Techno Rebels

An updated, expanded history of techno music with special attention to its roots in Detroit. When it was originally published in 1999, "Techno Rebels" became the definitive text on a hard-to-define but vital genre of music. This revised edition, delves deeper into the Detroit story, detailing the evolution of the artists and scene into the mid-1990s.

“As techno, the music, continues to spread worldwide, and techno, the idea, becomes slipperier with the years, Dan Sicko's thorough, intimate account of the music's origins is more relevant than ever."

—Philip Sherburne

“Reading Dan Sicko's Techno Rebels is like having a conversation with a really cool friend who has a great memory and also happens to have been present, hanging around, talking to the right people, at one of the most interesting periods musically in this city's musically crucial history.”

— Jerry Herron, dean of the Irvin D. Reid Honors College at Wayne State University and author of AfterCulture: Detroit and the Humiliation of History