All stories by David McNamee

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Dance moves: when music burnt itself out

Our Dance Moves series has looked at the first 100 years of dance records to see how technology in dance has changed culture. It ends with microhouse, a jittery genre overloaded with information at the end of the millennium
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Dance moves: How Goldie made a break for it

Charting the history of innovation in dance music: jungle's breakout star Goldie pushed the nascent genre into new areas

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Dance moves: the parties and happy accidents that gave us house music

House began not from deliberate ideas or any theory, but through experiments, unusual collisions and the simple joy of playing records to people in clubs
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Dance moves: Riots in Lagos and the birth of electro

Charting 20th-century periods of innovation that spurred the evolution of music to dance to. With electro, the 1980s is when what we commonly understand as 'dance music' begins

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