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Contents

Everything the corpus holds, in one list. The atlas is space and the Review is time; this is the plain index behind both — every scene, every influence on one, and what is still being written.

34 scenes 7 chapters 45 influences 246 canon records 0 being written

The scenes

A place, a window of years, people, and a reason. Ordered by when the window opens — the gaps between rows are as much a fact about the corpus as the rows.

1950–62Kingston Lawn DanceUNCHECKEDKingston · West KingstonSound systems on fenced yards, playing imported records with the labels scratched off.7 canon
1965–74Ethio-jazzAddis Ababa · EthiopiaAddis Ababa, where the players were state employees, the law forbade making records, and one man went to India to get around it.4 canon
1965–80AGAIN 2003–18Istanbul 45'lik NetworkUNCHECKEDIstanbul · UnkapanıA newspaper wrote the rules, a bazaar pressed the singles, and state radio stayed shut.10 canon
1967–69TropicáliaSão Paulo · TV Record studios · Philips studios · Vila MadalenaElectric guitars booed by the left in 1967 and jailed by the right in 1968: twenty-one months of Brazilian pop that ended in exile and finished in the cabinet.6 canon
1968–77KrautrockDüsseldorf · RhinelandMotorik pulse and studio science in postwar West Germany.10 canon · 1 chapter1975–83The Ordinary Endingchapter
1969–79Berlin SchoolBerlin · West BerlinSequencers running all night in a walled city full of young men avoiding the army.4 canon
1970–87New York GarageNew York · King Street · SoHo · NoHoA members-only party with no liquor license and the best sound system ever built: the room that taught dance music to be a religion.6 canon
1971–77AGAIN 2001–16Lagos Afro-RockUNCHECKEDLagos · ApapaOne producer's desk, two studios, and a tariff meant for somebody else.6 canon
1972–80American New WaveAkron · OhioRubber-city art students answering the dying assembly line with mockery — the American new wave that never lived on the Bowery.6 canon
1972–79FOUND AGAIN 2010–ZamrockLusaka · ZambiaFuzz pedals and Bemba hooks in a copper-boom republic: the heaviest rock scene Africa ever produced, nearly erased, then found again.15 canon · 1 chapter2010–Found Againchapter
1974–78New York PunkNew York · The BoweryOriginal songs only and the band keeps the door: a failing bluegrass bar's business model accidentally invents punk.11 canon · 1 chapter1978–86The Wall Comes Downchapter
1977–81London Post-PunkLondon · EnglandWhat eighteen months of punk left behind, once the shouting stopped.5 canon
1979–83harDCoreWashington · NorthwestX'd hands, church-hall shows, and a label started with six hundred dollars in a cigar box.8 canon
1980–87The Dunedin SoundUNCHECKEDDunedin · OtagoCheap flats, a pub with no bouncer, and a label in another city.7 canon
1981–98AGAIN 2009–13Champeta CriollaUNCHECKEDCartagena de Indias · BolívarThe African records ran short, so Cartagena's sound systems started hiring Palenque.8 canon
1981–86New York HardcoreNew York · Lower East SideAn after-hours door on a city-owned block, and a matinee that let the kids in.11 canon
1983–90Chicago HouseChicago · South SideWarehouse DJs, drum machines, and a new kind of church.5 canon
1984–93Jersey GarageNewark · DowntownA motel ballroom, a skate shop, and the garage sound gone back to church.6 canon
1985–94Detroit TechnoDetroit · MichiganBelleville Three futurism built in a post-industrial city.14 canon · 4 chapters1985–89The First Wavechapter1989–99The Second Wavechapter1997–15The Third Wavechapter2016–The Current Statechapter
1985–88London Warehouse SoulLondon · UKDeleted funk, borrowed keys, and a pirate station reading out directions.7 canon
1987–89London Acid HouseLondon · Southwark to the West EndOne Ibiza week, four rooms in six months, somebody else's warehouses.6 canon
1988–98Frankfurt TechnoUNCHECKEDFrankfurt · HesseMoney and exemption on the way up; leases and fire codes on the way down.8 canon
1988–93MadchesterManchester · EnglandGuitars and a drum machine in the same room, finally, and everyone too high to argue about it.4 canon
1989–98Shibuya-keiTokyo · Shibuya — Udagawachō and Center GaiA record-shop shelf names a genre, and the musicians it named were the customers.5 canon
1990–97Post-Wall Berlin TechnoBerlin · MitteA bank vault, a substation and a bunker, let cheap because nobody could prove who owned them.9 canon
1991–98Bristol SoundBristol · St Pauls · MontpelierSound system dub slowed to a heartbeat — what the world calls trip-hop, from the city that never accepted the word.7 canon
1991–94JungleLondon · Hackney — ClaptonThe music the licensed dial would not carry, broadcast off Hackney rooftops until the licensed dial changed its mind.11 canon
1993–97KwaitoUNCHECKEDJohannesburg · SowetoSoweto slowed the imports down and built the labels to own what came out, until a radio station took over the choosing.3 canon
1993–01London GarageUNCHECKEDLondon · South LondonA licensing gap, a Sunday morning, and American records played wrong on purpose.7 canon
2000–18Bacardi HousePretoria · Atteridgeville, west of the cityAtteridgeville, kwaito sped up into military snares, and a scene that moved its records by hand because the internet did not reach it.3 canon
2005–13Durban KwaitoUNCHECKEDDurban · KwaZulu-Natal — Umlazi, Umhlanga Rocks, Stamford HillWhen Johannesburg gave up on kwaito, Durban built the studio, the station and the club circuit, and kept supplying the country.7 canon
2006–16MahraganatUNCHECKEDCairo · El-Salam CityStreet weddings, cracked FruityLoops, and a record given away to sell the night.6 canon
2011–19GqomDurban · KwaMashu · Umlazi · ClermontBass music built for the one speaker that would carry it: a subwoofer bolted into a Durban minibus taxi.8 canon
2012–19AmapianoJohannesburg · Gauteng — Katlehong, Alexandra, Soweto, VosloorusTownship bedrooms in Gauteng, cracked software and a log drum under an electric piano — a music named from inside after the instrument it chose.6 canon

No scene matches that.

The influences

A force on a room — grouped by facet, which is the kind of force rather than the kind of thing. An influence with no touches is not an omission: some are room-less by ruling and reach you through your shelf instead of the map.

technology6

A machine, a format, or a technique that changed what could be made.

1933–86Richard LongNew York · USABuilt the rooms' ears: the sound systems clubs were designed around instead of the other way round.person · 1 touch
1942–70Jimi HendrixLondon · UKArrived in Lusaka as a rumour and a pedal setting.person · 1 touch
1966–The sequencerBerlin · West BerlinA lab convenience with no ending in it: sixteen steps, looped, and the cadence left the music.machine · 2 touches
Robby WedelMunich · GermanyThe assistant who came with the rented Moog and knew a trick its inventor didn't.person · 1 touch
1980–The Third WaveThe name arrived before the music: a futurist's chapter, printed 1980, waiting five years for its scene.text · 1 touch
1983–85Roland TR-909A drum machine that failed at sounding like a drummer, and was therefore perfect.machine · 5 touches

law regulation6

A rule somebody wrote, doing something nobody intended.

1926–17The NYC cabaret lawNew York · USAA 1926 licensing regime that pushed dancing into private rooms, then outlived every scene it shaped.law · 1 touch
1948–74The Hager Fikir monopolyAddis Ababa · EthiopiaA publishing monopoly granted as a favour in 1948, exercised almost never, and obeyed for twenty years by people nobody had threatened.law · 1 touch
1956–90The West Berlin exemptionBerlin · West BerlinThe law nobody wrote: occupation paperwork excused one city from the army, and the excused stayed up all night.law · 1 touch
1968–79Institutional Act No. 5Brasília · BrazilA 1968 decree that named no musician and set no rule to break, then spent ten years reading every Brazilian lyric before it could become a record.law · 1 touch
1975–91The Kaunda radio quotaLusaka · ZambiaA directive that reserved the airwaves for Zambians, written by economists and obeyed by guitarists.law · 1 touch
1990–The Broadcasting Act 1990London · EnglandA statute that charged for pirate radio in years of eligibility rather than in money, and drew its amnesty line twenty-two months before it existed.law · 1 touch

industry structure9

How the business was arranged — who could press, ship, or sell.

1969–75Amha RecordsAddis Ababa · EthiopiaAn import business that ran its freight the other way, and accidentally became the only record industry a country ever had.label · 1 touch
1976–91Rough TradeLondon · UKA shop that worked out you could sell three thousand copies of something unlistenable and still eat.label · 4 touches
1980–The DubplateLondon · EnglandA studio test disc that sound systems made unbuyable: one copy, cut in time to play that night, wearing faster than the vinyl it stood in for.format · 1 touch
1988–The Durban minibus taxiDurban · South AfricaSixteen seats, no subsidy, and a driver deciding what plays — the audition gqom had to pass, and the reason it sounds like that.industry · 1 touch
1989–97FrontpageFrankfurt · HesseEight pages, black and white, 5,000 copies at a Frankfurt airport discotheque — German techno's national press started as a club night's programme.press · 2 touches
1989–Hard WaxBerlin · KreuzbergKreuzberg, 1989: the counter came first, and the label, the cutting room and the distribution grew onto it.outlier · 1 touch
2002–Now-Again RecordsLos Angeles · USAA reissue label that treats dead catalogs as unfinished business.label · 1 touch
2002–Soundway RecordsLondon · United KingdomA catalogue built from other people's storerooms, licensed one signature at a time.label · no touches yet
2010–DatafilehostJohannesburg · South AfricaA place to park a file, which became a national release channel and could not have paid anyone if it had wanted to.outlier · 1 touch

organization17

A room, a label, a paper, a band that became an institution.

1944–16David MancusoNew York · 647 Broadway, then Prince StreetWrote the rules of the private party and enforced them by refusing to grow.person · 1 touch
1950–07Tony WilsonManchester · UKWrote a record label's constitution in his own blood, and the constitution said: own nothing.person · 2 touches
1965–81Max's Kansas CityNew York · 213 Park Avenue SouthThe room where the scene's cast rehearsed as an audience — and whose closing handed them all to the Bowery in the same winter.venue · 1 touch
1970–KraftwerkDüsseldorf · GermanyFour men who stopped pretending to be a band and became a studio.group · 4 touches
1971–91Musicland StudiosMunich · GermanyA commercial rock studio in a hotel basement, where the disco was made in the gaps.venue · 2 touches
1973–06CBGBNew York · The BoweryA failing bluegrass bar whose business model accidentally filtered a city for songwriters.venue · 2 touches
1976–79Punk magazineNew York · Tenth Avenue at 30th StreetPUNK IS COMING, hand-lettered on downtown walls, weeks before anyone could say what was coming: the name ran its own teaser campaign.press · no touches yet
1977–98The Electrifying MojoDetroit · MichiganDetroit's founding venue had no address: four hours a night, membership by headlight, a host with no face.person · 1 touch
1978–86The Dug OutBristol · UKA damp cellar that did its work by closing.venue · 1 touch
1982–97The HaçiendaManchester · UKFAC 51: a cathedral built years before its congregation, demolished years after, now flats wearing the name.venue · no touches yet
1983–87The Wild BunchBristol · UKA sound system that mattered most by ending.group · 1 touch
1990–10HMV Shibuya's domestic shelfTokyo · Udagawachō, ShibuyaFiled Japanese records by their distance from the imports two aisles over, and the genre kept the criterion.place · 1 touch
1990–97ZwischennutzungBerlin · MitteOwnership was unknown, so nothing could be sold and anything could be let: rooms in Mitte on short terms, at one official's discretion, no business plan asked for.outlier · 1 touch
1991–Kool FMLondon · UKA bedroom in Hackney, a transmitter on somebody else's roof, and by 1993 a club night of its own: the outlet and the promoter were the same two men.broadcast · 1 touch
1997–06Gagasi FMUNCHECKEDDurban · South AfricaA smooth-jazz licence that failed for eight years, then came back speaking isiZulu to the audience Johannesburg had stopped feeding.radio station · 1 touch
1997–YFMUNCHECKEDThe station that ended kwaito's independence by finally putting it on the radio.radio station · 1 touch
2000–07AfrotainmentUNCHECKEDDurban · South AfricaA label capitalised at the door, in a city where no advance was on offer.label · 2 touches

occupational career3

A person whose contribution was a job done a particular way.

1940–87Conny PlankWolperath · GermanyThe engineer who drove between the cities with the good microphones.person · 4 touches
1948–91Martin HannettManchester · UKProduced the space between the notes, twice, for two scenes that never met.person · 2 touches
1955–14Frankie KnucklesChicago · USAThe man who solved a problem on a Friday night and was told for thirty years that he'd invented a genre.person · 3 touches

market4

An audience, a demand, or a shortage.

1968–06The London music pressLondon · UKNamed half the scenes in this corpus and made none of them.broadcast · 2 touches
1974–78The copper crashKitwe · CopperbeltA price set in London that built a scene on the way up and repossessed it on the way down.event · 1 touch
1979–79Disco Demolition NightChicago · IllinoisNinety-eight cents, a crate of records, and a market correction wearing an army helmet.event · 2 touches
1997–Cracked FL StudioThe same studio the professionals use, at a price of nothing, because the licence went unenforced rather than because the product failed.machine · 2 touches

No influence matches that.

Being written

Known gaps, seeded from ruled investigations. They are on this page for the same reason they are on the map: a corpus that hides its queue is claiming to be finished.

Nothing queued matches that.

Every row here is generated from the corpus by tools/build_contents.py — nothing on this page is hand-maintained, so it cannot fall behind what has been written. Filtering also matches a scene's tags, so 909, afrofuturism or sound-system will find rooms whose names do not say so. Counts are the corpus's own: canon records include deep-dive chapters. This page makes no claim about what you own — your crate does that, from the sources you have connected. Same corpus, drawn as connections instead of a list: the graph.