there is also a social element to the kinesthetics
if you enter an unfamiliar subculture, hearing unfamiliar music, you might be initially confused by what you're supposed to do in terms of responding to the rhythms and to the demands made by the music
but you look at how the crowd is moving and they are showing you how it's done, so you pick it up almost unconsciosuly
there is an instinctively mimetic thing that you get into, where you want to fit it, join the tribe
i think entrainment is the word some would use for this process - a kind of synchronisation with the collective and its rituals
so for instance as much i found the techno releases in 91 - things on R&S and Orbital and so forth - thrilling when i played them at home, it wasn't until i went to a rave and saw the crowd that i really understood what the music was for, what its modes of release were. it was the sight of the crowd going crazy, but going crazy in particular structured, ritualized, social ways, that so impressed me to the point of a conversion experience
i read this amazing book Stolen Lightning: a social theory of magic by Daniel O'Keefe a few years ago and one thing discussed in this enormously long, dense book was a phenomenon that occurs in certain tribes or tight ethnic groups particularly in Malaysia and Indonesia - called latah. And it has other names in other cultures. It's a form of compulsive, often collective mimesis:
"... the widely reported propensity of primitives to get fascinated by any prepossessing sight around them. in some societies, individuals caught by such fascinations compulsively imitate them: they imitate waves, birds. As late as the nineteenth century whole Cossack regiments would be seized with this compulsion and endlessly mimic an officer. Such phenomena are called 'olon' in Siberia, 'latah' in Malaya, 'atai' among the Mota... Latah is surrendering to outside fascination, becoming what you see"
So there is some kind of nexus here of tribalism, authority, group-mind, cybernetics, the urge to merge, oceanic feelings, ego-diminishment...
(one might also note the proximity of the word fascination to fascism, although i think the etymological roots are different)
perhaps the heightened (drugs, loud sound, darkness, flashing lights) environment of a club or rave is where we can regress to a more primitive (and open to mimesis / conformism) vibe-tribe mentality
shed our individuality
of course some find that scary - hence, IDM - dancing alone inside your mind