‘Combat Dance’ Takes Hold in Taoyuan Clubs
「戰鬥舞」於桃園舞廳開始流行
Source: The Subtle Electronic Music of Ordinary People: Goodbye, Taoyuan’s Mass Drill · Author: Wu Mu-ching
From: Reverberations: Explorations in Taiwan’s Postwar Sound Culture, pp. 200–207
Date: May 2015
“I’m not even sure when the name became ‘Battle Dance’ — the piece is actually called ‘FIRE,’ but everyone just started automatically adding the word ‘battle’ to it.” When Lo Pai-chi (DJ Jerry), whose music ignited the “battle dance” craze in the clubs of Taoyuan and Hsinchu, tries to describe the dance that was at the height of its fame, even he can only conjure it through keywords: the track “FIRE,” clubs in the Taoyuan–Hsinchu corridor, the “Taoyuan Dance God,” Mao-dong Club — but that dance-floor electronic drill, around 2006, was the most memorable thing about those clubs beyond the label “pill club.”
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External Links
- The Dance Politics of Taike Clubs (Hsieh Chih-wei, presented at the 2006 Cultural Studies Annual Conference)
- Taiwan’s Treasure — Taike Dance!! (Ruby’s blog)