What's the point of dancin if there's no music!!!

[dancerfreak5678]

Hey everyone here @ the Dance Forums! I'm sure that everyone has a favorite song of theres that they love to dance/stretch to! I know that i have a ton! Well, right now I wanna mix things up and get some new songs to stretch/dance to!!! So thats where u guys come in. Tell me your favorite songs and keep on dancin!!!!

[bgirlswinger]

I like basie and nina's stuff but I also enjoy tunes like traffic jam for a fast lindy and the mills brothers just to jam to and maybe do a little free style- "bring out the funk" - lol- amber d.

[Sagitta]

I actually like African music. One artist that I've listened to recently has been Baba Maal. Yesterday in night I listened to "Firin' in Fouta". Another one is "Songs for the Poor Man" by Remmy Ongala.

[danceguy]

Yeah, I agree with that. Actually, I'm trying to hit 400 posts.

398! :)

[pygmalion]

I actually like African music. One artist that I've listened to recently has been Baba Maal. Yesterday in night I listened to "Firin' in Fouta". Another one is "Songs for the Poor Man" by Remmy Ongala.

What kind of African music, Sagitta? I like highlife, which is West African upbeat dancing music. It's a blend of traditional West African music with reggae and some America pop. Most of it, you can do salsa or meregue to. But I usually do the Jenn freestyle! :lol: If you can handle weird harmonies, there's also some sweet stuff coming out of East Africa as well -- has a sort of Indian sound to it.

I'll take a look at the XM receiver next time I'm listening to Ngoma. There are some excellent artists out there in the so-called world music arena.

[Sagitta]

Kinds of african music? Well, I just sort of listen and pick the ones that I like. I'm not too sure about genre. I've heard of highlife though. Must see what I've got at home. That's the stuff that I like! Anyway, Remmy Ongala is actually from Tanzania, East Africa.

[pygmalion]

Yeah. East African music and West African music sound totally different from each other. Both nice, but they appear to have different influences. And it's cool, too, if you listen to the old stuff from the mid to late fifties versus the music of today. Particularly with the West African music with which I'm most familiar, you can hear the inflences of ska, (Jamaican reggae predecessor), calypso, reggae, R&B, disco, and now rap.