Kevin Saunderson found the Reese bass by ear on a cheap Casio, picturing the Paradise Garage. Sampled in London six years later, it became the engine of jungle.
CBGB was meant for country, bluegrass and blues. Two plain house rules, carry your own gear and play your own songs, made it the room where New York punk took shape.
Before Kompakt was a label it was a record shop with a counter, a few crates and a customer who complained. How Cologne built a techno scene from retail.
A vinyl shortage pushed Horses from 20 October to 10 November 1975. The record that followed was cut in under three weeks at Jimi Hendrix's studio, with a producer the band argued with.
No guitars, no overdubs to speak of, and a drum machine from a jukebox maker. Suicide's 1977 debut was cut live in studio, and it still sounds like nothing else.
A $3,200 double album, mostly first takes, and a story that ends with the hero waking up. How Zen Arcade turned a hardcore band into a template for what came after.
Cabaret Voltaire began with tape loops in a Sheffield attic. Their own studio at Western Works kept the sound theirs.
Roger McGuinn said the guitar by itself was thuddy and did not ring. The shimmer people call jangle was built around that problem.
A three-story former factory, a juice bar and a members-only door. The Warehouse never set out to name a genre, and the sources still disagree on how it did.
Shoegaze got its name from a joke, a band called Moose and a set of accounts that still disagree. Here is what the record shows.
