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US DJ Larry Levan's disco-inspired Paradise Garage club in New York City set the scene in the early 1980s, blending soul and funk records with drum machine beats to help create the garage genre. The growing popularity of genres such as Chicago House and Detroit Techno combined with the influence of Goa trance and the Balearic beats of Ibiza exploded in the UK as acid house in 1987, with clubs like London's Shoom paving the way for thousand of illegal warehouse parties. Dominated by DJs such as Carl Cox and Paul Oakenfold, the popularity of UK-influenced dance music continued to be a major phenomenon throughout the 1990s and beyond, giving birth to large UK dance music festivals such as Tribal Gathering, and superclubs such as Cream in Liverpool and Fabric and the Ministry of Sound in London.
The profusion of budding DJs and clubs has seen the sale of DJ turntables outstrip electric guitars in the UK since 1997. The rise of dance music and DJ culture has also resulted in the rebirth of the vinyl 12-inch single, a music format once thought to have been made redundant by the compact disc.
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