Florida breakbeat duo The Spacemen — DJ Trip (Keith Rosenberg) and Danny B (Dana Brown) — have performed as aliens for thirty years, and it started with a library photo of American Gothic. They trace the Miami bass and Florida breaks scene that raised them — Beatmaster Wizz, Vicious Bass, Magic Mike, 2 Live Crew, System II — then the road that followed: pumping compressed air into sealed alien masks ("we had no idea that wasn't good for you"), getting tracks onto MTV, and surviving Napster and the post-9/11 collapse of the record business. It ends on the moment that cuts through three decades of deadpan — a single dad putting out his daughter's first record on his own label.

"We can almost finish each other's sentences. And I don't even like the guy."

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🎧 A DJ's Journey — the oral history of dance music, told by those who created it.

This one's a track-by-track walk through his own catalog and the records he signed. Damian tells the story of the "coat noise" he accidentally recorded on the streets of New York that became a single; Noel Fielding's surreal monologues on "Generalization"; executive-producing Justice's "D.A.N.C.E." before the world caught on; and the four years it took to get "Reach Out" with Linda Lewis right — a record he says he wants played at his funeral. Plus the Lo-Fidelity Allstars, Bentley Rhythm Ace, and Space Raiders — Skint at its most gloriously unpretentious.

The oral history of dance music, told by those who created it.

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DJ history, first-hand: Donald Glaude on 35 years of Seattle rave culture, from The Underground to the festival era.

In Episode 1, DJ Dan told us Glaude handed him the mic and christened him a star. In Episode 22, recorded after Dan's passing, Glaude tells the other half, and how Dan paid it forward into the Funky Tekno Tribe.

Beatles records at six. Learning to mix on a Radio Shack mixer. Eight-hour Friday nights at The Underground. The pre-EDM road with Dan, Fatboy Slim and Carl Cox. The Vegas residencies at Drai's and ICE and the deliberate choice to trade EDM paydays for community.

It peaks at Joshua Tree, in tears, "I took them to church" and a defiant second act. One of American dance music's most electric showmen, at his most human.

The oral history of dance music, told by those who created it.

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