ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses how dance music swiftly took root outside its place of inception during a pre-Internet era, when global import markets were expanding. In 1988, the "Second Summer of Love" was a dance music phenomenon that marked the global birth of new genres which were created with new technology: house, hip hop and techno. Detroit is credited as the birthplace of techno in the 1980s and by the early 1990s Adelaide had developed a reputation for its passionate engagement with dance music and particularly Detroit techno. The history of dance music situates techno in Detroit and house in Chicago as part of a narrative of global dance music culture that was based in the USA and influenced by the UK. The aesthetic appeal of techno's sound directly echoes the transition to a technological base in factories and the automotive industries. The Detroit techno artists recall, in a documentary interview, their parents coming home from work and telling them they worked with robots.
