What is techno, exactly?

[Patrick DSP]

IMO, Techno is music made wrong. ie, tossing out owners manuals and preconceptions of how to make music and just having fun.

no egos,
no who's on top,
no who's buying what,
no who's charting who that's really warped a lot of people's ideologies.

Just experimentation with sounds, it's limitations, seeing beyond that and having fun with it. Or maybe I'm just an old fart that remembers when 808 state and 2 bad mice were considered as techno along with Blackdog and AFX.