STORIES & CULTURE
Music, artists, labels and stories from the underground.
#house
When looking back at the history of rave music in **Teesside and the North East**, there are certain names that appear again and again across different clubs, promotions and generations.
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While many of the independent dance-music forums of the 2000s have disappeared, **UK Bounce House** is one of the communities that is still keeping the old forum culture alive.
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For a generation of Teesside clubbers, **The Cornerhouse in Middlesbrough** was one of those venues you didn't easily forget.
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A listener's guide to Traxsource, with house-focused genres, label catalogues, DJ charts and routes into underground club music.
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How late-1980s acid house grew from intimate club nights and warehouse parties into a connected UK rave culture.
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How the UK Hard House sound grew through Trade, Tony De Vit and a club culture built around faster, tougher dancefloor energy.
Read on WGR ↗The roots of House music in Chicago’s Black, Latino and queer club communities—and the global movement that followed.
Read on WGR ↗How hard house, hard trance, hardstyle, hardcore and related scenes connect under the Hard Dance banner.
Read on WGR ↗A WGR guide to Bounce, Scouse House and the fast, uplifting club sound that grew across North-West England.
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