ckk@g.cs.cmu.edu (Chris Koenigsberg) (10/29/85)
My favorite Dance music is Sun Ra & his Intergalactic Research Arkestra...haven't seen them for many years though. The ultimate essence of movement, of freedom, of rhythm, multiplicity... "Astro Black, in mystic time, astro natural, the universe speaks through this song, the universe is in my voice, Astro black, and Cosmos dark." Other than that, reggae (good stuff, like Delroy Wilson, Steel Pulse, not commercial disco crap like Third World) and spaced out double-triple-time jazz are also good for dancing. HPSCHD by John Cage and Lejaren Hiller, for harpsichords and random computer-generated sounds, gets my feet moving. I find the commercial disco SpyroGyra/Steely Dan type of generic musicoid sounds to be far more offensive and feet-deadening than even actual Muzak, which I'm sort of fond of...I tap my toes in the dentist's office.
wimp@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Jeff Haferman) (11/02/85)
As long as we're on the subject, MY favorite dance music is done by the Grateful Dead. Try them out sometime... you might like them.
lkk@teddy.UUCP (11/04/85)
In article <1275@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> wimp@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Jeff Haferman) writes: > >As long as we're on the subject, MY favorite dance music is done >by the Grateful Dead. Try them out sometime... you might like them. Dancing to the Dead as you might in a disco would be pretty difficult. First you have to discover that there's more to dancing than two people flinging their genitals at each other. You can tell someone who has danced at at GD concert, even when they're dancing to different music. The form is so much more SELF-expressive, rather than showy or flashy. -- Sport Death, (USENET) ...{decvax | ihnp4!mit-eddie}!genrad!panda!lkk Larry Kolodney (INTERNET) lkk@mit-mc.arpa -------- Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. - Helen Keller