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 ...

Victor Parris Mitchell rifling through records in Ray Barney’s basement When Ray Barney told me the leftover inventory from his old label, Dance Mania, had been gathering dust in his basement since ...

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 ...

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 ...

'90s house music fans, only you will probably get this. Boysnoize Records has just announced that the label's cream of the crop have been working on a October 28, 2013 ...

When Nina Kraviz visited Chicago in 2013, it was a pilgrimage to the source of one of her biggest inspirations: Dance Mania. The seminal Chicago label, which re-opened that year due to popular demand ...

Chicago's Dance Mania Records has been a huge influence for most of the producers and DJs on Boysnoize Records. BNR thought it's time to pay tribute to one of their favourite labels and producers so ...

In certain circles, the Chicago house-music scene that sprung out of the city’s gritty South and West sides in the late 1980s is nothing short of legendary. To this day, those bass loops are ageless, ...