Dancecult 8(1) 2016: Masthead and Table of Contents


Volume 8     Number 1     2016



Executive Editor
Graham St John 

(University of Fribourg, CH)

From the floor Editors
Alice O’Grady 

(University of Leeds, UK)

Graham St John 
(University of Fribourg, CH)

Reviews Editor
Ed Montano 

(RMIT University, AU)

Foreign Languages Editor
Luis-Manuel Garcia 

(University of Groningen, NL)

Production Editor
Botond Vitos (DE)

Operations director
Ed Montano

(RMIT University, AU)

Art Director
Botond Vitos (DE)

Copyeditors
Luis-Manuel Garcia 

(University of Groningen, NL) 

Jerome Hansen (UK)
Jonathan Karpetz 
(McGill University, CA)

Katrina Loughrey (AU)

Kath O’Donnell (AU

Magdalena Olszanowski 
(Concordia University, CA)

Production AssistantS
Paul Jasen 

(Carleton University, CA)

Garth Sheridan 
(RMIT University, AU)

Dancecult 

Journal of Electronic  
Dance Music Culture 

 Issue 8(1) 2016 
ISSN 1947-5403  

©2016 Dancecult 

Published yearly at 
<http://dj.dancecult.net>

International Advisory Board

Sean Albiez (Southampton Solent University, UK), Eliot Bates (University of 
Maryland, College Park, US), Andy Bennett (Griffith University, AU), Mark 
J Butler (Northwestern University, US), Anthony D’Andrea (University of 
Limerick, IE), Rebekah Farrugia (Oakland University, US), Kai Fikentscher (DE),  
Luis-Manuel Garcia (University of Birmingham, UK), François Gauthier 
(CA), Anna Gavanas (Institute for Futures Studies, SE), Ross Harley 
(University of New South Wales, AU), Tim Lawrence (University of East 
London, UK), Geert Lovink (University of Amsterdam, NL), Alejandro L. 
Madrid (University of Illinois, Chicago, US), Paolo Magaudda (University 
of Padova, IT), Charity Marsh (University of Regina, CA), Ed Montano 
(RMIT University, AU), Andrew Murphie (University of New South Wales, 
AU), Alice O’Grady (University of Leeds, United Kingdom), Christopher 
Partridge (Lancaster University, UK), Anne Petiau (ITSRS / Université Paris 5, 
FR), Hillegonda C Rietveld (London South Bank University, UK), Geoff Stahl 
(Victoria University of Wellington, NZ), Sonjah Nadine Stanley-Niaah 
(University of West Indies, JM), Graham St John (University of Fribourg, CH),  
Jonathan Sterne (McGill University, CA), Will Straw (McGill University, CA), 
Rupert Till (University of Huddersfield, UK), tobias c. van Veen (Université 
de Montréal, CA), Michael Veal (Yale University, US), Botond Vitos (DE)

Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Cult ure 
is a peer-reviewed, open-access e-journal for the study of electronic 
dance music culture (EDMC). A platform for interdisciplinary 
scholarship on the shifting terrain of EDMCs worldwide, the Journal 
houses research exploring the sites, technologies, sounds and cultures 
of electronic music in historical and contemporary perspectives. 
Playing host to studies of emergent forms of electronic music 
production, performance, distribution, and reception, as a portal for 
cutting-edge research on the relation between bodies, technologies, 
and cyberspace, as a medium through which the cultural politics 
of dance is critically investigated, and as a venue for innovative 
multimedia projects, Dancecult is the journal for research on EDMC.  

Cover Photo by Botond Vitos 

http://dj.dancecult.net


Volume 8 Number 1 2016

FEATURE ARTICLES
Life and Death on the Pulse Dance Floor:  
Transglocal Politics and the Erasure of the Latinx in the History of Queer Dance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 01 
Tim Lawrence

DJ Mini and Montreal’s Vulgar Dance Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 
David Madden

Investigating the Value of DJ Performance for Contemporary Music Education and Sensorimotor 
Synchronisation (SMS) Abilities .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  46 
Douglas MacCutcheon, Alinka E. Greasley and Mark T. Elliott

TRANSPOSITIONS
When Club Culture Goes Online: The Case of Boiler Room .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  73 
Guillaume Heuguet (Trans. Luis-Manuel Garcia)

FROM THE FLOOR – online 
Dancing to the Loop: Repetition in Contemporary Music. An Interview with Tilman Baumgärtel 
Geert Lovink

The DiY Free Party Collective 
Dave Payling

Frankenstein, or the 8-bit Prometheus 
DJ Balli

REVIEWS
Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor 1980–1983 (Tim Lawrence) .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .88 
Charles de Ledesma

Os DJs da Perifa: Música Eletrônica, Trajetórias e Mediações Culturais em São Paulo   
(Ivan Paolo de Paris Fontanari) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .91  
Carlos Palombini

Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works Volume II (Marc Weidenbaum) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .94  
Toby Young

Brian Eno: Oblique Music (Sean Albiez and David Pattie eds.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .96  
Ed Montano

Sonic Possible Worlds: Hearing the Continuum of Sound  (Salomé Voegelin)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101  
Daniel Schnee

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