Hi, it's Helen here. Today in focus is on our summer break and in our absence, we wanted to give you the chance to listen to this really excellent series called Missing in the Amazon. It's hosted by the Guardian's Latin America correspondent Tom Phillips and it's from our new narrative strand, Guardian Investigates. It's a feed where you can find all of the Guardian's award-winning narrative podcasts, plus every new series we release.

We'll see you on September 1st with the new today in focus, but in the meantime, here is episode 2.

The rave explosion was really about house music and techno meeting ecstasy.

That's essentially the two combustible ingredients in the story.

It's the early 90s and dance music is taking over the UK.

It started in illegal raves in Fields in Abandoned Warehouses.

Most of them have 5,000 plus people going to them.

And they advertised turbo sound.

That sort of got shut down by the police because they got wise to what was going on.

In the short term, if we don't act effectively enough, then what will happen is that the people of Kent in the neighbourhood will have a disturbed night's sleep.

The energy from the raves had been kind of squashed a little bit and was coming indoors.

And then the whole thing went back into clubs.

And Mixmag grew to be a very powerful magazine because it had listings of every club in the country.

Long pre-internet, this was an essential thing that you had to have.

So as this dance culture swept the UK, Mixmag was literally at the heart of it.

I'm Andy Pemberton. I'm Frank Broughton. I'm Bill Pemberton.

I'm Frank Broughton.

I'm Bill Brewster.

All old friends of Don Phillips.

And back then, all writers for a dance music magazine that Dom edited called MixMag.

He was quite skinny and sinewy and he had a sort of, I hate to say a leathery face, but he was well-worn.

Leathery is such a weirdly out description.

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