Some interesting lines of argument here. Some monkeys as well, inevitably. Here's my 2 cents...

One of the things I love most about techno is that it is fairly well hidden. I'm from London, and spent all my teenage years running around at raves, listening to pirate radio and buying drum&bass and hardcore. I even got into garage at one stage (sorry).

Still like drum&bass and breaks, but one of the main reasons I was into the scene was its explicit self promotion. Flyers everywhere, loads of pirate radio stations, general media picking up the scene as being "underground" and very cool. The thing is people get a bit narrow minded if thats how they get into music - whirled in with the general package of image, attitude and aggression. Witness the ignorance and narrowmindedness you get in drum&bass forums. Where its "all about drum&bass" and everything else is by default rubbish.

I can't speak on other cities, but london being a big mixture of races it is interesting to see that disproportionately few black people attend techno - which is seen as being white. And as someone competely erroneously suggested earlier - drum&bass being black and of black origin. I think the media does a lot to culturally polarise music in this way, by crudely stereotyping all music with bass as being black, and symphonic melodic music as being white.

The amount of people who dont have a blind clue what techno is - either assuming it to be hard house or "bleepy german stuff" is testimony to the fact that techno doesn't market itself in such an aggressive manner. You can find your way into the scene rather than have it imposed upon you. Public ignorance of techno in the UK is strange considering how much time and money we invest in the dance music scene.

I'm blethering a bit. And I can only really talk from experience about London, and possibly the north east (where there are no black people whatsoever). Its intereting to see how and why people racialise music.

all rubblish. techno is a white scene and D&B is a black scene because of who are the key innovators
I'd really like to know why you think this, simply because it is so, so wrong. So why are you under this illusion?

Peace