It’s the mid-1980s in Queens, New York, where teenage graffiti artist, Joey Beltram, regularly rides the local M-train. These journeys of his begin from the last stop on the line, near where he lives in Middle Village. As Beltram takes the train, he meets other graffiti artists, and through these acquaintances he becomes introduced not only to different aspects of graffiti art, but also to the street parties that occur in their neighbourhoods. It is at these street parties that Beltram encounters djs playing a mix of hip hop and new electronic music sounds, including house. So drawn is he to the djs at these events, that Beltram will soon shift his creative energies from graffitiing to making music, eventually leading to him producing one of techno’s most iconic tracks, "Energy Flash".

It’s the mid-1990s in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, where Chinedum Nwosu, a local teenage student, dances at nightclubs in the city. Nwosu dances not only socially, but also professionally, being paid to perform at hardcore, techno, and house music events. While this is only a part time job for her, Nwosu realises the importance of feeling and loving the music to which she is dancing if she is to do it well. When the presiding soundtrack across Amsterdam clubs then gradually changes against her liking, she reasons that she has to stop dancing, given she now isn't wholly engaging the music. Rather than heralding the end of her relationship with electronic music however, this marks a transition in her relationship with such music, as she instead begins djing the forms of it for which she has a passion. Nwosu’s djing then leads to her producing tracks, from which comes her first release, the instant classic, “Dillema”.

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".