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Techno is a form of electronic dance music that became prominent in Detroit, Michigan during
the mid-1980s with influences from electro, New Wave, Funk and futuristic fiction themes that
were prevalent and relative to modern culture during the end of the Cold War in industrial America
at that time. Following the initial success of Detroit Techno as a musical culture ? at the very least
on a regional level ? an expanded and related subset of genres in the 1990s emerged globally.
History
[edit] Origins
Techno was primarily developed by "The Belleville Three", a cadre of men who were attending college,
at the time, near Detroit, Michigan. The budding musicians ? former high school friends and mix tape
traders Juan Atkins, Derrick May, and Kevin Saunderson ? found inspiration in Midnight Funk Association,
an eclectic, 5-hour, late-night radio program hosted on various Detroit radio stations including WCHB,
WGPR, and WJLB-FM from 1977 through the mid-1980s by DJ Charles "The Electrifying Mojo" Johnson.
Mojo's show featured heavy doses of electronic sounds from the likes of Giorgio Moroder, Kraftwerk, and
Tangerine Dream, among others.