It’s 1987 in Wales, United Kingdom and Alexander Coe, who is still in his teens, regularly drives to Manchester from his Bangor home, to go clubbing at the Hacienda nightclub. The scene there revolves around early house music with a mix of other styles, and attracts groups of proficient dancers in trendy clothes who hold dance battles. After then spending a few months away from the club, Coe returns to the Hacienda in early 1988, to find a somewhat different spectacle and sound now in place. Acid house has arrived, full of Day-Glo fluorescent colour, distorted smiley faces, strobe lights, and disordered carnage on the dancefloor. Coe has never seen people behave so freely, and soon becomes obsessed with what only a few weeks prior would have been an alien collection of sounds to him. He soon drops out of school, moves to Manchester, and goes to the club practically every night it is open. This commitment to acid house, and other related forms of electronic music that come after it, motivate him to explore djing, and producing, eventually under the artist title of Sasha, a name that people in his life use to refer to him. Fifteen years or so following this introduction to a new sonic world, Sasha releases the track, "Bloodlock".