Dance to Detroit Techno

Techno was Detroit's emphatic answer to the Chicago house scene. In the late 1980s, local musicians and DJs created a futuristic music, which could be dark and introspective or—as proved by Derrick May's “Strings of Life” and Inner City's “Big Fun”—uplifting and anthemic. This playlist brings together the genre's pioneers and their protégés who took it to the next level.