Ok, l;et me simplify.
TO ME they are not irrelevant, how hard is it to understand that. they are not relevant to ME. It`s got nothing to do with being open minded. I understand how relevant they are to others. But they are not, to me.

I acknowledge that mills etc had an effect or whatever, so of course they are relevant in the history of techno.
And the fact I don`t like them has nothing to do with the fact they were before I got into techno.
I JUST DON`T LIKE THEIR MUSIC
Do you really want me to break down why I don`t like it?
I`ll get flamed even more if I do, so I`d rather not.
I`m not a fan of Beyer, but I still have some of his co productions with mull, which I think are ok, and a few of the tracks off of the drumcode album (the old one with the girders on the cover). I`m not a fan of Ben stiller, but I`ve seen a few films he`s in.
Aaaaanyway.
the point I was making, is that people were kinda jumping on the relevance of Beyer to techno as a whole, purely down to whether they liked his music or whatever. So it was an issue of taste. The fact is, is that he did make a big contribution, as did Mills.

Whether or not I like any of them and if they are relevant to me personally, really makes no odds does it?
Or have I failed as a techno person now because I don`t like some old dudes who made some stuff ages ago that I don`t like.

I tell you what, I really don`t like Beethoven either.
Am I even worse now?