Blog: PopMatters

Veteran DJ Richard Sen selects gems from the dawn of house music in the UK. If it ain't Chicago, what exactly is it, then? During the 1990s, the American music press was bracing for the electronic dance music invasion that never came. Magazines and websites were full of breakdowns of the various genres and subgenres of "techno" music, often created by British producers and DJs. But, except for some notable big hits from Chemical Brothers, the Prodigy, and Fatboy Slim, "techno" remained for the most part an underground concern. Artists were snapped up by major labels, hyped, and then...