Alternative dance

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For the genre also called indie dance, see Madchester.
Alternative dance
Other names
  • Indie dance
  • underground dance
Stylistic origins

Alternative dance (also known as indie dance[4] or underground dance in the United States[5]) is a musical genre that mixes alternative rock with electronic dance music. Although largely confined to the British Isles, it has gained American and worldwide exposure through acts such as New Order in the 1980s and the Prodigy and in the 1990s.

Characteristics

technopop–New Wave in a blender".[2]

The genre draws heavily on

small record labels.[7]

History

1980s–90s

Many of the alternative dance artists are British, "owing to the greater prominence of the UK's club and

indie-orientated acts such as Saint Etienne, Dubstar, Space and White Town
also explored dance beats and rhythms in their music.

Tricky, Howie B and 808 State's Graham Massey.[18]

In the US,

Dubtribe expanded dance music "beyond its old identity as a singles-driven genre with no identifiable, long-term artists".[5] The American scene rarely received radio airplay and most of the innovative work continued underground or was imported.[7]

2000s–present

As computer technology and

DJ Annie Mac, part of the strength of the scene in the new millennium was "the sense of community"; she noted, "Websites, blogs and Myspace pages all get people talking about records and checking out each other's recommendations. It's not like the old club scene, where these established DJs dictated what would be big. Word-of-mouth is so important now."[20]

In the early 2000s, the term "electroclash" was used to denote artists such as Fischerspooner and Ladytron who mixed new wave with electronic music. The Electroclash festival was held in New York in 2001 and 2002, with subsequent tours across the US and Europe in 2003 and 2004.[21] In the mid-2000s, the British music magazine NME popularised the term "new rave" ("new wave" and "rave") to describe the music of bands such as Klaxons, whose rock aesthetic includes paraphernalia from the 1990s rave scene such as glowsticks and neon lights.[22]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g "Alternative Dance". AllMusic.
  2. ^ a b "Hot To Trot: A Guide Attitude Included To Sacramento's Alternative Dance Scene". The Sacramento Bee. 12 October 1990. p. TK14.
  3. ^ "How New Order's 'Blue Monday' Changed Music Forever". NME. 30 July 2018.
  4. ^ SPIN, Vol. 6, No. 9 (Dec. 1990), p. 92: "U.K. Indie Dance".
  5. ^ a b Kot, Greg (25 July 1996). "Picking Up The Beat: Underground Dance Music Steps Into The Spotlight With Chicago Summit" (Tempo). Chicago Tribune. p. 1. Retrieved January 1, 2014.
  6. ^
    Allmusic. Archived from the original
    on 22 April 2006. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  7. ^
    Daily News
    . Retrieved 27 October 2009.
  8. ISBN 0-8264-6321-5
    .
  9. ^ a b Harrington, Richard (24 August 1997). "A Spark in Electronica? The Alternative Dance Genre Isn't Saving the Music Industry—Yet". The Washington Post. p. G5.
  10. ^ "The Chemical Brothers: Full Biography". MTV. Archived from the original on 27 October 2009. Retrieved 27 October 2009.
  11. ^ "In Defense of Big Beat, the Annoying 90s Music Genre That Snobs Love to Hate". 14 October 2016.
  12. ^ "Big Beat Music Genre Overview | AllMusic". AllMusic.
  13. ^ Myers, Michele (19 August 2011). "The Big Beat Revolution: 11 Essential Songs". NPR.org.
  14. ^ "The Prodigy: from big beat to bass and beyond". LONDON HAPPENING. 7 November 2018.
  15. ^ Power, Ed (June 23, 2020). "Chemical Brothers and the big beat revolution". Irish Examiner.
  16. ^ "The 10 best big beat tracks released pre-'98 – Mixmag".
  17. ^ "The 10 Best Big Beat Singles | Treble". February 28, 2013.
  18. ^ Blyweiss, Adam; Bossenger, Alex; Grotepas, Nicole; Speranza, Greg; Terich, Jeff (5 June 2014). "10 Essential Iceland albums". Treble. Treble Media. Retrieved 27 March 2016.
  19. ^ Colonna, C. M.; Kearns, P. M.; Anderson, J. E. "Electronically produced music and its economic effects on the performing musician and music industry". Journal of Cultural Economics. CABI.
  20. ^ Muggs, Joe (7 September 2006). "Mix and mash with Mac the magpie". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 2022-01-12. Retrieved 6 April 2010.
  21. ^ Quinion, Michael. "Electroclash". World Wide Words. Archived from the original on 7 April 2010. Retrieved 6 April 2010.
  22. ^ Green, Thomas H (8 February 2007). "The Klaxons, the day-Glo kings of the new rave". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 2022-01-12. Retrieved 6 April 2010.

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