Hello,

It's always good to see new people getting into Techno. Picotto is mainstream - personally not my thing.

If you like acid techno like someone else said check out stuff done by Chris Liberator and his cohorts - Stay up Forever, Smitten, Cluster.

Also check out where Techno came from - Detroit. You need to find out who the early pioneers were/are.

It always best to check out individual record labels and look at their artist biography sections - I've spent serious hours reading but I learnt so much.

Good label web-sites to check out: Tresor, Minus, Communique, Novamute and Hybrid. These are off the top of my head - I can dig out some more names etc if you want. If you do let me know and I'll see what I can do...

Also check out overloadmedia.co.uk - it all about Techno and electronica with loads of history and artist biographies.

Good luck on this new journey - it blows my mind!

If you get this maybe you can tell me who Juan Atkins is and then again who is Luke Slater and DJ ESP (what's his real name) and who's Robert Hood? What is the name of the bloke who lives in Canada and has released under the name of Plastikman - where is this man's homeland? A lot of people think it is actually Canada...

All the best,

Miasma Man.