My two types of dancing are like yours, unsurprisingly. Sometimes I try and apply the attitude relating to 2) to music of type 1) - who cares what it is, let's just dance anyway, I think, and then I realise that the less idealistic part of my brain doesn't agree with me and does just want to dance to something I recognise. sadness. And 1) is for eclecticism and 2) is for purism, in general, though of course it doesn't hold, e.g. an out-of-nowhere song of type 1) in the middle of a set of type 2) can be the most amazing thing.
I call Justice and that 'indie-dance', or 'indie-remix dance', and it doesn't work for me for much the same reasons as yours - I need dance music to be seamless, not to have the clear changeovers between tracks of other musics-to-dance-to, and even when they're not in a set I can tell from the music how it would be used, I don't know how. Sometimes people get indie-remix dance right - those remixes of the Killers which make it more pop and at the same time more useable in a dance set - but often it just sounds like a shouty indie track with some extra nods to YPDM, like those b-side remixes of indie songs that made me think remixes pointless.
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Date: 2006-06-28 02:05 pm (UTC)I call Justice and that 'indie-dance', or 'indie-remix dance', and it doesn't work for me for much the same reasons as yours - I need dance music to be seamless, not to have the clear changeovers between tracks of other musics-to-dance-to, and even when they're not in a set I can tell from the music how it would be used, I don't know how. Sometimes people get indie-remix dance right - those remixes of the Killers which make it more pop and at the same time more useable in a dance set - but often it just sounds like a shouty indie track with some extra nods to YPDM, like those b-side remixes of indie songs that made me think remixes pointless.
so, yeah, IAWTP.