I reckon Techno has more in common with Punk than anything else.
Is this the equivalent of junglists drawing links between dnb and jazz? That always boggled me - bunch of accomplished musicians jamming on the fly is about as far from a guy in a room hacking away with a sequencer as you can get.

It's sort of weird. The other dance music genres add "tech" to the front of a subgenre name to add credibility. Meanwhile, techno's looking up to punk.

It's almost as if dance music is somewhat ashamed of it's own heritage; that deep down, even enthusiasts believe that it's not really legitimate music because (mostly) no-one's playing real instruments.

It's somewhat appropriate; the Sex Pistols admitted outright that they and the genre they had made was a cipher, and from a certain point of view, so is music made of samples and effects.