Re: Pete Tong on Born Slippy
 

Funk music migrated towards disco/dance and this style has the elements of dance music.

Isn't ‘The Larger chant’ actually 'The Lager chant' ? :) laaga laaga lagalaga megamega....

Re: Pete Tong on Born Slippy
 

you beat me to it!

(my dad used to work for a brewery and one of his colleagues had a similar spelling problem - with hilarious results... :rolleyes:)

Re: Pete Tong on Born Slippy
 

so back to electronic music with beats..

i don't think 'autobahn' counts..
but 'trans-europe express' does..

and that came out in 1977 ... way before 1983 and blue monday..

but as much as those songs were hits.. i don't think they would
count as 'dance' music.. although 'trans-europe express' was sampled
a lot later on by other groups.

i would qualify a lot of 'man-machine' from 1978 as 'dance'...

but then again, kraftwerk was experimenting with electronic music
since the late 60's, as were a lot of other groups..

but they were more experimental in nature, and i don't think
they were ever aiming to make it 'dance' music, people just adopted
it as such..

back to 'trans europe express', in 1977 the song 'showroom dummies',
they deadpanned the lyrics.

We go into a club
And there we start to dance
We are showroom dummies
We are showroom dummies
We are showroom dummies
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so in way they were foretelling their possible influence..

[as you can tell, i'm a big kraftwerk fan]..

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