It was the first Millenial genre to spread best via commercial advertising - mostly car companies, telcoms, tech coms, or any other corporation that tries too hard to appeal to young urban trendsetters by being totally with it and down with the scene, man.Īpple is a shady, manipulative, walled-garden cesspool of Fisher Price filth that caters to insufferable morons too busy, lazy or stupid to properly use technology, and iTunes is a horrendously bloated piece of shit spyware DRM RIAA crime racket masquerading as a useful music service. Like any Punk, Punk-derived, Punk-inspired or Punk-spawned form of music, Dancepunk is irresistably drawn toward selling out. LCD Soundsystem and their label Death From Above aggressively foisted this sound upon an unsuspecting club culture and the genre was picked up by other bands who recognized that live music was on the outs, guitars were déclassé, and a steady beat was necessary if you wanted the DJ to drop your record in the club. For instance, there's Panic! At The Disco, a band that plays music that is neither Disco nor high-anxiety inducing) (wouldn't be the first time that happened. In a classic case of false advertising, the song doesn't have anything resembling Daft Punk in it. While a number of famous bands (Franz Ferdinand, The Killers, hell even Gorillaz) have been considered Dancepunk at one time or another, the band that really put the "dance" in Dancepunk was LCD Soundsystem with their hit track that confused everyone into thinking Dancepunk was a club and rave thing: Daft Punk Is Playing At My House (a-my house-ah).
If you hate electronic music, Dancepunk is probably the only electronic genre you may somewhat tolerate. It doesn't actually have anything to do with modern Dancepunk but the names are interchangeable so evidently some UK music writers think there is a correlation. Its alternative name, Discopunk, has its origins in late 70s Britain to refer to Punk bands that went Disco (a heresy in some circles) but not New Wave (it's complicated. You would think that it would revert back to just plain Synthpop and in some cases it did, but true to its name Dancepunk likes to keep the "punk" even though its audience is mostly hipsters. Or it's what happens when you take Electroclash and remove the Electro. Aka: Dance-punk, Discopunk, New Rave, Punk Funk, Electropunk in the Eurotrash scene, emerged in early 00sĭancepunk or Discopunk is the cousin to Indie - punk bands with synthesizers.