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Urban Dance Squad
Band Utrecht Netherlands Active 1986–1999 Dutch rap rock band
Urban Dance Squad formed in 1986 in Utrecht, Netherlands and was active until 1999. Urban Dance Squad has 32 chart appearances on 32 radio countdowns from 8 stations on RockLists, spanning 1991–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Deeper Shade of Soul”, which appears on 31 lists with a best position of #100. The station that charted Urban Dance Squad most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 14 appearances.
Urban Dance Squad was never supposed to happen. The Utrecht band came out of what was meant to be a one-off jam session at a festival in the city on December 20, 1986, and it went so well that they kept going. The lineup was a five-way crossfire of guitar, bass, drums, a rapper and a DJ: Rudeboy on the mic, Tres Manos on guitar, Sil on bass, Magic Stick on drums and DJ DNA on the decks.
What came out was rap rock, guitars and turntables scratched and crunched together into a loose, swaggering groove. Mental Floss for the Globe, their 1989 debut on Arista Records, carried "Deeper Shade of Soul", a laid-back, easy-rolling number that became their calling card on the countdowns and one of the more unlikely imports of the season.
They won the Dutch Popprijs in 1990 and went on to become one of the most successful bands their country produced in the '90s, making five studio albums before they called it a day in 1999.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Urban Dance Squad on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Deeper Shade of Soul | 31 | #100 | – | – | |
| 2 | Bureaucrat of Flaccostreet | 1 | #1156 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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