i listen to techno music , exclusively.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Techno is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in Detroit, Michigan, in the United States during the mid-to-late 1980s. The first recorded use of the word \"techno\" in reference to a specific genre of music was in 1988. Many styles of techno now exist, but Detroit techno is seen as the foundation upon which a number of subgenres have been built. In Detroit, techno resulted from the melding of African American music including Chicago house, funk, electro, and electric jazz with electronic music by artists such as Kraftwerk, Giorgio Moroder, and Yellow Magic Orchestra. Added to this is the influence of futuristic and fictional themes relevant to life in American late capitalist society, with Alvin Toffler's book \"The Third Wave\" being a notable point of reference. Pioneering producer Juan Atkins cites Toffler's phrase \"techno rebels\" as inspiring him to use the word \"techno\" to describe the musical style he helped to create. This unique blend of influences aligns techno with the aesthetic referred to as afrofuturism. To producers such as Derrick May, the transference of spirit from the body to the machine is often a central preoccupation; essentially an expression of technological spirituality.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I've become a big techno-head lately. The music gets me so pumped! I just think it's so funny it evolved from Detroit, Michigan of all places. Seems random, right?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "That does seem pretty random.  When did it get started?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "In the mid-to-late 1980s. Word wasn't even used until 1988 to describe the genre specifically. Detroit techno is seen as the foundation, which is still kind of goofy to me, but factually correct! But when you look into it, it makes sense. It melds African American music with Chicago house/funk/electro/electric jazz with electronic music. Detroit has a lot of that."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Detroit does have a wide variety of culture for sure.  Are there any particular techno artists well known from Michigan?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Some of the more notable techno musicians are actually outside of Detroit. Kraftwerk, Giorgio Moroder, and Yellow Magic Orchestra were all acts/groups formed outside of the city, only taking inspiration from the music spawned from there."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yellow Magic Orchestra is an awesome name for a group.  Can you tell me more about them"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Heck yeah! They're a Japanese electronic music band, one of my favorites since I've started listening. They were formed in Tokyo way back in 1978. They themselves are considered innovators of electronic music, especially when it comes to using synthesizers, samplers, sequencers, drum machines, computers, etc. They got ahead of the electropop boom in the 1980s, and were one of the first. More impressively, the incorporate sociopolitical themes all throughout their work."}, {"role": "user", "content": "That sounds like a pretty complex musical style"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "The whole genre of techno in general allows for such creative and artistic freedom. It has so many influences that you can create unique things with it. Derrick May, a producer, for example, views techno as a transference of spirit from the body to the machine as kind of a central preoccupation. He views it as technological spirituality. Fascinating stuff."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I do know that techno is increasing quite a bit in popularity.  I think it is most popular in Europe"}]