Various, David Holmes, Raven Violet, Electronic, Afrodeutsche, New Order, Kiyoaki Iwamoto, The Fall, Samizdat, Michael J. Blood, Andy Stott

Reykjavík Experimental

A town the size of a suburb that keeps producing music that sounds like landscape.

Seattle Grunge

Heavy riffs played by people raised on punk, recorded cheap in the Pacific Northwest and then sold worldwide.

Boston Alternative

College radio, cheap rehearsal rooms and loud guitars: the US underground's most literate, least glamorous engine room.