Various – Techno! (The New Dance Sound Of Detroit)

Techno? This is not techno. Techno came from Belgium during 1990-1991 (with stabs & hoovers), with some few first techno releases also from Italy and NYC in 1990. But techno music generally started in Europe 2 years later than this release, just after the new-beat / acid house era.

This is Detroit's pre-house music. There is not such a thing as Detroit techno. Chicago & Detroit invented proto-house in the 80's. Nothing else.
I expect many arguments here, but that's my opinion.

Arguably this is the most important electronic music compilation ever.

Does anyone have Neil Rushtons phone number or email address lmao.
This needs a REPRESS on lp as well as 2 x 12" versions with maybe rare unreleased versions or even instrumentals where needed BUT no crappy remix projects..
That also goes for the second lp from 1990.
Plus a 12" sized booklet with rare photos and maybe slipmats and t shirts , car stickers, posters and maybe some bubble gum etc etc.

Rushton 10 Records where the f... are you at?

The year is 2022 and somehow I am only just hearing this album for the first time, and my mind is being blown. How in the name of all that is good and holy did Juan 'Techno Music' not qualify for its own release!? It's like the perfect marriage of Kraftwerk and Techno...

It's a shame that after all these years; K.S. Experience - Electronic Dance, A Tongue & D Groove - Feel Surreal, Mia Hesterley - Spark, Juan - Techno Music, Blake Baxter - Ride Em Boy, Shakir - Sequence 10, Idol Making - Un, Deux, Trois have ended up staying exclusive to this compilation. They deserved their own individual releases in my opinion. With nice loud pressings. I'll keep dreaming.

Firstly. I've always preferred the version of Feel Surreal on here compared to the 12" version under the Rhythim Is Rhythim moniker, even though that's a classic in it's own right and I still love it. The other version might be slightly more straightforward to mix, but this one has even more atmosphere. Chilling mind expanding stuff. Underground DJs during '88/'89 must've played some of the exclusive tunes from this release (as well as the standalone Rhythim Is Rhythim 12") because I remember the Tongue & D-Groove version played on more than one occasion due to hearing the spine tingling intro.

Juan - Techno Music is a bonafide, ever recognisable and typically Juan Atkins in style and another personal favourite of mine and desperately needs to be released.

Also. Un, Deux, Trois defies the times by at least a couple of years. Abstract, trippy, futuristic, rhythmic, funk fuelled. Even a bit underrated perhaps?

UK summers of 1988/89? ''It Is What It Is'' must be the the one which brings things all back for me :-)

Another thing to point out is the mix of 'Rythim Is Rythim - It Is What It Is' is unique to this compilation as it's slighty different to the actual 12 inch release, and better in my opinion. I think I read somewhere that it was just thrown on there as a filler because there wasn't enough tracks for the compilation!

A genre defining compilation at the time, which helped to shape a lot of people musically, including me. Some of you slating tracks from it, were you even around and hearing them in the clubs & party’s or just spouting your ‘opinion’ based on nothing but your ‘taste’ some 30 years later? Every single one of the tracks on this album played it’s part, nobody cares about your opinion. 👊🏼💥😂

The only weak side to this compilation is Members Of The House - 'Share This House'. IMHO, it really shouldn't have been included on this compilation.

Of course Inner-City* Featuring Kevin Saunderson Big Fun is a classic...

Back then and now..

But then came this comp!

Thanks Neil Rushton

Our faves were...

Rythim Is Rythim* It Is What It Is.. Ambient and head chilling!
Blake Baxter Forever And A Day... Those strings or whatever they were...More please of them!
Blake Baxter Ride Em Boy.. A cold pumping tune!
A Tongue & D Groove Feel Surreal.... Sounds that made you forget what you were doing !
Idol Making Un, Deux, Trois... This used to weird us out in a good way!... Stark!
Juan* Techno Music..... Something else! A very something else...

And so so many more shaped my then little knowledge of what on earth was going on!
The pills helped too!
But that was later in 89!
Back in 88 it was one beer and many spliffs between us 3 teenagers from a tiny bedroom that was more like a space ship than mere sleeping quarters!

The world is flat?
Hmmmm maybe maybe not... ---- ....()....

It is what it is!

Either way music shapes it! And us....
Either way it helps us does it not?

We're having BIG FUN! ;)

Peace..

Purchase at Buyrite in Detroit when it first hit the shelves. This LP changed my life. Will always be one of my favorite records.