B-Dash refers to a move in the Mario Bros. series of Nintendo video games, where you press the 'B' button to make one of the brothers run (or dash) across the screen. I hadn't heard this term before coming to Japan, but I'm not an ardent game-player, so it may be familiar to some folks in the west too.
This move has been immortalized by a Japanese music group called Tongari Kids (トンガリ キッズ) in their appropriately-titled song B-Dash. The song is light, rappy electronica, and contains a constantly repeating portion of the Mario Bros. theme song, which may either please you or severely annoy you.
If you can find the CD (it's a single with two songs; well, actually four, but two are karaoke versions of the other two), at least give it a listen in the store if you're able too. Or if you can find a preview on the web, make sure you're able to listen to more than the introduction, as it doesn't properly foreshadow the rest of the song.
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