When the music starts, your body seemingly takes a life of its own and dance with the beat. When this happens, let it be. Don’t worry about looking stupid because this is a normal reaction for most people. Besides, dancing can do more good to your body than harm especially if you treat it as an exercise routine and make a daily habit out of it.

There are many benefits to dancing. It keeps the bones strong and prevents osteoporosis and arthritis. This is especially significant for women after menopause when estrogen levels drop stopping calcium from being absorbed into the bones.
Dancing also improves flexibility and regular stretching increases muscle strength.

One major advantage of dancing is it burns a lot of calories that’s why many weight loss programs include dancing classes. If you are on the heavier side and need to lose more weight, you’re probably taking dietary supplements as well.

Diet pills work by doing several things: boost metabolism so you burn calories faster, suppress appetite to lessen food consumption, prevent absorption of fat by using ingredients that restrict the enzyme lipase in the intestines, and increase energy level thereby making you more physically active to perform activities like exercise.

Another ingredient commonly found in diet pills that has been known to be very effective is ephedra. Ephedra is a shrub-like plant called Ephedra sinica or Ma Huang in Chinese. For 5,000 years it was traditionally used to treat asthma, hay fever and the common cold. The active ingredients in ephedra are the alkaloids ephedrine and pseudoephedrine, with ephedrine comprising 40-90% of the content.

Ephedra is a stimulant and thermogenic. It stimulates the brain and increases the heart rate. This action constricts the blood vessels causing high blood pressure. It is able to treat asthma by expanding the bronchial tubes so that breathing is easier. The thermogenic property of ephedra causes a boost in metabolism so that it turns your body into a fat burning furnace.

Due to reports of dangerous side effects caused by ephedra, the United States Food and Drug Administration or FDA banned the sale of ephedra and all supplements containing ephedra in 2004. Side effects include headache, nausea, dizziness, vomiting, anxiety, nervousness, tremors, seizures, heart attacks, hyperthermia, skin reactions, insomnia, stroke and even death. That is why to this day, ephedra remains illegal in the United States.

That didn’t stop companies like Twinlab to innovate and manufacture diet pills that are still effective even in the absence of ephedra. Products like Ripped Fuel retained the thermogenic property of ephedra without the jitters and anxiety resulting from over stimulation of the nerves. You get the same fat-burning results minus the health risks.

These non-ephedra pills are a popular choice among body builders because aside from burning fat, it also increases energy level so that you don’t get easily tired during workouts. And if you have the stamina of a body builder you’ll surely be able to dance all night!

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For those of you think that the new Native Instruments’ new Komplete 8, which includes 27 individual NI products, or their Komplete 8 Ultimate, which includes 50 NI products, are not quite Komplete enough, we bring to your attention Komplete Infinity. Komplete Infinity is Kompleter, promising ‘quite literally every sound that can possibly be acoustically produced in the [...]

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Here is the interview with Antix, a magnificent band consisted of two brothers also playing under aliases Fiord, Pylon and Strom Brothers. Antix has been around for some time now, I remember listening to their debut album “Lull” from 2003 and knowing that they are going to rock the scene since their music was quite advanced for [...]

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Listen up SF: You have been waiting for this party since its announcement… in the second installment of RedEye Present’s new Bay Area monthly party MELT, we are officially welcoming the Bay Area debuts of GDD friends Dillon Francis and Adam F.  Catch one of the leading producers behind moombahton plus one of the UK’s…

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If it doesn’t feel like the weekend yet, Bit Funk’s remix of Justin Faust’s ‘Girl Talk’ will surely motivate you to leave your job and head straight to the bar. Out on Beatport today, this dreamy feel good remix is another smash addition to Brooklyn producer Bit Funk’s long list of great disco and house…

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The French have always been in the forefront when it comes to electronic music. In fact, the pioneers of electronic music were all French gentlemen. It is difficult to say why, but the French have produced good electronic music all along and today, they have surpassed Britain and America in producing quality electronic music compositions. If we talk of the present, there are some great talents, both old and new, that are creating some wonderful electronic music. Some of the leading names are Daft Punk, Justice, Digitalism, Agoria and NoiseGun. The current crop of musicians owe their success to Pierre Henry who started the trend by creating a track called Messe pour le temps present in 1967. Many of the present day artists are greatly influenced by Pierre Henry.

With the advent of smaller, cheap synthesizers many musicians started to compose electronic music in the 70’s. Jean Michel Jarre made electronic music very popular with his album Oxygene in 1976. He was the person who brought electronic music to films, and Vangelis owes his success (Blade Runner) to Jean. His influence is clearly felt in the music composed in all genres in the 80’s. While 80’s produced more disco music than electronic music, one notable exception is Depeche Mode, who came from Britain and rocked the music industry in France by creating memorable electronic music. He created a wave of synth pop music and there were various artistes who tried to copy his style. This phase in the French electronic music is also referred to as Cold wave. Though none of the bands could recreate the magic of Depeche Mode, Kas Product became widely popular across Europe, especially because of its Goth music. Taxi Girl was another band which produced good music and became famous in France. The composer of this band, Mirways made some famous songs for the New York electro duo Fischerspooner.

The 90’s saw the French electronic music reaching its peak and this music became famous all over the world. 90’s also saw the emergence of Daft Punk, Air, Etienne de Crecy, Cassius, Alex Gopher and Sporto Kantes. A young DJ, Lauret Garnier created waves with his electronic music and churned records after records. Initially there were numerous compilations from Buddha Bar and then came the robotic music from Daft Punk. 90’s is also known for some soft, soothing music by Air.

French are credited with creating a subgenre of music which is called lounge music. Buddha Bar is a classic example of this kind of music. It created mass hysteria among music lovers all over the world in the early years of 2000. In between music which is also called mid-tempo was also popular during this period and the main artists behind it were Etienne de Crecy and Dimitry.

As of today, there are many artists keeping the flag of electronic music high in France, the most prominent among these being NoiseGun and Agoria. Looks like electronic music is here to stay with more and more artists joining the bandwagon.

Electronic Music is a very broad term referring to that category of music created with the help of electronic equipment. These equipments may be synthesizers, computers or drum machines. The credit to record first electronic music goes to Thaddeus Cahill, who used a Tele Harmonium in 1897. It was indeed a very heavy harmonium that weighed almost 7 tons. Another instrument called Theremin was used by Leon Theremin in 1919 to make electronic music. It was only after the First World War that electronic music began to be composed on a large scale and people welcomed this kind of music as something refreshing and different from that produced by usual instruments. Electronic music caught the imagination of the people with the invention of tape recorders in 1948. And when analog synthesizers hit the markets, there was a spate of electronic music compositions. The notable composers of this era were Pierre Schaeffer, Pierre Henry, Pierre Boulez, Edgar Varese and Steve Reich.

The earliest musical compositions on electronic instruments were all classical in nature but with passage of time popular music got composed with the help of electronic instruments. Walter Carlos created waves with his compositions in the 60’s when he recreated classical compositions on synthesizers. With advancement in technology, cheap synthesizers got introduced in the market. They were also small and portable and this prompted their use by many rock bands. The popular bands who used electronic music were The United States of America, The Silver Apples and Pink Floyd. Kraftwerk was the most successful band in the field of electronic music in the 70’s, and the music they created still reverberates in the ears of music lovers.

The band Weather report experimented with electronic music when it mixed sounds of acoustic instruments and synthesizers. One of their members, Joe Zawinul continues to make such music till today. A very famous jazz music composer Herbie Hancock is credited with the most experimentation when it comes to electronic music using synthesizers. He explored the field even further in the 80’ with his album Future Shock.

80’s saw a huge number of composers such as Brian Eno, Vangelis, Jean Michel Jarre and many others who devoted their energies to produce some memorable electronic music. Their efforts inspired musicians to make electronic music for Hollywood films and one of the most prominent of such films is A Clockwork Orange. Many sci-fi films made use of electronic music to create an atmosphere suited to the subject of their films. Electronic music became so popular that groups composing these music compositions were hired much the same way as singers and other composers to produce sound tracks of films.

The period starting from late seventies to the mid eighties is known for the innovations made in the field of electronic music. It was during this time that digital synthesizers made their entry and analog synthesizers gave way to them. Samplers which were very heavy and expensive till now gave way to lighter and cheaper samplers. In due course of time, a separate genre called industrial music was carved for the music composed using electronic instruments.

Lacquer’s real name is Stéphane Jounot. His is a French electronic music artist that grew up in the 1980s and draws  most of his influences from this era. He released an album in 2003 and contributed lyrics to Alex Gopher’s track Carmilla. Jounot prefers natural emotion over technological positioning.