When I first started attending parties much of the music here was West-Coast House. Coming from a hard rock background I couldn’t get in to the diva vocals and disco shit that I was hearing. So when I was first introduced to the sounds of acid techno via the prolekult label, stay up forever, routmaster, etc I felt like…. here is dance music that kicks that other shit in the teeth, it’s raw, it’s dark, it’s got a heavy in your face beat and it is completely devoid of those diva vocals, plus no e-motional breakdowns. It’s funny cuz now I enjoy some funk and disco elements, although I still can’t stand most diva vocals and trance styled breakdowns.

So to answer the question specifically… techno makes me happy because it is bad-ass!

I also really love the diversity. Reggae, funk, hip hop, spoken word, disco, world music and even rock and pop, pretty much any genre you can think of has been incorporated with techno somewhere along the line. It keeps things interesting.