Hard House is a term....I know that where I come from (Chicago) Hard House is called Techno here, and there as well....From what I've gathered, Lee may be absurd if he says NRG is becoming techno, but if he's referring to labels like Contaminated or the others that are now getting up there on the charts and more into play, they were raised in the hardhouse section and I think most is Techno. I just think people categorize music differently and it causes confusion in wording.

Techno is evolving on it's own path, it can never be touched in intensity.

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