The Chicago-based footwork scene gets its first comprehensive compilation, and it serves as a very solid overview of the dance music style. Save this story Save this story Let's be clear: footwork, or ...

Today, the Chicago footwork crew Teklife released On Life, a new compilation of 23 tracks, with contributions from veterans like RP Boo and Traxman and rising stars like DJ Paypal and DJ Earl. On ...

In small corners of the globe, dancers are putting the pedal to the floor. In L.A. there's krumping. In Detroit, jit. In the South African town of Soweto, shangaan. All these types of dancing have one ...

“D . . . DJ . . . DJ Elmoe . . . El,” announces a laid-back, distorted voice in the first moments of Bangs & Works Vol. 1, a classic compilation of Chicago footwork released in 2010 by UK label Planet ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Footwork is a fast-paced style of dance and electronic music that emerged from Chicago's West Side in the 1990s. Today, footwork is a global phenomenon. "We changed up the style of ...

Footwork lives in Chicago, even when it doesn’t. The movement—bleeding-edge club tunes fragmented from house, high-speed dance battles, and most crucially, the community of people who make it and ...

There's a story etched in the Chicago underground about a footwork dancer who burned everybody on the blistering late-'90s battle scene. His undefeated signature moves were crafted from influences ...

DJ Rashad hovers over his laptop at a Lit City Rave hosted by New York venue 285 Kent in fall 2012. Credit: Wills Glasspiegel Spinn had been looking forward to the festival for months, but, as he says ...

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In the past year, Planet Mu has worked hard to bring to the real world—not just the expansive world of YouTube—the Chicago sound of footwork with albums by DJ Roc, DJ Rashad and DJ Nate. Dance music ...

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