Abstract
According to Jeff Mills, one of the pioneer of the techno music, «Stravinsky and Stockhausen spent their life trying to create a musical revolution. Techno music achieved it in less than ten years». This was not the first time that the word «revolution» was used in order to describe the techno music. Born in Detroit in the 1980's, this musical genre stay unknown and really underground during one decade, before becoming the soundtrack of the famous European raves of the 1990's. Nowadays, the techno music is experiencing a relative success, which generates a huge business. As the hip-hop scene moved away from its original principles when it became a business, the techno movement from today is totally different from the original form. Why the techno movement has lost its ideology and identity, like most other musical movements?
First, the techno music has its precise influences and origins that came from a particular environment. Then, this movement has known success and transformations, due to its exportation. Finally, the techno of today is very different from its previous form, due to its large success.
