Detroit Techno as a sound is hard to define as at one end you have the dark harder stuff by Mills and Claude Young and at the other you have the likes of Carl Craig who's songs are more melodic and jazz-influenced. Then there's Underground Resistance who pretty much cover everyting.

I kinda interpreted it as philosophy that the music should be work in it's own right, not just on the dancefloor.

Robert Hood is basically at the harder, minimal end of detroit Techno and his sets sound pretty much like his records really. Definitly worth checking out