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hippy
dancing james
It’s more complex. But I think your understanding of techno is how many see it.
However “techno” came from Detroit. There was a compilation that was going to be called the House Sound of Detroit but instead it got named the Techno! The New Dance Sound of Detroit. At the time house from Chicago had a predominant 4/4 kick but many of the tracks on the Techno Sound of Detroit compilation though full of percussive elements were not so 4/4 jacking as Chicago tracks of that era. However the baselines etc were clearly not as disco derived as Chicago and the music had a more synthetic/electronic feel. Tracks like Big Fun would probably fit in more with what people consider house music to be.
https://youtu.be/qpKOcyE71zM
There had been a prior album The House Sound of Chicago, there has always been a crossover between Chicago and Detroit so the Detroit album was the counterpart.