Stereo MC’s came up through the British club/dance culture of ... pad for new genres of music being forged in the laboratories of house, acid, techno and hip hop in the late 80’s and early ...

For hip-hop, this meant manipulating breakbeats from songs like Kraftwerk’s “Trans-Europe Express” and “Numbers” to energize b-boys and b-girls; for house, it meant extending disco’s rhythmic pulse ...