>Neither am I. We're talking about the continuum of modern
>electronic dance music, and its eventual impact on popular
>music in general.

ok i was just making sure.

>According to your words, techno has similar roots to hip-hop
>and gave birth to many subsequent styles...but we shouldn't
>consider those relationships indicative of an overall movement
>of electronic music? It is suitable for MTV to package
>various electronic music styles together but not for me to
>refer to this as a movement?

i was just asking for clarity. i agree with you on this.



so then with that out of the way, the origin of Techno IS the origin of the movement you're talking about right?