I've become a big techno-head lately. The music gets me so pumped! I just think it's so funny it evolved from Detroit, Michigan of all places. Seems random, right?
That does seem pretty random.  When did it get started?
In the mid-to-late 1980s. Word wasn't even used until 1988 to describe the genre specifically. Detroit techno is seen as the foundation, which is still kind of goofy to me, but factually correct! But when you look into it, it makes sense. It melds African American music with Chicago house/funk/electro/electric jazz with electronic music. Detroit has a lot of that.
Detroit does have a wide variety of culture for sure.  Are there any particular techno artists well known from Michigan?
Some of the more notable techno musicians are actually outside of Detroit. Kraftwerk, Giorgio Moroder, and Yellow Magic Orchestra were all acts/groups formed outside of the city, only taking inspiration from the music spawned from there.
Yellow Magic Orchestra is an awesome name for a group.  Can you tell me more about them
Heck yeah! They're a Japanese electronic music band, one of my favorites since I've started listening. They were formed in Tokyo way back in 1978. They themselves are considered innovators of electronic music, especially when it comes to using synthesizers, samplers, sequencers, drum machines, computers, etc. They got ahead of the electropop boom in the 1980s, and were one of the first. More impressively, the incorporate sociopolitical themes all throughout their work.
That sounds like a pretty complex musical style
point of reference, particularly Toffler's phrase "techno rebels." To producers such as Derrick May, the transference of spirit from the body to the machine is often a central preoccupation; essentially an expression of technological spirituality.
The mid-1980s work of Detroit techno producers Juan Atkins, Derrick May, and Kevin Saunderson (collectively known as the Belleville Three) is generally seen as the foundation upon which a number of techno sub-genres have been built. The term "techno" was established as a name for the genre
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