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Swedish House Mafia: Madison Square Garden, New York NY

Iman Lababedi, RockNYC, 18 December 2011

THE DIFFERENCE between House as the prevailing form of dance and house as a texture in modern pop is the difference between foreground and background. House is so exothermic in pop it hardly feels worth mentioning. In dance it remains the prevailing sound and at raves it is signature and goes to places other dance doesn't quite reach.

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