Ultrabeat - Pretty Green Eyes

Dance music would be so much better if nobody south of Derby was allowed to make or listen to it.

And how they seem to carry on existing as adolescent growing up rituals well beyond how they could have been expected to as old people's northern soul type scenes...

There's so much music that isn't talked about on the interwebs (at least not in places that are self-conciously about "good music") it's kind of staggering. Wish siegbran posted more, he's usually good for stuff like this.

more perfect songs for you dom - http://WiGaN-pIeR.bebo.com (see also: Scouse House)

Cosign, this is what I meant about north-of-Derby dance. I mean... even though I like what bits of it leaks into the charts, where else am I going to hear it? DAB? Online radio? What was the last big Northern House tune anyway?

also accept you're TOO OLD, and class is probably an issue... the "hidden in plain sight"-ness of it fascinates me. I mean it's not even just Woolworths that stock this stuff, which is what I find so bizarro. This is the actual hauntological ghost of rave scene that the Dissensians like to witter on about isn't it?

It's interesting - to me at least - that this kind of music is a white working-class soundtrack in the UK, and it's a 2nd/3rd-generation Italian/Greek/Polish working class soundtrack here in Toronto (and the Toronto 'burbs). Europop, pop-trance, and Miami freestyle never died around these parts. You will meet kids here that wholeheartedly & unironically love Stevie B, Culture Beat, and Flip'n'Fill - all stuff that the dance music taste police either slag off or completely ignore.

I'm listening to the the Ultrabeat track, and the Wigan Pier stuff, and this isn't drastically different from some of the Euro-Trance tracks that get bigged up (and released!) around these parts. Hell, some of the stuff that I've produced wouldn't be out of place in that type of setlist: http://www.myspace.com/lindsayonline

Erm, because both of these scenes are characterised by the fact they don't give a fuck whether any media/ trendy/ intellectual spotlight is on them and exist whether or not they're considered "happening" by some self appointed cognoscente, perhaps?