By 1993, techno had moved well beyond its first wave. The rave scene was pulling serious numbers into abandoned warehouses across the Midwest and Europe, while Warp’s Artificial Intelligence compilation had made it acceptable to suggest that electronic music might work just as well at home as it did in a club. Underground Resistance were doing their thing with militant minimalism, Carl Craig was stretching Detroit’s sound in interesting directions, and Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works had people rethinking what ambient techno could actually be. There was a lot of good music being made, basically.
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