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.
Robert Miles was born Roberto Concina on 3 November 1969 in Fleurier, Switzerland, to Italian parents, and grew up in the small town of Fagagna in Friuli. He trained on piano, worked as a DJ in Italian clubs and on private radio, and in 1990 used his savings to build a studio and a pirate […]
Cybotron's Clear fused Kraftwerk's machines with a funk bassline, then split the duo in two directions and gave Detroit techno its starting point.
In May 1992 tens of thousands found a common in Worcestershire. Two years later the law had a definition of the music they danced to, and the sound system that helped cause it was already rebuilding the party in France.
Most clubs treat the floor as a place to stand. In October 1999, fabric opened beneath Smithfield Market in London and treated it as a loudspeaker. The idea was simple enough to explain and strange enough to feel: if low frequencies can be felt as well as heard, put the machinery for feeling them in […]
David Mancuso, born 20 October 1944, built The Loft as an invitation-only home party with a serious sound system and no alcohol. Most of the modern club still follows his rules.
