In the ‘70s, punk and disco emerged as polar opposites. But adventurous pogoists recognised the common language shared by the former’s jagged riffs and the latter’s clipped hi-hat beats, using dubwise basslines to fuse the two into a hyperactive hybrid. As a union of black and white cultures, early dance-punk was inherently political—as reflected in the agit-funk of The Slits and Gang of Four—but ‘80s successors like Duran Duran and New Order added a pop polish and superclub thump. After falling out of vogue in the grungy ‘90s, dance-punk has enjoyed a post-millennial renaissance thanks to the aggro-disco of The Rapture and LCD Soundsystem.