DANCE INTERNATIONAL VOL. 3
prod. Stuart S. Shapiro and Adrian Workman, 1990
Worldwide. 57 mins.
In English.

THURSDAY, MAY 15 – 10 PM
FRIDAY, MAY 23 – 10 PM
FRIDAY, MAY 30 – MIDNIGHT

Volume 3 testifies to the series’ interest in music’s influence on other cultures worldwide: A profile of Tam Tam Records (featuring A Homeboy, A Hippie & A Funki Dredd) diagnoses the synthesis of “hardcore techno elements” with “hardcore guitar stabs” and rap, effectively X-raying the different styles dominating the charts in the UK at the time. In a piece about the loosening of restrictions on music in former Soviet bloc countries, British DJ Norman Jay ventures to Bratislava to guest-host an episode of the weekly radio show Soul Seduction. Six months after its opening, there’s a profile of the Black Market coffee shop/record store in Vienna – “the only place in town that exclusively features Black music, because there has been no place in Vienna to react on the spot to what’s happening all over the world.” (This also occasions a quick interview with Austria’s only rap group, the Bureaus.) There’s a fascinating interview with legendary fashion designer Michiko Koshino that focuses on the DJs who pick songs for her runway shows and her atelier (although the segment is scored to seminal porn/art group Enigma.)

“I really do think dance music, house music, club music, whatever you wanna call it, is gonna take the States by storm because a lot of kids that were into rap are now into dance music. As far as me being a very internationally known artist in Europe and not as big in America, it really doesn’t phase me that much because I know my time is coming. The first time I went over to Europe, the response to my performances were very good: people enjoyed me, people were receptive, I had a great time, and they just know how to party.” – Adeva