We already know that 99.999% of the Songs of the Summer are about hitting the dancefloor/finding love on the dancefloor/finding yourself on the dancefloor.
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There's nothing like debuting a new move on the dancefloor.
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But it's still music very much made for the dancefloor.
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Does Rih request her own private dancefloor wherever she goes?
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Is there room for that on the dancefloor you think?
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DJ Jacob Husley, and even made it onto the dancefloor.
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The rest is meant to be sorted out the dancefloor.
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Nonetheless, Lawrence has a healthily cautious relationship with dancefloor nostalgia.
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Remixing is more than just a feature on the dancefloor.
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With tribals on their arms, they mowed through the dancefloor.
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So I was making tunes that would work on the dancefloor.
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Which is something we've all thought about on the dancefloor, right?
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I kind of support women doing anything transgressive on a dancefloor.
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The agent's weapon didn't initially discharge when it hit the dancefloor.
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The power of the dancefloor is its promise of total freedom.
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Was there a conscious effort to make something more dancefloor friendly?
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Very quickly, a circle of men had formed on the dancefloor.
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Best Brooklyn dancefloor anthem that people don't know is from Brooklyn?
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Remember, a stranger in life is still a stranger on the dancefloor.
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Meanwhile, the party continues, with plenty of open space on the dancefloor.
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If Frischmann was into the darkness of the dancefloor, that is. 3.
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Listen to just how anthemic "Heartache on the Dancefloor" wants to be!
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I sang Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car" once and completely emptied the dancefloor.
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What role would you say desire and lust, play on the dancefloor?
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The dancefloor provides us with a solid mix of spring break tunes.
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"The Deep End" channels all of these childhood memories to the dancefloor.
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Why was it important to you to inject politics onto the dancefloor?
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The Princess of Pop, the Duchess of the Dancefloor: Britney Jean Spears.
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Here he is, enthusiastically trying to pick people up on the dancefloor.
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A clear favourite passage for the dancefloor, if ever there has been one.
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She throws him from the window of his office, onto the club's dancefloor.
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This article was originally published on THUMP UK. The dancefloor is a mess.
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But the unifying concept is the unmitigated joy that a dancefloor can bring.
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Until the last few years, Nate Young's relationship to the dancefloor was tenuous.
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Das Bunker, meanwhile, has grown into something bigger than any dancefloor can hold.
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No ego bullshit on the dancefloor, but there is an old beauty chair.
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Then it's time to hit the dancefloor, all ages and abilities are welcome.
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It's more likely to inspire zany body movements than rabid dancefloor fist pumps.
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But what if you could get your sustenance right there on the dancefloor?
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With the current generation, it's definitely less cuddly on the dancefloor; different drugs.
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Stay out late, and let your self-obsessed ego dissipate on the dancefloor.
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That being said, if your stomach is feeling bloated, choose Netflix over the dancefloor.
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"By the time [people] get off our dancefloor, they're like, 'holy shit'," she says.
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On the dancefloor, a handful of people are swaying along to a monotonous beat.
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Narratives and themes are all good, but how does this play on the dancefloor?
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Phillips: On the dancefloor and in the darkrooms photos and videos are completely forbidden.
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I was far more interested in what was going on in the main dancefloor.
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I may be happiest improvising the language a body can make on a dancefloor.
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At various times, the glowing behemoths appear, hovering dozens of feet above the dancefloor.
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We've been told that there's no requirement to beat match or fill a dancefloor.
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Acid Arab: With tea, headphones on, on a dancefloor, while having sex, on drugs.
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It sounds like every sadlad banger you've ever wept to on the dancefloor. Enjoy.
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Pinch would play a real dancefloor banger, and then Pev would play something weird.
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And that's pretty much it: a man did a shit on the dancefloor of you standard high street vodka-and-vomit hellhole and then a bouncer throws him out of the club because you can't shit on the dancefloor at Reflex in Wigan.
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It tickles me to see someone getting a blowjob or riding dick on the dancefloor.
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Actor George Clooney took Meghan for a spin on the dancefloor, followed by Kate Middleton.
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The warm, cozy cocoon of the dancefloor is why you went through all this shit.
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New Order's dancefloor leanings grew to define their signature sound, but not without creative interruptions.
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Owing to other people's toilet and water breaks, I found myself alone on the dancefloor.
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"Inner Sanctum" is the first single, and it's a timeless slice of luminescent dancefloor fodder.
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It's fairly rare for a house track to be anything but, well, dancefloor cannon fodder.
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Comfort here means nostalgia: dancefloor synths from prom night, a song that triggers a memory.
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Indeed, many of the most powerful experiences of spiritual connection have happened on a dancefloor.
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Just like the dancefloor, this holiday is a brief and joyous respite from the inevitable.
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He seems to want to out-dance her, thus driving her away from the dancefloor.
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Two of the tracks are just jams, where the others are more shaped for the dancefloor.
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A mind-numbing trend in 2015 was the ever-increasing "no phones on the dancefloor" culture.
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The agent was then seen placing the gun back into holster before walking off the dancefloor.
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VR dancefloor is free for download on the Google Daydream VR platform on the Inception app.
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It didn't finish on the dancefloor though, for many of us that was just our introduction.
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Kovacs' remix is another dancefloor classic from a producer's who on a roll at the moment.
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Take the mix for a spin below, and we'll see you on the dancefloor this Saturday.
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"SXF" revolves around a pretty classic rave energy, lighting up the dancefloor in a wondrous neon.
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The midsummer heat moves enticingly amongst the bodies crowded on the dancefloor of Zorba's tropical discotheque.
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After sparking a social media controversy, Detroit nightclub Populux is closing down its dancefloor for good.
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You've got the single, then the remix, then the hot track on the dancefloor that week.
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He pits natural and grinding mechanical sounds against each other, constructing a fixated, frenetic dancefloor experience.
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The club, and the dancefloor specifically, is a place where we submit ourselves to provocation and challenge.
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It's a reminder of the political portent of the dancefloor, in the shape of a party track.
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The nightclub was my sanctuary, the dancefloor the mouth of a whale—and it swallowed me whole.
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The sticky dancefloor is heaving as it approaches 1:30 AM, with no signs of slowing down.
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As intertwined couples take to the dancefloor, Nordic ice and Southern fire will meet and merge again.
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A subtle synth adds just the right amount of dancefloor drama—call it a cinematic space jam.
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As I stood outside of the dancefloor collecting my thoughts, a woman waved to get my attention.
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It was on that unassuming dancefloor, however, that magic—and vital pieces of dance music history—happened.
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In the country that gave the world flamenco, much of this energy bursts forth on the dancefloor.
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The music planned for Friday was a mix of live interpretations of non-dancefloor-oriented Giegling material.
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My first party was Angerfist's first party in the United States at Murder the Dancefloor in 2007.
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There are whoops as the underfloor transducers get to work and the bass rumbles through the dancefloor.
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Atlanta producer Leonce has distinguished himself with buzzy remixes, ballroom-heavy dancefloor mixes, and innovative, inclusive parties.
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Another briefly closed his eyes on the dancefloor and got a trash can thrown in his face.
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Following a hiatus, Roxy Music returned to the dancefloor with the seedy nightclub scene of Manifesto in 1979.
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There's no flailing figures on a dancefloor but the Michael Guidetti-directed clip features its own unsettling movement.
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What about "the memories of the people who came and fell in love on the dancefloor?" he asks.
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For some, taking acid might be just another way to fuel their wild night out on the dancefloor.
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I didn't leave the dancefloor until the lights came on and the staff kicked everyone out after 6AM.
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He creates a jittery "post-hardstyle" club banger that wouldn't be out of place on a GHE20G0TH1K dancefloor.
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"[Justin's] input made me want to make something fun, more explicitly geared towards the dancefloor," says Von Horn.
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I like to make eye contact with people on the dancefloor to make a connection with the crowd.
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This recording is dancefloor friendly, but also very deep and hypnotic, just as I like it the most.
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Now, instead, she watches from the bar; the dancefloor a maelstrom of lost faith, memories, and missed opportunities.
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The LP follows his 2016 full-length debut, Xenophobe, but deviates from its predecessor's psychedelic, dancefloor-friendly techno.
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Equal parts silky soul and chill dancefloor grooves, which you can hear on their debut 2014 EP Cusp.
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I used to love watching them create where the dancefloor would be and where the speakers would go.
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On 2016's Adieux Au Dancefloor, Davidson was concerned with her deteriorating relationship with nightlife and club culture.
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I think you've really got to be quite brave and quite an exhibitionist to have sex on the dancefloor.
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Premiering today, "CTRL" is a slow-burning dancefloor tune that builds on house rhythms, progressively adding layered sonic textures.
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I don't play Justin Bieber, but then I played it at some point and the whole dancefloor was happy.
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Her early 2000s hits such as "Murder on The Dancefloor" rank as her most popular on music streaming services.
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Apparently they were in the club until 5AM, and were seen on the dancefloor joining in with the action.
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"As soon as you get rid of the dancefloor you can go into a deep listening experience," he says.
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The record sounds like a slowly corrupting hard drive, where all memories of a dancefloor have already been obliterated.
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They've left behind the club dancefloor and video-game interface of their earlier work, with its twinkles and glitches.
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In other words, everything that will keep you on the dancefloor hours after it was time to go home.
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While Morris' partner on the show, Maksim Chmerkovskiy, isn't hitting the dancefloor with her, she'll be in good hands.
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It's a record that works on the dancefloor, but could also soundtrack your mushroom trip through a bustling forest.
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I like the idea of recontextualizing music that isn't necessarily club oriented by making it work on the dancefloor.
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In 2017, he stages his paintings within an environment that recalls not only the Factory but also the dancefloor.
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There was drinking of biblical proportions, flirting, make-out sessions, and a high-octane atmosphere fueling an electric dancefloor.
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The music is not exactly dancefloor ready but that is not to say it can't have the same effect.
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Keeping things relatively raw, this set of stripped-back dancefloor detonation devices sees Hood doing his thing with aplomb.
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The beats are despondent; a downtrodden sort of mood sprinkled with just enough shimmer to get movement on the dancefloor.
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Food next to the dancefloor is usually limited to smaller or dingier venues rather than EDM superclubs or Roppongi meatmarkets.
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They're like dancefloor-dwelling accountants, balancing the books as a means of figuring out how this downward spiral happened exactly.
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Iconic Berlin nightclub Berghain today announced that it will be opening another dancefloor focused on experimental bookings this coming March.
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Across 12 tracks, he views dancefloor history through a prism—drawing new colors and shapes out of the resulting refractions.
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The trance states are cool and all, but it's even more exciting to be started awake from your dancefloor dreaming.
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His melodies and the producer's spiraling synth noodling and punchy drum lines might just turn your bedroom into a dancefloor.
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For some reason, you're still there, grinding your teeth hours later, light pouring in, nailed to the dancefloor sheer inertia.
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Today, Brooklyn techno producer Malory pulls it back to earth, toward a darkened dancefloor, specifically, with a bruising loosie remix.
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Steve and Ian were standing in the center of the what was to be the dancefloor, bent over architectural plans.
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It's like the vibe that I'll create on the dancefloor at the BEMF event on November 11—hypnotic yet dynamic.
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Screaming, on the dancefloor to Baby D. Ecstasy and acid house are so intertwined, they're practically indebted to each other.
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Curses, real name Luca Venezia (fka Drop the Lime), specializes in traversing the dark and moodier corners of the dancefloor.
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Read below for a measured discussion of their dizzy new record and the dancefloor roots of his band's digitalist euphoria.
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The record's seven tracks aren't intended to shine on the dancefloor, but rather to provoke introspection from its dark production.
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In his own words: "Rushchamber reflects what I love about techno, whether I'm playing or on the dancefloor," says Zonneveld.
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The record opens with "Leave the House," a dancefloor flirtation about getting out into the world, breathing the night air.
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Sometime after its release, Goulding featured heavily on some proper EDM bangers, but "Lights" remains her greatest flirtation with the dancefloor.
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Theoretically dancefloor escapism gratifies, but these rhythmically topheavy odes to maximalist kitsch suggest a caricature of catharsis, an empty decontextualized uplift.
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With Microshift, Hookworms have found that sweet spot, and written an album for the dancefloor, in all its romanticized, escapist beauty.
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You're gonna find love—and a lot of baby powder, because everyone is trying to outdo each other on the dancefloor!
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Wedged between the pool and a mini-stage was the dancefloor, where Diplo and A-Trak were both DJing (rare af).
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A longtime DJ and dancefloor dweller, Tony Rainwater's foray into production came from a stroke of luck—and also a pluck.
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"'Female Vampire' is a hunting song, a scene in which a vampire looks for fresh blood on the dancefloor," writes Hval.
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The Garage didn't serve alcohol, they didn't have a liquor license, there was no bar in the middle of the dancefloor.
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The in-house system crafted specifically for XY by Pl0t partner UNREAL productions keeps sound top-notch no matter the dancefloor.
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But by and large, HOWSLA doesn't do that, instead mostly clinging to the dancefloor life raft of a consistent kick drum.
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The dancefloor itself just consisted of a muddy pit in front of a huge black wall of speakers, called a stack.
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There is no better place to find your center than when you are feeling the rhythm and moving on the dancefloor.
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Around the top of the space were balcony walkways and a bridge that gave a view right across the packed dancefloor.
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The dancefloor, as a place of joy, quickly turns into the blur of the after-afterparty bedroom or living room floor.
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Mark downs his rosé and runs off to join his friends on the dancefloor, where even the bald man is dancing.
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"Electronic music always has two sides: the hedonist side, with the dancefloor and the club, people dancing, having fun," he says.
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I've never made music for the dancefloor but that fact that some of them do translate in those scenarios is great.
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If you're lucky, you might even see Tresor founder Dimitri Hegemann on the dancefloor—or quietly snoozing in a chair. 343.
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Each month, we take a look at the trends emerging from the frayed fringes of the dancefloor and why they're meaningful.
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Its propulsive mix of reggaeton, samples of field recordings of earthquakes, and dark atmospheres won't keep any feet off the dancefloor.
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We've heard the lot and all 30 tracks are grade-A stunners that'll work a treat on any half-decent dancefloor.
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"We will use the podium, the stage, and the dancefloor to manifest a world of inclusivity and compassion," the statement reads.
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The record itself, compiled from a few EPs he's put out over the last year on the New York dancefloor standard-bearers Beats in Space, is reflective of that same expansive vision—a hazy vision of lost loves, late night falafel shops, and dancefloor abandon, dreamt from a couch in the side room of the afterlife's scummiest DIY club.
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The person we are on the dancefloor is someone we're not always in touch with, but is someone we wish we were.
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Bass lines that make the speakers shout so loud the dancefloor shakes and everybody in the room wobbles from side to side.
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But it's the album's closer, "Supercomputer," that best sums up Milemarker's mix of icy sensuality, synthesized dancefloor dominance, and paradoxical tech-fetishization.
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It serves as a reminder that this music isn't just another dancefloor form—for many it offers a family, and a home.
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It's part crying on the dancefloor, part goth, part heavenly slow jam — and that adds up to a whole lot of excellence.
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Rather than getting a dancefloor heaving, their role is to provide a fitting soundtrack for the age-old form of erotic titillation.
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If you've danced in Coachella's Yuma tent or at Sound in LA, you'll recognize his shimmering pieces keeping swimming over the dancefloor.
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Take it for a ride and tell me you don't feel like you're on a dancefloor occupied by the entire animal kingdom.
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The dark, shrouded dancefloor was sparse at one point, but became more crowded as the wee hours of the morning wore on.
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Others think that a private moment, perhaps on a dancefloor or in a bedroom, is the biggest turn-on in the world.
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Production is both a way for DJs to market themselves, and to lay claim to something unique to play on the dancefloor.
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The great tragedy is that Wayne has so many other hits that your chances of hearing it on the dancefloor are slim.
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Imagine all these intersections of people, groups who aren't really supposed to be meeting, linking up and coming together on the dancefloor.
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Meat dress-era Lady Gaga swept 2010's electronic categories and David Guetta was the only dancefloor-geared nom in this field.
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In slyly shirking the dancefloor, Black Dice and their contemporaries have managed to create a scummy reflection of the state of things.
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It's the sound of stiletto heels clacking against dancefloor, of a high ponytail's swish, of a tight halter strap thwacking against clavicle.
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I can see Bargou 08 playing a festival in the desert, enrapturing a wedding or club dancefloor, or opening up for Godflesh.
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The bass is back rumbling the dancefloor in the best club this country has ever seen, and it could almost be true.
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I wasn't a kid you'd find sneaking pingers onto the dancefloor, or pissing on a car bonnet as I left the club.
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Those craving the usual dancefloor-ready fare from Simko won't be disappointed, as it's chock full of carefully sculpted, lithely grooving beats.
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The dark, primal drum rhythms of "Club Insomnia" paint a picture of sweat dripping off the ceiling of a packed, heaving dancefloor.
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That its minimal bassline echoes the immortal strains of Robin S.'s 90s dancefloor banger "Show Me Love" is just a bonus.
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I hate the sloshing of drinks on the sticky dancefloor, and the drunks drinking them, the awful soundsystems and even worse music.
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Bearing the same title as another ecstatic classic, this track twists Hundred Waters vocalist Nicole Miglis' weightless harmonies into amniotic dancefloor filler.
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His background as a dancer and also as part of a marching band make the tracks translate so well on the dancefloor.
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The tools and sounds are familiar but they collect them in abstract shapes—like trash sculptures that find new forms in dancefloor refuse.
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You've been wondering what the fucking hell a rudebox is but been having too much fun sweating out on the dancefloor to care.
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The experience becomes a group test of physical endurance, listening to the same music we bond over through clouds of fog on dancefloor.
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The classic disco song-turned-adage "last night a DJ saved my life" primarily refers to epiphanies experienced on a packed, writhing dancefloor.
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People used to ask me how I did it—work in the office for 12 hours, and then hit the dancefloor till dawn.
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There's heat and purpose waiting to be seized in those unexpected, life-altering summer nights: on the dancefloor, at the bar, among friends.
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We would wait patiently, or play video games In the little side arcade until it was our turn to get on the dancefloor!
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I think 'Kitty Klap' is going to be a summer banger, and I can't wait to see everyone slay the dancefloor to it.
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Revelers can run into all kinds of trouble on the dancefloor, from stringent drug regulations, to discriminatory door policies, to invasive physical searches.
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A few good friends and I were on the dancefloor as often as we were able, worshipping at the altar of the soundsystem.
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She's one of the only people I would trust both with the music, the equipment, and the dancefloor to fill in for me.
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The record has some dancefloor things, some ambient things, but it's all doing pretty much the same, just coming from different vantage points.
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It's the kind of tune you might want to hear while plotting something devious, or to immerse yourself wholeheartedly into on the dancefloor.
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Most people aware of your work know you for your involvement in rock and noise scenes, but this project is more dancefloor directed.
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But as this year's Boiler Room festival proved, when the dancefloor becomes a tool for outreach, minority communities are the most at risk.
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Originally released in 1984, Escape From New York's "Fire in My Heart" is post-disco classic, a perfect obscure slab of dancefloor heaven.
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Burly men sip well drinks from straws on wooden benches while others, naked except for harnesses, swarm the dancefloor, swaying under red lights.
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Plus, these large, sweaty, shirtless men in neon swimming trunks are considered obnoxious, inconsiderate, basic, lecherous—a scourge on the dancefloor writ large.
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A fair amount of that energy, transplanted from the 2 AM dancefloor to the living room at sunrise, stems from the album's collaborations.
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Also in October, House of Yes added extra "floating" security guards to roam the dancefloor, according to Jacqui Rabkin, the club's marketing director.
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Adieux Au Dancefloor and Working Class Woman both have clubby tracks on them, but both records are very critical of dance music culture.
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"We have a close connection with the dancefloor because we throw parties every two months or so at [Moscow nightclub] ARMA17," he tells me.
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Yet while NO ZU's sound is heavily rooted in the dancefloor, that doesn't prevent them from bringing more intellectual ideas into the mix, too.
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Being waterboarded is less painful than being smothered by the stench of fermented sweat wafting off the person next to you on the dancefloor.
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Check out the flier below, pick up your tickets here, and we'll see you on the dancefloor, as well as the ice-skating rink.
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"Give It To Me" is an exuberant five-and-a-half-minute dancefloor stomper that was tucked away on the flipside of "Never Again".
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This year, the party took place at a labyrinthine art gallery, with a dancefloor covered in netting and lasers cutting through the sweaty dark.
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His new single, "The Gift," due this Friday on Emerald City, is similarly concerned with bliss, but its beginnings are far from the dancefloor.
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An intricate electro opus that builds to multiple delirious peaks, the thumping dancefloor gem contrasts well with Four Tet's comparatively sedate 2017 album. —E.
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Each was its own punishing dancefloor endurance test, an experience she replicated on her debut for the city's iconic Beats in Space radio show.
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It taps into the sort of guy who would wear sunglasses on the dancefloor so that he can check out girls without them noticing.
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I have taken off clothes on a dancefloor, I've been extremely high and taken off a pair of tights because I was so hot.
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Like when back in 2008, Surya in Kings Cross got a piezoelectric dancefloor, which used quartz crystals to turn dancing into eco-friendly electricity.
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The emcee beckoned all the couples over, while Jake and I stood at the periphery of the dancefloor, feeling a little out of place.
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The juddering robo-funk may still be most inventive and most dancefloor-oriented of any track nominated in the course of the award's history.
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But Maidza has an tendency towards dancefloor pop that Maya Arulpragasam has shunned of late, and Tkay is all the more enticing for it.
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Also, my personal favorite, this is where drunk dudes take their penis out and pee on the dancefloor because the bathroom was too far.
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We will be the semi-invited, fully-pissed wedding guest relatives on the dancefloor after the first twang of that naughty guitar in 2037.
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And throughout entries from Migos to Adele to Kelela, the authors seem to recognize the importance of how a song plays on the dancefloor.
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Elio, the main character, is watching his love interest, Oliver, totally lose himself on the dancefloor at an outdoor club in Lombardy, northern Italy.
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The song feels like the dancefloor in the 90s, one without smartphones present, when you could truly move as if no one was watching.
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Whereas comedown albums are full of tracks that would clear a Warehouse Project dancefloor, but are designed for home listening, ideally in one go.
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From clubs that fell from grace, to misjudged marketing campaigns, here are the 10 biggest scandals and shitshows that rocked the dancefloor this year.
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Opening in a new location just down the block in Bushwick, the new outdoor space had more bars, a bigger dancefloor—and more toilets.
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In the most literal sense, it moves you, but there's a potential for more, something beyond the sights and smells of the darkened dancefloor.
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An artist can't make a whole record of dancefloor fire because there'd be no art, no storyline, and the whole thing'd be too maximal.
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Today I can go out on the dancefloor and feel connected to my friends, my higher power, and it sounds so cheesy, but the bass.
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The dancefloor was originally custom-built for the 1977 film and installed in the Brooklyn club 2001 Odyssey, where Saturday Night Fever is largely set.
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The new two-tracker includes peak-time club stomper "Veronica Electronica," a slippery tube slide spiraling into dancefloor delirium with blood-pressure-raising rave sirens.
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Still courtesy of Azealia Banks We turn to Azealia Banks for her experimental dancefloor bangers, of which, all else considered, she has quite a few.
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Wonderwheel Recordings, Brooklyn-based artistNickodemus' label, built a name for itself by bringing a plethora of the world's diverse musical cultures together on the dancefloor.
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Sweet, swirling, and serene from the first note, the vocal-heavy track contains all the flirtatiousness of locking eyes with someone from across the dancefloor.
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We did attempt to make a sort of dancefloor music but maybe about to the extent that Miles Davis was trying to make festival rock.
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I've always considered the music I make, especially the first tape on 1080p, not the best suited for playing to an audience or a dancefloor.
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But with Homeless, he leaves behind the dancefloor almost entirely, merging playful percussive rolls and shuddering sub bass with disembodied vocals and giddy acoustic trills.
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Once the party is over, that is it, all is left on the dancefloor...[Another] negative connotation attached is that it's too raunchy and vulgar.
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This is one of the main lessons they've taken from Burning Man––every single person attending acknowledges their role in bringing something to the dancefloor.
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Club culture is a couple of dialogues: the transcendent salvation people strive for on the dancefloor, and another which revolves around creating dance music, i.e.
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Like Carpenter, Clark is all about the analogue synths, but puts them to way more muscular, dancefloor-friendly use on this pounding slice of melodrama.
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Play it on the dancefloor and people will slow to a crawl, frozen in place by the surge of dopamine suddenly oozing into the bloodstream.
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That's the beauty of Working Class Woman: Davidson sees no need to separate her discursive tendencies from her abilities to make a cathartic dancefloor churner.
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It urges us to slay outside the dancefloor, and arm ourselves with the love and strength we'll need to get through the dark days ahead.
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For all its attempts to connect with a new generation of dance music lovers, SFX never connected with the dancefloor lifers at the genre's core.
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If, per the Recording Academy, it is one of the greatest recordings of all time, there should be versions of it that work on the dancefloor.
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Why the hell has the brave community of dance music lovers not joined together as a unified chorus to refuse these heinous acts of dancefloor terrorism?
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But we also know that those bad things ultimately can't, and shouldn't, stop us from giddily flailing ourselves around a dancefloor until the sun comes up.
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Later that evening, he jumped down from the DJ booth, strode into the middle of the dancefloor and grabbed a small Chinese girl from the audience.
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Dive into seven of our weirdest and wildest stories of tales from the dancefloor, featuring photographers, partygoers and musicians or DJs like Chrissy and Nicky Siano.
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The book shows his photographs, which hang in the upstairs dancefloor known as Panorama Bar, as well as installations by the internationally acclaimed artist Sarah Schoenfeld.
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In fact, it's the one night in the week where most of the people on the dancefloor at Macri Park aren't all cisgender white gay men.
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It also drew the dancefloor out of the hypnosis which the DJ had built, suddenly bringing everyone together in a moment of acute awareness and presence.
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Featuring the likes of Prins Thomas, PBR Streetgang, Leo Zero, Idjut Boys, and Ray Mang, it's a a seriously smooth set of dancefloor ready re-rubs.
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"Work—work—work," instructs a ballroom remix of Rihanna's hit song as he weaves through kids warming up on the sunken dancefloor, headed towards the stage.
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With the booth in the center of the dancefloor, it was one of the first clubs in London said to be built by DJs for DJs.
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In 2015, it was Sydney DJ Andrew Levins, aka Levins, with a solid selection of dancefloor-ready jams and a finger right on 2015's pulse.
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There's also the countless remixes of their work by seminal dance music luminaries, like Masters at Work, that kept their dancefloor relevance in check for years.
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The rugby boys proved by far the most raucous group on the dancefloor, patting each other on the back and palling around like real house lads.
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The second would be that, like third base on a dancefloor and cheap vodka in a toilet stall, The Chainsmokers belong at a high school prom.
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You might be pining still for the soundtrack but the below should at least help you channel your inner-Winona on the dancefloor whilst doing so.
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Somewhat in contrast to these other conversations, there's also moments on World Eater that feel among the most traditionally dancefloor-friendly tracks of anything you've made.
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" Work—work—work," instructs a ballroom remix of Rihanna's hit song as he weaves through kids warming up on the sunken dancefloor, headed towards the stage.
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I guess the "body" aspect of techno music is focused on the literal, whereas the "mystic" refers to the transcendental experience many encounter on the dancefloor.
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It's danceable music that makes you think: meant to be listened to through a giant rig on a packed dancefloor, or through your headphones in your room.
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Sometimes you just want to sit in the park with a can of crisp continental lager and some big and brash dancefloor-ready 4/4 action, right?
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An eerie nervous energy overshadow's the mood, and a cleanness washes over the production value of a track that's a dancefloor-ready, dark interpretation of European house.
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It builds around Matt Tong's Northern Soul dancefloor drums, with Lee Tesche's guitar jumping between jagged reverb in the verses and bright, poppy flickers in the chorus.
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The planned indoor area will include a dining room and a dancefloor, and transform what was previously a seasonal, outdoor-only space into a year-round one.
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His music is often viewed within the long-tradition of Sheffield's dancefloor experimenter—it's where Warp Records, long-running institution of electronic auteurs, was born after all.
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Like Boards of Canada's magical realist flips on 90s dancefloor tropes, Abysma's a record for head-bobbing in an easy chair, contemplating your place in the world.
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There's playful balearic, sections of ambient interspersed with chanting a bird sounds, and some edgier analog noodling that could send curious ripples through an open-minded dancefloor.
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Silent Stars is a house LP that pulls from many influences and genres including jazz and minimalism, and is intended for both home listening and the dancefloor.
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In the years since, they've tended to luxuriate, offering sleepy synth runs and brittle disco that appears to be moving in slow-motion even at dancefloor tempos.
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The most dancefloor oriented alias of Hospital Productions boss Dominick Fernow (aka Prurient, Christian Cosmos and about a billion other noise guys who are all just him).
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By the end it's built itself into a gale-force dancefloor make-out weapon, the kind of track that reels you in and doesn't let you go.
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We were in an indie club in Scotland after a show, and the place was packed when they put "Nancy Boy" on and it cleared the dancefloor.
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Key Sung's most enviable quality is perhaps his ability to, while experimenting with new sounds and unnerving the listener, have each song remain a bonafide dancefloor banger.
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It's a glorious return from the phantasmal realms of Burial's recent EPs to the grit of the real world—a streak of psychomagnotheric slime across the dancefloor.
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But through the Facebook group 'Memories on a Dancefloor'—which I updated in order to document my journey—I understood that [association] was mine [and mine] alone.
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Lead track "How Does It Feel To Feel" explores psychedelic, 4AM-on-the-dancefloor existential inquiry, followed by "Object Of Interest"'s grossly seething, metal on metal creep.
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Even the relatively straightforward glitterball strut of "BB" comes with a gritty edge, like a light-up dancefloor cracked into shards by the stomping of countless platform shoes.
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Mr Tillmans is an enthusiastic advocate for a continuity between dancefloor and gallery; some of his first photographs were unpolished portraits of his friends carousing in Berlin's nightspots.
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The dancefloor really did feel like a portal created to allow these kids to move, look, and feel like themselves—or whoever they feel like in the moment.
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Recorded around 2003–2004 in lo-fi camcorder quality, Shakedown follows the strippers—called "angels"—as they balance their real life personas with their lives on the dancefloor.
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The dancefloor was always a total crush, but you had to be at this night where Danny redefined what it meant to be taken on a musical journey.
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F. Reliably great indie-rockers Spoon leaned into their dancefloor inclinations on this year's Hot Thoughts — and "Can I Sit Next to You" is the album's mission statement.
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Disco. The genre was emerging as the new sound as groovy dancefloor anthems trounced the demand for the rock fare Dahl was used to championing on the air.
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The occasional wide-eyed tap on the shoulder followed by a squawked "FUCKIN' HELL MATE, BELTER," is about as much direct communication as you want on the dancefloor.
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Stockholm, Sweden-based startup Pacemaker's use of artificial intelligence means that DJs no longer have to choose between staying behind the decks and venturing out on the dancefloor.
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First and foremost I am a FAN of house/disco/techno, and I started collecting records to remind me of fun nights out I'd had on the dancefloor.
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Just this weekend, our conception of clubbing was irrevocably, violently altered forever because a bloke in England took a shit on the dancefloor of a club called Reflex.
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We recently spoke to the New York producer and Technofeminism founder over Skype about her production and the ways in which they tie in with her dancefloor politics.
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One thing I quickly recognized was one of the placards they hang around their parties that display their rules: don't smoke, text, or take photos on the dancefloor.
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DJing, and dance music culture in general, has taught me a lot about living in the moment and the physicality of hearing frequencies in music on the dancefloor.
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Play the right Dance Mania track in the wrong part of the night and DJs are more likely to get skeeved out side-eyes than an appreciative dancefloor.
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We'd get together in front of everyone a bit when we went out, but not around the house—strictly in the club or on the dancefloor or something.
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Adopting Metatron as a zen alter-ego, mysterious German producer Traumprinz brings back past-life memories of the dancefloor enthusiast's most sacred grounds: trance, house, and breakbeat hardcore.
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Starting from 2016's self-titled tape on Primitive Languages, they've endeavored upon a uniquely unsettled exploration of the oft-tread realms between noise music and the dancefloor.
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Yet it did also inform a generation of UK producers who saw dance music as something to get ladies on the dancefloor, or the speakers on a 106 rattling.
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The light-up red, blue, and yellow dancefloor that helped make John Travolta a movie star in Saturday Night Fever will be auctioned off this month in Los Angeles.
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For the after party at the Chiltern Firehouse, Rita Ora slipped into something less constraining so she could get loose on the dancefloor alongside Lewis Hamilton and Adwoa Aboah.
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That said, hearing that Quentin Tarantino has reportedly successfully pitched a new Star Trek movie that J.J. Abrams might produce is still a record-skip, halt-the-dancefloor moment.
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"In order to protect the dancefloor and to make the movement really strong, it was very important to protect it from sexism, chauvinism, homophobia, machismo etc from the start".
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"The Big Big Beat" is the perfect dancefloor rap fusion you want from Banks, and it sounds that much cooler being rapped from on top of a cop car.
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It's made me want to make dancier tracks that I could play out, that could serve as an effective tool on the dancefloor and make people want to dance.
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It's designed for sticky floors, bumming a cigarette off a stranger and doing a pick-me-up shot at 2AM before heading back onto the dancefloor with renewed vigor.
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The Avalanches' comeback is still chugging forward; Disclosure is flipping vintage Al Green into silky-smooth dancefloor fodder; Danny Brown, a being of pure light, is back in action.
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Listening to WBGO acted as a relaxing offset to the unrelenting, low-end club and pop music that prom was bound to have vibrating the dancefloor throughout the night.
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Dillon Francis may be nursing dreams of Saturday Night Live stardom, but even if that doesn't work out the dancefloor funnyman has a music career to fall back on.
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A second room, featured an performance-installation, described as an invitation to "co-create tools to create a more equitable world," in which dancers constructed a sprung wooden dancefloor.
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Upon entering the venue's main room, it felt like some sort of Wiccan ritual was going on: candles marked out a large circle in the center of the dancefloor.
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If you get to the club at midnight, you'll be part of the apocalyptically large bombardment of arrivals and spend more time waiting in line than on the dancefloor.
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But as Nicky Siano—one of its resident DJs—recalls, the club initially struggled to take off, and celebrities would often party in a lounge below an empty dancefloor.
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But it's also because after he edited them, he passed them to some producer friends who then edited them again, turning them into bruising beats or dancefloor-ready jams.
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Before the digital day of Tinder, Grindr, and texting, Berlin nightclubbers from nearly a century ago resorted to different methods of making love (or lust) connections on the dancefloor.
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Now, thanks to perhaps one of the unlikeliest of collaborations to ever hit a dancefloor, Edward Snowden can add one more notch to his litany of titles: techno partystarter.
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More utopian types would say the dancefloor is no place for such matters, that it is a hallowed ground that must exist aside the issues that drive us apart.
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" With the exclusion of both mainstream dancefloor bangers and innovative, underground producers, THUMP gleaned that the New York Times Magazine saw the future of music as "absolutely not electronic.
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The house's natural stone swimming pool, a popular destination for tourists in Rio, was turned into a dancefloor with a large pane of glass and illuminated with LED lighting.
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When a large chunk of today's charts are made up of joyless minimal covers of former dancefloor bangers, it can sometimes feel like pop music has lost its vibrancy.
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DRAMA weighs in with a new crying on the dancefloor classic on the subject, laying Via Rosa's stunning voice down next to the house beats of producer Na'el Shehade.
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Honey shares this tendency while also participating in an older tradition of using disco's reflective surface to reveal the bedroom rather than the dancefloor, to hide or magnify emotion.
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This year, he one-upped himself with a disco edit for British singer-songwriter Lapsley that could soundtrack a silly college beach party as well as a packed dancefloor.
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Just John's "NOISE" was already the highlight off last year's Black Beret EP, and its new video illuminates the spirit of protest that powers the irresistibly silky dancefloor jam.
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Yet to write them off as a party trick would be to discredit a practice and method of DJing that can, and does, produce genuine excitement on the dancefloor.
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Second, we will have a label exclusively for club tracks which will still be in the daring, left-field Killekill style, but with a clear focus on the dancefloor.
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Usually you'll have seen it on some unnamed young Brit with sweat-glowy skin, stunting for the lens in a pic taken on a film camera on a darkened dancefloor.
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Cartoon renditions of radio hits make for a weird sort of remix album, one where the varied bodily rhythms across a dancefloor are ignored in favor of incessant, irrepressible perk.
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In conversation, she says she sees Daybreaker as a "transformational dancefloor"—one that breaks down social barriers, allows people to be their genuine selves, and helps build kind, caring communities.
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I was aware, however, that I needed a physical and mental release, and I don't know if I ever experienced a greater feeling of deliverance than on Trash's packed dancefloor.
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Rather than what you'd hear pounding on the dancefloor, these tracks are like stumbling across a secret show in some smoky basement dive bar, his captivating voice taking centre stage.
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Though the sneak-peek video shows James making the world her dancefloor as confident, carefree Donna, the actress admits she was nervous to perform with the cast of A-listers.
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That's exactly what Dutch producer, Skrillex collaborator, and OWSLA signee Wiwek delivers in two new singles, available today, lifted straight from the dancefloor—he did invent the genre, after all.
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An FBI agent is under investigation after he accidentally shot a fellow patron at a Denver bar while attempting a flip — and video from the dancefloor has since gone viral.
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Bert Lockett would play out to a mainly gay and black crowd in the venue that was little more than a glorified dive bar, dominated by a 280 feet dancefloor.
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Lindstrøm's area of expertise is space disco, the subgenre that blends the dancefloor dynamics of disco, Italo, and early house with the expansiveness and futuristic bent of Krautrock and prog.
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A sunken dancefloor allows you to get up close and personal with your favourite artists while staring upward at 30-foot walls lined with life-size Qui Dynasty Terracotta warriors.
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Its sorta a microcosm for the rest of the EP, a low-and-slow dancefloor destroyer, the effect of which is something like driving a bulldozer through an empty club.
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It's a collection filled with pulsing synths and smart percussion—plus a standout guest appearance from Tove Lo—a smart mix of intimate, soft-centered balladry and dancefloor-angled electropop.
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Blooming from grainy noise, the record finds its rhythms in the gutters that run along the roadsides of techno fetishists and dancefloor futurists, glimmering in this beautiful and heavy way.
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Master manipulator of sounds Kieran Hebden, aka Four Tet, has made clear his love of pop music, refashioning tracks by artists such as Justin Timberlake and Sia for the dancefloor.
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By show time, the mojitos were flowing, the dancefloor was packed, and DJ Jigüe was spinning Guampara's tracks for one of Santiago's first foreign audiences, grinning from ear to ear.
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Contrasting the traditional Picasso show upstairs, Collapsing Scenery created a psychedelic dancefloor filled with synthesized video projections and layers of colorful plexiglass, set to the tune of experimental electronic music.
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It's one of the most beautiful songs that I know, that I could just listen to at home on repeat, but it's also a pretty transcendent song on the dancefloor.
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Every 15 minutes or so, a parade of waitresses holding sparklers and champagne bottles cut through the dancefloor with the unquestionable authority of ambulances screaming through crowded New York streets.
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Having moved past the disco pastiche that initially made him famous, the album nonetheless hits the dancefloor harder than before his stint with the Revolution, shot through with rhythmic punch.
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Location: The Regent Headliners: Mysterious D, Shyboy, Airsun, Fox Brigade Hit the dancefloor with all your fave mashups from the year, then fall in love with a go-go boy.
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It's most celebrated feature, however, was the saltwater fantail pool with a blue Minoan bull mosaic floor which could be quickly drained and raised into position as a disco dancefloor.
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At first listen, the track sounds almost too spare to exist, but it unleashes bone-shaking energy when played on the right dancefloor at the right volume (loud as hell).
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Now, three years later, a clip of him losing his fucking mind on an Ibiza dancefloor has appeared from nowhere, and been turned into an unstoppable torrent of online bants.
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Revisit our interview with AnCo member Panda Bear about the dancefloor roots of their new album Painting With here, and see the full list of their upcoming tour dates here.
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Emergence Remixed stays true to this thematic vision while other artists layer in dancefloor-worthy drum and bass or inject fuller sounds with synthesizer work and their own unique styles.
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Who gave them a free pass to reclaim club culture and sounds inherited from legends like Juan Atkins and Frankie Knuckles while disregarding black bodies—and black voices—on the dancefloor?
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Shortly before his death in 1992, the legendary DJ Larry Levan even remixed Terada's collaboration with 80s superstar Nami Shimada "Sunshower," turning it into a favorite on the Paradise Garage dancefloor.
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The Circular City EP sees them return to their own Heist Recordings label for a batch of silky-smooth house tracks that are sure to set any half-decent dancefloor alight.
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As I walk in, Shemzy, one of the station's presenters and an artist in his own right, is spinning Dizzee Rascal "Stop Dat" and the dancefloor is beginning to fill up.
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I would like to preface this by saying how much I enjoy the false sense of security Steps lulled us all into by naming their comeback album Tears on the Dancefloor.
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They become ghosts of piano house records, piano house records with all the joy of piano house sucked out of them, leaving you with a hollow, marrowless bone on the dancefloor.
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Pick-up artists have filled sordid books with negging techniques and terminology like "dancefloor real estate," in order to provide guidance to hapless dweebs in their pursuit of the mythical lay.
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The soundtrack here is a record crate of dancefloor classics, from Aphex Twin ("Windowlicker") to Daft Punk ("Rollin' and Scratchin'"), Chicago house (Lil' Louis's "French Kiss") to French disco (Cerrone's "Supernature").
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It isn't as upfront as last year's breakouts "drink i'm sippin on" and "raingurl," but it's still perfect kick-ons music all the same, ready for a dancefloor or emotional devastation.
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Similar to his previous releases Kindred and especially 2013's Rival Dealer, Young Death abandons dancefloor pulses for exploration and ambience, with songs that feel like mini-suites of conjoined ideas.
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Eventually a curtain opened that revealed the second room, which held the dancefloor (with its DJ-booth/stage, rainbow-colored lights, and cluster of medium-sized speakers) and wide circular tables.
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The photos Cambodian National Police released in relation to the charges show what looks like a bunch of clothed tourists (save for a shirtless dude) mounting each other on a dancefloor.
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The culture is heading towards a good place where people recognize the essence and purity of the music and can express themselves on the dancefloor, and that's always a good thing.
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It's more of a tool than a show-stopping highlight, but don't let its charms escape you—played on the right dancefloor by the right DJ, it literally makes time disappear.
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His 2014 album, Worlds, was a 90-100 BPM departure from EDM-leaning hits like "Easy" with Mat Zo or "Language," which both land in the dancefloor-friendly neighborhood of 128.
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Both solo as Blanck Mass and as one half of the arena-shaking, punk-noise duo Fuck Buttons, he's channeled busted and buzzing electronics into rafter-rattling and dancefloor-destroying forms.
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It's silly, psychedelic, peaceful in the midst of the cacophonic, violent context in which it emerges—clearing space for weirdness and play on the dancefloor and on crowded, uncaring city streets.
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But a long-simmering underground of dancefloor abandon and fetish fashion has burst to the surface, in the form of a seemingly endless array of goth-themed club nights and concerts.
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None of the clubbers seem remotely terrified or even cognisant of the presence of the hulking robot—who's presumably not on the dancefloor with the intent to get jiggy with it.
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Through his deep crate of records and lengthy sets, J.A.Z uses music to trace the connection between the teachings of the lord and the release many search for on the dancefloor.
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Summer's ability to craft dancefloor hits that as well in drug and booze-filled clubs as they did on the radio was the power of her frequent collaborations with Moroder and Bellotte.
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It's an eight-and-a-half minute collection as volatile as pure jet fuel that barrel rolls its way through dizzy dancefloor structures, while never losing the laser-guided precision of percussion.
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Enter Conducta, a young Bristol-native who's garnered a bit acclaim for layering steely garage clangs upon classic R&B top lines—resulting in party-ready dancefloor beasts with a nostalgic flair.
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Lil Texas gave a sneak peek of the EP's title track on Wednesday; today, he premieres "I'm Yours" with THUMP, the third single on the EP and the most dancefloor-ready track.
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Forever straddling the line between the dancefloor and the more experimental forms of underground dance music, he takes the acid house he came up on to headier, more abstract, more beautiful places.
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The sonic melodrama of Lorde's Melodrama had a lot to do with broad strokes: solo post-party ballads followed by big, dancefloor pop; mellow keys that broke into wide-gated, reverberating drums.
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Those eager for his return to the dancefloor will not find it amid the densely-packed soundscapes of Third Law, his third solo studio album, and his first for Tri Angle Records.
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They had S.N.D.P. (Sunday Night Dance Party) which was split across the massive club with over 21's drinking in the bar upstairs and all the underage kids on the dancefloor below.
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I found it hard to express myself musically in these genres, so needed to start bringing in other influences to do so, which naturally led me away from writing for a dancefloor.
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He kicked off the night playing hit after hit, pausing the music to let the dancefloor scream the lyrics to tracks like Stormzy's "Know Me From" (a banger which Skepta later reprised).
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Last week on June 1, electronic music's American Bandstand equivalent Boiler Room descended upon New York's Bronx borough for a party curated by arguably the state's best for incendiary dancefloor romps, GHE20G0TH1K.
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"Drum and bass fans never had the option of experiencing the music on a 2000-strong dancefloor so we wanted to introduce it," explains Zouk's former assistant DJ booking manager QH Yeo.
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Its dancefloor-centric single "Limbo" topped Billboard's Hot Latin Songs, while the uptempo Natalia Jimenez duet "La Noche De Los 2" hinted at the lengths he'd go towards fulfilling his pop ambitions.
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According to Resident Advisor, the bolt prompted a barrage of technical failures, causing the club's emergency lighting to repeatedly flash on the dancefloor, as well as loss of the air conditioning units.
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There's dancefloor abandon contained somewhere deep in tracks like "Peach Rift," but his memories of happy hardcore and juke are melty and surreal, their colors vibrant and garish, like a Geocities-era .
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People lounge on the stairs that lead down into the leafy open-air courtyard, from which an art gallery, a lounge, two small bars, and a pulsating neon purple dancefloor splinter off.
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But there were also freakouts of another variety, like a slated performance of saxophone contortions courtesy of Sun Ra Arkestra's Marshall Allen, who played in collaboration with Chicago dancefloor destroyer Hieroglyphic Being.
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With haunted-sounding chimes and percussion that sounds like it's always trying to outpace itself, "Wildflowrr" has enough deranged details to make it an interesting listen as well as a dancefloor track.
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The three-and-a-half minute ode to working hard and partying harder took direct aim at the dancefloor, and quickly became a staple at peak-time clubs all over the world.
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Gripped in the terror of trainwrecking or worse, I spent endless nights stressing out over choosing the right spread of tracks that would "slay the dancefloor" while standing up to the heads.
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These are tracks with a dancefloor-ready function, held together by threads of melancholy and soul—deft touches of humanity and melody that elevate their work above the status of nightclub tools.
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Ornate lace appliques cascade down the train, which lays atop 20 layers of tulle and is detachable for Morris to enjoy the evening on the dancefloor (as seen in her husband's wedding post).
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The result was a cultural link stretching from techno to psych-edged guitar acts like Stone Roses, and druggy dancefloor funksters Happy Mondays, united in a haze of ecstasy pills and baggy trousers.
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Like his official recordings, this two-and-a-half-hour mix jumps from trippy funk, to tender ballads, to knee-buckling guitar work, charting the full gamut of the dancefloor icon's eclectic range.
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To celebrate the release of the mix, we're bringing you an exclusive watch of the video for Flava D' and Holy Goof's previously unreleased "Section Request"—a bass heavy slab of dancefloor dynamite.
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Directed by the band's frequent collaborator Aidan Zamiri, the colorful, soft-focused visual sees the wives throw their very own prom with lots of screaming and snogging and thrashing about on the dancefloor.
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The only thing worse than a whirling dancefloor dervish is the kind of person who steadfastly refuses to move a muscle but doesn't want to donate their space to a more willing participant.
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The night is still young—the dancefloor won't fill up until well past midnight—and standing in the middle of the warehouse, bathed in the light from the projectors above, is Nikolaj Jakobsen.
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Clocking in at 65 minutes, Wildblood's mix is a dreamy but all-too-brief transport to a cliffside dancefloor at dusk where the only source of air-conditioning is a salty ocean breeze.
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You could knock out endless DJ-tools, purely functional dancefloor tracks for years and then once you worry less about the format and create from the heart directly, that's when you will flourish.
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The Kathy Acker-featuring "Winter" comes on like the proto-minimal wave gem you never knew you needed, while "Summer" is a lilting and uplifting bit of piano-heavy dancefloor-ready pseudo-krautrock.
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She's also proven her own ability to drag tracks into the dancefloor as a remixer herself, as on a trio of abstract reimaginings of A Tribe Called Quest's "Stressed Out" that she produced.
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On a split earlier this year for the Danish experimental label Phinery, she demonstrated a taste for the totally fucked, tossing up acidic screwballs that lifted her sound away from the dancefloor entirely.
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Anti-Semitic racists try to seize the underground but meet fierce resistance from Bernie Bros, and the ensuing scene war makes the dancefloor battles of early 80s hardcore look like a Quaker gathering.
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Obviously there's still music on the album that's written with a dancefloor in mind as you are confined to certain constraints, but they were usually inspired by music outside of drum and bass.
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A boozy dancefloor paean for single ladies everywhere, the track felt like the flipside of the prior year's embittered kiss-off "Te Boté," featuring that smash hit's raw-throated rapper Darell to boot.
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"Just Drift" is the closest thing Sanguine Bond has to a hands-in-the-air anthem, that's still downcast and repetitious, seemingly designed, as its title suggests, for zoning rather than dancefloor abandon.
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Pop-folk singer Beth Orton's career was buoyed by her appearances on several Chemical Brothers records, including 1997's "Where Do I Begin," though she never made her own foray onto the dancefloor.
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When Amelie stepped onto the dark dancefloor, swan-like, and Lena with her tiny orange dress and matching bowtie, asked her to dance, it made Emily swell with pride over a job well done.
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I'd say weed is a part of mine and most of my friends' nights out, but it comes into play once we get home, rather than when we're sweating it out on the dancefloor.
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From the shore, it appears only as a speck on the horizon, but the two-story, wooden structure offers a fully stocked bar, shaded beds, a dancefloor, wood-fire pizza oven, and snorkeling gear.
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She's hanging off your dad and grinding with him on the dancefloor, slurring her speech, and telling you and your sibling about wild things she did during her "party girl" phase in the 80s.
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The twosome, who are recent signees to Joe Goddard's Greco Roman label, switch out the original's swirling, psychedelic sound for a more dancefloor-friendly, Balearic version that chugs softly along like an ocean breeze.
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Since you've already heard a few of Tiger Stripes' productions, this mix is the perfect primer for his DJ sets, where he regularly brings his jacked-up dancefloor energy to crowds around the world.
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It was an anarchic, scaled down Warehouse Project that would have you glued to the dancefloor—until someone would drop an inevitable pill fart and the whole room would go for a smoke break.
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Gregg Alexander, the frontman and chief songwriter of The New Radicals, is behind other everlasting hits from Ronan Keating ("Life Is A Rollercoaster"), Texas ("Inner Smile"), and Sophie Ellis-Bextor ("Murder On The Dancefloor").
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Humidity hangs in the air; tingling bodies jostle for position on the dancefloor; other things that you traditionally associate with nightclubs are happening because you're in a nightclub and that's what happens in nightclubs.
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But he's an omnivorous listener—as likely to delve into spacey instrumentals (peep this Durutti Column mix with DJ Voices from earlier this year) as he is more dancefloor-oriented fare, like this mix.
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Back then we were at One Last Shag, this tiny little dive bar with a huge backyard, and we have had so many hot and sweaty moments on the dancefloor with so many cuties.
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Eric Copeland, meanwhile, was rattling off a veritable torrent of solo releases under his own name, edging endearingly and awkwardly toward the dancefloor with winning compositions for DFA, L.I.E.S., and Animal Collective's Paw Tracks.
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A lot of people say that, but I think there are DJs who play paint-by-numbers—just because you're playing some house and techno doesn't mean you're taking the dancefloor on a journey.
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Regardless of which position in the bar I was stationed at (front door/money, patdowns, bathroom, patio, coat check, or dancefloor) I would always have a different experience than the men I worked with.
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Yorke, harmonizing with himself, fits lyrics about an anxious night on the dancefloor into a meter that meshes precisely with the song's rhythm, literalizing the nervousness that runs through Burial's more lyrically sparse work.
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Still, I doubt the Blonde Brexiter goes clubbing much these days, and the thought of a shirtless Farage necking a pill and getting all huggy on the dancefloor is way too scary to contemplate.
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In February of 2012, Alley would've still just been a few months removed from her heroic Dancing With the Stars run, which proved that she had the dancefloor prowess to match Moore's thunderous beats.
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It would also re-contextualize a new arsenal of instruments for a pop audience, wielding synths as both eerie, dissonant sound effects and dancefloor-ready sugar to help the anti-establishment medicine go down.
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By now, the downstairs area was giving off a sort of 6th-form-leavers party vibe, girls owning the dancefloor and guys grabbing their groins, tugging their buns and shooting their fingers in the air.
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Pedigree seems less important than personality when picking what records end up on the Edible release schedule—which is why each tune so far is a certifiable dancefloor hit, rather than just another DJ tool.
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Guerineau: This is one of my favorite tracks on this album, we actually had the idea at 5am on a dancefloor, we wanted to have a trippy, but sexy track that plays with your perceptions.
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If you're lucky enough to live in New York, you can catch one or both of them playing almost every night, showing off their vast knowledge and love for all the corners of the dancefloor.
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Everytime I'd feel a lull in my energy and set my sights on the door, she'd reach deep in her crates for another playful, ecstatic cut that'd keep me grinning and glued to the dancefloor.
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With all due respect to DJs who spend their careers digging really intensely into specific styles of music, one of the best things you can experience on a dancefloor is being thrown totally off-balance.
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But then there's also "Maybe I'm Crazy," the record's opener, which sounds like little else they've ever made, an industrial-leaning synth exercise that's as close to the dancefloor as they've ever dared to tread.
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Though a couple selectors highlight the same Hieroglypic Being release (and deservedly so!), its a good spectrum of the sort of thing the label has on offer, weird tracks from all corners of the dancefloor.
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The recording sessions for the release involved artists and musicians from Senegal, Egypt, and Cuba, and they convene here with Takashige Miyawaki for a relatively genre-less, but still dancefloor-centric, journey of entrancing improvisation.
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They've had the likes of Dominick Fernow's greyscale Vatican Shadow project, the silhouetted dancefloor destroyers in SHXCXCHCXSH, and the Raster-Norton-affiliated Kangding Ray try their hands at magnifying their own darkness over the years.
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He is the man we should all aspire to be, so let us draw courage from this brave soul, and hold our heads high as we stumble back onto the dancefloor a few pounds lighter.
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I ask her why dancefloor have become so male, pale and stale—for every Glastonbury bread raver, there's a hundred Asos lads who'll swipe a swig of your water bottle and hit on your mate.
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It's the soundtrack for the sinking loneliness you might feel on an early morning on a crowded dancefloor, when you've lost your friends in the roiling masses, and know you should go home but can't.
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Citizenn's self-directed vision includes faceless (at times headless) mannequins suspended in patterned formations beneath waves of flashing lights—things take off even more once the song drops into a more dancefloor-friendly broken beat.
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Since their inception in Los Angeles, DJs like Robert Hood, UNiiQU3, and Lotic, as well as live acts like Aurora Halal, Archie Pelago, and dreamy-disco duo Teengirl Fantasy have all graced their roaming dancefloor.
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The idea of you peacocking across a dancefloor and earnestly pointing at my face as you scream the lyrics to one of the greatest songs of all time is giving me deep rooted stomach pains.
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Caravane Gitane, an all-female collective that throws elaborate, one-off parties at Brooklyn venues like House of Yes and the Williamsburg Hotel, takes a more holistic approach to encouraging respectful behavior on the dancefloor.
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They started going to spin classes together, and in an effort to bring the community together in an accessible way, the trio decided to throw a class with music that is rarely heard off the dancefloor.
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Around 200 people—mostly 20-something queer people and young creatives, dressed in everything from traditional Indian attire to streetwear—have gathered on the dancefloor for 'Hungama,' east London's newest—and currently only—gay Bollywood night.
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He did perhaps have the biggest hit of his career though, with British electronic duo X-Press 2 in 2002 with "Lazy," a dancefloor stomper with vocals recorded remotely and then sent by file via email.
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"The concept of the dancefloor and partying in daily life or in weekly life, it wasn't common [for Palestinians]", says Ayed, a Jazar Crew member, as we chat before a screening of the documentary in London.
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Fortunately though, his recorded efforts have no need for the strict confines of club music—and his new record Knock Knock goes further out into the electronic hinterlands around the dancefloor than he ever has before.
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Vancouver's Mood Hut has built a reputation in parallel with the mystical charm of its breathtaking city by the water, offering up a slew of dancefloor cuts that conjure the misty mystery of the Pacific Northwest.
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Then the mayor took aim at nightclubs, ordering raids that would transform the underground scene from a DIY space for outsiders to a corporate endeavor replete with mega clubs, bottle service, and couches on the dancefloor.
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I looked at him erotically on a dancefloor; he invited me back to his for a non-existent house party; we drank warm champagne and listened to a six-hour techno playlist of his own creation.
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Maybe he literally noticed that the mirror was probably loose enough to remove from the wall, and before he knew it he was storming across the sticky-black of the dancefloor, his reflective panel under-arm.
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The Iron Giant towers over the dancefloor, light beams shooting from its eyes; if you fly around enough you'll eventually spot Freddy Krueger cutting a rug, as well as DC icons Aquaman, Harley Quinn, and Catwoman.
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A dancefloor fuelled by hardcore usually favors the only the ravers, the cultish few who've built their life around this stuff, but if the Dallas-born producer Lil Texas has his way, that could soon change.
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Often, these white-label records were test pressings that a producer might make for herself or her colleagues to see how the record worked on the dancefloor, and were good for only a couple-dozen plays.
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Venue floors are slicked with vomit from motion sickness, and rhythmic gymnastics gains new relevance in this bright future, as dance moves adapt to accommodate the miles of cabling snaking their way throughout the dancefloor. 4.
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"I experienced for the first time a true synchronization between the music and the people on the dancefloor, in such a total wholesomeness and communion," he recalls of Nervoso's deft take on the percussion-heavy Angolese genre.
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He recalls an incident from December 2015 when he and a friend were told by a white woman that they were "taking up too much space" at one such event while they were standing on the dancefloor.
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Belief in a higher power isn't a requirement when it comes to her music; her church is anywhere—the dancefloor, the bedroom, the couch where you've decided to cry into a tub of ice cream post-breakup.
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While experimental composers, psychedelics enthusiasts, and dancefloor destroyers were busy figuring out the boundless possibilities of electronic instrumentation, the film industry saw this new technology as a practical way to soundtrack its pulpier, more cheaply-made productions.
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The crowd on the dancefloor had thinned out to the foolhardiest few when someone had the bright notion to pull out a black, plastic tarp from under the stage and hold it taught above the remaining dancers.
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The resulting 12 tracks combine the impulsiveness of free jazz (despite being fully composed over a three-year period), the vastness of chamber music, the tactile aura of musique concrete, and the dubby throb of dancefloor jams.
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Drawing on the whole history of their recordings—both their gnarled as well as dancefloor-friendly impulses—they've crafted a collection that's emotional, but controlled, each angst-ridden track a focused assault on both flesh and spirit.
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One great track—when properly nestled in the right DJ set, so the logic goes—has the power not only to set the dancefloor alight, but to shift the sound and energy of a scene writ large.
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Now it's back in the form of Misiu's edit, which grabs onto the underlying instrumentation of Low's original, and injects a bunch of pungent piano keys and swirly 303s that return the whole shebang to the dancefloor.
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" / "Brianstorm" / "Pretty Visitors" / "You're So Dark" / "Snap Out Of It" / "Cornerstone" / "Knee Socks" / "I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor" / One for the Road" / "R U Mine" Spotify | Apple Music You can find Ryan on Twitter.
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But if you want to catch her IRL you still have plenty of chances thanks to her newfound affinity for stepping behind the decks and spinning her favorite records that inhabit the weirder corners of the dancefloor.
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There were so many analogs for my early spiritual life waiting for me on the dancefloor, including the simple, gentle act of turning to your neighbor and hugging them simply because you're having the same beautiful experience.
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I realized that journalists' prying eyes weren't really welcome on the dancefloor anymore, so I escaped to the bar and bumped into one of the English cyclists, who asked that she not be named for this piece.
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The dark side of disco's always glaring at the dancefloor, glowering from underneath a novelty wig, sadness refracted and reflected by the ever-spinning mirror ball that hangs above the amassed crowd like a portent of doom.
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My first serious turn at karaoke: beneath the dull, turquoise lights of The Joiners Arms, in which I emptied the dancefloor by sadly murmuring the words to Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car" to a chorus of eye rolls.
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He kicked the label off with the likes of "We Ain't Goin Nowhere," an ecstatic filter-disco-house jam that doesn't take itself too seriously but also could rescue just about any dancefloor you set it off in.
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He's applied this form across genres to compelling result, bathing house, techno, and more abstract corners of the dancefloor alike in the warmth of cassette-born distortion—uniting disparate forms in the grimy hiss of his chosen medium.
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I remember it having a really decent sized dancefloor with a balcony along the lefthand side, and that the balcony lead to a big foyer where a lot of people spent their nights lying around in complete states.
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I love the fact that it works at both a laidback party during a sunny day or on a filled dancefloor playing at peaktime, and with two of my favorite producers in one production you can't go wrong!
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The dancing and karaoke are just The Most Fun, the player-controlled Kazuma Kiryu shaking off his significant stresses to stir up a dancefloor fever in the former and slipping into dazzling rock-star daydreams in the latter.
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"Your generation are losing the ability to communicate properly," he reckons, noting that the way the Wag was laid out, with defined bar and seating areas in addition to a dancefloor, led to a sensation of heightened pleasure.
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He's also been responsible for a laundry list of delightful dancefloor hits like 1996's "Love Is Got Me High" and "Something' Here," and he continues to tirelessly release music and albums into the world year after year.
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But if you take a closer look to the lyrics, as well as Androgeny's androgynous handle (the track even has a version dubbed the "Transy Tribal" mix), it's a clear nod to the LGBT roots of the dancefloor.
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The latest show to take up dancefloor themes is titled Momentum, and it stars Michael C. Morello as Michael Morris, an aspiring New Jersey producer in his mid-20s who supports his foster family by working in construction.
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Once they unite, it's a blur of colors and locations, from a neon carnival to a red-lit dancefloor, until they head their separate ways at sunrise, presumably to get some sleep before doing it all over again.
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That's right: One of the other great things about Chicago is that its various artistic threads all interweave, so it should come as no surprise that some of its more popping rappers also happen to slay the dancefloor.
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The imprint was born so the producer could retain total creative control of his work, thus allowing him to share mellower music aimed more toward warming the dancefloor (hence the "openers" name) than for peak-time house scorchers.
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If nothing else, after seeing Connie perform you'll want to experience at least one 3AM dancefloor with her to replicate that joy—even if it's actually about 8:30PM on a weekday, and you're watching from the audience.
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Although Lawrence doesn't directly resemble the often black, Latino and queer characters that populate his story, he possesses a natural empathy to any outsiders on the dancefloor, and a corresponding desire to shield them from more ruthless forces.
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Seemingly sick of the dancefloor dalliances, some of North America's noise greats have, in recent years, begun shaping their static into more traditional band arrangements, taking influence from the industrial runoff of several decades of classic rock radio.
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You wheel the Christmas songs out every year like tinsel from a loft and coo over them, get drunk to them, howl them while swaying alone in the middle of the dancefloor at the otherwise vibeless office party.
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Because of Cudmore's infectious original, and flips from his two pals, the EP turned out to be one the biggest dancefloor records of 2016, making top tracks of the year lists for this very publication and Resident Advisor.
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After 67 closed the show with a rabid, high-octane performance of "Lurk", the crowd filed out the venue quicker than you could say "Uber", leaving the empty dancefloor littered with plastic cups and sticky with spilt beer.
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HTC just debuted a wireless headset for their Vive system at CES this year, which would solve the problem of multiple players in the same space colliding, assuming it works in as fluctuating a situation as the dancefloor.
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As DJs Vaughn Avakian and Camilla Robina spin deep cuts by bands like Alien Sex Fiend and Cabaret Voltaire, a tall man on the dancefloor bends and twists around like a mummy trying to escape from his bandages.
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With the help of another friend's home-grown weed, the two musicians crafted an electro-pop fun-zone — sexy synth lines, dancefloor-ready drum machine beats, and Chipmunk-ified vocal parts, all girded by sophistication and emotional depth.
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Inside the theatre, the ACLU had a table set up in the foyer, with chipper attendants handing out stickers, informational pamphlets, and mini US Constitutions, which I took a stack of to make rain on the dancefloor and #EducateTheYouth.
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For one, that opening track pairs spare piano plunks—what might have been the entire song on a past James Blake album—with swooning jolts of noise and an insistent synth pulse that tip it close to dancefloor material.
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But the intent gaze of her kohl-rimmed eyes, as she stands with arms folded on the edge of the dancefloor in an all-black outfit, watching couples bob and twirl to the music, gives away her real occupation.
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The series has traced every step of dance culture's development, from acid house to trance to future bass, and has played a major part in expanding the reach of electronic music from the dancefloor to the day-to-day.
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So when it came time for Guy Andrews to define himself with an LP, he had a choice to make: stick to the more palatable dancefloor sonics that have brought him success or return to his more abstract beginnings.
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I just had to empty my mind and start all over again with what I thought I knew about what records could be played at a party, and the type of experience that could be had on the dancefloor.
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A vest-clad dancer takes up residence at the front of the dancefloor, ushering the crowd to follow his footsteps; what proceeds is a fumbling line dance of sorts, where strangers are paired up and human tunnels are formed.
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Somewhere on the dancefloor, hidden in the murk, producers John Barclay and Michael Sherburn stood in HAZMAT suits, captaining their hardware—a combination of both analog and digital synths, samplers and processors—just inches away from the seething crowd.
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Witnessing the packed afterparty for Guevara's birthday at Club Tropical, it's almost as if Cubans have had electronic music all along; hoots and hollers follow every hi-hat and bassline introduced as dollar beers fuel the divey basement dancefloor.
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The EP's six tracks bob along between syncopated drum patterns, reverby vocals, rhythmic elements of dub and just-about-dancehall, and dark, thudding electronic production fit for both a dancefloor and someone's smoke-filled living room after the club.
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We know Griff is renowned in Baltimore and beyond for the "dancefloor bomb" Fade To Mind re-issued in 2012, but digging into the broken links of pre-2010 Music Blogspot reveals the existence of this forgotten remix, too.
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Simply titled Eli Escobar Edits, the four-tracker is an uncomplicated affair; the producer subtly adds a variety of elements to a mysterious quartet of disco tracks that would feel right at home on Saturday night on a Studio 54 dancefloor.
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It's a grey afternoon in October, and Cityfox co-founder Jürgen "Billy" Bildstein and marketing director Simar Singh are huddled around a wooden picnic table off the central dancefloor of the Brooklyn Mirage, sheltered by an alcove built into the wall.
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While earlier albums were full of bright hooks and punchy dancefloor anthems, this one occupies a completely different color pallette: it's darker, more sorrowful and introspective, even it's most joyful moments offset with having navigated through trauma to reach them.
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Gaining ground with their refreshingly trippy DJ sets in pubs and clubs, the pair went on to "reanimate" a sterling series of major artists––The Chemical Brothers, Goldfrapp, Franz Ferdinand––to much acclaim, creating several unusual dancefloor anthems in the process.
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In Stamper's more-than-capable hands—having recently put her own spin on Robyn's "Indestructible"—the remix sashays right back onto the dancefloor with a funky, fat bassline and the fleeting sparkling sheen of lights bouncing off the disco ball overhead.
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His solo work—a string of albums and singles over the last half decade for DFA, gnarled techno institution L.I.E.S., among other tangential dancefloor orbiters—has sought to demonstrate the inverse, that dance music benefits when you get a little strange.
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Her self-titled 2005 LP on Mahogani is super-tight, Nikki-O's dreamy lyricism and honeyed voice alongside Moodyman's production is an evocative portrait of Detroit and perfect for Nicholas' reverential attention to the moods and desires of the dancefloor.
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One of the things that's most striking to me about your music—kinda regardless of the function of a given track, whether its more dancefloor-friendly or more ambient—is that you favor these like beautiful but kinda sad melodies.
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Not satisfied just making cuts for the dancefloor, Trus'me's latest endeavor reads like a concept album of garbled dance beats written with analog synths to tell a story, in this case a retro-futurist conspiracy tale about human life on Mars.
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What's made Thompson's music appealing to so many is that it wasn't built to specifically serve a dancefloor—it sounds just as lovely on a long drive or coming out of your laptop speakers while you drift off to sleep.
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According to Armada Music, the first time Miles played "Children" in a DJ set, he was extremely anxious at how the ethereal, instrumental song would be received by clubbers, who used to hearing more hard-hitting rave tracks on the dancefloor.
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OK, OK, the whole 'mysterious producer' routine is a bit played out by now, but it seems like we're still suckers for artists who surface every so often, shrouded in mystery, only to drop a dancefloor depthcharge before vanishing again.
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Natti Natasha and Bad Bunny - "Amantes De Una Noche" A readymade pop anthem along the lines of Becky G's "Mayores" and Rihanna's "Work," the chopped dembow mingles with the singer's vivid hook and the rapper's baritone drawl to ensure dancefloor domination.
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You spend a lot of time, when you're making club music just trying to transport yourself on to the dancefloor, whereas when you're writing that spaced-out, melodic music you allow yourself to drift off and go with the mood.
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Last year's self-released record Confessions At 5AM roils with the thunder of ballroom tracks and R&B playing back at 16 rpms, dancefloor bliss slowed down so you can hear the breaths, gasps, and hesitations that live between the beats.
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Women like Juliana, SHYBOI, and Bearcat—who all played the Discwoman show—are creating their own dialogue on the dancefloor and with the year we've had, I think there's nothing more beautiful than having that space to just lose yourself.
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Even when they're in dancefloor mode—as they seem to be on this kick drum-heavy single from 2009—their music evokes inner spaces, full of circular melodies and recurrent samples that swing back and forth like a hypnotist's pocket watch.
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It almost feels like cheating to send a classic pop song and one of your own biggest hits on a collision course, but few remixes have ever felt this weighty—like a monolith slammed down in the middle of the dancefloor.
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It's often an austere sort of allure, but the kaleidoscopic sweetness underpinning songs like the Tink and Aaliyah-sampling "Your Love" is part of what makes The Sound so addictive outside of dancefloor contexts—a little saccharine to accompany the sweat.
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As a duo—and occasionally as solo DJs—the pair of Justin Carter and Eamon Harkin have won the hearts of many a dancefloor with their adventurous record label, and flagship Saturday night party for which they cheekily take their name.
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I told him I do get Villains and I like it, but their music makes me want to gorge myself on peyote and brood underneath a Yucca rather than quiff my hair and tear up the dancefloor at Jack Rabbit Slim.
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He finger-points and Fat Mac shuffles for the duration, somehow signing off on every single move with an inherent grace and coolness—the kind of swag your uncle thinks he possesses on a wedding dancefloor but absolutely does not.
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TLC in 2017 are known more for their big singles—"No Scrubs" a dancefloor crowd pleaser at your shite uni club nights, "Waterfalls" soundtracking the drunken pub singing of a group of women in their late thirties—than their album tracks.
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LONDON, Jan 31 (Reuters) - Actress Emma Watson twirls on the dancefloor as heroine Belle in Disney's latest glimpse of its upcoming live-action remake of "Beauty and the Beast", the romantic fantasy film's final trailer ahead of its March release.
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So as a tribute to the upstarts, visionaries, and legends still slaying the dancefloor year after year, THUMP decided to take some time over the next few weeks to reflect on all the great music that's already surfaced in 227.
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When you look at Richard's career—with proudly auteurist records like 211's BlackHeart already in the rearview, along with recent production help from dancefloor weirdos like Machinedrum—it's clear that she's continued to dig deeper underground with each release.
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At a certain point on Sunday evening, every single stage had electronic acts performing, with the exception of Death Grips in the Gobi Tent, though you could even count them too if your vision of the dancefloor is noise-rap inclusive.
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The resulting project was an anti-club manifesto that ended with a literal farewell to the club, despite the fact that much of the record contained some of the most dancefloor-friendly minimal wave and EBM that she'd ever made.
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Fittingly titled "Alien Abduction," the producer's latest slice of out-there dance music is all about the loops, taking a bunch of spiraling synth lines and wrapping them around a steady bass drum that keeps the beat firmly aimed at the dancefloor.
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In the alternate America of Jersey Shore, knowing, or least kinda knowing, how to use a CDJ and a mixer was like being a star football player, with the club as your field and every woman on the dancefloor as a goalpost.
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Letting Yeezy's brilliant pastoral sampling do most of the leg-work, the young artist simply adds some steady hi-hats and a skittering bassline into the mix, turning the once way-to-short track into a extended beat primed for the dancefloor.
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After all, if your dad's always banged on about being such a big fan of the Durutti Column, then why has he nearly just broken his ankle trying to get to the wedding dancefloor before the end of a Spandau Ballet song?
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Basically, there's this trend with producers in Mexico and also all over Latin America who are taking old folk and traditional music—a lot of it is indigenous folk music from Peru and Argentina—and they're remixing it to work on the dancefloor.
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Ghostly International's dancefloor-oriented sister label Spectral Sound celebrates 15 years of ghoulish rug-cutting this year and the eerie imprint is celebrating with a party being thrown by New York techno tastemakers The Bunker this weekend at Good Room in Brooklyn.
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Four weeks out from the release of his latest album, knock knock—released on May 4—he's in a reflective mood, fitting of the record's sound: a deep gaze into the kaleidoscoping rearview mirror of his life on and around the dancefloor.
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Allofasudden, two helicopters started circling over the dancefloor shining their searchlights down on the party crowd, causing everyone to be in a dusty, confused haze… were they actually looking for someone, or was this all a stunt orchestrated by mastermind momager Kris Jenner?
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This episode also features a brief interview with photographer Michael Tullberg, whose new book, Dancefloor Thunderstorm: Land of the Free, Home of the Rave, is an epic 300+ page journey through the Southern California rave scene of the mid-90s through early-00s.
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The six-track Syn Stair EP is a characteristically unclassifiable offering from the New York-based producer, who is cementing himself with the likes of Arca, Evian Christ and Amnesia Scanner as dancefloor experimentalists trawling the outer limits of club-oriented sounds.
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As you might expect, it goes some places; it starts with some low-key ambience, before blooming into a set of dancefloor rippers and technoid trippers, taking detours through shimmery disco, cowbell exercises, and even some lost demos from her own archives.
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For Saïd and his friends—a jumbled crew who share in common their distaste for the mainstream life in Turkey—it's a dancefloor so dark you can't see how crowded it is, and a bass that rattles the oxygen molecules in your lungs.
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Firstly, in the shape of "Da Funk" Daft Punk showcased their inherent gift for fusing dancefloor swagger with a metallic crunch—something that would come to define the French electronic scene that followed them, best personified perhaps in the shape of Justice.
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As pop music goes, Honey is the future without the sounds of futurism; interesting, balmy beats (a sonic portrait of Ibiza and the beach transitioning to the dancefloor, for example) paired with lyrics that lay Robyn's, at times, sore but glimmering heart bare.
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With everything from skydiving to jet skiing to shark dives offered by the resort, you're able to get your kicks whichever way you please and make it to the dancefloor at your own leisure because most DJs play on multiple occasions, often impromptu and unofficially.
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Over the course of their two decades in action, Black Dice have been hardcore deconstructionists, a bleak noise trio, and off-kilter dancefloor destroyers (just to name a few of their few gnarled forms), but each transformation comes like a gene splice gone wrong.
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It was 30C in London that day and there was sweat dripping off the roof, but I was amazed that so many people still stuck it out in the middle of the dancefloor, and luckily we had some industrial-sized fans in the booth.
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Over snare drums that once rang with gleeful defiance, we have instead the sour death knell that anchors "Thought It Was a Drought"; where those high keyboard squeals used to mean the dancefloor was heating up, now they sound like inarticulate cries of agony.
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In an interview with THUMP, the producer born Alexander Paul Coe said that he's "always liked to put ambient ... sounds into [his] club tracks," but Scene Delete is the wholehearted embrace of that ideal, a collection of dancefloor bangers that move at a glacier's pace.
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The Juno EP, which rolls out into the world on the 8th of April, is a four track skim through lushly dark, darkly lush dancefloor territory and we're stoked to be bringing you the world premier of the title track right here on THUMP.
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Its naked concrete floor and arched ceilings are flooded with light from projectors dangling from the rafters like green and purple eyes maniacally scoping out the dancefloor while four prism-like crystals the size of fists break the rays of light into kaleidoscopic, colorful chaos.
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It's baffling at first, the idea of Sonny Moore throwing down a stadium-cleaving dubstep set before some guys with guitars take the stage, but the dude's productions have always been as rooted in rock & roll's lineage of destruction as they have in the dancefloor.
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On top of that, it offers plenty of options for getting weird after hours, whether you're looking to grind up on a dancefloor, knock back some after-midnight tiki drinks, eat breakfast surrounded by exotic birds, or hang out at a 224/224 Korean spa.
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Lately that's meant a lot of the work of her recent co-producers and their friends—like Arca, Rabit, Kelela and Serpentwithfeet—which isn't exaclty the most traditionally club-friendly stuff out there, but Björk's affinity for the dancefloor goes back decades at this point.
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It's a collection of music you'd probably never hear on a dancefloor—though if you did, it probably would be in the gentle opening hours of a Mister Sunday party where open-format albums are often played in their entirety while dancers file in.
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The festival's deepest grooves, however, belonged to the Red Bull Panamerika stage, where a selection of Mexican artists banged out an all-night rager on Saturday night and the dancefloor kicked up into a lusty, swampy bacchanal that did not relent from its raucous energy.
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People often forget the importance of offering dancefloor relief via gratuitous melody, and like countless Red Planet releases or so many other Detroit classics, a tune like this manages to be demanding on your legs while at the same time overflowing with beautiful instrumentation.
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As democracy takes a kidney punch from the right wing media and the economy starts to do the worm across the dancefloor of modern life, I think we all might want to take a couple of minutes respite to bathe our eyes with some delight.
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Whether performing as part off freakout live techno outfit DUST, crafting deep and hazy house tracks on labels like 1080p and Mike Simonetti's 2MR, or just crushing the dancefloor at local haunt Bossa Nova Civic Club, the duo's always up for change and experimentation.
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The song is the lead single from her upcoming mixtape, What We Drew 우리가 그려왔던, and contains some familiar tentpoles: breathy synths, a punchy dancefloor soundbed, a heavy influence of jungle/drum-n-bass music, and all of it ornamented with Yaeji's blissful whisper-sing.
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But there's also "ベヘリット" which leans on several intersecting synth melodies to craft a slippery, dense electro exercise full of both dancefloor ecstasy and the wide-eyed fragility of the early synth pieces that populate the "MOOG" grab bag at your local record store.
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Located in an old industrial lot across the street from a lumber warehouse and an office supplies warehouse, the venue is a purpose-built party Eden, complete with a huge outdoor dancefloor, two indoor performance spaces, several bars, and viewing platforms surrounding the main outdoor stage.
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It's where Kelly first drags Yorkie onto the dancefloor to Alexander O'Neal's "Fake," starts doing some angular shoulder-based routine that everyone else in the room seems to know because as far as I can tell clubbing in the 213s was like one big Michael Jackson video.
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"Fake Love" Love Yourself: Tear's lead single, typifies their approach, stacking plucked guitar chords, crinkly electronic bass, and multiple layers of synth flutter into a glistening motion machine, set to a melody that builds like a rock anthem with the streamlined grace of a dancefloor banger.
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The collection of 11 warmly euphoric house and techno tracks, including "Afterglow" and "You Can't Deny" (which picked up a JUNO Award nomination for Dance Recording of the Year), builds on his ability to layer cut-up R&B vocal samples, sawtoothed synths, and dancefloor-aimed percussion.
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While it might take a dash of resourcefulness, the internet-fueled age we live in has birthed a number of ways in which people can discover the names and artists behind the mysterious, rare, or just u-Shazamable tracks that pique our interest on the dancefloor.
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Even the fog machines were exhausted by the time, but his loyal audience understood the gravity of the moment and were rooted to the dancefloor, as many will be rooted to their headphones when the mix goes live on the radio in a couple short weeks.
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Escapements will be Beacon's second album on the label, and it finds Thomas Mullarney and Jacob Gossett preserving the delicately lustered production value that we came to love in their previous work, while giving it a new dimension by moving in a more dancefloor-specific direction.
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Within that framework, it seems to intentionally mix up positive and negative feelings through its instrumentation: familiar synth pulls and screeches characteristic of unbridled delight on the dancefloor are coated in a certain kind of messy rumble evocative of the feeling of wanting to throw up.
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We know that sticking a bunch of pre-teens on the dancefloor with only vague guidelines is a recipe for mild hilarity and a whole lot of sublimated shame that will play out in unpredictable and psychically fraught ways for literally the rest of their lives.
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To add icing to the dancefloor cake, Fracture has reached "across the pond" all the way to Chicago, tapping Teklife's DJ Spinn and Taso to collaborate on the track Acid Claps that sounds like an Aphex Twin track as if remixed by the late DJ Rashad.
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Factory Floor, "Ya" British electronic duo Factory Floor are releasing a new album on August 19th, and "Ya" has me feeling pretty excited about it: this is lean, icy techno, the kind of thing you conjure up in your head when you imagine a crowded Berlin dancefloor.
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Seconds after leaving the club, she realizes that her crop top might as well say "PLEASE CATCALL ME." As the fuzzy warmth of the dancefloor sharpens into cold paranoia, she hears a rustling sound and whips her head back, hoping it's leaves moving in the breeze.
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Drawing on his education in sound design at the London College of Communication, Levitas uses ambient passages and deconstructed dancefloor tracks with the intent of echoing his experiences, bringing to bear both the darkness and the light in one of the year's most strangely endearing records.
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On "Let's Dance," another biblical call to the dancefloor, Rodgers and his regular collaborator Bob Clearmountain took what was originally said to be a folk song and stripped it down to a gloriously simple, shiny, punchy joyride full of descending basslines and that made you move.
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Any of the 30 footwork and juke-heavy edits from DJ Paypal's 2014 Bandcamp compilation could make this list, but we're picking the Teklife member's rework of the So Far Gone highlight, because it turns a bleary-eyed slowburner into a whiplash-inducing peak hours dancefloor jam.
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The record doesn't necessarily speak to the dancefloor, but it does act as a portal to the joyous sounds, vibrant colors, and styles that occupy the duo's brains—in this case, jazz, funk, house, hip-hop and other genres home to aqueous synthesizers and rib-cracking percussion.
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It incorporates several aesthetic choices that code commercial, like hard beats and dance hooks and the fucksong as methodological mode, without sacrificing Prince's creative/musical/conceptual vision, and does so effortlessly, as if he had always specialized in edgy, dancefloor-friendly electrofucksongs, which in fact he had.
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The album's dancefloor catharsis, with swaying hooks and booming beats, is imbued with an awareness of its own function, or range of functions — to ease, to purge, to sound good as if our lives depended on it — and the contextualization lends the catharsis an urgency that feels valuable.
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Prepped in advance of this weekend's Boxed party at Phonox in Brixton—where he'll be joined by Slackk, Mr. Mitch, Oil Gang, Grandmixxer, Silk Road Assassins, and Night Slugs' main man Bok Bok—the set is an acidic, caustic, and corrosive trawl through the darker edges of the dancefloor.
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The void left by these fallen giants is quickly being filled by a bevy of smaller hotspots, like dancefloor-equipped finger food joint Coyo Taco and late-night lounge Libertine (both opened in 22016), as well as hip-hop hangout Sidebar and upscale dive the Corner, among others.
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The cauldron-like dancefloor was walled in and decked out in blacklight and underwater decorations reminiscent of Guy Gerber's Rumors brand as the trio got weird and heavy until 6 AM. After the soggy challenge of the daytime, the club was heaving and the festival brought back to life.
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Take his EP Testigo for example—released this August by fellow dancefloor contortionists N.A.A.F.I.—he offers five tracks that take the component parts of contemporary electronic music (the scuffed synth work, stomach-churning sub bass) and present them in a format that feels non-linear, otherworldly, and imagistic.
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At a club in Germany, when Jess and Jules' competition over their coach/beard Joe (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) starts brewing, Jess and Jules dance with him in a weird dancefloor threesome—and they're literally dancing to "I Turn To You" by Melanie C, AKA Sporty Spice, a gay icon.
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But now that the producer—who made some acclaimed records last decade as White Williams, and has since worked in the small scene around the experimental dancefloor enthusiasts in Future Times—is finally preparing his debut album under the moniker, his vibrant explorations of contemporary technology are more clear.
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Although founded in 1979 by avant-garde composer Juan Blanco to nurture electroacoustic composition among Cuba's classical musicians, in recent years the LNME has opened its doors to dancefloor-oriented electronic production; it even offers the country's first DJ course specifically for women, where Pauza cut their chops.
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Whether she's throwing down jubilant house and disco-leaning sets, on the dancefloor hugging her fans, or speaking out against bigotry, Stamper is always fully and passionately engaged, driven by her belief that dance music is a haven to outcasts of all genders, races, and walks of life.
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Yet increasingly, following the path from the more focused rattle of his fabriclive mix (2014) through to the near-ebullience of his recent Crack mix (2016), McAuley is drawing from a seemingly renewed interest in a more straightforward relationship with the dancefloor, and a more direct communication with people.
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A simple but effective DJ rig at Club Tropical / Photo by the author The music takes a turn towards techno and things start to really heat up when suddenly the club goes dark, the dancefloor comes to a halt, and the sound slowly drains from the PA system.
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Brimming with adrenalized drama, Furi's soundtrack rolls from Lorn's microbeats of "Set Me Free", itchy with mischief, to The Toxic Avenger's "My Only Chance"—which could be Daft Punk's contribution to the last dancefloor at the end of the world—without simply breaking a sweat, but wringing itself into a husk.
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At Smart Bar, the hallowed hall where the Chicago-based artist has been a resident for the last three years, he's often captained a dancefloor whose booking focus pays homage to the queer roots of disco and classic house, while keeping a foot firmly tapping into the future-facing sounds.
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Inspired by sci-fi author Kim Stanley Robsinon's Mars trilogy, per the press release, and taking on the issue of "artificial life extension and the issues (class, physiology, ecology, etc.) that crop up with it," the record does an impressive job of balancing conceptual heavy lifting and very real dancefloor functionality.
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Once inside, the place will feel comfortingly familiar to Verboten initiates; the long bar is to your left, bathroom to the right (note: the window in the men's bathroom is still there, with its bizarre function of allowing you to you pee in a urinal while gazing out onto the dancefloor).
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Super dancefloor-targeted, the song's beat — including Prince's signature heavy third but a little more nuanced, speeding up every other measure to lend the music a sense of forward motion — aims to make you jump from your seat, move move move, shake your body til your neighbors stare at ya.
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Traceable back to a TED Talk by a guy named Jeet Kai in 2011, the phrase "transformational festival" stems from the idea that attending these festivals can lead you to become a more enlightened, educated, open, and/or awakened individual between (or during) all that get down on the dancefloor.
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The pair had a long and fruitful creative relationship, that began in 2013 when the pair bonded on a long, meandering tour across the U.S. They realized they had a lot in common as people and as dancefloor dreamers, and over the years worked on music together off and on.
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Nearly two decades after electronic music veteran Moby released his 1999 album Play, British producer (and reader of Moby's new book) Kidnap Kid is bringing one of its tracks, "Natural Blues," into the present day with a solemn remix that might just bring you to your knees on the dancefloor.
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On tracks like the ten-minute-marathon "Cosmic Machines," the record occasionally locks into skittering rhythms, but even the most forceful moments tend to be heavy-lidded and hypnotic, evocative more of the salty, oxygen-poor air above the dancefloor than the friction that's generating all the heat down below.
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In a press release, Dettmann described his DJ-Kicks contribution as a "lost and found" story in which he drew from "25 years of collecting records, digging deep, revisiting, [and] researching," resulting in a reflective mix that showcases the trajectory of his personal music history while still maintaining dancefloor energy.
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I breathed a sigh of relief, and ran through the line of neon-lit palm trees and Keith Haring-esque rainbow print BMWs like Moses parting the seas, stopping onto the grassy dancefloor flanked between a lagoon and the mainstage where Travis was performing with Diplo, Pedro, and their entourages.
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Drawing on the creeping thunder of Goblin soundtracks, the minimal bluster of John Carpenter's film work, and the primary color dancefloor gems that line the hallowed halls of italo disco, Sweatt's used a string of singles and LPs for outre labels like Not Not Fun to both terrify and confound.
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From upbeat dancefloor bliss to the epic slow burner and the rougher catharsis of machines scraped together, Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides's grand arc swings through a billion little moments of rapture because the album's many electronic sounds are so beautiful, so ugly, so extreme, and the emotions follow.
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The goofily titled "Aaaaaaa" is the best of her bunch, a slow-mo collection of acid squelches, stuttering snares, and sickly drones that slowly sidles up to the dancefloor, breaching the edge before quickly receding again—a reminder, perhaps, that there's worlds out there behind the club's tomb-like confines.
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DJs Bearcat, DJ Haram, Umfang and Volvox will represent the crew during their stops in Berlin, London, Paris, Amsterdam, and more between August 13-September 11; between parties, they will also be conducting educational events including a free CDJ workshop and a discussion on how to bring politics (back) to the dancefloor.
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Now Nervous Horizon label heads TSVI and Wallwork have tapped Lokane for his his next release, Visions EP. The six-tracker (plus a digital-only bonus remix from TSVI) show Lokane taking his sound to the next level, distilling his eclectic and energetic style into a positively-banging set of dancefloor bombs.
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Known for an experimental but welcoming form of electronic pop, the duo of Thomas Mullarney III and Jacob Gossett create both emotive dancefloor tracks like "Backbone" and loungier affairs like "Running Out" in Escapements, all bolstered by Mullarny's melodic, breathy vocals, which cut through with reverb and other more warped sound edits.
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Over the years, the Icelandic great has commissioned some incredible dancefloor-focused mixes of her songs, a treat that's seemingly only become more frequent as she's redoubled her fascination with experimental club sounds—enlisting futurist producers like Arca, Rabit, and the Haxan Cloak to help bring her recent mutant visions to life.
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As critic Julianne Escobedo Shepherd pointed out on Twitter this afternoon, a 15-year-old producer named Black Puma has already taken up the call releasing a Jersey Club mix of "Damn Daniel" just four days after the original video was published—a surely unprecedented turnaround in the meme-to-dancefloor lifecycle.
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As DJ's, whether it be techno or house, we've always played upfront dancefloor orientated tracks from labels like Sonic Groove, Dance Mania, UR, Relief, Casual, Rephlex, and Viewlexx, so it was a natural progression for us to release artists that we would buy and play out ourselves had they been on another label.
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As if we could expect anything less, it's a gospel-inflicted disco belter whose brimstone basslines will ignite the hairs on the back of your neck—a testament to the glorious alchemy of what has to be one of the few (if not only) father/daughter DJ and production duos in dancefloor history.
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Though Rizzla admits that part of the process of making the record was ultimately refining these tracks to draw them a little closer to the dancefloor, tracks like "Inquisition" bubble over and out of the gridlike arrangements that club music tends to favor, throwing sounds into every margin, scribbling into any blank space.
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His first album since 2002, Scene Delete (out April 1 on CD and 3xLP), flexes Coe's affinity for minimal compositions, and sees him collaborating with Radiohead member Nigel Godrich's band, Ultraísta, British artist John Graham, as well as ThermalBear, on a variety of tracks built more for your headphones than the peaking dancefloor.
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If you want to make a donation directly to the Victim Fund, go to their GoFundMe page here, but if you're keen to give to a worthy cause while getting down on the dancefloor, we've compiled a list of ten fundraising parties taking place this weekend to help you do just that. 1.
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This sense of synthetic decomposition combined with dancefloor utility—the tune is certainly designed for effectiveness in DJ sets—creates a compelling tension: on the one hand there's the addictiveness of tightly compressed subbass, but on the other, the palate feels kind of uncomfortable holding itself together, like it might just fall to dust.
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The whole record's streaming over a week in advance, and it largely follows on the promise of the ambitiously tweaked tracks they've released from the album so far (and with the string of giddy edits of pop songs they've issued in parallel), distilling the very essences of joy and light into dense dancefloor excursions.
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He'd spent years exploring the outer reaches of minimal, ambient electronic soundscapes with his Moving Dawn Orchestra project and the mellower, jazzier edges of post-rock under the name iambic, but his biggest successes came under his own name, producing dancefloor-ready techno with releases on Scuba's Hotflush and newfangled avant-tech label Pennyroyal.
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The brilliant thing about this series, which we first saw late last year, is how we ignore smudged make-up or douchey haircuts when we meet someone on the dancefloor because of the lighting, the music, and the pure joy of watching the fantastical spectacles like Wesley Snipes sticking a shotgun in an alien's mouth.
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Christian and I eased into the center of the dancefloor for optimum cushion between any unwarranted midnight smooches and as the crowd started counting down, I clutched my sister with ten seconds and counting, and planted a big juicy kiss on his cheek as we welcomed in the new year with many a curve.
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Like many of Heard's now timeless LPs, you could probably take Cerebral Hemispheres all the way from a psychedelic dancefloor, to a woozy chill-out room, sun-kissed beach, a hazy rooftop, and maybe even some sort of low-lit, romantic dinner scene—as long as your guests are down to get extremely chill.
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As long as you're able to semi-adequately pull off a selection or two of the Macarena's various stages, you'll always have something to fall back on when you find yourself on the kind of dancefloor where you've actually got to dance rather than being allowed to browse the Gardener's World forum in peace.
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Even before Rodgers was lending his guitar chops to the work of producers in the dance music space—and more specifically the EDM era—he an Edwards were both a key instigators to the birth of house music and club culture through their bass-heavy, rhythmic songs that were created with the dancefloor in mind.
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At festivals and in clubs around the world, an endless procession of DJs spend their nights with faces slipping into the kind of bleakly blank non-countenance normally associated with grouting, while tingling intoxicators stumble from dancefloor to smoking area and back again, their faces a terrifying blend of bug eyes and tight jaws.
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While the stars performed on a stage designed to look like a massive grinning clown mouth—an homage to the decor at 80s electro club The Fun House in New York City, where Benitez made his name—photographer Luis Nieto Dickens roamed the dancefloor, asking both the diehards and newer converts what speaks to them about this culture.
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As both a solo artist and a prolific remixer, he's always been keen to take the established forms of dance music and turn them on their head—stretching funk hits to endless odysseys, flipping pop songs into bleary-eyed dancefloor deconstructions, and more generally proving the mantra that, yes, house is a feeling, more than a sound.
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This countdown also marked a real shift away from indie/alternative music (you know, guitar rock bands) to a more diverse collection of high-placing rap (like Kendrick and Urthboy and Chance The Rapper), hip-hop (Drake and Weeknd), electronica (Jamie xx, Disclosure, DJ Snake and SAFIA) and dancefloor bangers (Hermitude, RUFUS and LDRU & Paige IV).
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Playlist: "Senses" / "This Time of Night" / "Everything's Gone Green" / "Paradise" / "We All Stand" / "Truth" / "Angel Dust" / "Leave Me Alone" / "Sunrise" / "Elegia" / "The Him" / "Guilty Partner" Spotify | Apple Music With no words necessary, the hypnotic drum machine THUDTHUDTHUDTHUD and synth bass intro of "Blue Monday" seduces you to the dancefloor as if you'd locked eyes with a stranger.
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You're potentially only familiar with the song because it's one of the three tracks that gets played during the rock bit on a Friday night at the club in your hometown (the other ones are "I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor" and "All the Small Things"), so its 2000s indie kid nostalgia cred is lost on you.
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You may know NYC-via-Philly producer and DJ, Alex Burkat from a spread of releases on lauded labels like Mister Saturday Night, 100% Silk, and Permanent Vacation, where he's long been dropping deep and vibrant house jams that not only sound nice and twinkly in your headphones, but can swiftly send joyous ripples across a dancefloor.
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Alongside live rappers Messiah El Artista and Tate Kobang; and DJs Kablam, DJ Cueheat, and LSDXOXO B2B Byrell The Great; Venus X went back-to-back with Fade To Mind crewmember Asmara (also one half of Nguzunguzu) with a house party-ready blend of house, R&B, trap, rap and world music that kept the dancefloor sweating.
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It's the ideal tears-on-the-dancefloor anthem, primed for lights up at the end of the night – but also suitable for a long train journey, a lonely walk in the rain, in the shower, on the way to the gym, while you're cleaning the house, or at a karaoke bar with a shit Tinder date.
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Even as she blends barking dogs, sickened static, and deeply upsetting audio of the arrest of the late Sandra Bland, she teases more uplifting musical sounds too, bringing together mutated pop songs, footwork, and the sort of ascendant dancefloor powerbombs that similarly minded producers like Arca and Rabit have been issuing over the past few years.
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With 2016's edition lubed up and ready to go, good taste behind the decks and bad taste on the dancefloor will reign in equal parts on Sunday, September 25, when Deviants: Adult Arcade (featuring Tuff City Kids, Lena Willikens, and Honey Soundsystem themselves) slides into Mezzanine for the official closing party of the Folsom Street Fair.
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In this case, Flo Rida seems to think that he's recorded the kind of club ready banger that makes anyone—from the lords on high in the VIP with their Nebuchadnezzars of cherry VK, to us serfs on the dancefloor gamely trying to keep down a Slippery Nipple and a quarter pounder—feel ten times their natural size.
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The oblique title, meanwhile, refers not just to medical heart rates as bleakly tracked on hospital monitors, but to the euphoric rhythm of the electronic music that soundtracks ACT UP's occasional disco breaks, in which matters of love, death and ideology are briefly lost to the rush of the dancefloor, and strobe-lit faces fade into dust motes and blood cells.
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In his adopted home of Los Angeles, Harvey—who identifies as "queer, but not homosexual"—has been leading a charge alongside the likes of pansexual party palace A Club Called Rhonda for a newfangled queerness that does not discriminate according to particularities of orientation, subculture, fetish, or perversion, but favors weirdos of all ilks celebrating life together on one dancefloor.
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There was the slut-shaming of the 2015 single "Hotline Bling" ("Got a reputation for yourself now...Started wearing less and goin' out more / Glasses of champagne out on the dancefloor") and let's not forget his perpetuation of the stereotype that women need saving on 2009's "Houstatlantavegas" ("You go get fucked up and we just show up at your rescue").
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Killers songs inhabit a sweeping fantasyland steeped in all flavors of romantic myth, American and otherwise, where small-town kids sneak around making out behind the Ferris wheel in the amusement park after hours, dream of becoming urban sophisticates who wear makeup and drink martinis at exclusive cocktail parties, grapple with the devil, and find each other on the dancefloor.
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One night, a fellow student who was dating the artist Keith Haring brought Alig to one of Haring's parties at Area—a short-lived, mythical nightclub with immersive installations that would change every six weeks, including a pool designed to look like a bowl of alphabet soup (for the "Food" theme) and a ramp whizzing with skaters on the dancefloor (for "Gnarly").
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Listening to In Colour in 212019, its origins as a lament on gentrification feel somewhat ironic: This album was pretty much ubiquitous in the second half of this decade, its skippy breakbeats and lovelorn-on-the-dancefloor melancholia soundtracking cafes, chic retail spaces, WeWorks, Apple ads, and pretty much anywhere else you would expect city-dwelling creative professionals to be lurking.
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Perhaps slinking into your own internal safe-space via the medium of grainy footage of grandparental figures shuffling across the dancefloor to the sounds of disjointed deep house isn't the best way to confront the quotidian atrocities that beat and batter each and everyone of us, but fuck it, if you're going to escape into anything, why not make it this.
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For years, Wyatt has been crafting warped and wily compositions as the grinning outlier of the tightly knit scene revolving around the Paris-via-New York label L.I.E.S. Within their clattering techno enterprises, he's carved out a corner for technicolor bursts of electric guitar, a vision of the dancefloor where a six-string can carry as much emotional heft as a TB-303.
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We thought he might start displaying a penchant for really long Villalobos remixes or new age ambient whale-song cassettes, but no, the man only known to the world as EZ—seriously, check his Wikipedia page, there's no government name there—played a solid twenty four hours' worth of bass-heavy, dancefloor-ready Grade-A bombs to a semi-empty white cube of a room.
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This year's Rojus EP was a fantastic dance document, and the epic "Blush" was its crown jewel; a glowy shapeshifter centered around an anthemic chorus and wordless screams, "Blush" was one of 2016's trippiest big-room jams, a song designed to literally blow your mind to the point where you just might stop dead in your tracks in the middle of the dancefloor.
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Being a woman in a man's world is hard enough, but there's a special sort of injustice that comes with being a trans woman in a gay man's world Over the past five years, queer nightlife has blossomed in Brooklyn—almost every night of the week, you can see a drag show, some enigmatic performance art, or cruise for a new boo on the dancefloor.
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Adomako then ceded to the second DJ, another local named Teresa, who jump-started her set with a "Toxic" remix, Britney's baby-voice curling up to the room's towering ceilings: Baby can't you see, I'm calling... The buzzing crowd—already packed shoulder-to-shoulder on the dancefloor, with many climbing up by the windows to perch against the walls—gamely thrashed around in a growing mosh pit.
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Released through a fresh new website, the first mix plucks you from office-based stagnation and drops you face first on the dancefloor, gifting you with hard-hitting foreboding beats from Fade To Mind's NA, club-ready workout jams in the form of his "Lean and Bop" remix instrumental from last year, smooth commercial R&B thanks to Sevyn Streeter and everything in between.
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Whether it's batting off some limp chirpser by the bar who won't leave you alone, having to keep an eye on your drink in case you get roofied, trying to avoid getting groped by some sweaty bloke on the dancefloor, or having to navigate your way through a space that has a serious and unaddressed problem of sexual assault, festivals and venues have never been neutral spaces.
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I've always liked them though: pseudo-scientific/philosophical musings that are gonna provide that guy on the dancefloor—you know the one I mean, swaying alone after two thirds of the crowd have already left, weirdly positioned Strongbow stain on his shoulder or someplace, grinning at his fingers spread two inches away from his face—with the Big Night Out equivalent of this timeless gif.
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I understand that the past is the ultimate place to seek solace, but fuck me, if your idealized idea of what once was involved Dane Bowers, six vodka and soda waters deep, mixing "21 Seconds" into "Hit Me Baby One More Time" while a bunch of blokes in brown shirts hover nervously on the edges of the dancefloor stinking of Davidfoff Cool Water and broken dreams, then God help us all.
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Expecting that the name was a coincidence, I arrived in the space, and was faced with something I did not expect to see on any wall in central London, or any wall for that matter: a large photograph of the guy who played in goal for my Sunday league football team, steaming, on the dancefloor of Storm, emboldened by ice-pole blue VS and Carling, a totem of dutch-courage.
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A truly Midwestern rap anthem that sonically recalls the cybernetic paranoia of classic Detroit techno and the shuddering trippiness of footwork, Brown calls out regional luminaries like Traxman and DJ Assault while conjuring the image of dancefloor-as-war zone—a place where you duck and cover when danger's present, or because that's the only way to get your ass as close to the floor as humanly possible.
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Communicating with bleating horns and piano keys dripping in sorrow, No Regular Play's emotions spill onto the dancefloor with lyrics such as, "You taught me everything I know / You taught me how to steal the show / You showed me the clear way to go... Without you, I don't know what to do..." Listen to it below, along with a remixed version from Juan MacLean, ahead of its single release tomorrow (June 24).
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In his earliest years, as he workshopped and woodshedded within the R&B and funk scenes of his native Minneapolis, he was one-part funk disciple, one-part '70s guitar-god; his first truly great album, 1979's Prince, was pure alchemy, a record that brought together dancefloor come-ons like "I Wanna Be Your Lover" and heavenly axe-shredders like "Bambi" so smoothly, it was as if those two sounds had always existed in the same space.
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Now, if you read THUMP you'll know that we're always up for a good old fashioned bit of sadlad dancefloor action, so we're thanking the stars above right now because renaissance man Jimmy Edgar has decided to dunk his head down in the RIVR to turn "Friend Lover" into the kind of star-spangled tearjerker that you'll be desperate to hear next time you spot someone you used to fancy in sixth-form down the club.
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The project is ten tracks of experimental, squeaky pop with a vivid streak of nihilism, most of them maximizing flash-in-the-pan feelings: "Roll With Me" is the wicked glint of possibility when someone shoots you The Look across a dancefloor, "Drugs" is the all-consuming yearning that only presents itself at the crush-stage of a relationship, and "3AM" is the internal conflict that arises when they drunk dial you after it all goes to shit.
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Today, we have a small taste of the Los Angeles-based veteran's swan song, and it comes in the form of a short-but-oh-so-sweet collaboration with dynamic vocalist/producer, Seven Davis Jr. Chock full of shuffling jazz horns and the type of celebratory, grooving house tinge we've come to expect from the pair of producers, it's an early taste of a farewell that will have us both teary-eyed, and cutting shapes on the dancefloor.
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Italian crown-prince of the underground Nicholas Iammateo—or just plain Nicholas to his devoted subjects—has collaborated once again with Mahogani Records siren Nikki-O on their two-track release You Can't Hide/Black Sugar, which you can stream to your heart's content below: Another release on elusive Dutch white-label series X-Masters, this sultry house homage to the Detroit underground is one more example of what Nicholas' tracks do best—elevate the dancefloor to a completely different time and place.
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What you've done, you see, is let yourself escape the moment, and you've started hovering above the dancefloor and you're listening to every inane conversation in the smoking area and you're seeing every pill-rotted penis in the toilets being shaken in unison, and you're eyeing the tills noticing how much the bar have taken in that night, and you've seen the dealer's lounge with it's fishtank and massive telly and one of those Philippe Starck lemon juicers, and it's all gone wrong.
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Live bongo drummers descend upon the dancefloor, while toddlers in heavily patterned onesies roll around on the floor in their own pit of glee; a 50-something-year-old guy wearing neon sunglasses catches the attention of the crowd, who cheer him on with yelps and yips as he twerks to the beat of the bongo; three guys in retro cycling caps and floral shirts trip and giggle amongst themselves, ready to tell their mates about what legends they were for coming along.
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