Alternative dance
Alternative dance (also known as underground dance in the US) is a musical genre that mixes the" melodic song structure of alternative and indie rock with the electronic beats, synths and/or samples, and club orientation of post-disco dance music" . The Sacramento Bee calls it" postmodern-Eurosynth-technopop-new wave in a blender" . The genre draws heavily on club culture for inspiration, while also incorporating other styles of music such as synth pop, acid house, and trip-hop. Alternative dance artists identify more closely with their music through a distinctive style, texture, or fusion of specific musical elements. They are usually signed with small labels.
Most alternative dance artists are British," owing to the greater prominence of the UK' s club and rave scenes in underground musical culture" . AllMusic cites New Order as the first group in the genre due to their 1982-1983 recordings, which fused post-punk with synth pop in the style of the German collective Kraftwerk. Alternative dance had a huge impact on the British Madchester scene of the late 1980s and the trip-hop and rave scenes of the 1990s. The Prodigy and The Chemical Brothers are two prominent examples of the British scene of the 1990s, while in the US, Chicago' s Liquid Soul to San Francisco' s Dubtribe expanded dance music" beyond its old identity as a singles-driven genre with no identifiable, long-term artists" . The American scene rarely received radio airplay and most of the ground-breaking work continued underground or was imported. The Prodigy' s third studio album The Fat of the Land was the first international alternative dance hit to debut on number one in 25 countries, including the US.
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Fusion music genres