Song Information[]
Artist: DIXIE'S GANG
Composition: Claude Morgan
Arrangement: Dixie's Gang
Backing Vocals: Dayenna
Album: El Ritmo Tropical (1998)
BPM: 132
Length: 1:31
First Music Game Appearance: Dance Dance Revolution 2ndMIX LINK VERSION
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 Dance Dance Revolution GB.
Trivia[]
- "El ritmo tropical" is Spanish for "the tropical rhythm".
- From Dance Dance Revolution 2ndMIX LINK VERSION to 4thMIX PLUS, EL RITMO TROPICAL was labeled under the Dancemania SUMMERS 2 album.
- While the song would not properly appear until Dance Dance Revolution 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 Dance Dance Revolution 2ndMIX LINK VERSION, EL RITMO TROPICAL's artist was misspelled as DIXIES GANG.
- EL RITMO TROPICAL has unused graphics in the data of Dance Dance Revolution 2ndMIX LINK VERSION and Dance Dance Revolution 2ndMIX with beatmania IIDX CLUB VERSiON.
- An unused Double MANIAC chart for EL RITMO TROPICAL can be found in the Dance Dance Revolution 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 Dance Dance Revolution 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 Dance Dance Revolution GB, EL RITMO TROPICAL runs at 127 BPM.
- On the Dance Dance Revolution 3rdMIX ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK album, EL RITMO TROPICAL's title was changed to EL RITMO TROPICAL (El Bimbo).
Song Production Information[]
Untranslated.
Difficulty & Notecounts[]
Dance Dance Revolution 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.
Dance Dance Revolution[]
| 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 | - / - / - |
| Dance Dance Revolution 2ndMIX LINK VERSION | - | 2 | 6 | 7 | - | 4 | 5 | ⁑N/A | - |
| Dance Dance Revolution 3rdMIX→3rdMIX PLUS | - | 2 | 6 | 7 | - | 4 | 5 | - | - |
| Dancing Stage EuroMIX | ※1 | 2 | 6 | 7 | - | 4 | 5 | 7 | - |
| Dance Dance Revolution 4thMIX→4thMIX PLUS | - | 2 | 6 | 7 | - | 4 | 5 | 7 | - |
| Dance Dance Revolution USA | ※1 | 2 | 6 | 7 | - | 4 | 5 | 7 | - |
| Dance Dance Revolution EXTREME | 1 | 2 | 6 | 7 | - | 4 | 5 | 7 | - |
| Dance Dance Revolution 2ndReMIX | - | 2 | 6 | 7 | - | 4 | 5 | - | - |
| Dance Dance Revolution GB | - | 2 | 6 | 7 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dance Dance Revolution CS NA | ※1 | 2 | 6 | 7 | - | 4 | 5 | 7 | - |
| Dance Dance Revolution Party Collection | 1 | 2 | 6 | 7 | - | 4 | 5 | 7 | - |
| Dance Dance Revolution Classic Mini | - | 2 | 6 | 7 | - | 4 | 5 | - | - |
※ 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).
Dance Dance Revolution Solo[]
| Game | 6 Panels | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | Trick | Maniac | |
| Notecounts | 124 | 198 | 247 |
| Dance Dance Revolution 4thMIX Solo→4thMIX PLUS Solo | 2 | 6 | 7 |