Editing Detroit techno (section)

==''The New Dance Sound of Detroit''==
{{Main|Techno}}
The explosion of interest in [[electronic dance music]] during the late 1980s provided a context for the development of techno as an identifiable [[genre]]. The mid-1988 UK release of ''[[Techno! The New Dance Sound of Detroit]]'',<ref name="Sicko 1999:98">Sicko 1999:98</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.discogs.com/release/57919|title=Various – Techno! The New Dance Sound of Detroit|website=[[Discogs]]}}</ref> an album compiled by ex-[[Northern soul|Northern Soul]] DJ and Kool Kat Records boss Neil Rushton (at the time an [[A&R]] scout for Virgin's "10 Records" imprint) and Derrick May, was an important milestone and marked the introduction of the word ''techno'' in reference to a specific genre of music.<ref name=BREW354>Brewster 2006:354</ref><ref name=REYNOLDS71>Reynolds 1999:71. ''Detroit's music had hitherto reached British ears as a subset of Chicago house; [Neil] Rushton and the [[Belleville Three]] decided to fasten on the word techno – a term that had been bandied about but never stressed – in order to define Detroit as a distinct genre.''</ref> Although the compilation put ''techno'' into the lexicon of British music journalism, the music was, for a time, sometimes characterized as Detroit's high-tech interpretation of Chicago house rather than a relatively pure genre unto itself.<ref name=REYNOLDS71/><ref>{{Cite book|title=House Music All Night Long – Best of House Music Vol. 3 (liner notes)|last=Chin|first=Brian|date=March 1990|publisher=Profile Records, Inc.}} ''Detroit's "techno"... and many more stylistic outgrowths have occurred since the word "house" gained national currency in 1985.''</ref> In fact, the compilation's working title had been ''The House Sound of Detroit'' until the addition of Atkins' song "Techno Music" prompted reconsideration.<ref name="Sicko 1999:98"/><ref name=AtkinsAfroPop>{{cite web|url=http://www.afropop.org/multi/interview/ID/203/|title=Juan Atkins [interview for Afropop Worldwide]|date=14 June 2011|publisher=World Music Productions|last1=Bishop|first1=Marlon|last2=Glasspiegel|first2=Wills|access-date=17 June 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110623194409/http://www.afropop.org/multi/interview/ID/203/|archive-date=23 June 2011}}</ref> Rushton was later quoted as saying he, Atkins, May, and Saunderson came up with the compilation's final name together, and that the Belleville Three voted down calling the music some kind of regional brand of house; they instead favored a term they were already using, ''techno''.<ref name=REYNOLDS71/><ref name=AtkinsAfroPop/><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.rocksbackpages.com/article.html?ArticleID=10053|title=Machine Soul: A History of Techno|newspaper=The Village Voice|last=Savage|first=Jon|year=1993 |quote= ... Derrick, Kevin, and Juan kept on using the word ''techno''. They had it in their heads without articulating it; it was already part of their language.}}</ref>