OMG! I guess this is the answer:   Dude....don't get distraught over the niggapedia saying Techno is African American music, everyone who knows better knows that's BS. Those three oreos(black on the outside white on the inside) from the lily White middle class suburbs of Detroit ripped off Kraftwerk and Americans ended up calling it Techno and the name stuck I guess. They immitated Kraftwerk and tried saying they created something new because most Americans weren't familiar with European electronic groups like Kraftwerk at the time, but everyone who knows anything about the music knows better. It is not Black music in the least:rolleyes: Just another Black invention myth.    The influence of Kraftwerk’s distinctive use of synthesizers, drum machine rhythms, and heavily effected vocals can also be heard on early  Detroit techno  records. Detroit techno artists  Derrick May  and  Juan Atkins   tried to replicate Kraftwerk’s sound on early techno records  such as  Cybotron ’s Clear (1983),  Model 500 ’s No UFOs (1985), and Derrick May’s Nude Photo (1986).