Nobody seems to be to shy to mention that dance music is approaching its death. In all the papers snotty jouralist easily seem to mention this when reviewing a new dance albums. And when you go into stores such as HMV the dance section seems to of halfed in size :x I dunno whats gonna happen, i really hope it stays and grows as strong as it was again but whats gonna save it?

I totally agree...I'll tell u what pisses me off the most...Is fuckin rap & rnb shit! takin over all the radio stations and tv music networks...It just shocks me how heaps of people out their like all this shit!...It's really getting to me...I guess when all the wigga music gets phased out (which is very unlikey) then dance music might get mention...Or at least reconized which seems not to be happening at all at the moment im afraid to say :x :'(



As long as the chems are around, dance music is alive at least...

Yer its i rap and rnb, some of this stuff is ok but it does not reach the same quality as dance music. My mate was saying that dance is dieing cause pills are no longer the cool thing to do and therefore the music is not needed. I hope dance does not die and goes more underground thi may allow more obsure things to happen. I dont like all this nu-metal. Do you think clubs will still play dance or they will be more cheese based?

i can dance without pills!



problem is, what is counted as dance nowadays: just remember kylie minogue! is that dance? or just pop shit? or has dance mutated into pop shit (think there is a big difference between pop and pop shit) and we just didn't find out so far? :(

It's all a big pile of human waste. It's better to try and ignore the smell.

it's just a phase that we are all going through, when it's all over something good will come out. Rap and RnB were always there but now they have mass appeal. I love all kinds of music but dance music is in my heart and soul gotta love it.

It all comes in waves, folks. Eventually things will come full circle. If it's dying like disco did, it will all make a comeback somewhere down the line. It's not a case of all the pills being gone, or one kind of music taking precendance over another - come on, rap and r&b have been big for years it's transcultural appeal is nothing new. Nu-metal and metal in general has been gaining ground despite 5 years ago when trends considered rock was dead. This is about trends, and remember the audience is fickle, tastes change from time to time. Dance music is very "in the moment" as it always has been and maybe right now, that moment isn't just happening. Ever think maybe it's a case of burnout? Dance music exploded, went strong and permeated a lot of aspects of our lives including commercials, television, movies.



I think what will happen is dance music will be pushed underground and will resurface in time. What needs to happen is alot of dance artists need to dream things up again and serve up something fresh, not the same old recycled bullshit like Oakenfold and Tiesto. If more artists were willing to take a leaf out of Tom and Ed's book, meaning, if they would try something new and always strive to push the envelope of crossing genres (universal appeal) then peoples' interests would still be piqued. Who knows, maybe it's the Chems that will keep dance music alive and fresh, but that's a heavy cross to bear...

I want the return of ska music!

Huh! ska was great . i had some great mix ska cds when i was in my skater boy phase in highschool. All of them got stolen for good..........or bad.

Ska is good fun, but to me it starts to all sound the same after a while.

It's funny coz with dance music it's completely opposite. First you think every song is the same techno beats bullshit but later you realize that they are different....but if you are Tiesto...it's all the same.

dont believe everything a guardian journalist tells you!!!



that silly bitch from the guardian was up to her usual 'prophet of doom' antics a few weeks ago, once again proclaiming that dance music was dead. why is it dying now?? cos the PBI have dropped the dance category from the brit awards next year!!

Caroline Sullivan Escribi�:

The Brit award for Best Dance Act, introduced in 1994, will be dropped from next year's ceremony, because, say the organisers, "Dance music has lost its impetus and one has to fine-tune the awards to keep apace of public taste." Next up, presumably, will be a rash of indignant graffiti scrawled by glowstick-waving ravers, using a slogan adapted from the twilight days of punk: "Dance ain't dead!" But it rather appears that it is, to judge by the performance of the new album by one of dance's certified superstars, Norman Cook.

Four years in the making, Palookaville peaked at 14, and slipped out of the Top 75 three weeks later. This despite the fact that Cook had attempted to move on from his 1990s big-beat sound, even boasting that Palookaville features "real instruments". Meanwhile, the Chemical Brothers, who turned geek into chic during the golden 90s, are tentatively wondering whether their January 2005 album Push the Button can "revitalise" dance music. This from a group who were once so influential that they convinced live audiences that it was mind-blowing to watch two pallid men labour over computers for an hour.

personally i dont care about the death of dance, it will always be around in one form or another. being less mainstream is fine, lets take it back to the underground!!

Bring it back underground! :D Cause we all know some of the best electronica is not in the mainstream. Personally I am not too concerned about the death of dance music, because electronica in general is not going anywhere. Its here to stay, underground or not.

indeed 8)

never forget: dance CAN NOT die and WILL NOT die as it is one of the oldest forms of human movements.

dance is one of the roots of culture. and: you can dance to the beatles as well (or the kinks, i prefer them) ;-) [/b]

YES!!!!!!!





it is going to die very soon....just like it did in the 70's, 80's and the 90's. I can't wait.

as the music dies by every day :?

the commercial fuckwit record company bosses releasing a big name artist with the radio edit/house remix/d&b remix/etc... have killed dance music as a lot of us know it.



because its so commercial it has no interest for the late teens just starting out in clubs/beer/etc... that want somethign underground



this is why metal music is gaining so much



hopefully in a couple years metal with be the new money burner



there is still great dance music being released all the time, for me the current state just means my local clubs don't have decent nights because the only profit for them is fucking top20 boyzone/jamelia/shite. I have to go a little further afield for a decent night out.



anyone heard the new dave clarke track with mr lif its a rival for galvanize!

Underground is a fine concept but what if it becomes a small-circle snobby hobby? If there is no way of hearing about any new bands or anything? I don't (and I expect that many are like me) have the energy to actively seek new music flowing from the underground.



It's also funny to hear people saying that, for an example, prodigy is now back to the underground. Since when did mainstream radio shows and magazines have a lot of coverage on "underground" bands? It's the same with the chems, as far as dance music goes, they really are _not_ underground, or in the margin or what ever.



And maybe dance music seems to sound stale nowadays is because today every artist is under pressure to deliver a professional sounding record, that is, as finely produced as some BT or Hybrid record. There is some real tuning that goes into the sounds, but the songs are left in a pretty basic form. Everybody is just trying to get the best kick, bassline and vocal sample together.

Wow, is that Caroline Sullivan article bitchy or what?



She doesn't seem to be a big Chems fan either.



"This from a group who were once so influential that they convinced live audiences that it was mind-blowing to watch two pallid men labour over computers for an hour."



Unfortunately it does seem that the golden age of 'electronica' is long gone. I, like most of you guys, was the kid of this electronica period in which i discovered Chems - '96-'98. Back then this genre of music was something fresh and exciting. There were so many good 'electronica' bands besides The Chemical Brothers, like- Prodigy, Crystal Method, Fat Boy Slim, Air, Underworld, Daft Punk, Orbital, Death in Vegas, Faithless, Propeller Heads, etc.



Today most of these bands still exist ,but thier new releases are so uninteresting that they get barely any airplay even on the alternative radio stations.

I mean the debut album 'Moon Safari' by Air is considred one of the best albums of the '90s and is also one of my favourites, but since than Air have become very 'boring' (toooo slow and mellow albums).



Crystal Method seemed to have used the same formula over and over again making their music into repetative, boring sounds usually used for the Playstation games.



Prodigy weren't doing anything for the past seven years and when they finaly realese a new album, its a dissapointment- 2 ok songs, the rest -forgetable and useless (now it feels like it was never released- nobody talks, listents or gives a fuck about it).



Fat Boy Slim - I'm not even gonna comment on his last album, i mean what the f**k was that.



The rest of these bands seem to be in the process of 'dying' so we shouldn't expect anything from them in the future.



Right now the commercial dance music seems to have evolved into Djs remixing the old '80's tunes, but hopefuly this wont last for long time.



For all these reasons I realy hope that 'Push the Button' will be an excellent album that might restore the belief in the electronic music for all those crapy music critics and more importantly for us- 'kids of electronic revolution'