Dance-punk
 | This article needs additional citations for verification. (December 2006) |
 | It has been suggested that Electro rock be merged into this article. (Discuss) Proposed since November 2006. |
Dance-punk or dancepunk, also known as disco-punk or discopunk, punk-funk or dance-rock, is a musical genre that combines the rhythms of electronic dance music with punk rock aesthetics and instrumentation. It is closely related to New Wave, Electro rock, Electroclash, Electropop, Synthpop and Synth rock. It is often seen as interchangeable with New Wave and Electro rock music.
Origins
The origin of dance-punk dates back to the late 1970s in New York and England, where guitar-based bands started to experiment with more dance-friendly rhythms. During this time, disco and funk also crossed over into many rock clubs – for example, it seems that some of the funky guitar work and solid basslines from the CHIC records made it to the rock scene. At the time, this musical style was most closely associated with the post-punk and no wave movements: famous progenitors of this sound include Gang of Four from Leeds, Liquid Liquid from New York, and Medium Medium from Nottingham. The Original Disco-Punk Fusion came with no wave icon James Chance, who under the name of James White and The Blacks, released Off White in 1979. German punk chanteuse Nina Hagen had a massive underground dance hit in 1983 with "New York New York", which mixed her searing punk (and opera) vocals with disco, funk, and hip hop beats.
In the 1980s the dance-punk scene in New York was dominated by bands such as the Fleshtones, Raybeats, and most noteably the Bush Tetras, whose success was almost totally dependent on word-of-mouth promotion.
As hip-hop, techno, and other forms of dance music emerged during the 1980s, the "punk-funk" style faded away. The extended 12" mix, synthesizers, drum machines, and other new technologies also pushed the jagged guitar-based dance sound out of the spotlight during the later part of the 1980s and much of the 1990s.
Modern dance-punk
The genre reemerged as "dance-punk" at the turn of the century. The style was championed by rock- and punk-oriented groups such as Liars and Radio 4, as well as dance-oriented acts such as Out Hud, with others such as !!! and The Rapture falling somewhere in the middle. There has since been a crystalization of musical forms within dance-punk, as with LCD Soundsystem's strongly dance- and production-obsessed soundcraft or Q and Not U's creation of new kinds of rock-based yet danceable rhythms within the scope of lyrical punk and post-hardcore.
At the same time, however, the concept of the dance-punk genre has become somewhat diluted, partly merging with the more straightforwardly disco-influenced post-punk/garage rock revival sounds from the late 1990s to the present. As with most musical genres, dance-punk began as a fluid extension of several other genres and is in the process of both being defined from within and at the same time being co-opted by other musical forms.
Currently in 2006, a lot of dance and electronic music from Europe is increasingly incorporating elements of 80s style rock and modern so called dance-punk.
List of modern dance-punk bands
Major post-punk/no-wave influences
|
Bands influenced by dance-punk
See also
Sources
![[icon]](/wiki/File:Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg){kind=small} | This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. |