To date, the Latin dance album that holds the record for sales remains Tito Puente's Dance Mania. Recorded in November and December of 1957 and released in early 1958, Dance Mania was the first ...

Victor Parris Mitchell and Ray Barney of Dance Mania Records near Barney's home in North Lawndale Credit: Ryan Lowry Ray Barney has a basement full of old dance records, on shelves that stretch from ...

Last spring, local concert and panel series Viva Acid focused its programming not on acid house, as usual, but rather on ghetto house—specifically Chicago label Dance Mania. These efforts peaked in ...

Over more than a decade and almost 300 records, Dance Mania staked its claim as ghetto house’s Motown, holding its own as the brash, DIY counterpart to more internationally-established, ...

An inherent problem with dance retrospectives is that unless you already happen to have a vested nostalgic or archival interest in the era, it can be hard to find reasons to dip in. While it’s not ...

History, history, history… If there’s one thing in discovering any subject, especially any genre of electronic music, it’s to learn where it all came from, and how it got to where it is now. With the ...

The first time I came across Dance Mania was through Daft Punk's Teachers in 1997, when I was 13 years old. Who were all these people that Daft Punk thought were amazing enough to credit on their ...

Dance Mania was the Chicago label which was home to the Windy City's toughest, hardest house producers during the mid-90s. Tracks full of rudimentary funk and no-nonsense groove from DJ Funk, DJ Rush, ...