Originally posted by Android
Hardcore dance music is its own Genre. Techno is a totaly different style. Techno is a very simple kick with beebs and blips. It comes from Chicago.
AHEM.. actually almost true. "acid house", a sound defined by the roland tb 303 "bassline" synthesizer, and it's brother the tr 606, (the source of those blips and bleeps)and sometimes a tr808(aka GOD)definately is credited with being invented in chicago... however the term techno is probabaly more european, in any case chicago house music is the daddy of "techno", but that term wasn't used much untill the early 90's, and by that time it certaily wasn't limited to chicago.