himself.

Trance

• "Under My Skin" by a project known as Paffendorf is sped up to create the Paffendorf series, affectionately called the "Paffendorf Dance" or the further evolved version. The dancing girl is Momoko and the main cast from Lucky Star respectively.
• While not inherently this, some of the more famous Nightcore artists do choose to add techno elements and slightly heavier bass to some of their remixes. The style itself focuses on speeding up a song and including a higher pitch, but not (as a rule) as high as "Chipmunk-ing". What delineates this for most outsiders is the faster speed, bringing the style back around to this trope.
• The chillout tune "Silence" by Delerium f/ Sarah MacLachlan was given the speed-up treatment at least three times; by Airscape, DJ Tiesto, and later Above & Beyond.

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