WGR MUSIC STORIES
GENRES · ARTISTS · CULTURE
Music Store
The Ultimate Artist-First Music Ecosystem Bandcamp is an online music store, streaming platform, and artist-promotion community that has revolutionized how independent musicians monetize their art.
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Music Store
Welcome to a deep dive into Beatport, the cutting-edge music platform that has revolutionized the way we discover and experience electronic music.
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Artist Spotlights
How Rewired Records combines North East Makina releases, DJ-friendly music, producer education and practical tools for the next generation of rave artists.
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Artist Spotlights
A closer look at Various Digital Hardcore, the independent label and production platform connecting DJ Overdrive’s vinyl roots with modern Hardcore, Hardstyle and Bounce releases.
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North East Events
Meet Echoes Events, a North East platform bringing DJs, MCs and underground dance music together through live events, recorded sets and local collaboration.
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North East Music
How Newcastle, Sunderland, Teesside and surrounding towns built a fiercely local underground through raves, Makina, MC culture, independent clubs and DIY organisers.
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Genre Guides
A WGR introduction to Techno’s Detroit roots, futuristic machine music and the global underground that followed.
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UK Club Culture
How the UK Hard House sound grew through Trade, Tony De Vit and a club culture built around faster, tougher dancefloor energy.
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Genre Guides
How Trance grew from early European techno into a global sound built around repetition, atmosphere and emotional release.
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North East Music
A celebration of the mixed sounds, local clubs, DJs, MCs and memories that shaped North East old-school rave culture.
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North East Music
How a fast Spanish rave sound became a distinctive part of North East England’s musical identity and MC culture.
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Genre Guides
The roots of House music in Chicago’s Black, Latino and queer club communities—and the global movement that followed.
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Genre Guides
The development of Hardstyle from hard trance and hardcore influences into a worldwide harder-styles movement.
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Genre Guides
A beginner-friendly journey through electronic Hardcore, from early-1990s rave culture to its many modern branches.
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Genre Guides
How hard house, hard trance, hardstyle, hardcore and related scenes connect under the Hard Dance banner.
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UK Club Culture
A WGR guide to Bounce, Scouse House and the fast, uplifting club sound that grew across North-West England.
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