Hiroshi Watanabe, Kuniyuki Takahashi, Hiroshi Watanabe, Kuniyuki Takahashi

Japanese Techno, '90s–'00s

Tokyo and Osaka build their own techno — precise, melodic, and a little stranger than the blueprint.

Chicago House

A drum machine, a cheap sampler and a church-raised voice — the blueprint every dance record still borrows.

Detroit Techno

Drum machines built into science fiction: Black futurism from a collapsing motor city, made for the floor.