Alternative Dance Artists
Rock-style vocals and guitars ride over club-ready drum machines, synth bass, and punchy electronic beats.
28 Alternative Dance artists · 88 releases in the last 6 months · Top labels: Reprise, Rose Avenue, Mute
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About Alternative Dance
In the British Isles during the 1980s, New Order brought alternative dance into view by joining alternative rock to electronic dance music. The style keeps rock’s band-based sensibility but trades much of its traditional feel for programmed rhythms, synths and club-minded momentum. It sits between indie and dance rather than fully belonging to either, with songs that can retain pop or rock structure while drawing on electronic production. In the United States, it has also been called indie dance or underground dance. The Prodigy helped give the sound wider exposure in the 1990s.
Alternative Dance at a glance
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Common questions
What is Alternative Dance?
Alternative Dance is a music genre defined by alternative rock and dance music fusion, electronic beats and synthesizers, rock-oriented songwriting, club-influenced rhythms, and prominent basslines. Rock-style vocals and guitars ride over club-ready drum machines, synth bass, and punchy electronic beats.
Where did Alternative Dance come from?
Alternative Dance originated in British Isles, early 1980s.
What instruments are used in Alternative Dance?
Alternative Dance is built mainly from drum machine, synthesizer, electric guitar, bass guitar, and sampler.
Which Alternative Dance artists are most popular?
RÜFÜS DU SOL, Hot Chip, The Chemical Brothers, Hercules & Love Affair, and Gorillaz are the highest ranked by Spotify popularity of the 28 Alternative Dance artists on this page.
Which labels release Alternative Dance?
Reprise, Rose Avenue, Mute, Columbia, and BMG Rights Management (UK) have put out the most Alternative Dance records in the Tracknack catalogue.
What genres are similar to Alternative Dance?
Artists tagged Alternative Dance are most often also tagged Electronic, Electronica, Pop, Dance, and House.
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