Various, Coldcut, Bomb The Bass, The Beatmasters, Gabinete Calighari, Front 242, Black Kiss, Tragic Error, Tek Noir, Leila K, Quibos

Chicago House

A drum machine, a cheap sampler and a church-raised voice — the blueprint every dance record still borrows.

Madchester

Guitar bands playing to a dancefloor clock: loose drums, wah pedals, 808s and a city on E.