Dance music is as multilayered as any other scene.
Real McCoy or Le Bouche, things that have a lot of pop success, are to hard-core people in dance music what Seven Mary Three are to alternative people. We look at them and groan. While Flick's employer, Billboard magazine, concerns itself in large part with keeping track of the popularity contest that is the music business, dance music editor Flick has dedicated much of the last three years to bolstering what he thinks is the good stuff. He's the brains behind Billboard 's Dance Music Summit, the third annual version of which will convene at Chicago's Marriott Downtown July 17 through 19. House, which has become the foundation for most dance music, started pricking up the world's ears 15 years ago, and while Flick's summit is only three years old, the first two were held in San Francisco.