Pretty Good Dance Moves started in 2007 in Chicago after Aaron Allieta and Jimmy Giannopoulos met while bartending together.

Schatz's vocal performances are featured on the earliest songs Pretty Good Dance Moves produced, which were written and recorded between January and May 2007.

In 2011, Pretty Good Dance Moves signed to Mad Dragon Records to release Limo, their first full-length album.

[3][4] Pretty Good Dance Moves EP has also been compared to James Murphy's house music project LCD Soundsystem, UK downtempo group Zero 7, and the Brazilian Girls.

[4] Pretty Good Dance Moves has collaborated with Genevieve Schatz from Chicago band Company of Thieves, American comedian Kristen Schaal in the making of the music video "Demons Dancing," and America's Next Top Model runner up Shandi Sullivan in the making of the music video for "In the Heat of the Night".