dancefloors

Soulful, jazzy and with a then-uncommon 2-step rhythm, it echoed around a wide variety of dancefloors, not least on the early UK garage scene.

Clubs picks of the week 2011

If you have rudimentary knowledge of honeyz and pumping dancefloors you may well be able to write a big hit.

Bob Geldof's new album is called How To Compose Popular Songs That Will Sell. So what's the secret? 2011

And yet somehow, without thinking, Justice managed to surf the zeitgeist in spectacular fashion with their 2003 remix of the Simian track Never Be Alone more commonly known as We Are Your Friends, which reliably detonated dancefloors across the globe during the Great Indie/Electro Crossover of the early noughties.

Justice are rocking the world 2011

While Boddie never scored a chart hit, some of his recordings enjoyed a life far beyond Cleveland's city limits: the badass funk of Chrystal Illusion by Creations Unlimited (on Soul Kitchen) has been sampled by DJ Shadow, Madlib, DJ Spinna and more, while the Headline's He's Looking for a Love (on Luau) has been sending northern soul dancefloors wild since the mid-70s.

Homemade soul: the musical legacy of the Boddie Recording Company 2011

"Miami 2 Ibiza" is a collaboration with Swedish House Mafia designed to reduce dancefloors to rubble.

Tinie Tempah: Disc-Overy Kitty Empire 2010

There are so many three-chord Europop songs about DJs and dancefloors in the charts that it's barely worth complaining.

This week's new singles 2011

It's all very well to imagine newly single, sad-faced Adele blubbing alone to ballads, but single life is just as much a riot of undignified lonely nights on dancefloors.

This week's new singles 2011

It's all very well to imagine newly single, sad-faced Adele blubbing alone to ballads, but single life is just as much a riot of undignified lonely nights on dancefloors.

This week's new singles 2011

Yes, I know we have a lot of serious music listeners here at EW, but I, for one, am proud to say that my cup of tea is the top 40, trash-tastic mainstream hits, the ones that everyone hoots and hollers for when played at dive bars with a grungy dancefloors.

Fratmusic.com answers all of my (trashy) music needs | EW.com 2009

Taking such taste-making sensibilities to their logical conclusion, Mr. Sweeney started his own imprint to release new music and make his influence felt on dancefloors around the world.

The Space Man Is On a Mission Andy Beta 2011