Dance Pool
Dance Pool was one of Sony Music's dance / house labels.
CBS Dance Pool started in 1988 at CBS Schallplatten GmbH in Frankfurt, Germany. It was the most successful dance label from a major company in Germany. Right after starting under the name and logo of DANCE POOL it dominated the German sales charts with acts like Mysterious Art, P.M. Sampson and :de:Culture Beat|Culture Beat and many others. The founder Stefan Trapp left CBS / Sony Music in 1992.
In Australia Dance Pool released a series of compilations branded as 'Strictly Techno' which ran to five volumes and a 'classics' release.
In the late 1990s it was merged with the Sony Music subsidiaries Epidrome and Adrenalin in 1999 to form the label Dance Division.
