Transdance
Night Moves was created in mid ‘81, when at an underground dive bar Michael Guihen met John Davis, they both were almost 20 years old!!!John was still attending school and Michael was a life guard.
The first edition of Transdance came from the first attempt of Michael to create a group with a couple (John and Leona
- not the John who ended up in Nightmoves)
They named themselves Oblong Mauve, Six months after they started writing together the relationship between the three became stressed and Michael left to form Night Moves.
In the Mid 80s, transdance really got big in the clubs, a period of change into music came,
the so called new wave scene slowly disappeared, giving birth to the more open dancefloor genres
which would soon follow (house,acid, techno).
Transdance soon became one of the ultimate dancefloorfillers, in U.S. too, being played by the early house djs
at paradise garage, as well as early Chicago-house pioneers like Ron Hardy or the technoguys in Detroit,
while at the same time it remained one of THE all time new wave disco hits – to this day….
There seemes to be a big mystery going on concerning transdance. From the mid 80s on, nobody exactly knew
about the project behind it and it was hard to find,
The price of the record right now going almost every time up to at least 100 dollars!!!
In total there were 4 12″ mixes of Trans Dance (on 3 vinyls) & 1 7″ version (backed with Night Drive). The 3rd of these, the aforementioned New York /Pink label release, was the most successful. There is one unreleased 7″ version. The single was re-released in 1986.
