The story of rave culture in the 1980s and 1990s is really two stories unfolding simultaneously across different continents—stories that eventually intertwined to give birth to a global phenomenon that changed music and youth culture forever. The Chicago and Detroit Underground: House and Techno’s Roots Kevin Saunderson In the early to mid-1980s, deep in the heart of America’s Midwest, visionary Black DJs and producers were crafting new sounds from disco’s ruins. In Chicago,