Publish date: 2023-11-27

A history of dance musicDance music2008: Number 45 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of dance music

Blackout Crew earned their footnote in the annals of dance music history by discerning that all genres of music sound better with the addition of a "donk". A donk, if you don't know, sounds a bit like a wet drainpipe hit repeatedly with a heavy rubber mallet – and in their breakout single Put a Donk on It, this rowdy Bolton rave crew demonstrated its curious flexibility, and introduced the world to the north-west's new bouncy techno sound in the process.

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