The History Of The Modern Dance Movement

Be prepared for the larget collection dance tunes on the web as we drop the hisotry, the largest, biggest and most innovate dance tracks and anthems of the last 20 years. Starting with the early years in the 80's and going into the new millenium, you'll find 20 years of Dance Music History.

1980-1985 The Electro Years

THe early and mid 1980's was the time period in between Disco and the House/Techno scene when New York's electro hip-hop scene was in full flourish in clubs across the world. The genre which suffered a slow death towards the end of the decade seems to be reviving in a retro form over the last year or two with some of the period's most influential tracks being sampled as well as the reapperance of some of the biggest songs as '98 and '99 remixes. Here's some of the tracks which defined this era in club culture.

Freestlye - "Don't Stop The Rock" 1984
Rock Master Scott - "The Roof Is On Fire" The Original Version from 1985
Cybotron - "Clear" Juan Atkin's Classic 1983 Track
Newcleus - "Jam On It" 1984
"Al Naafiysh (The Soul)" 1983
Omar Santana - "Hip Hop Be Bop" 1984

1986

1986 saw the dawn of a new era- House Music was born in Chicago - with the first exposure coming via the way of Chicago warehous parties from which the genre got it's name. Tracks from teh likes of Marshall Jefferson, Mr. Fingers, Farley Jackmater Funk and Larry Heard became instatn classics as the real magic was about to unfold in a land far far way..... from Chicago. The music had quickly developed around the Windy City in the mid 80's and soon found itself in the Spanish isalnd of Ibiza. It was here during teh summer of '86 that a few British DJ's on holiday came to the island. They had been hrer before but this time things were different and they knew it. They had their first encounter with the sound that would launch club culture into tne next centur. On return from their holiday, the DJ's who included such now worlwide names such as Danny Rampling and Paul Oakenfold spread the word around the U.K. and the rest would go down as dance music history.

Mr. Fingers "Can You Feel It"
Marshall Jefferson "Move Your Body"
Farley Jackmaster Funk "Love Can't Turn Around

1987

1987 was the year that house started to boom in teh UK Farley Jackmaster Funk and Steve "Silk" Hurley scored the first house records to go into the UK Top 10 and #1 position respectively and it was also the year that a new form of house started to bubble up in the UK underground- Acid House. Fueled by the sound of the early Chicago classics, and using Mr. Fingers "Can U Feel It" as a bench mark, the music developed throught the year as well as in the small yet burgeoning club scene in Ibiza which was a full year away from explosion. Meawhile back in the US in Detroit, producers who had been through the electro hip-hop days of the early '80s were looking for new forms of music. It was here that producers such as Juan Atkins and Derrick May developed a new form of electro which would thrive just as well as house. What they formed would come to be known as techno.

Rhythm is Rhythm "Strings Of Life"
Phuture "Acid Trax"

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