Techno was born in the early 80's in Detroit by the hands of artists like Juan Atkins, Kevin Saunderson, Derrick May , Tony Drake and Eddie Fowlkes, and is the direct descendant of European Synth Pop.
Early Techno is characterized by the use of repetitive electronic rhythms, mechanical textures, and minor melodies. Techno mutated and diversed into numerous styles during the 80's and 90's, including Hardcore, Trance, Acid House, and Tech-House.
Techno is the depressing, gritty dystopian genre, a musical personification of the industrial, recession-sacked automotive industries of Detroit in the late 80s.The term was lifted from Alvin Toffler's book "The Third Wave", and by 1990 it had become the music press' fancy word for everything electronic. With that said, it makes sense that the best stuff isn't coming from that city anymore, since the word hardly represents the music--even when used in the proper context. But what it lacks in soul it more than makes up in purity of sound.
