Techno
Techno emerged in Detroit in the mid-1980s. Juan Atkins, Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson, known as the Belleville Three, are credited as its main architects; Atkins had earlier co-founded the group Cybotron. The music is repetitive, rhythm-led and electronic, usually 120 to 150 beats per minute with a four-on-the-floor pulse. The 1988 UK compilation Techno! The New Dance Sound of Detroit helped carry the name abroad.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, techno took root in Berlin, where the club Tresor opened in 1991. In 2024 the German UNESCO Commission added Technokultur in Berlin to its national register of intangible cultural heritage, describing the music and the dance events around it; knowledge is passed on largely by self-teaching and peer mentoring. This is a national entry, not UNESCO's international list.
Sources
- Techno — Wikipedia
- Atkins, Juan — Encyclopedia of Detroit, Detroit Historical Society
- Technokultur in Berlin — Deutsche UNESCO-Kommission
- Techno in Berlin officially joins the UNESCO cultural heritage list — MusicTech
Organisations connected with this dance
- German Commission for UNESCO (Deutsche UNESCO-Kommission)
- Rave The Planet
- Tresor Berlin
- Detroit Historical Society
Listed as references; being listed is not an endorsement by or of the organisation.