Disco
Dance Music Streams
Listening to radio streams of the latest music is a great way to discover new songs and artists. Unfortunately, it can sometimes be a little difficult to figure out the name of a song in a big stream, particularly when there is no compere involved.
Well, to solve that problem, I recently came across a site that streams radio stations from around the world AND provides a full listing of all the tracks – it’s called 3FL Radio.
The section I am most interested in at the moment is the list of Digitally Imported streams. Digitally Imported is a site that streams electronic dance radio music from around the world. It has different streams for different styles, which makes it great for both getting to know a style and for listening to what’s currently happening with a particular style. Some of their streams include:
- Breaks
- Chillout
- DJ Mixes
- Drum and Bass
- Electro House
- Eurodance
- Funky House
- Goa Psy Trance
- Hardcore
- Hard Dance
- Hardstyle
- House
- Lounge
- Minimal
- Progressive
- Trance
- Tribal House
- Vocal Trance
Conversion through Remix
One way alot of people seem to get in to electronic music is through hearing dance remixes of songs they already like. I remember aaaages ago when Shanks and Bigfoot brought out their infamous ‘Sweet Like Chocolate’. One of my friends had bought the single and had it at a party.
Ofcourse, Track 1 got played over and over (insanity of youth, I know), but at one stage someone let the CD keep playing and all the remix versions started up. It was great. At this stage in life, not alot of my friends were familiar with dance music, and some found it a little intimidating. As far as they were aware, dance music was just loud doof-doof, whistles and disconcerting chipmunk-sounding vocals.
It was this sort of remix that moved dance music in to their (and my) domain, and allowed them to get to know (and in most cases, love) the different styles of it. Remixes gave them the music they already loved, recognised and felt comfortable with. They didn’t have to move completely out of their comfort zone to get a little taste.
So next time you come across someone who would really benefit from getting to know a particular style, but they’re having trouble seeing the light, maybe work them around with a couple of remixes. It’s worked for me.
Track details: Shanks & Bigfoot– Sweet Like Chocolate (Ruff Driverz Vocal)
If you like that, have a listen to: Ruff Driverz – Shame
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Has anyone else born in the late ’70s-early 80s experienced random flashback feelings while listening to any of the new stuff by Simian Mobile Disco? Particularly stuff from their “Attack Decay Sustain Release” album?
A few days ago I heard “I Believe” on the radio. I felt like I was listening to Heaven 17 mixed with Kajagoogoo, with a slightly more dancey feel. I suddenly had flashbacks of sitting in the back of my parent’s car with my white Sony walkman (I was so freakin’ cool), clicking STOP, REWIND, PLAY over and over again just so I could listen to my favourite song at the time repeatedly (this was before I learnt how to record the same song over and over again on to one tape).
Yesterday I was driving along, had the radio going (forgot to put CDs back in after cleaning it out) and next thing I know… “down down baby down down the rollercoaster sweet sweet baby I’ll never let you go…!” I remember playing that game in primary school! It was so cool.
Anyway, talk about retro revival! It was like this group was playing out my childhood. This album definately had their target audience in mind. I’d be interested to see the demographics of people who buy this album.
Grandma grandma, sick in bed! Called the doctor and the doctor said!
Let’s get the rhythm of the head Ding-Dong! Let’s get the rhythm of the head Ding-Dong!
Let’s get the rhythm of the hands Clap-Clap! Let’s get the rhythm of the hands Clap-Clap!
Let’s get the rhythm of the feet Stamp-Stamp! Let’s get the rhythm of the feet Stamp-Stamp!
Let’s get the rhythm of the Hoootdog! Let’s get the rhythm of the Hoootdog!
Put ’em all together and what do you get?!?!
DING-DONG CLAP-CLAP STAMP-STAMP HOOOT-DOG!
Track details: Simian Mobile Disco – I Believe
Simian Mobile Disco – Hotdog
Electronic Music Genre UPDATE 2
Just quickly letting you know that I have updated a few of the ‘Electronic Music Genre‘ pages, namely Ambient, Breakbeat, Disco, Downtempo, Electro, Electronic Art Music, Hardcore and House.
Some of the information on these pages is very brief, but I will be updating everything continuously. In the mean time, continue to check out all the related blog posts.
The rest of the genres will be covered shortly, so don’t forget to check up regularly!
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Kickin' back with Kate 