What kind of music do you dance to?

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10 Jun 2011, 3:52 am

I think Pop is best for dancing

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiOumJEe2yQ[/youtube]

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11 Jun 2011, 5:58 pm

hi all

i love dancing. but i have to be either in a completely relaxed state to do it, or completely "out of it".

being a musician, ive discovered that technically... i only really dance to music that has some kind of lunatic syncopation/polyrhythms... OR... is just plain as hell funky - in an old school motown/RnB type way. i think the nature of much modern music (precise repeating patterns often based on "straight" rhythms and usually quantized to death just doesnt have the bouncy momentum im need to get started.

good examples of things id move to (and cant help moving to) are...

60's / 70's funk and soul (and music that has blatantly just stolen the grooves)
90's electronica and trance... not actually very dancey but the mood is often swirly
alternatively... some of the "stoner" style bands that have that swaying nodding motion to the music

drum and bass can be great too... but by no means all of it. some of it just sounds like a car crash in 4/4 time

there's a lot of dance music and funk music that just ISNT at all funky or dancey. i steer clear of that

i also find that if you could add shakers and tambourines and congas to it... its danceable
i THINK it all has something to do with layers and sub rhythms. for example

1......2.......3.......4 no good
but
once you start adding higher "resolutions" to those... great.
1234 2234 3234 4234
and more particularly... swung (however fast)
123 223 323 423 snoop dogg, justin timberlake et al (not always easy to hear, but you can certainly feel it.

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18 Jun 2011, 4:14 pm

I don't dance. I can remember going to a phish concert by myself back in like 96 and all I did is watch their drummer from behind and above the stage and engross myself with the patterns in the music. I was probably the only sober, and non dancing person in the whole stadium LOL

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18 Jun 2011, 7:06 pm

Some recent songs that I consider very danceable.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8h-HnjaSrz8&feature=related[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_M3Txktt8w[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vStjmYxetY0[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TTPGAy5H_E[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bfseWNmlds[/youtube]

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18 Jun 2011, 10:12 pm

Neutral Milk Hotel
Lady GaGa

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18 Jun 2011, 10:15 pm

Green Day

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18 Jun 2011, 11:54 pm

Hardstyle,aggrotech,dark electro,electro in general.

This is one of my favorites
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vi2WlfvFVw[/youtube]

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23 Dec 2011, 4:08 pm

Acid House, Hardcore, Jungle, Trance, Reggae, Ska, Dub, Dubstep, hip-hop, Punk, Metal, 50s Rockabilly, Irish & Scottish folk music, african drums, bluegrass, country, cajun... anything and everything! music is my biggest passion in life!

I'm a DJ and I don't care about genres! I grew up listening to Irish folk music, reggae, soul, funk, dub, country, bluegrass, metal and punk (because that's what my parents listened to) but then I got into indie music, UK Garage, Grime, Classical, Dubstep, Grunge and so on...

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11 Jan 2012, 11:47 am

CockneyRebel wrote:

I dance to rock n roll.

Yes. I dance to the same kind of music I'd listen to at home. I quit going to Manics-themed parties when the organiser said he wants a mixed playlist next time because the Manics aren't 'danceable'. f*****g Schmindie fans.

Of Walking Abortion is great to dance to:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ3CBcX2mOk[/youtube]

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11 Jan 2012, 11:56 am

Drum & Bass flows the easiest.

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11 Jan 2012, 1:42 pm

OhNowIGetIt wrote:

Almost anything!

Same. Depends where I'm at, what I'm drinking, and what the rules are.

YourMother wrote:

P.S. Skrillex is not Dubstep.

Well....he's dubstep in the way Pendulum is dnb.

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11 Jan 2012, 1:47 pm

YourMother wrote:

It's a style of music called Wumpwumpwumpwuwumpwuwuwuwuwumpwumpwuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuumpwuwuwumpwumpwump, sort-of stolen from Dubstep, but made by Americans.

Meh, sorry to stay on you: Vaccine, Machinedrum, Falty DL, Babylon System, Sine, and 6Blocc are also American.

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11 Jan 2012, 2:16 pm

Wow, Crystal Castles for dancing? That's a bit too dark for me for "dancing." I don't really dance, but I ice skate, basically I think the best kind of music is like, European pop, be it eurodance, or just regular plain pop.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcRlypUPvGI[/youtube]

That, and Latin music I like sometimes. Mostly the older salsa-ish kinda stuff (sorry, I'm pretty bad at distinguishing between Latin musical styles), reggaeton and the like, I more or less hate.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlBeTzOVICE[/youtube]

House music, too, obviously.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiVnU4TeV6U[/youtube]

So this is the music I would dance to, if I danced. Yay.

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