Techno Artists

Techno is a popular form of Electronic Dance Music (EDM). Techno emerged during the mid to late 1980's in Detroit, Michigan, USA. However it wasn't until 1988 that the word "techno" was first publicly used in reference to a genre of music. Many styles of techno exist today but Detroit techno is seen as the foundation upon which a number of sub-genres have been built.

Today there are many techno artists as it is a very popular genre of music. Below are some of the more popular artists:

UK	USA	GERMANY	OTHER
The Advent	Daniel Bell	Thomas Brinkmann	Adam Beyer (Sweden)
Dave Angle	Juan Atkins	Chris Liebing	C.J. Bolland (Belgium)
Si Begg	Carl Craig	Dominik Eulberg	John Acquaviva (Canada)
Dave Clarke	Drexciya	Basic Channel	Richie Hawtin (Canada)
Carl Cox	Robert Hood	Alexander Kowalski	Slam (Scotland)
Kirk Degiorgio	Derrick May	Hardfloor	Pan Sonic (Finland)
The Black Dog	Joey Beltram	Sven Vath	Vladislav Delay (Finland)
Darren Emerson	Fred Giannelli		Marco Carola (Italy)
A Guy Called Gerald	Frankie Bones		Laurent Garnier (France)
LFO	Jeff Mills		Ken Ishii (Japan)
Orbital	James Pennington		Speedy J (Netherlands)
Regis	DJ Rush		Cari Lekebusch (Sweden)
Luke Slater	Kevin Saunderson		Paulo Nascimento (Portugal)
808 State	Keith Tucker		Umek (Slovenia)
Surgeon	UR		Ricardo Villalobos (Chile)
System 7	Adam X		Vitalic (France)
Aphex Twin
Underworld
Cristian Vogel

Although techno has occasionally produced commercially successful mainstream artists, eg. Underworld & Orbital, the genre has also affected many other areas of music and artists in a significant way. Many established artists such as Madonna & U2 have dabbled in techno music to appear relevant. Although such artists have rarely displayed evidence of a genuine understanding and appreciation of techno's origins.

"Born Slippy" A great song by techno artists Underworld - one of the more commercially successful UK techno artists.

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