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[dig412]

Whilst i know this is a comic about indie music, Jeph at least has a great taste in dance.
I was wondering how many other people here are into it?
i love electro and all that jazz, but i'll give most stuff a listen.

Ps, please dont generalise dance as the stuff you hear chavs pumping out of theier cars at 2 in the morning

[Kai]

what, like EBM? or (as retarded as the term is) IDM? Because like, Aphex Twin and Wumpscut and whatnot rock hte fuck out.

[El Opium]

I agree with Kai, go not-dance music! I personally dig me some Autechre, Pan-Sonic and Tim Hecker. If you tried to dance to any of that stuff your brain would just feel weird. Why I don't yet posess a copy of either of Aphex Twin's ambient works albums is a mystery even to me.

[Kid Modernist]

I totally saw Daft Punk last night

[dig412]

I hate the term IDM too, how exactly is it intelligent? i can tolerate ebm, but i like more electro/electronica stuff, eg mylo, royksopp, the knife.
For anyone whos read the RL list and though 'what the hell is nathan fake', i can highly reccomend it. its like water based techno if that makes any sense .
i got into it through the James Holden remix of The Sky Was Pink, which is an amazing track once you get your head round the song structure.

[dig412]

Living in merry old lincolnshire, i have found 1 person in the whole county who likes similar stuff to me , and i almost have to constantly defend its merit to the nay-sayers.
I heard windowlicker on the annie mac show, so i'm now a convert

[McTaggart]

Most of the electronica I enjoy you really can't dance to.

[KharBevNor]

I like electronic music. Mainly EBM and futurepop, industrial, ambient/dark ambient, but also odd bits of acid, trance, noise, martial and wierd/avant-garde stuff. Ie: Alien Vampires, Anne Clark, Burzum's ambient material, Coil, Covenant, old Current 93, Curse of the Golden Vampire, Electroearwig, E Nomine, Funker Vogt, Hecate, Icon of Coil, Ildjarn+Nidhogg, Laibach, Lords of Acid, Merzbow, Mind.in.a.Box, Mortiis, Navicon Torture Technologies, Neuroticfish, Nurse With Wound, Psychic TV, Terrorfakt, VNV Nation, Whitehouse, Wolfsheim, :wumpscut:

I'd say a fair bit of that's danceable. You could probably dance to all of it if you took enough drugs. But then, you could say the same thing about smoke alarms.

[Chesire Cat]

Anyone else get the impression Kid Modernist and tommydski are just a little bit cooler then the rest of us?

Anyway, I like dance music, I dont really know anything about it.  I am one of those white guys with no rhythm but I love to get drunk and dance anyway.   Basically its all about hyping up the crowd.  My favour dance/technoish music has a real feel of energy to it.

[Kid Modernist]

Impression? I've been trying to say that since I joined this place.

But seriously, I wasn't trying to get cred (sort of), mostly just was really happy about it.

As for dance music, I don't know much about it, but I like what I hear. It's one of those types of music, I think, where the artist doesn't really matter except in rare cases. Like dub.

[est]

Man, why is it that we can have a million metal & indie threads for individual bands and whatnot and yet "hip hop" and "dance music" are always two things that seem to get lumped into these all-encompassing threads all by themselves.

That said, I didn't go to (an Australian dance thing) 360 the other week.  Didn't think it'd be all that good.  I've since downloaded sets by the people involved and think the Felix da Housecat set was fucking immaculate even though I think that most of his normal stuff is pretty hit and miss.

Oh well, you can't see all the good shows, I guess.

[MilkmanDan]

I saw Aphex Twin last night, and you best fucking believe that you can dance to it. It was the one of the most mental raves I've ever been to. The entire venue became some sort of mosh pit for Digeridoo and Come to Daddy. But it was a mosh pit populated almost entirely by people on pills, so it was like everybody in the room was trying to hug everyone else at the same time. And let's not even talk about the gabba and rediculously hard Drum n Bass.

That aside, I'm into dance music when it actually means music to throw some serious shapes to, like Jungle / DnB, Techno, Breaks, Dubstep, some House, etc. But I also love the stuff that's various shades of electronica, all the Warp artists and that sort of thing. Everything from Drone to Breakcore really.

All in all, I think my favourite music to dance to is '92-'95 style Jungle. Remarc, DJ Zinc, Renegade Snares, all the Moving Shadow stuff. Also the newer stuff by people like Amit, Paradox, Breakage, Sileni and that lot. Tunes with really edited breaks and sub-bass lines rather than just the 'DnB is faster rave music', midrange distorted bass mentality that has taken over most DnB.

[ImRonBurgundy?]

dance music?

[McTaggart]

I can't dance. I've tested this at various levels of drunkenness and with all sorts of music. I'll tap my feet and do that silly nodding thing at the drop of a hat but I just can't bring myself to dance.

[E. Spaceman]

I can't dance either. I do like my share of non guitar groups though. Not all of them electronic either

[Thrillho]

Mainstream dance gives decent dance a bad name.

I guess I like some dance - or dance-tinged - groups.

I quite like Faithless, the Prodigy.

[ALoveSupreme]

What do you call the 8-bit IDM stuff, there's a guy in IL called Saskrotch that does it, among many of his label mates.  I enjoy it just for the kich value of it, but I'm not sure what it's called.

[Praeserpium Machinarum]

French house mostly for dance music even though I don't dance. And to be exact I think a group like Daft Punk does use guitars, on Discovery anyway.
It sounded very much like guitars, though I suppose it could have been something else.
I like Faithless even though I exchange Outrospective away for something else, Maxi Jazz will always be cool no matter what.
At the moment I only own two cds that aim for dancing - a danish dancehall act and M.I.A - Arular.
The latter is so danceable it almost makes me wanna bust a move

[thistastes]

Indie friendly, danceable, or otherwise respectable:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.i.a." target="_blank" class="postlink">M.I.A.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rjd2" target="_blank" class="postlink">RJD2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_tet" target="_blank" class="postlink">Fout Tet

[dig412]

The term 'dance' i only use as a general thing to describe the genre, most of the real stuff is undanceable
And i love death from above 1979 as well, maybe cos its just bass and drums, maybe cos its the dance song structure....

[Outshined]

I'm a sucker for silly electro bands that have videogame-esque cheesy beeps and clicks, a la Kraftwerk.  That's about as danceable as you can get, I think.  

Check out Naked Ape if you don't know what I mean.

[Bunnyman]

TRANS.  EUROPE.  EXPRESS.  TRANS.  EUROPE.  EXPRESS.

I have a soft-spot for mid-90's Progressive House stuff.  Leftfield, Fluke, Prodigy.  Gotta love "Risotto."

I beg to differ on the whole "can't dance to autechre" thing.  Check the "Kolla 2003" vid.  It just depends on which track you pick.  Actually, most of Tri Repetae++ is pretty danceable.  Then again, I like doing the whole 'rubber man' dance style, so...

[Luke C]

I used to be well into dance music a fair few years back but now Ive sold my sould to rock and roll. The Avalanches is as close to dance as I go nowadays although I do really like Faithless, they are awesome. Id love ot make a rock version of Insomnia and Mass Destruction.