Review
Genre and Mood
Max Manie works in deep house, and EDMTunes, writing about his earlier music, described his style as crisp and innovative and his tracks as deep and tranquil. Dance is a 2016 single in that vein, released by the label that had put out his first EPs. Relaxed and groovy is the frame the genre and his earlier work suggest; the version here is the one made for radio.
Song Summary
This is the radio edit, the version Crosswalk Records released as a single on 15 April 2016 and uploaded to its YouTube channel later that month. It runs about three and a half minutes, and it is the only version on the single. In November 2016 the label followed it with a separate release of remixes, so the same track came in one form for radio and playlists and in several for DJs.
Musical Breakdown
No published review walks through Dance, and this review will not pretend to. What the release itself shows is its proportion: about three and a half minutes, against remixes that mostly run six to seven and a half. A radio edit usually gets there by trimming the long beat-only intro and outro a DJ would use to mix, and by cutting repeats, so expect the track to reach its point quickly.
Concepts in Focus
Dance is a clear example of the radio edit. House music is usually made long, so that DJs can blend one record into the next; a radio edit cuts that length down to the three or four minutes radio and streaming playlists prefer. Here the edit came first and alone, which tells you where the label expected the single to be heard.
The longer life of the track went to the remix. The November 2016 package carries versions by Peer Kusiv, Bruno Le Funk, Scheinizzl, Nico Pusch, A2A and Sanuo, each a different producer’s reading of the same material, most of them at club length. Remixes like these put a single back into DJ sets after its first release. Max Manie had been on the other side of that process: his debut EP Sunday carried a remix by Klangkarussell, the duo behind Klangkarussell – Moments.
Artistic Context
Max Manie grew up in Salzburg and moved to Vienna, and he first drew attention with his debut EP Sunday on Crosswalk, which, according to EDMTunes, won him support from Robin Schulz and Tiësto. The EP included remixes by Klangkarussell and KlangTherapeuten. His second EP, The Ocean, followed on the same label, which released its title track in France as part of CROSSWALK 007 in January 2015. Dance came a year later.
Impact and Reception
We found no chart record or press review of Dance, and it would be wrong to invent one. It is a modest single from a young Austrian producer, and its life has been on streaming playlists and, through the remixes, in DJ sets.
