Sounds and Colours

Metalmadeira II – Pioneering Brazilian percussion/electronic fusion album re-imagined for the dancefloor

Originally released in 1983, Marco Bosco’s Metalmadeira was an innovative fusion of Brazilian percussion traditions with the ...
Laweekly

The Samba Music of '70s Brazil Did More Than Make People Dance — It Resisted a Dictatorship

Brazilian-American musician Beto Gonzalez was too young to understand the country around him when his family returned to Brazil in the 1970s. It was only as he grew older, after coming back to the ...
NPR

Black Futures: How disco set the stage for dance and electronic music

Over the past few years for Black History Month, World Cafe has dug into different genres and their importance in the Black music canon over the decades. "What I'm talking about when I say dance music ...
Vulture

Dance Music Waited Until 2020, of All Years, to Get Its Mojo Back

Here are 21 of the songs we’ll take with us from this year into 2021 — where hopefully we can dance together again. Photo-Illustration: Vulture, Getty Images and YouTube This was the sort of year that ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Fifty Years Ago, This Irresistible Disco Song and Dance Craze Swept the Nation and Changed the Music Landscape

Disco music’s time in the sun may have passed, but the legacy of “The Hustle,” a mega hit in the genre, lives on Alice George - Museums Correspondent On April 18, 1975, Van McCoy and the Soul City ...