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Long guides to dance music and club culture, written for listeners.

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A city built in the Nevada desert for a week, with no lineup and nothing for sale, and the sound camps that play anyway.

Eighteen sets picked for what happens in them, beside the ten most-watched, counted across 8,206 Boiler Room recordings.

London played an American record too fast until the beat broke. The branches it split into, and the numbers behind its revival.

Ten ways to hear something you have not heard before, from community radio to record credits, ordered by how much work they take.

The genre jungle became after the mid-1990s split: 174 BPM, chopped breaks and sub-bass, from Metalheadz to a global festival circuit.

From south London record shops and 200-capacity basements to a genre that split into two sounds sharing one name.

A global history connecting Jamaica, Miami, Britain, Los Angeles, Chicago, Durban and today’s hybrid club culture.

From funk breaks and pirate radio to cracked VSTs and modern bass hybrids.

Pirate radio, dubplates, MC energy and the global return of a distinctly Black British sound.

Ten sounds that travelled from regional underground scenes into global culture.