Club Music

Club music kicked off in the late 1980s, mostly in Chicago and New York, when DJs realised that extending tracks to fill the dancefloor could double as a very skilful way to keep revellers in a trance-like state. It's characterised by thumping basslines, repetitive beats, and the kind of synth riffs that sound like they were stolen from an early video game, ensuring no one knows when one song ends and another begins. The genre is so entwined with nightlife that if you said it belongs to any other time of day, you’d likely get a strange look and be forced to buy a round to redeem yourself.