| But for me the failure of dance music to provide interesting products deals a near-fatal blow. Great dance cover-art is nearly nonexistent, and while the websites of a number of dance labels are nicely designed, the goods they’re hucking are curiously lacking in the bithcin’ little bells and whistles that keep us record-collector types tethered tightly to our ball-and-chain. It’s a pity. There are so many subdivisions of the genre broadly called “house music” that a naming-hound like myself would be happy to throw money at the stuff it it’d make even the most cursory gestures toward a semblence of ideological coherence. As it stands, though, dance music rises and falls on singles, which are great if you’re out dancing but dull as toast if what you like to do is sit around at home with the music turned up loud. |