Dance Music News

The past year brought the worst economy since the malaise of the 1970s, and like that era, it also saw dance music sweep the nation.

Thursday, December 10, 2009 Schezee Zaidi Islamabad The Pakistan National Council of the Arts and Pakistan National Commission for Unesco joined hands in organising a seminar and presentations to highlight the vibrant and dynamic cultural heritage of Pakistan.

Combination of music and dance has always been a potent tool, which, if used judiciously, can play a useful role in the fight against social evils.

Tuesday, December 08, 2009 Islamabad Pakistan National council of the Arts , Ministry of Culture and Pakistan Commission for Unesco will jointly hold a seminar on 'National Intangible Heritage Archives' here on December 9. The seminar will highlight the rich cultural history of Pakistan, its promotion and preservation of cultural treasures with ...

Our featured Tuned In group this week is the Paradiso Girls. They are a Pop-Rock-R&B quintet signed to Interscope Records, UMG.

Ministry of Sound is considered world's best dance label and its London Club was ranked sixth in the 2009 DJ Magazine top 100 clubs poll 2009.

Kampong Bebuloh, Mukim Pengkalan Batu recently hosted students from the Canadian International School, Hong Kong.

As the '00s dawned a fresh crop of DJs and artists descended on club-land. Where the last generation had mastered the long mixes and hip-hop-style tricks of turntables, the new kids were getting under the hood of technology to produce multimedia experiences on the dance floor.

At the dark end of disco and funk in the early 1980s a DJ and crew known as Afrika Bambaataa had wild, sweaty, drunken sex with the emotionless zombie robot corpse of school-of-Bauhaus German synthpop unit Kraftwerk and an unholy thousand-headed monster rose from the undead to groove across the land.

Ben Watt has had one of the more unusual journeys in the annals of DJ success. As one half of pop act Everything But The Girl, he had much more mainstream fame than almost anyone could achieve in club-land. But as the duo followed its muse toward electronic elements in the late 1990s, Watt found his way to the turntables.

Free downloads available for djs, record pools and radio shows. North Dartmouth, MA, October 12, 2009 -- SONG: DEM BIG GIRLS ARTIST: Mwalim *7) ALBUM: The Liberation Sessions LABEL: Liberation Music - MGM "When we get out on the dance floor baby/ Don't be afraid to throw it all at me.." DEM BIG GIRLS - Mwalim Since August, Liberation Music has been ...

On Saturday October 17 from 7 to 10 p.m. the Louisiana Saturday Night dance party welcomes Vermont's own Yankee Chank for a good time Cajun Dance Party at Boccelli's on the Canal, in beautiful downtown Bellows Falls.

A mixture of local and foreign talent will explode on the stage during the 23rd annual Divali Nagar celebrations at Endeavour, Chaguanas, October 8 to 16.

1 /PRNewswire/ -- WHAT: Launch of "B HERE" campaign - featuring Art Exhibit, Live Performances Students and public health experts have joined forces with cutting-edge artists for the launch of B HERE , a new campaign designed to raise awareness of hepatitis B, a life-threatening liver disease that affects up to 2 million people in the United States ...

Dancecult is a new "academic"-style journal about "electronic dance music culture." It reminds me of the kinds of books about technology and postmodernism that I'd impulse buy in the early 1990s.

In the often futuristic realm of electronic dance music it's easy to forget there is also a strong strain of reverence for the highest forms of pop musicianship.

So, yes, guilty pleasure confession time: I was a huge pop fan in the 1980's. I listened to a lot of different dance songs.

A day of dance and music celebrating traditional Irish culture will be held Saturday in St.

This time we'll take you to the heart of Germany's rust belt, to the Ruhr District, home of the Early Music Days in Herne, for a program of "Viennese Dance Music for the Salon and the Dance Hall" and a harpsichord recital titled "Ensemble Compositions in Baroque Transcriptions for Keyboard Instrument." Franz Schubert : Five German Dances with seven ...

One of my favorite house tracks of all time is Gene Farris ' "Richard's Word," which floats a skit by the late, great Richard Pryor above an optimistic groove that's laced with a flighty flute loop.