it's interesting looking back at those early days. today we're used to thinking of techno and house as concrete styles, with easily distinguishable sounds, aesthetics, bpms, etc.

but back then it was much more fluid and ambiguous. really the main things that differentiated house from techno were location(one was from chicago and the other from detroit) and attitude (techno producers had more of an intellectual approach, while house was more self-consciously hedonistic). those lineages are still apparent today, though we can go back and say that there's as much trax records in today's techno as transmat.