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Slow or fast (depending on the type) mechanical sounding music that tends to be rhythmic. It doesn't rely on melody as much as trance does, and it is more about the technology and the beat. Theres hard techno, which tends to be the fastest, such as Chris Liebing or Jeff Mills. There is minimal, ambient and "intelligent" techno (aka IDM), which tends to be the slowest, such as Richie Hawtin/Plastikman, Robert Hood, Aphex Twin, Oval, Pan Sonic, Autechre, or FSOL during their "Lifeforms" stage and some of Carl Craig's and Josh Wink's stuff. Then there's Detroit techno, which seems to be not as fast as hard techno, nor as slow as minimal/ambient/IDM. Seems to be the most melodic of the techno forms. Such guys as Derrick May, Juan Atkins, Stacey Pullen, Carl Craig and Kevin Saunderson.
Then there's the european and funky stuff, like stuff Carl Cox plays. This is a fusion of tech-house and acid house, hard and tech-trance, progressive and tribal house and hard and detroit techno. I guess there's influences all over with european techno, and not all of them are from europe, but are inspired by it (UK, Belgium, Swedish, German). I guess some example would be Smith & Selway, Funk D'Void, Joey Beltram, Michel De Hey, Oxia, Ian Void, Chris Anderson, Filterheadz, as well as innovators like Oliver Lieb and Svan Vath etc, who have influenced both european techno and trance. Haha this is my best way to describe techno...hope I got it right.
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