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Urban Dance Squad

Urban Dance Squad

The Amsterdam-based rock/rap collective Urban Dance Squad began in 1986, playing and jamming together on an informal basis. They played a gig at the Utrecht Festival and, surprised by the raves their performance drew, became a more serious project. The group gigged for two years, and with the proceeds released 1990's Mental Floss for the Globe. Urban Dance Squad's mix of rock, rap, funk, ska, folk, hip-hop, and ...
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by Heather Phares

Formed

1986 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Genre

Pop/Rock

Styles

  • Heavy Metal
  • Alternative Rap
  • Rap-Metal
  • Rap-Rock
  • Nü Metal

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  • Planet Ultra

    The most recent Urban Dance Squad album is reissued here in a deluxe two-fer that also includes a live recording from New York in 1997. Kudos to Triple X for the fine packaging and for having... More ...

  • Persona Non Grata

    The Urban Dance Squad's penultimate album was also its most heavily metal-influenced. "Demagogue," the album's opener and centerpiece, is an utterly bracing concoction of raw-throated rap and... More ...

  • Life 'n Perspective of a Genuine Crossover

    The sophomore slump hit Urban Dance Squad rather hard, or maybe it just seemed that way based on the consistently high quality of their debut. Life 'n Perspective of a Genuine Crossover sounds... More ...

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