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Quote Originally Posted by Komplex
What you're really saying is that Techno has more than 1 history. The popular commercial history and the numerous, unwritten/unpublished underground histories?
Sorta. A bit more than that. I'm saying that techno happened and evolved so quickly, by people using aliases never to be heard from again, that just about any history connected to individual artists is more hype than fact. In a way, I think a more honest treatment of the subject would be through the study of the history of the technology. We will never ever know who truly influenced what in the digital realm. We won't even know how that crossed over to influence straight gear whores. Digital "techno" was being distributed around the globe long before the advent of MP3.

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c'mon, you're going into semantics. issue is not about the technology or so much what the influences were. the issue is that three guys from the d who had their own creative ideas and philosophies, created a style that's all their own that became quite a major youth culture/scene/movement that we all enjoy today hence the history of 'techno', not 'techno technology' or whatever. furthermore, i don't think it's hype, its not like they sat there and did nothing and got all this press. they had their own thing going on in america which interested the europeans and that is it.