Dance Mania was the Chicago label that distributed ghetto house before ceasing around 2000 and reviving in 2013

Ghetto house’s key distribution channel was the influential Chicago imprint Dance Mania, which put out DJ Deeon’s earliest EPs (his 1994 debut ‘Funk City’ among them) and defined the genre’s aesthetic. The label ceased operations around the turn of the millennium, then celebrated a return to the market in 2013 on the back of revived interest in its 1990s records — after which it issued compilations of Deeon’s earliest and most memorable works. Knowing Dance Mania’s role and its cease-and-revive arc grounds ghetto house in a real scene infrastructure: a genre carried not by radio or major labels but by a local imprint and hand-sold mixtapes.

Examples

Dance Mania released Deeon’s 1994 ‘Funk City’ EP and 1995’s ‘The World Is A Ghetto’; after stopping around 2000 it revived in 2013 and issued ‘Deeon Doez Dance Mania’ sampler compilations.

Assessment

Name the label most associated with 1990s ghetto house and describe what happened to it around 2000 and in 2013.