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- Their significance (and of 1999’s Last Night A DJ Saved My Life) lies not in their obvious quality, or the fact that they were amongst the first to attempt to make sense of dance music in the UK, but in the way that they set in stone interpretations of events that persist to this day.
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May 10, 2024 · This brief introduction to the history of club music runs from groundbreaking DJs such as Larry Levan to 90s and 00s club megabombs.
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It transformed dance music from something found in club basements to a genre that could move an entire nation. Who it influenced: Big Fun showed that dance music could be chart friendly,...
Feb 26, 2020 · The long-running night remains an important influence on UK club music in 2020, having helped launch the careers of many DJs whose roots are in grime but who’ve gone on to play techno, dancehall, electro, power ambient, pop, and more, including Finn, Tarquin, Logos and Sim Hutchins.
Oct 4, 2013 · The 2000s mark the decade that documented the transition from the club (and, of course pirate radio) to the internet as dance music’s key hub – the arena where new scenes were incubated and...
Oct 26, 2021 · Brit Funk had been surpassed in popularity by electro and acid house, styles which were first embraced in the UK by black DJs and dancers – or those white DJs whose weekly club crowds were dominated by jazz dancers and footworkers.
Aug 25, 2023 · At night, they moonlighted as DJs and ran their own club nights. So anyway, I wrote a piece about them and the way that wealth and class quietly distorts the function and form of dance music. And that was really widely read. I got an email from an agent saying, “Have you ever thought about writing a book?“ I’m not the most self-confident of people.
Mar 11, 2020 · Matthew Collin’s Altered State chronicled MDMA’s impact and the British DJs and clubs that popularised it, and Simon Reynolds’s Energy Flash focused on the music, introducing the concept of the “hardcore continuum” to explain the bass-heavy pulse of British clubs.
