fight fight fight. I bet techno would only just win.

Jungle from arount 1990/91 - the labello blanco stuff and ray keith were just revolutionary. The up-tempo ragga hip-hop blistered along at speeds uphead before and the compression on the basslines were just mind blowing even by Dub standards.

The jazz-step end of drum & bass in 96/97 was a big thing. Goldie and LTJ Bukem entered mainstream culture and in 98/99 Ronnie Size brought everybody 'live' break based trip-hop. Thank god! atleast it released Abba for people with limited interest in music.

Ray Keith is still going and with Ed Rush and Mampi Swift, are the master of the dark TechStep. Highly recommend getting a copy of Ray Keith Presents Dark Soldier or Twisted Individual.

Its all much less formulaic than hard dance and hard trance, imo (no flame intended).

Techno is making key stides the other way into UK Garage with the fusion of grimey techno with urban underground house - i'd advise anybody to check out the 3xEP MarkOne/Plasticman/Slaughter Mob - called "Grime" on Rephlex.