Alot of people may have started with House from the Eighties onwards and some, like myself, would go for the darker more moody side, say like 'Lets Get Brutal' by Nitro Delux...

Joey Beltram once said that he didn't think that he was making Techno when he created Energy Flash, he just thought he was making dark House music...

This is where the blending of the two genres comes from I think.