i'm a classics fiend, but i also found the inattention to non-detroit techno a bit baffling.

i think that you can't tell the story of techno without telling the story of detroit. conversely, if you want to tell the story of techno, as opposed to the story of detroit techno, you need to spend a little more time on the 19 or so years since people started making it in earnest elsewhere, particularly given that detroit's golden age really ended sometime around 1996 (perhaps with "the bells" lol).