740 Boyz is a Dominican-American dance music group founded in 1991, by Winston Rosa aka BIG WIN from New York.
The presenters are large, engaging personalities who play a mixture of Hip Hop, RnB, Rock, Neo Soul, New Jack Swing, World Music, Jazz, Techno and Dance music, transcending gender, all age groups, backgrounds and cultural boundaries (see the Show Schedule below.) Capital FM was the first ever Kenyan station to play Rock music- and has continuously been dubbed- the home and only home of the best rock music.
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Aardvark Records is a British internet promotional music company started by Andrew Reeve and Alex di Savoia, which promotes the genres indie rock, Americana, alt country, dance music, electronica, adult contemporary and pop music.
Groothuizen rose to fame as a member of the Dutch Dance/Pop girl group Dolly Dots, which achieved popularity inside and outside the Netherlands, and scored hits between 1979 and 1988.
Armin Wirth (born 15 July 1971 in Traunstein; Pseudonym: Dj Swam) is a German Dance-DJ, music producer and label manager.
In many interviews during the album launch, Thalía said that this album was different than her previous ones, because it shows her turn to the Dance/Techno element, describing it as a rhythm-fusion between many types of music.
Bizarre Inc were a house/dance-pop band from Stafford, England, that formed in 1989 as a duo of English DJs Dean Meredith and Mark "Aaron" Archer (not to be confused with the film producer of same name).
Before Savage signed a recording contract, she parlayed success into gigs as a session musician, singer, and songwriter with artists such as CeCe Peniston and Tanya Blount, she co-wrote Peniston's number one Dance single "We Got a Love Thang".
The distributor focusses on a mixture of (Dutch) hip hop, electronic and dance artists, but also draws artists associating closely with folk and experimental music.
Dubbing with the Banton is an underground dub album by dancehall/reggae artist Buju Banton released in 2000 (see 2000 in music).
She sang as a backup vocalist for Celine Dion and Jennifer Lopez, among others, and released several dance singles under the name Elle Patrice, including "Rising" and "Emotions".
"Find a New Way" is the second single from Too Young to Fight It the debut full-length album by American dance-rock band Young Love.
"Get the Music On" is a pop–dance song by Australian singer Sophie Monk, and was the second single from her debut album Calendar Girl (2003).
The album spanned one big hit "Ain't Nothin' Goin' on But the Rent", reaching number 1 on both the Billboard Dance Music/Club Play Singles and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs charts and number 42 on the pop chart.
When silent movies in Poland lost popularity following the arrival of Al Jolson's The Jazz Singer, (known in Yiddish as The Singing Buffoon), thousands of Polish musicians who'd played in the movie theaters lost their livelihood; they began to create large and small orchestras playing dance music and jazz.
"Hombres al Borde de un Ataque de Celos" ("Man on the Verge of a Jealous Outbreak") is a dance song written by J.R. Florez, produced by Gian Pietro Felisatti and Loris Ceroni, and performed by Mexican singer Yuri.
"I Need Somebody" is a pop–dance song by Australian pop group Bardot and was the second single from their second album Play It Like That (2001).
She was lead singer of the dance music band C-Bank's 1983 Top 5 Hot Dance Music/Club Play single "One More Shot", notable for record producer John Robie's use of a "non-linear" approach to its production.
Jessy De Smet, whose stage name is Jessy (born 8 July 1976, Zottegem, Belgium), is a Belgian dance music singer of Flemish origin.
Although intentions were to break through the Hip Hop scene Karl developed a craft in a style of Dance music called Jungle to accommodate the genre at date.
The pop rock version of the song was originally supposed to be performed at the National Final, but the dance version was chosen instead by Martakis and his label.
He released a number of dance singles in the late 1990s and early 2000s, including the UK Garage tracks "Your Mind, Your Body, Your Soul" and "U Turn Me" with Ten City vocalist Byron Stingily (2000).
Released through Touch and Go Records in the United States and Warp Records in the rest of the world, the album was greeted by mainly positive reviews upon its release in 2004; Allmusic hailed it as "a modern-day agit-pop indie dance-rock classic." Louden Up Now sees the group continue to meld funky dance rhythms with post-punk influences.
Her initial chart entry was as the lead singer of the dance group, Shades of Love.
American musicologist Alan Lomax made some historic recordings of Sicilian traditional music in the 20th century, including lullabies, dance music, festival music, epic storytelling and religious music.
Nextera is a pioneering independent Czech record label, founded in Prague in 1989, notable for discovering some of the most enduring artists in dance, ambient and electronic music.
Ruiz has also collaborated with dance music trio The Ones, and is currently a member of the Brooklyn-based trio Jessica 6.
He was a figure in the European dance music scene in the 1980s, producing popular remixes of various hits (most notably the "Long Vocal Dutch Mix" of "I Can't Wait" by Nu Shooz).
Qkumba Zoo was a dance music trio from Johannesburg, South Africa, consisting of vocalist Levannah, dancer/sculptor Tziki and musician/producer Owl.
Raissa has also worked with several other musicians including Dobie and dance duo LHB, for whom she performed guest vocals during their support slot on Kylie Minogue's 2002 arena tour.
Real Hardcore was covered by German Dance music group Rocco as Everybody, it was released as the second single from their 2003 album "Dancecore".
The discography of Scatman John, an American scat and dance musician occasionally known under his real name John Larkin, consists of five studio albums, one compilation album and eight singles.
She Works Hard For The Money was more pop/dance oriented than the two precedent Donna Summer albums, but also contained some soulful ballads, including "Love Has a Mind of Its Own", a duet with gospel singer Matthew Ward.
All of PIR's major production names contributed to the album, resulting in a diverse set of tracks from dance to urban blues.
Instead of a bossa nova sound, Sitti collaborated with Myx Philippines DJ Dense Modesto to make her songs into dance tracks.
They have worked with Javine Hilton to produce a single called "Don't Let The Morning Come", and this single shows Javine's new music style, before she left the R&B style to perform dance music.
The sound was influenced by alternative, industrial, goth, punk, and dance music, combined with an Australian Pub rock live music sensibility.
The band's first two singles, "The Key", released in September 1993, and "Switch", released in March 1994, made the UK Singles Chart Top 50, and garnered rave reviews from both dance and indie reviewers.
Two previously released Japanese only singles recorded during these sessions with Japanese dance music act Eurogroove; Rescue Me and Boogie Woogie were not included on this album.
"Life In A Northern Town" formed the basis of a dance remix by Dario G entitled "Sunchyme", released in 1997 to commercial success in Europe and was also recorded by U.S. bands Sugarland and Little Big Town in 2010, for which it was nominated for a Grammy award.
English dance band Freemasons's music video for their 2008 single "When You Touch Me" was also inspired by the frug dance scene from Sweet Charity.
The Star Sisters were a female Dance/Pop trio from The Netherlands that were very popular during the 1980s, most notably as the ladies who performed the chorus as members of Jaap Eggermont's studio act Stars on 45 and in a spinoff in which they performed as The Andrews Sisters in a medley that charted internationally in 1984.
They were formed by Patrick Adams and Greg Carmichael in 1976, their debut single was "Dance And Shake Your Tambourine" which featured Gregory Tolbert on the keyboards and peaked at #25 at Dance Music/Club Play Singles, #48 at R&B Singles and #93 at The Billboard Hot 100.
"Vi sitter i Ventrilo och spelar DotA" (English "We're sitting in Ventrilo, playing DotA" and in some countries shortened to "DotA") is a song by Swedish dance DJ Basshunter which samples in a remixed version the French song "Daddy DJ" by Daddy DJ.
At the start of the music, typically a fast dance song in 2/4 or 4/4 time, the dancers (who were already seated in a semicircle) stood and began clapping and slapping themselves in time ("patting Juba").
During the mid 1990s, WCAR 1090 was also briefly the Detroit affiliate station for Radio AAHS, a now-defunct nationwide radio network featuring programming for children, and then (after Radio AAHS shut down in 1998) a simulcast of the Minneapolis-based dance music format Beat Radio (which replaced AAHS on all ten of the company-owned former AAHS stations around the country).
92 KISS-FM signed off with Pearl Jam's Last Kiss and then the three signals became "Energy 92.7&5", a format consisting entirely of dance music, launched with DJ Jean's The Launch.
The station was purchased from Hoosier Radio and TV in 2000, and was given the call sign WDNI-LP in 2001; at the same time, the station rebranded as Indy's Music Channel, adopting a format that carried music videos from the rock, alternative rock, hip-hop, R&B, dance and heavy metal genres.
WEGL 91 is a traditional "college radio" station in that the station's programming consists of an eclectic mix of genres including, but not limited to: Rock, Hip-Hop, Pop, Blues, Jazz, Country & Bluegrass, Soul, Dance & Techno, R&B, Reggae, World Music, Oldies, and Gospel.
Fabritio Caroso – Il Ballerino, Italian dance manual, containing much dance music
In addition to the following releases, Afrolicious is loosely affiliated with a worldwide group of DJs, producers, bands, and labels who produce contemporary soulful dance music inspired by sounds of the African diaspora, including Antibalas, Chico Mann, Nickodemus, DJ Smash, Wonderwheel Recordings, Subsuelo, and Cumba Mela.
Frank is the son of Jan Wijn; a famous Dutch concert pianist, while Dorian attended the conservatory in Amsterdam and has a background in pop and dance music.
The playlist is predominantly mainstream Urban Pop, Dance and R&B, although since its relaunch in Summer 2006, (and the launch of a sister channel Q) it has begun to focus more on dance music once again.
CeCe Peniston (born 1969), American gospel and dance music singer
The festival is dedicated to the world's largest electronic-dance music artists having headliners such as Armin van Buuren, Paul van Dyk, Afrojack, Funkagenda, Sander van Doorn among others.
"Someday We'll Be Together" was released as a single and peaked at #7 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play charts (April 1994).
The beat is characterized by syncopated clapping, and it was given the name Diwali for its Indian dance-music influence.
He makes electronic music being one of the first few young deejays in Italy, back in the 90's, who made dance music using a Personal Computer only thanks to the use of a software called Tracker and VST.
iDMZ "Sayaw Pinoy!" is the first and only Filipino interactive website that offers non-stop dance music in the form of DJ mixes.
Apart from his associations with various cultural institutions, he is associated with the Project of Support to Sattriya Dance, and Dance Music, Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi as "Guru" providing advanced training in Sattriya Dance and Khol.
It also hit #35 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, and reached Platinum status soon afterwards.
He released his first artist album " I Love You More", that got acclaimed in the Dance music industry and abroad by the likes of Stuart Matthewman (Sade) and CeCe Rogers (Jestofunk).
Released in May 1980 as the lead single from the album Special Things, "He's So Shy"'s fusion of classic girl group pop, new-wave styled dance music and R&B proved the right combination to effect a Top Ten comeback for the Pointer Sisters, the track reaching a Billboard Hot 100 peak of #3 (R&B #10) that October.
2011 saw a huge increase in popularity of Henry Méndez after signing with Roster Music, a big name in Spanish dance music and collaboration with Spanish DJ and music producer José de Rico.
I Like This Beat is a weekly dance music radio show created and hosted by dance music's Tara McDonald.
It features spiritual and sensual self-help advice spoken by the iconic tones of the late Patrick Allen (a renowned voice over artist and actor), set to sunny club-friendly dance music and a vocoded chorus repeating the mantra "Inhale positivity, exhale negativity".
He also provided vocals for Dangerous Power, a song by Best Ortofon American DJ of 2007 according to the International Dance Music Awards, Gabriel & Dresden which reached #1 Hot Dance Club Play, #4 Hot Dance Airplay and won Best Alternative/Rock Dance Track in the IDMA.
Prior to Columbia, Mr. Lembo served as National Director of Dance Music and Regional Promotion Marketing Manager at Chrysalis Records.
He later continued his studies under the renowned dancer T. Balasaraswati, and wrote his dissertation on the dance music of bharatanatyam.
Karen Boswall's 2004 Marrabenta Stories documents young Mozambican musicians who play jazz, funk and hip-hop joining older men who play the more traditional Marrabenta dance music on a tour of South Africa.
As co-founder of Puzzlebox recordings in 1996 with Anthony “Shake” Shakir, Tucker also joined the tradition of independent dance music publishing and vinyl record pressing in Detroit.
Kenneth James Gibson (born 1973), experimental, electronic, and dance music artist
Kiss 102 station won awards for its coverage of social issues and is acknowledged by writers like Dave Haslam and commentators such as Tony Wilson as helping to prolong and grow dance music in Manchester.
The dance company has performed in a variety of dance, music, and performance venues in New York, including Performance Space 122, Dance Theater Workshop, Dixon Place, Irving Plaza, and CBGB's, and the U.S.
Many remixes have been commissioned from other esteemed dance-music acts, like Prins Thomas, Switch and D.I.M, and featured collaborations with artists ranging from Aesop Rock to Josh Wink and Tom Middleton.
The imprint’s output has spanned everything from classic dance-music anthems like Freeland's We Want Your Soul and ILS' Next Level to Jape's space-folk hit Floating.
The various styles include: cumbias, the Colombian dance music; a brass band; an orquestra, of Mayan culture; Peruvian Susana Baca singing a cappella; El General's funky hip-hop; and Mason Daring's bass marimba and Spanish guitar-driven score.
Mixmag reported in January 2012, that people in the dance music and clubbing community have given methoxetamine the slang name 'roflcoptr'.
On television he provided the band for Crackerjack with Eamonn Andrews, as well as Nuts in May with Frankie Howerd, The Time of Your Life with Noel Edmonds, The Russell Harty Show, Tune Times With Temple, A Jolly Good Time, Dance Music Through the Ages and Starstruck.
In their short time they made a marked impact on the Australian dance music scene, and have produced remixes for artists such as Christina Aguilera, The Saturdays, Wynter Gordon, Inaya Day, The Fierce Collective, and Dirty Laundry.
Ramon Zenker was involved in a number of dance music projects in the late 80's, including Interactive ("Who Is Elvis").
A Life In Pop is a 2006 documentary about English electronic dance music duo Pet Shop Boys.
After the Quadrille dance presentation, any alumni present are invited up for an honorary alumni waltz (improvisational), and then there is social dancing the rest of the night to a live orchestra that plays ballroom dance music (waltz, tango, foxtrot, swing, Latin, etc.
Steve Rodway (living), a British Electronic dance music record producer
The discography of Swedish House Mafia, a Swedish electronic dance music trio composed of disc jockeys and record producers Axwell, Steve Angello and Sebastian Ingrosso, consists of two compilation albums, one live album, six singles and six music videos.
Tecno Fes, extended play by electronica and dance music DJ Gigi D'Agostino
The band signed to London-based Strut Records, a UK record label that focuses on dance music and afrobeat.
Reviewer Bruce Elder of Allmusic describes the song "All Is One" as "unique in the history of pop music as a psychedelic piece, mixing bagpipes, sitar, oboes, horns, flutes, and a fairly idiotic lyric, all within the framework of a piece that picks up its tempo like the dance music from Zorba the Greek while mimicking the Spencer Davis Group's "Gimme Some Lovin'".
Australian dance music group Sonic Animation used a version of the tongue twister in their break-out song "Theophilus Thistler".
The imprint Tommy Boy Gospel was launched in 1998 under the direction of Max Siegel along with Marvie Wright and the Tommy Boy Black Label (specializing in underground hip hop music) and the Tommy Boy Silver Label (specializing in dance music).
Since its hey-day, TSR moved on from dance music to releasing mostly new age and smooth jazz music in the 1990s under the name Baja/TSR Records, including several Billboard chart-ranked albums of Nuevo Flamenco guitar music by Armik, Young & Rollins, NovaMenco, Behzad, and Luis Villegas.
UK funky, a genre of electronic dance music from the United Kingdom
Specialty weekend programs helped to boost ratings, including American Top 40 with Shadoe Stevens, Rick Dees Weekly Top 40, and "Party Saturday Night" featuring uptempo party songs and "megamixes" of popular dance music, as well as frequent prize giveaways and heavy listener interaction and requests.
The song is a cover of the 1991 single by freestyle singer Keedy, covered in 1992 in Spanish by Puerto Rican singer Chayanne as "Mi Primer Amor", in 1994 by Australian girl pop group Girlfriend and in 1996 by American dance music singer Judy Cheeks.