# Dance Mania | Labels | House Music Blends Museum

Public page: HMB SITE MUSEUM/labels/dance-mania/dance-mania.md

Dance Mania is a real Chicago house label and a verified-existence foundation label in the House Music Blends Museum.

## Label Detail

Dance Mania is preserved in the Museum as a Chicago house label connected to raw local records, ghetto house, later juke and footwork influence, and Chicago's independent record culture.

This label page connects Dance Mania to the Museum's Chicago foundation through label history, artist links, release paths, local distribution, and review-status source work.

## Label Profile

Verified existence: yes.

Detail verification status: review.

Archive role: foundation label.

City link: Chicago.

Early activity: public sources place the label's early start in 1985, with founder and early-organization details kept under review because sources describe the earliest setup differently.

Key people currently connected in source notes: Ray Barney, Duane Buford, and Jesse Saunders.

Key artist paths currently connected in source notes: DJ Deeon, DJ Funk, Paul Johnson, Parris Mitchell, Jammin Gerald, and other Chicago house and ghetto house artists.

Dance Mania keeps the archive connected to Chicago's raw, street-level, and later ghetto house paths while giving future artist and record pages a clear label anchor.

## Museum Context

Dance Mania matters to the Museum because Chicago house history did not stop with first-wave label expansion. The label connects the Museum to the harder, rawer, local-market side of Chicago house and the later paths that influenced juke and footwork.

The Museum keeps detailed claims in review status while founder details, catalog details, artist credits, release chronology, and source notes are tightened.

## Connected Archive Areas

## Chicago

Verification status: verified

Chicago is the city foundation for this entry, connecting Dance Mania to the label, artist, record, club, and dance floor history of house music.

## Artists

Verification status: review

The Museum currently connects Dance Mania to Chicago house and ghetto house artist paths while individual artist-label relationships remain queued for dedicated source-backed pages.

## Records

Verification status: review

The Museum currently connects Dance Mania to raw Chicago house, ghetto house, and later catalog paths while exact label, format, catalog, credit, and release details remain queued for dedicated record pages.

## Source Notes

Pitchfork's Hardcore Traxx: Dance Mania Records 1986-1997 review describes Dance Mania as a Chicago label associated with ghetto house, Ray Barney, Duane Buford, and a local Midwest following.

Pitchfork's Dance Mania: Ghetto Madness review describes Dance Mania as a prolific Chicago house label with almost 300 records, a South and West Side Chicago connection, and a 2013 relaunch announcement connected to Ray Barney and Parris Mitchell.

## Verification Note

Verified existence on this page means Dance Mania is confirmed as a real Chicago house label.

Review status means deeper claims about founders, exact start sequence, catalog count, release dates, artist credits, ownership, distribution, and label chronology should be added only after source review.

## Search And Reading Note

This markdown page gives search engines and reading systems a clean text version of the House Music Blends Museum Dance Mania label detail page while the main website keeps its full visual design, navigation, archive sections, and visitor tracking behavior.