Quote Originally Posted by Eddie
Whoever got you into techno seems slightly irrelevent to me. In fact, this whole thread should probably have been locked after the first post, as MARK EG already answered his own question!
It may be irrelavant to you but it is not to me, he introduced me to techno so he will always be a legend in my books, so who are YOUR legends? All i have seen you do is slate people for what they have put and agree with mark on the detroit boys.
Jeeez!!! Let me try and spell it out for you...

I agreed with MARK EG because Atkins, Mills and Aphex are the top 3 "legends" within the field of techno. Aphex is not a "detroit boy", he's from Cornwall...but along with Mills and Atkins you can take just about any modern techno record and work your way back to one of these 3 people. That's it. What Dave Clarke or Laurie Immersion or Geezer or any of the industrial bods or Sven Vath or whoever else did is all very much secondary to this. Who your favourite producer, or whichever DJ introduced you to techno is entirely IRRELEVANT.

These are the people who have had the biggest influence on techno as it is today. Arguably Mills has shaped techno more than any other person, but Atkins paved the way. Aphex exploded the whole thing completely. They all did this many years ago, and to an extent everyone else is following in their footsteps, however much individuality they are doing it with.