Quote Originally Posted by eyes without a face
ur comment definately has alot of truth in it, but influential figure wise, well maybe look to the people who came before Beltram techno wise, im not sure of his exact first release but Energy Flash is cited as his first release by alot of people, and who gave him the platform for this release? Derrick May, one of the true innovators... im not going to go into the story as everyone knows the Belleville 3, but that is were, for me personally i add before im jumped on, techno does actually "come" from... not the harder sound of course, but the original sound....
Yeah, techno came from Detroit sure. For me though, I got into Beltram, Mills, NY producers and European producers before I took an interest in Derrick May or the original Detroit crew.. I never really related the techno of Beltram to the original sound of Detroit, it sounded much different; in fact I rejected a lot of the Detroit techno that I started to hear as it just didn't move me the way other techno did. Granted I hold records by Juan Atkins or Suburban Knight as some of the best I have, the likes of "Strings Of Life" or other such classics just never did it for me...