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When we published the original iteration of this list back indance music had been pushed unceremoniously underground, relegated to discotheques and niche radio stations that were increasingly incorporating hip-hop into their playlists. Be careful what you wish for. Just a few years later, EDM exploded, with artists like David Guetta dominating pop radio with garish bangers more interested in pounding you into submission than luring you to the dance floor.

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Top infectious intro melody suggests a na-na-na-na-na-na schoolyard taunt, and every subsequent beat ladled on top evokes a teasing tickle or poke. With her giddy, Minnie Riperton-esque vocal, Joy Dorris gets to play out a shy creature pulling away from busy hands. But if distinctions were made to be blurred, consider Kevin Saunderson a chain smear on the dance music landscape.

The good times emanating from the track landed it on Top 40 stations around the country, giving all involved a tangible taste of the real live good life. Temporary insanity never tasted so sweet. It was an anthem blacks and the racially enlightened could all rally behind.

One wonders where modern rap and hip-hop rihanna be had the song never been released. Like the latter, Watley aligned herself with a Prince cohort, Revolution bassist Andre Cymone, who whipped up some of the most defining dance-pop confections of the era for his muse. It was released inwhen all eyes were on Moroder for dance revivalism.

Morgan Geist and Darshan Jesrani, instead, chose to infuse their techno sensibility with disco strings and boogie keyboards, providing a much-needed alternative to electroclash. A groovilicious, undulating foot-stomper that continues to stir the soul. It could be said that the world of dance, a dozen years into the new millennium, was just ready for a little unabashed brightness amid the proliferating subgenres of EDM, grime, trap, vaporwave, and post-dubstep.

Is that love or death on their horizon? Among his best production work, though, was what he did for the Flirts, a trio of women with an almost constantly rotating whip. Surprise, surprise. He offered not just one, but two. To be overwhelmed by the overdubbed vocal harmonies on the chorus is to experience the excitement of walking up that ramp to the Paradise Garage all over again.

With a backstory as tawdry as disco itself, Nashville-born actress-turned-one-hit-wonder Andrea True moved to New York City in the late s on a quest for fame and fortune but eventually resorted to pornography for survival. Designed for our starved imaginations, if not exactly our dancing feet, this life-as-trance classic by brothers Paul and Phil Hartnoll of Orbital used metronomic beats and a touched-by-an-angel vocal to approximate the calm and surrender of the insomnia drug prescribed to their mother.

Like Halcion, the song guides us gently into sleep but not before inducing a lucid connection to the beauty of our immediate, seemingly mundane modern surroundings. Body-glittered pink cherubs brought to their neon lips a chorus of trumpets, the chosen people congregated at the foot of a luminescent temple, and the world was bar baptized or skull-fucked by a most tumescent bass kick.

No room for little fluffy clouds this high up in the stratosphere. The KLF might have one of the strangest backstories in dance music history: Fisherman-turned-punk Bill Drummond teamed up with musician Jim Cauty to form the hip-hop group the JAMS Justified Ancients of Mu Muwhich was almost and disbanded after the infamously stingy Swedish group ABBA refused to song them permission to use gay of their music, forcing the duo to destroy the remaining copies of their now-unsellable album.