Bongos in Dance Music

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They're enjoying currency right now, but what is the history of bongos in dance music? (Dance music in the contemporary sense, so not Fela Kuti, Sabu Martinez or Tito Puente.)

They were a feature of the more groove orientated post-punk bands - Liquid Liquid, Konk, ACR, Material and the rest, but where have they been since? And do they sound any good?

Fergus Brady (Fergs), Saturday, 8 July 2006 08:32 (nineteen years ago)

Dance music in the contemporary sense

The way you are using the term is not the only widespread sense of the term "dance music," nor am I convinced it's even the most common one.

Go to Cali, Colombia and tell Diego Gale he is no longer contemporary.

Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Saturday, 8 July 2006 10:25 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, that was a bit naive, couldn't think of a better way of expressing it; 'electronic' certainly wouldn't do, 'disco' possibly...perhaps 'dance' music in this sense (I still reckon that this is the most common usage) is a redundant term?

Many other types of music are conducive to dancing, after all - although imperfect genre names do save us from the sargasso of sub-genres...

But labels such as DFA, Eskimo, DC, Feedelity and Bear Funk are all over the bongo sound atm and I was wondering what its legacy is.

Fergus Brady (Fergs), Saturday, 8 July 2006 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

deep house

Jacob (Jacob), Saturday, 8 July 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

"apache" muthafucka (for one history at least)

San Diva Gyna (and a Masala DOsaNUT on the side) (donut), Saturday, 8 July 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

jacob is right. beardo dudes all have connections w/ US deep house, tribal house and west coast house.

the fuckablity of late picasso (vahid), Sunday, 9 July 2006 09:40 (nineteen years ago)

the brothers vibe
villalobos
chez damier?

philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Sunday, 9 July 2006 22:16 (nineteen years ago)

one west end records

Rev. PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie 2), Sunday, 9 July 2006 22:39 (nineteen years ago)

Disco

Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 9 July 2006 22:44 (nineteen years ago)

bingo

blunt (blunt), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 06:02 (nineteen years ago)


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