Dance music radio

Dance music is united less by one instrument or period than by the importance of rhythm and movement. Club-focused recordings, vocal dance tracks and older anthems can sound quite different while still belonging to the wider field. The way a DJ joins songs and sets a pace can matter just as much as the presence of a particular style. A station may favour newly released tracks, draw from older dance floors or move between both approaches. The category marks a meaningful dance component in a station's output. It is not a claim that every song is intended for the same kind of club or that every programme fits a narrow electronic subgenre. Some stations make room for music at the borders of pop, R&B or hip hop as well. The description of each service should make those boundaries clearer, especially when one station concentrates on contemporary sounds and another takes familiar club records as its starting point.