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SUPPORT ME ON PATREON\n\nWATCH MUSIC is not a GENRE VIDEOS and MORE\n\nFEATURING THESE SONGS:\n1978 - Arpeggio - \u201cLove & Desire\u201d\n1979 \u2013 French Kiss \u2013 \u201cPanic\u201d\n1983 \u2013 Rags & Riches \u2013 \u201cLand of 1,000 Dances\u201d\n1983 \u2013 Pamala Stanley \u2013 \u201cComing Out of Hiding\u201d\n1983 \u2013 Lime \u2013 \u201cAngel Eyes\u201d/\u201dGuilty\u201d\n1984 \u2013 Temper \u2013 \u201cNo Favors\u201d\n1984 \u2013 Wish, Featuring Fonda Rae \u2013 \u201cTouch Me (All Night Long)\u201d\n1985 \u2013 The Bar-Kays \u2013 \u201cYour Place Or Mine\u201d\n1986 \u2013 Eastbound Expressway \u2013 \u201cKnock Me Senseless\u201d\n1986 \u2013 Regina \u2013 \u201cBaby Love\u201d\n1987 \u2013 Herb Alpert \u2013 \u201cKeep Your Eye On Me\u201d\n1987 \u2013 Left Lane \u2013 \u201cBam Bam Bam (I Came Here To Jam)\u201d\n1987 \u2013 Cyre \u2013 \u201cLast Chance\u201d\n1987 - Will to Power \u2013 \u201cDreamin\u2019\u201d\n\nYes, it\u2019s time for another mega blast of vinyl. I\u2019ve been saving this set for the right time, and this is it. If you\u2019ve been following along all these years, you know that I was a live DJ for a while in my teens, and have been creating mixes ever since. \xa0That teen period was SEMINAL for so many reasons, and because it required my partner and me to have actual vinyl (and cassettes) to mix with at dances & parties, I inherited a LOT of that collection.\n\nI\u2019ve highlighted some specific songs & albums that were more significant and/or meant more to me. These 13 12\u201d records \u2013 comprising 15 singles \u2013 did not individually mean enough to me to spotlight in one podcast, but they were all mainstays in our sets. I\u2019m not going to go into detail here for each one, since that would take PAGES of text. You\u2019ll have to watch the video for that. Instead, I\u2019ll focus on the main point.\n\nDance music is dance music \u2013 meaning if you hear a song you think you can dance to, then that\u2019s what it is. BUT there\u2019s a narrower definition of \u201cdance\u201d which originated in the 1980s. And that specific, eponymous kind of dance music grew directly out of disco. Most disco music was created with real instruments \u2013 a real funk/r&b/pop/rock band lineup, and/or session musicians hired to simulate that. As the 1970s came to a close, electronic elements were woven into that, primarily keyboard sounds, and sometimes those sounds replaced actual instruments like horn or string sections.\n\nWhen the 1980s rolled up, disco had been considered cheesy for a few years already. Several other types of dance music rose up to fill that void, including post-punk, new wave, techno, house, electro/synthpop, freestyle, hi-NRG, and on and on. Most of these featured predominantly electronic beats & instruments. And ALL of these shared one common element with disco: the four-on-the-floor beat \u2013 four kick drums to a measure at around 120-140 bpm.\n\nLiving through that period, it seemed like this music was far afield from 1970s dance music, that it was newer and fresher and innovative. The second part of that sentence is true because that\u2019s how things always go. Listening to all of these NOW, though, the revelation is that the FIRST PART of that sentence is not true at all. Dance music of the 1980s stayed really really close to the disco form until the very last part of the decade, when darker electronic palates, heavier rock, and especially hip hop and its offshoots morphed dance into what it would become in the 1990s and beyond. So even though my timeline of 1978-1987 is arbitrary \u2013 based on my personal dance collection which STOPPED DEAD when I stopped DJing, it kind of works, because after that dance music left disco in the dust.\n\nREC - \u201cYou Make Me Wanna\u201d (from the album Syncopy for the Weird)\n\nAre you into dance music of any kind? Do you hear the differences between dance music from each decade? Discuss dammit!\n\n\n--- \n\nThis episode is sponsored by \n\xb7 Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app\n\nSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/musicisnotagenre/support\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices