[quote=IymDaBlakGuy;5880006]   Our music? That's funny. Techno is an offshoot of house.   no.     Techno and trance took off in the UK.   No, Trance was in Germany and Holland.    But was created in Detroit and Chicago. By gay Black dudes more than likely. I know, because I absolutely LOVE house, techno, and trace. But gay guys are kinda eww   no no no. Techno music wasn't created in Detroit by negroes. There were these Blacks from the lily White, middle class suburbs of Detroit, MI, Juan Atkins and the Belleville 3, of Belleville, MI. They would always listen to European Electronic music, particularly Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream. They began immitating Kraftwerk and other European Electronic musicians and added to some of the songs a more pronounced, R&B and Disco influenced beat.     Juan Atkins called it Techno. Which is a word he got from a science fiction book. He himself(Atkins) said that he and his Belleville partners did not INVENT Techno music nor did they coin the term Techno, they just gave a new name to a pre existing style of music, a name which they had seen in a science fiction novel and developed a more R&B/Disco influenced style known as Detroit Techno. He himself said that he and the Belleville 3 were not the first Techno, just the first to call themselves Techno. He also said that the music of Kraftwerk was Techno before they were and he himself admitted that they started off trying to immitate Kraftwerk. So... Blacks in Detroit did not invent Techno. Those Blacks from the suburbs of Detroit just immitated Kraftwerk and gave it a little more of an R&B and Disco influence and started calling it Techno. They created a slightly different style of Techno, Detroit Techno. Kraftwerk was the first Techno group. They are Germans. Well, that is about all I have to say about that.