What Color Is Techno?
…techno, a black form of music, is 95 percent supported by whites…
Charles, it’s debatable whether “techno is a black form of music”; in fact, we were recently discussing how it originated in releases by Kraftwerk and Giorgio Moroder (white Europeans). Which is not to diminish the contributions to techno from black Americans like Mills, Derrick May, Juan Atkins, Robert Hood, Mad Mike Banks, Saunderson, et al. But it’s inaccurate to call techno strictly a black form of music. Actually, I think techno’s the color of brushed steel …