Dance Pool
Encyclopedia
Dance Pool was one of Sony Music
's dance
/ house
labels
.
CBS Dance Pool started in 1988 at CBS Schallplatten GmbH in Frankfurt, Germany. It was the most successful dance label from a major company in Germany. Right after starting under the name and logo of DANCE POOL it dominated the German sales charts with acts like Mysterious Art
, P.M. Sampson and Culture Beat and many others. The founder Stefan Trapp left CBS / Sony Music in 1992.
In Australia Dance Pool released a series of compilations branded as 'Strictly Techno' which ran to five volumes and a 'classics' release.
In the late 90's it was merged with the Sony Music subsidiaries Epidrome and Adrenalin in 1999
to form the label Dance Division.
Sony Music Entertainment
Sony Music Entertainment ' is the second-largest global recorded music company of the "big four" record companies and is controlled by Sony Corporation of America, the United States subsidiary of Japan's Sony Corporation....
's dance
Dance music
Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement...
/ house
House music
House music is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in Chicago, Illinois, United States in the early 1980s. It was initially popularized in mid-1980s discothèques catering to the African-American, Latino American, and gay communities; first in Chicago circa 1984, then in other...
labels
Record label
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CBS Dance Pool started in 1988 at CBS Schallplatten GmbH in Frankfurt, Germany. It was the most successful dance label from a major company in Germany. Right after starting under the name and logo of DANCE POOL it dominated the German sales charts with acts like Mysterious Art
Mysterious Art
Mysterious Art is a German Dancefloor-Act and publishing house founded in 1988. M.A. became famous for its hit singles "OMEN I", "OMEN II", and "OMEN III".-History:...
, P.M. Sampson and Culture Beat and many others. The founder Stefan Trapp left CBS / Sony Music in 1992.
In Australia Dance Pool released a series of compilations branded as 'Strictly Techno' which ran to five volumes and a 'classics' release.
In the late 90's it was merged with the Sony Music subsidiaries Epidrome and Adrenalin in 1999
1999 in music
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to form the label Dance Division.