"Dance Music". What is Dance Music? Can anyone clearly define the genre? Perhaps to gain a clearer understanding of the music we know, love and get down to, it is necessary to take a step back and look at where and how it all began. And I mean waaaay back. Back to when a piece of animal skin stretched across a log or a stick struck over a rock served as instruments, providing that most vital of ingredients...RHYTHM.

The historic link between Africa and America is a key element in understanding the evolution of dance music as we know it. Its taken 500 years for songs sung by slaves to twist and shape into the sounds of Blues, Jazz, Soul, Funk, Disco, House, Hip Hop, Drum & Bass.

Hundreds of years down the track, people packed into a club find themselves jamming, nodding, grinning to a fat kick drum and sharp snare. Rhythm, the key factor remains the same. Only the music has changed. The evolution from songs of slavery, echoing from deep in the hull of a ship bound for America, to songs spun from a technics 1200 in a London nightclub is a long and celebrated one.

Join George FM's resident funk historians Selecta Sam & Uncle Barnie every Saturday from 1 to 3pm as they lovingly dish out your weekly dose of Original funk, soul & afrobeat in all its many forms.

Music to make you move!