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Japanese Techno, '90s–'00s

Tokyo and Osaka build their own techno — precise, melodic, and a little stranger than the blueprint.

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.