DANCE-PUNK

'Dance-punk' (also known as or 'dancepunk', 'disco-punk' or 'discopunk', 'punk-funk' or 'dance-rock') is a musical genre related to New Wave, electroclash, electropop, synthpop and synth rock. A recent British off-shoot of this branch is the newly-coined term New Rave.^[1]
In the late 1970s, this music style was most closely associated with the post-punk and No Wave movements. Notable progenitors include Gang of Four, from Leeds, England.^[2] 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 City was dominated by bands such as the Fleshtones, Raybeats, and the Bush Tetras.^[3]
The music style reemerged under the name dance-punk around the beginning of the 21st century.^[4] The style was championed by rock- and punk-oriented bands such as Liars and Radio 4, as well as dance-oriented acts such as Out Hud. Other groups, such as !!! and The Rapture fell somewhere in the middle.^[5] There has since been a crystallization of musical forms within dance-punk, as with LCD Soundsystem's strongly dance- and production-obsessed soundcraft, and with Q and Not U's creation of new kinds of rock-based yet danceable rhythms within the scope of lyrical punk and post-hardcore.^[6] Enter Shikari is a dance-emo screamo band which has emerged recently from St Albans.

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★ Funkcore

Footnotes

1. Chiemi (2007-06-13) This must be New Rave!
2. Savage, Jon (1998) - Hundred Flowers Bloom liner notes
3. Punkcast #1076
4. Swaminathan, Nikhil (2003-12-25) - Dance-punk ends scenester dormancy
5. Channel4.com SlashMusic - Chk Chk Chk
6. BassMasta - Q and Not U

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