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2.6.17Dance Music and Electronic Pop
God had to create disco so that I could be born and be successful.
Origins
The culture of DJs playing records in clubs for dancing patrons dates to the 1930s. In parts of Europe, where jazz was banned at the time, jazz lovers established underground clubs where they could play jazz records and dance to the music.
By the 1960s, discotheques, having spread from Europe to America, had sprung up all over, in cities large and small. In New York in the late 1960s and early ’70s, African American and gay clubbers kept demanding funky R & B and soul tracks to dance to.
Bands responded by releasing records that emphasized “four on the floor” bass drum and relentless thumping electric bass, set against swirling synth strings.