ABSTRACT

Introduction If you want to talk about techno (music), you need to talk just as much about sound and rhythm as about the environment in which techno developed as a musical genre, an attitude or, better yet, pop music/culture. We want to talk about the circumstances and the matrix under the phenomenon techno as a cultural movement that could form/sprout and grow. In his book ‘Über Pop-Musik’, author and journalist Diedrich Diederichsen (2014) claims that pop music (here: techno) cannot be separated from its contexts and intertextualities.