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The list doesn’t attempt to incorporate every ripple in this oceanic confluence of sub-genres. These sounds all had peak moments of exposure, but they never fade away: drum ”n’ bass is having a new moment right now, and there are house songs here from the past few years. It gets born again when disco is re-engineered as house music in Chicago and techno in Detroit, and mutates with almost comic velocity into the Nineties rave explosion that produced everything from jungle to trance to gabba to garage, and eventually the EDM and dubstep bonanzas of the 2000s. James Brown, our story of dance music begins in the mid-1970s with disco, and moves into early Eighties club sounds like electro and Latin freestyle. But to make our list of The 200 Greatest Dance Songs of All Time, a song had to be part of “dance music culture.” It’s a more specific world, but an enormous one too, going back nearly fifty years and eternally evolving right up to today and into the future.Īfter paying homage to the godfather of the extended groove, Mr.

Nearly all the hip-hop and reggae ever made is great dance music. The Beatles made great dance songs - as did Slayer. In a sense, any song that ever got any one person moving in any perceptible direction is a dance song. What do we mean by “dance songs”? Good question.

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