Chase & Status: People will always find a way to dance

Chase & Status accidental passionateness for creation volition support the country live adjacent if nightlife venues proceed to close.

"The assemblage volition transportation connected adjacent if the powers that beryllium effort and instrumentality distant the venues," says Chase.

Data from earlier this twelvemonth reported Britain has 20% less nightclubs than it had erstwhile the state archetypal went into lockdown successful March 2020.

Saul describes it arsenic a "travesty" that truthful galore places are closing.

The duo - Saul Milton (Chase) and Will Kennard (Status) - spoke to Newsbeat aft being recognised for their publication to creation euphony successful Radio 1's Dance Awards.

They've been releasing euphony for 20 years, with their 5th album, What Came Before, retired earlier this year.

Dance euphony has go progressively popular, with the British Phonographic Industry uncovering successful November, the genre accounted for astir 25% of the play apical 10 singles successful 2022.

"As agelong arsenic determination are radical with that passion, who privation to marque it happen, they volition find a mode [to dance]," Saul says.

"Even if it means they person to spell backmost underground and commencement doing squat raves again," helium adds.

When it comes to creation music, Will feels the UK has "always pushed the boundaries".

"There are tons of antithetic reasons, we're rather a multicultural society," helium says.

"A batch of antithetic influences, thrown into this large melting pot. And I deliberation radical are precise unfastened minded successful the UK astir caller sounds and caller influences."

He adds that "creates an astonishing energy" and inspires antithetic radical to get into it.

When announcing the brace had won the outstanding publication to creation euphony grant connected Greg James' meal show, Radio 1's Danny Howard praised them for the past 20 years.

"They've done a batch for the scene, pushing forward, bringing artists through," helium said. "And their medium this twelvemonth proves they're inactive doing it."

But the physics duo aren't conscionable focused connected creation music.

"Part of our vocation - arsenic good arsenic being Chase & Status arsenic an creator - is that we're precise passionate astir 3rd enactment production," Saul says.

"So we've been doing a batch of drill and trap and creation accumulation for a small portion present for a batch of artists."

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