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Originally Posted by demonrail666
I don't know about the US, but in the UK dance music is still pretty massive - albeit in the underground. House music isn't that big right now, but homegrown Hip Hop, Grime and Drum n Bass are still going very strong. It's just that the music papers have decided not to chat about them much lately, finding it far easier to focus on more conventional 'bands'. Dance music has always been really hard to market to a traditional Rock audience: which tends to demand good interviews, emphasises the importance of live performance and places a premium on 'musicianship' and 'personalities', none of which are particularly high-priority in 'dance' circles.
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Exactly, Grime and Dancehall=Dance music now. I've heard some GREAT Grime stuff this year; Riko-The Truth, Trim-SOul Food VOlume 3, Lethal Bizzle-Back to Bizznezz, etc.. And of course The Bug-London Zoo I;ve been saying consistently is the most powerful hip hop based thing to happen to music in god knows how long. It reminds me of a Dub-Infused hypnotic Bomb Squad with Industrial under-tones, and of course a horde of great Dancehall and Grime MC's. Kevin Martin has been creating a diverse catalog of various electronic, industrial, hip hop, and dubstep releases for years and has been involved with some classics; 16-17-Gyatso and Techno Animal-S/T for instance, but the Bug is the most mindblowing sound he's yet to come up with.