on bearshare they have a sub genre for dance music called indie dance, is it a real genre?

No.

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Wikipedia seems to have this covered. See here.

You could certainly call some of the late 80s/early 90s rock from the UK "indie dance". The Happy Mondays, Primal Scream, The Stone Roses, some Stereo MCs stuff and quite a big section of the baggy genre are good examples. Producers such as Oakenfold, Andy Weatherall and Alex Patterson worked with some of these acts, many of them saw remixes from contemporary dance producers, they got played in clubs a lot and a lot of them do split the two pretty much down the middle. I don't know if I'd call it all "indie dance", but it exists and it's one of my favourite styles of music.

EDIT: My grammar in this post has been horrible.

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Known as the baggy era.... primal scream, stone roses, new order, black grape, happy mondays, the farm, the charletans loads of stuff.
Mainly from manchester- so it was known as madchester.
Google madchester and you won't go far wrong.

edit- beaten to it- see above.

It's also the term for a lot of the current indie rock that seems to infuse disco aesthetics. Franz Fernindad, for instance.

I just call it rocktronica though.

(no, that's not an official genre ...well, at least not until I con Ishkur into including it in V3, heh)

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Primal Scream... My favorite band.

So glad I got to see them last summer in Madrid

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