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Groove Armada - Highway 101

During the 1920s, many Americans had extra money to spend, and spend it they did, on movies, fashion and consumer goods such as ready to wear clothing and home appliances like electric refrigerators. In particular, they bought radios.

Cars also gave young people the freedom to go where they pleased and do what they wanted. Some pundits called them bedrooms on wheels. What many young people wanted to do was dance, the Charleston, the cake walk, the black bottom and the flea hop were popular dances of the era.

Jazz bands played at venues like the Savoy and the Cotton Club in New York City and the Aragon in Chicago, radio stations and phonograph records, 100 million of which were sold in 1927 alone, carried their tunes to listeners across the nation. Some older people objected to jazz music’s vulgarity and depravity, and the moral disasters it supposedly inspired, but many in the younger generation loved the freedom they felt on the dance floor.


Groove Armada - Highway 101
  • Produced by: Groove Armada
  • Released on: Jul 10, 2015
  • Genre: Electronic

Groove Armada formed after Andy Cato and Tom Findlay had been introduced by a mutual friend and soon started their own club night in London. The duo have released nine studio albums, four of which have charted in the UK Albums Chart top 50.

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