As the Editor of Britain's Cross Rhythms magazine Tony Cummings is a first hand witness to the growth of the country's home grown Christian music scene. No area of this growth has excited him more than the Church's phenomenal move into the British dance underground.

N*Soul Records and Velocity Music Group and Cross Rhythms magazine pooled their resources in 1995 to celebrate this phenomenon with the release of CROSS RHYTHMS - Sanctified Dance From The U.K. Underground.

In 1992 The World Wide Message Tribe, came to Cross Rhythms' attention. The subsequent review of The Tribe's cassette release, "Take A Long Hike (With The Chosen Few)", lead to The Tribe coming to the attention of NSOUL Records . The Tribe went on to be at the forefront of the Sanctified Dance scene with their debut album and "Dance Planet." Although as Tony points out, the Tribe are the very tip of a quickly growing underground of British Music, and "CROSS RHYTHMS - Sanctified Dance From The U.K. Underground" demonstrate this."

House, garage, hip-hop, techno, trance, and the newest and most exciting one of all, jungle, are now being recorded in small studios (often in people's bedrooms!) throughout England . CROSS RHYTHMS - Sanctified Dance From The U.K. Underground places the spotlight on the emerging talent of British dance artists and producers including Tracey Riggan, Minds Of Men, Breakspear and Soul Freedom

The underground is about to go overground. Are you ready for the ride?

Sanctified Dance:

In 1989 Tony Cummings produced an E.P. with a group called House Of God, which used samples of several preachers and the following year started Cross Rhythms magazine. After hearing an incredible NSOUL album, Tony started using the phrase "Sanctified Dance", a phrase that was then used by NSOUL's ClubHouse radio show producer Stephen Nixon when he moved to L.A. from England. The term Sanctified Dance was soon accepted as the standard label for this new breed of dance music coming out of the Christian community.

Nearly 3 years since its inception a more common term for club music coming from the Christian community is now GospelHouse which has easily found a home next to 'positive' club music in the mainstream clubs and record stores.