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I'm working through Nike's Original Run series in the hope of becoming a runner, although I'd rather be swimming. This time it's Simian Mobile Disco's Run, a continuous electronic soundtrack built around repetition, rhythm and movement.

As British rave culture began splitting into new scenes during the early 1990s, The Sabres of Paradise brought techno, house, dub and ambient music together without settling into any one genre.

Between 2010 and 2016, electronic dance music became a global phenomenon. From Daft Punk's pyramid stage to the rise of massive festivals, Skrillex and Flume, this was a period when technology, culture and music changed together.

Battlefield Band took Scottish traditional music and pushed at its boundaries, combining pipes, fiddle and whistles with keyboards, drum machines and contemporary songwriting.

Someone described Sade’s “Nothing Can Come Between Us” as acid house. The timing and groove might explain the comparison, but the music itself tells a different story.

Rei Harakami’s River takes the Nike+ Original Run concept somewhere quieter, imagining a run towards a river where walking, running and stopping are all part of the experience.