FEATURES... Key moments in dance music history captured in our archive of original magazine articles.
- Jon Savage details the history of one the defining genres in dance music: techno.
- The very first article on acid house, penned by Paul Oakenfold, taken from Boy's Own fanzine.
- Tim Lawrence details how Chicago's "acid" records took dance music into the future
- From After Dark magazine, Vince Aletti gives us a snapshot of New York's DJs as disco sweeps the city.
- The NME's Richard Grabel treks round the burnt-out buildings of the Bronx to introduce the Grandmaster to the world.
- To the beat y'all! As rap's earliest vinyl flies out of the Bronx, Richard Grabel surveys the scene and meets the Funky Four Plus One.
- New Yorker Richard Grabel introduces the Scroggins girls to the world, a family who most definitely don't fake the funk.
- As Run DMC take hip hop mainstream, the crack epidemic and Schooly D mark the birth of gangster rap.
- Stuart Cosgrove takes us back to the futurists, introducing Mantronix, the new noise of underground rap in 1986.
- In 1982, while Grandmaster Flash was touring the UK, the NME sent Val Wilmer to interview Sugarhill head honchess.
- Live from Jellybean's Funhouse, where Richard Grabel checks out the new electro disco Saturday night fever.
- Its musicians were the heart of French disco. No wonder library label Tele Music is such a collectors' favourite.
- Phil Cheeseman talks bleeps with Forgemasters, LFO and Nightmares on Wax as British techno is born.
- The first interview with Sheffield's electronic pioneers, from Sounds, by Jon Savage
- A wonderful mixtape journey through Sheffield's musical oddness, by Damon Fairclough.
- Jon Savage reports from Sheffield clubland's most famous forebear as house starts to make its presence felt.
- On the release of 'Higher Ground', his first full production, Dom Phillips pours gasoline on the Sasha legend.
- As a guy asks Sasha to snog his girlfriend, Mixmag decides DJs are pop stars and grooms Mr Coe for stardom.
- Author of 'The Long Player Goodbye', Travis Elborough laments the passing of the format that made music.


