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Genre Guides

Genre Guides

A WGR introduction to Techno’s Detroit roots, futuristic machine music and the global underground that followed.

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.

Genre Guides

How Trance grew from early European techno into a global sound built around repetition, atmosphere and emotional release.

North East Music

A celebration of the mixed sounds, local clubs, DJs, MCs and memories that shaped North East old-school rave culture.

North East Music

How a fast Spanish rave sound became a distinctive part of North East England’s musical identity and MC culture.

Genre Guides

The roots of House music in Chicago’s Black, Latino and queer club communities—and the global movement that followed.

Genre Guides

The development of Hardstyle from hard trance and hardcore influences into a worldwide harder-styles movement.

Genre Guides

A beginner-friendly journey through electronic Hardcore, from early-1990s rave culture to its many modern branches.

Genre Guides

How hard house, hard trance, hardstyle, hardcore and related scenes connect under the Hard Dance banner.

UK Club Culture

A WGR guide to Bounce, Scouse House and the fast, uplifting club sound that grew across North-West England.