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 ...

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, ...

Boysnoize Records has just announced that the label's cream of the crop have been working on a compilation album paying tribute to the jackin' booty house sound curated by Chicago's Dance Mania ...

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, ...

1. Back in October, we told you that the legendary Dance Mania Records was going to be putting out a special two-disc compilation, Strut Records presents Hardcore Traxx: Dance Mania Records 1986-1997.

The Chicago label Dance Mania experienced its peak years between 1998 and 1997, but its take on house music — raw, soulful, often lascivious, and frequently unhinged — is back in vogue throughout club ...