There's some pretty iffy stuff in this list so far. :D

I was 10-20 through the Eighties, from Disco to Dance. Lots of good stuff from that decade but just to add a few (all these have a definite dance bent - does everything posted so far? Don't think so. ;) )

Grace Jones - Slave to the Rhythm

Japan - Life in Tokyo (Giorgio Moroder - again)

Blondie - Call Me (Moroder?)

Soft Cell - Tainted Love

Candi Station/Source - You've Got the Love

 

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@Barbarossa This thread is about 80s music. The album you posted was released in 1977.

 

This has been the refrain from people who don't like dance music since the beginning of time. "Who the hell likes that damn jazz with it's repetitive jungle rhythms and simplistic melodic chants. It's music for savages and morons."

As it was then, so it is today with people bitching about Dr Luke and his ilk. Its enough to say you just don't like a genre. All metal sounds the same to me as well.

 

I agree with you, and yet...a dance bent is relative to whatever type of music you dance to. The majority of music I have posted was music that clubs and radio stations in Miami played, as well as gay clubs in NYC and San Francisco. I posted them because I played them on my sets or was somehow connected to the production. Other members posted music they danced to. We already had a couple of posts deleted because you could not fit them somehow into any dance category. Take for example Phil Collins' "In the Air Tonight," if you were to ask me I would answer that it is not dance music. Indeed, if I had the cojones to play it at the "dance clubs" I used to spin, I know that I would have gotten fired on the spot. However, some DJs played it at clubs, and somehow patrons danced to it. I know a couple of places whose patrons, in their majority drug dealers, loved it. Nobody has posted any C & W from the 80s but there is not denying that technically some of it can fit into "80's dance music" Hee haw.

Note: By not restricting/limiting what "dance music" is or should be, more members are incline to contribute, and we all can learn a thing or two from them.

 

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Wtf r u talkin about. You are winding me up is that it ? hehehe... Do i have to analyze the herd mentality to you ? I won't. But i'm game for a lil chit chat. So:
Stock Aitken & Waterman NEVER defined or pioneered anything in or about dance music. They were never considered dance music by anyone seriously involved, producer or dj and very rarely could one their tracks find its way in the bag of a good club dj, whereas radios were playing their "cheese and ham products" everyday. What they did, is define a part of pop music (the worst part of it that is) for a good 6-7 years and dominated the charts, but never ever did they pioneer a certain sound or movement in dance music. They were no Kraftwerk, Moroder, Cowley, Hubert Evans III (D-Train), Francoise Kevorkian or Larry Levan, Larry Heard, Kevin Saunderson, Marshall Jefferson, Frankie Knuckles to name a few, who each in their own way made their own contributions to what we call today Dance music. All they did, as was explained, is repeat a certain successful formula for as long as they could get away with it.
They actually were responsible for what you said exactly, making simple listeners hate dance music, because their sound was mainly programmed, causing confusion to the simple listener of the 80s because the rest of the emerging dance scene, freestyle - electro - acid and garage house etc etc, was also mainly programmed. Thus a distinction had to be made, separating the black from white sheep, but this was no easy task for someone who just turns on their radio wanting to listen to something new but instead of Mr.Fingers and Frankie Knuckles you'd hear Kylie (SAW) and Mel & Kim (SAW) and Rick Astley (more SAW). And when the very same guys would go to the club on a Friday or Saturday they would hear the same -for their untrained ears- sound and hate that stuff.
Only, that emerging electronic dance scene stuff was the real shit so to speak, whereas SAW to this day are credited with some of the worse, cheesiest, shallow pop of the decade.
I mean, man, Jason Donovan + Kylie duet must be the worse song of the decade lol, even cheesier than fkn Boys Boys Boys lol. At least the latter has the "so bad it's good" etiquette all over it which makes it fun.
So now perhaps you get it. I love dance music more than you probably imagine, as i 've been involved in it, with as many ways as possible, since 1985. And i 've nothing against well crafted pop music either. I do though dislike acts like SAW, as their summed offering was carefully planned and decidely aimed to below average intellect, blatantly proving the herd mentality works and in the worse way possible. It is no wonder after all how quickly they were forgotten, how quickly artists who made tracks with them after a while tried hard to renounce any association with them. And most importantly how quick was the industry's decline and demise shortly after, a music industry which kept on doing the same mistakes over and over again, spending millions in pretty faces rather than real artists.
So wth, i may have been -and still am- part of this industry but fuck them all, i was the first to dance on the majors' demise pyre.
Good Fucking Riddance Motherfuckers.
Cheers

 

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@Barbarossa This thread is about 80s music. The album you posted was released in 1977.


Ahaa....

 

Hi all great thread ! Laid Back comes to my mind

thanks for the featuring of Flash And The Pan !

 

Trippin' down memorylane..
Lots of the first dance records I played were Italian, also US gay disco (but heck.. didn’t know that ).
My friends were all into Hiphop & R&B, they just figured that was ‘no music’ at all, hehe.
But I still dig that stuff - and classic hiphop, but you were only allowed to nod your head to, dancing was seriously uncool. Let me share these:

 

The second song you posted already had been posted was posted by @taskforce on page 2 http://audiosex.pro/threads/the-80s-dance-music-thread.58021/page-2#post-541049
But since it is dance music from the 80s...

 

@boomoperator Gla you posted Kano. In my opinion, "I am ready" is their best song. A beast of a dance tune capable of making groove one leg wannabe engineers like @No Avenger

The writer/executive producer, Stefano Pulga, was a mastermind.

This song had a lot of elements in common with those in 'Lover to Lover" which was produced by the same producers of Den Harrow's records.

@recycle your paisanos were stealing from one another big time. Fucking mafia.

 

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@taskforce you mentioned D Train. Remember BB & Q Band? And Jimmy Ross?

 

ok ok ok, much Italo again and again , yees , it had an impact (in german speaking europe)

but so many Italo Disco was NOT italian at all ! (Sandy Marton was croatian, and there is Spagna, and Ivan (both Hits even sung in spanish ?)
WHAT about Righeira (listen to "vamos a la playa" or "no tengo dineiro") biggest Italo-Disco-Classics (try also Tullio de Piscopo - Primavera)

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Nothing to do with that! The genre roots are in Italy.That's all. Look below. Singing and playing salsa, and they are not from Puerto Rico, Cuba, or NYC. They are from Japan.

 

Hi PIRATE, that is so funny

i lately played a 7 hours set of 100% pure japanese music, in a gallery (and i earned an engagement in a house-club (Kauz) in Zürich.

but i think we're loosing the focus for a little moment

 

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Info about Fresh Color : it's about a man called Gutze Gautschi . . . he IS responsable for Dj Bobo's Breaktrough (after 3 loosing releases that did nothing) -> and finally : (biggest Concert ever after war)(balkan)(guiness book noted ?)

but in the very beginninig :

 

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Absolutely.
In the 80’s italians were very good at stealing, modifying and reselling what others around the world created. After a while so much money started moving around the phenomenon that this art of recycling was then wiped out from show-business machine. It always happens like this: when a musical genre becomes popular, it is quickly purged of its content and what remains is only the aesthetics, it also happened with the Italo Disco. In my opinion,most of what remains written in the history of that genre is garbage.

At that time, when the business kicked in, the recipe for Italo Disco became like this:

• Get an ordinary pop song
• Replace the human drummer with a Linn drum
• Replace bass and guitars with a Crumar keyboard
• Replace the standard singer with a good boy face, with a lot of hairspray (no singing skills needed)

and the hit is ready! Now go shoot the videoclip

Indeed, there were also artists avant-garde who really experimented, but they were few and over time they were also forgotten. When I feel the desire for 80's I have more pleasure listening to that kind of music: the hidden gems. Generally, the whole mainstream has always sounded fake to me

 

Gaznevada - I.C. Love Affair (1983)

They come from the italian new wave movement, this song was their first dance experiment: totally nailed it

info: https://music.fandom.com/wiki/Gaznevada

 

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Hi RECYCLE

do you like that too, as i (some of us) do ? (Gaznevada is brilliant)

 

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