FEATURES... Key moments in dance music history captured in our archive of original magazine articles.
The first ever article in the British press about the new sound of Detroit. John McCready investigates.
The Shelter started as a Paradise Garage re-union party, soon the clubbers were calling themsleves the Shelter Family. Andy Thomas tells the story .
Just two years after it began, people were asking if acid house was already dead. In i-D John Godfrey examined what might come after.
Busloads of baggy Mancunian urchins made The Stone Roses Spike Island concert the stuff of indie dance legend.
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.
