NOBODY LISTENS TO TECHNO - Cuidad Mag Blog Mention

... there's been a techno resurgence in Los Angeles of late. I'm not talking about techno in the generic sense. People often use the word incorrectly, as if it's interchangeable with any kind of rave- or super-club-oriented music. It's not. Techno is a sub-genre of dance music, most-often affiliated with its '80s birthplace, Detroit, but also know for its evolution in Europe, particularly Frankfurt and Berlin. It is usually distinguished from similarly thumping house and trance music by its defiant minimalism, use of cymbal sounds and glitchy, bleepy, computer-crazed samples. Interestingly, Latinos have had a strong hand in the local resurgence. Angeleno DJs David Alvarado and John Tejada have become the West Coast's kings of techno and are actually more in demand in Europe than they are here (there's a bigger market for it there). Area parties, however, have created a vibrant place for them to play when they’re in town. Robert Pointer's Compression events at Latino-owned King King in Hollywood have Tejada and Luis Rosario as "resident" DJs.

Read the whole thing: Ciudad Mag Blog. Thanks to Dennis Romero of Danceblogga for dropping the good word!