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Problem being was I was/am a huge UR fan and found a lot of that period ghastly on a musical front! I was lucky to have parties like House Of God to go to that catered to my rather purist take on techno -though it often ended with Paul Damage playing gabber!
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Likewise, the scene was dead to me by the time most of the country discovered it and I was personally badly burnt out by '91. The early days were fun, some great memories.
I've still got a lot of time for Carl Cox and enjoy checking out his Beatport lists. I get a bit of Acid from the underground too!
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The other thing worth considering is Techno was one of the early edm genres that pretty much died after its initial impact while the many heads of edm genres started to emerge.
After Trance arrived there was very little of what we would now call Techno getting promoted or played and a lot of Techno fans had turned to making their own tracks in Reason etc.
This was part of my initial statement that it was easier to distinguish the difference between Electro and Techno in the early days. Carl Cox was playing Electro and some Techno at the Zapp Club on Brighton beach in '89/'90, Thursday nights with his girlfriend handing out flyers for his other gigs . Friday and Saturday nights were house and some acid house. Oakenfold was playing Acid House/House and some Disco/Pop at Heaven on a Monday night for Land of Oz.
After '90 raves started picking up around the South East and then the rest of the country. Most people were more interested in the pills than the genre of edm but it very quickly went Spiral Tribe/Traveller/Dog on a Rope trance and psy-trance. If you were a fan of Underground Resistance you would be waiting a long while to hear it get played at most club nights/raves. The background in the club scene was the countrywide battle for the right to profit from pills, clubs were failing because they had lost their alcohol income. The Hacienda in Manchester was pretty much the front line for this in '89/'90 but bear in mind Acid House had been on the front page of the Sun in '88.
All of which is just memory lane for me and doesn't add to the definition of Techno except to point out that pretty much no one cared about Detroit Tech in the UK in '88-'91. What got played were tunes that would fit the mood which was largely trending towards trance and rave culture via Techno and Acid and very few people had a clue what they were hearing anyway.