I don't think anyone was suggesting you CAN'T dance to the song in the OP, just saying the reason it wasn't a success at a dance party is because it's not the kind of music many people like to dance to these days.
It's true, you can dance to almost almost any tune that has a well defined rhythm, and one that's not too odd like"Apocalypse in 9/8". I imagine you could devise a dance to Dave Brubeck's "Take Five". Youu might find it a challenge, though, to try and dance to this.
Do you realize that everything that you mentioned in the list above is some form of electronica or loop/sample computer generated music?......
Its also possible that Americans and Non-Euros have a wider scope than Europeans about what constitutes a modern dance-groove and dont want to be pigeon-holed in a smaller (electronica-only) box.
For modern dance, perhaps Americans and non-Euros are a little more flexible in that regard
Last edited by klothos; 05-04-2014 at 01:49 PM.
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Hmmm... but americans started the whole dance music genre. Chicago house and Detroit techno, in the mid-80s, few years before the europeans. The reason this stuff didn't become more popular over there, was that it was centered around the gay scene. It was the UK youth that turned these sounds completely mental.
I think that the pivotal piece that predated and revolutionised the whole dance scene was New Order's "Blue Monday". And the introduction of MDMA of course as the hedonistic drug of choise...
Dancing is to my knowledge something you do with your body, usually to music.
Any kind of music. Classical (walz, ballet) to african drum music to ...whatever. Look at the audience at Woodstock.
How can Dance music be a musical style?
Kids can dance to anything.
er....tell me which one of those in your list have songs whose original conception of the arrangement is from software as opposed from the organic instruments used?.....even most acid-jazz is looped/sampled organic instruments against other loops but written/conceived in a computer, not from the actual instruments used in the sampling
and, yes, I totally understand that we live in the digital cut-n-splice era of recorded music but at least some forms of music have the emphasis on production, not on the actual writing/arranging of the song
Like I said, Americans and non-Euros just aren't as fickle about what constitutes modern dance music....
+1
Still waiting for someone to post something by Bach, or some other baroque dance suite, as an example of “dance music”
Latter-day “electronic dance” music is horrid. It peaked with “Supernature,” end of story:
Confirmed Bachelors: the dramedy hit of 1883...
Well....there are actually many styles of dance music, because there are many styles of dance. An expert at west coast swing will be spectacularly and utterly lost attempting zouk or kizomba...and a salsa dance is going to have some challenges with club music, to put it mildly. Ballroom is going to be awkward in just about any setting OTHER than a ballroom, heh.
Someone mentioned The End by the Doors...this is dancing in a very, very, VERY loose sense. It was a shiatton of drugs and the semi-voluntary movement of the body. I see the same thing nowadays at some jam band concerts. As a pure form of spontaneous personal expression...
Younger folks nowadays prefer club music; that has particular beats and speeds and isn't necessarily going to be something highly open to creative liberty where the beat is concerned (what happens above the beat however, can be quite interersting...The Field and some stuff from Villalobos come to mind immediately).
I love some of this stuff. Lindstrom has a fantastic album called 'Where You Go I Go Too' that has a 20 minute workout that sounds like the Ozrics covering Miami Vice. More recently Todd Terje did a great, silly one called It's Album Time that has a pretty impressive spectrum of grooves, including a spectacular 80's synth-disco bit called Delorean Dynamite.
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