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Club Dance
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area of study 3 - dance music related to disco
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area of study 3 - dance music
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aos3: dance music
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Rosa Brookes
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Club Dance
Musical characteristics
electronic sounds
4/4 time
steady tempo
drum and bass
links to the club scene
extensive use of samples and loops/ostinatos
Music technology ALWAYS used
reverb
digital FX
reverb, vocoder(human voice sounds synthesised)
CLUB DANCE USES A LOT OF SAMPLES
snippets of other music.
distrortion
mix in samples
collage over repeating drum and bass loop
introduce breaks
change texture
ONE INSTURMENT
scratching
Quantising
perfect time (shift to nearest semi-quaver)
robotic
Background
Chicago
tightly-packed clubs
illegal warehouses
all night rave
1980s
disco 4/4 stronger. Bub, jazz and synthpop motifs layered over the bass.
1920s
Jazz clubs - Charleston, carolina
Different styles
house
drum machine
repetition esp. in bass line
techno
fast, rarely voices/live sounds. mechanical/electronic.
drum 'n' bass/jungle
mega fast tempo. 'backbeats' short notes between main beats - disjointed.
UK Garage
like jungle, drum and bass. vocals used like percussion
Trance
slow chord changes over fast beat make you feel in a trance
Ambient
'out of this world', jazzy/slow
Rave
fast electronic using samples from different songs
new styles due to technology developed and to internet dist.
Dance steps
similar to disco
Attachments:
Disco
improvised
Christmas tree
Big fish little fish cardboard box
jumping to fast
DJ Tiesto
Calvin Harris
Chemical brothers
Fatboy slim
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