Dance USA

They've given us the hamburger, blue jeans, chewing gum, and neo-conservative imperialism . . . but our favourite American import is their enormous, world-spanning, beat-loving, groove-riding express train of classic dance music. Uncle Sam, we salute you for delivering Madonna's "Vogue", Missy Elliott's "Get Ur Freak On", and Farley Jackmaster Funk's Chicago house landmark "Love Can't Turn Around".

Explore the 50 states of superlative dance, in Next Steps.

From sea to shining sea, we've collected the best beats the U.S.A. has to offer . . . from the big beat Left Coast techno of the Crystal Method (members Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland are both from Vegas, but the outfit was formed in Los Angeles in 1993) to legends of the East Coast, like Kenny "Dope" Gonzales and Little Louie Vega, here working as Nuyorican Soul on "The Nervous Track".

Pledge your allegiance to the United States of Dance, in Deep Cuts.

Make a beeline for the streets of Detroit, in the company of Kenny Dixon Jr. — a.k.a. Moodymann — who ploughs a smooth, funky furrow with "Black Mahogani"; head out West with the Egyptian Lover, who delivers a nugget of crisp '80s electro with "Freak-a-Holic"; then "move it, move it" to the Big Apple with a pair of belters from Erick Morillo — "I Feel It" and, as Reel to Real, "The New Anthem".

Detroit techno, Chicago house, the West Coast underground, and the many splendid beats and sounds of New York: You'll find all these styles and many more in the melting pot of groove we've labeled Dance USA. Here, the stars are the producers and remixers (Frankie Knuckles, King Britt, Derrick Carter, et al.), and the stripes are made by lashes of pleasure as the kings and queens of American clubland whip you into a hot funk. Dance your way to the dawn's early light with your brothers and sisters in Stateside rhythm.