Dance music has a long history of taking rock music and turning it on its head.
So it was when Sly Stone, Norman Whitfield and George Clinton took hippy rock and thrust it into funk, or Run DMC took stadium rock and taught it to dance.
And so it is now with acts such as Aphrodite (via Frau Frau) and Groove Armada taking guitars and re-moulding them for the dance floor.
It's what Colin Numan, front man of Wire and head honcho of Swim records, has described as dancefloor rock
For acts such as Edition Terranova, all this is little more than business as usual, which is not to say they are in any way a rock act.
The band's second album, 'Hitchhiking Non-Stop With No Particular Destination' is definitely an electronic dance set. But while their music is funk infused, dub enthused, head knocking dance, it harbours punk in its soul.
Stand out tracks include Mike Ladd's superb rap on the guitar funk of 'Sublime', the rocking b-line techno of 'Concepts', the drum 'n' tech of 'Women Beat Their Men' (with its repost of "... the men beat on their drums"), the acron punk electro-pop of 'Mongril', the dub filled break beat of 'Equal Rights' (both featuring Ariane/Ari-up of the Slits) and the sheer electro-pop brilliance of 'Out Of My Head'.
On 'Heroes' Ladd returns to deliver the kind of sermon Michael Franti would wheel out in his Disposable Heroes days, while Bob Marley's 'Running Away' is given a welcome intelligent re-working - the irony being that the original was featured on the same Marley album as the remix massacred 'Sun Is Shining'.
Finally the album moshes out with the guitar blaze of 'Goodbye The Ferrari'.
Makes you want to hitch non-stop to the 'Pogo' club in Berlin.
