Word: dancefloor
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...song behind this video is pretty unambitious work from the Chemical Brothers. Amidst the din of motorized clanks and whirs, they strive for a danceable melody but botch it, the acute beats skillfully needling you towards the dancefloor before breaking off prematurely...
...MADONNA. After recently starting riding lessons, she took a nasty tumble off an unfamiliar horse on Aug. 16, cracking three ribs and breaking a collarbone and a hand. Now recuperating at her country home outside London, plucky Madge still plans to release her new album, Confessions on a Dancefloor, on schedule in November, but she just may have to stick to low-impact clubbing for a while...
...sant?” she responded immediately in Swedish. I couldn’t believe my ears. An attractive girl I could actually communicate with (thank God for Swedish A), who moreover sought me out from the crowded dancefloor, without my dropping the H-Bomb! We started a thirty-minute-long conversation in Swedish right there in the middle of the dancefloor...
...find kindred spirits in DJ mixes and twelve-inch singles as opposed to albums nowadays; because I treat music like food. Here the commodities really are commodities; they’re not commodities selling themselves as art. Paradoxically, they’re not inert; far from it—dancefloor music is alive, forces you to listen with more than your ears. What corner you inhabit depends on how you feel. Why else would U.K. grime artists like Dizzee Rascal and Wiley Kat have come up with the inhuman beats they rhyme over? They grew up listening to breakbeat hardcore...
Even when Vladislav Delay was known for his obtuse abstractions on the Mille Plateaux label rather than his dancefloor-tinged output as Luomo, the influence of techno and house rhythms on his productions was clear. It was his debut Luomo album, Vocalcity, which perfected the marriage of experimentation and functionality, becoming an icon of the nascent subgenre known as “microhouse.” Tracks like “Tessio” and “Class” were radically insular for house music. Instead of satisfying that genre’s anthemic impulse, they called attention...