Strictly Ballroom: At Smithsonian, A Gay Black Counterculture Meets African Art
February 24, 1928 About 12:30 a.m., we visited this place and found approximately 5,000 people, colored and white, men attired…
Tag: Dance Music
Reclaiming The Queer Dance Floor
A new crop of parties across the U.S.A. is reconnecting dance music with a particular chapter in its own vivid history.
Review: Africaine 808, ‘Basar’
The Berlin duo’s club music transcends dance-floor stereotypes through extreme juxtapositions, while drawing its power from a TR 808 drum machine and a world of sound.
Review: Prins Thomas, ‘Principe Del Norte’
These nine pieces expand to nearly 100 minutes of “cosmic disco” music, soundtracking a voyage into the deepest spaces of the mind.
First Listen: Moufang-Czamanski, ‘Live In Seattle’
In this recording from 2013, two of techno’s most distinctive musicians use the live stage as a way to surprise and innovate while stretching their improvisational muscles.