Songs are combined with other musical instruments to become music. Taking the next step by only shifting from analog to digital we start speaking of Techno - any songs and sounds can be sequenced and mixed digitally by means of sampling technology. Using sampling technology, techno music was the first exstatic digital music movement, starting with House, Acid, Electronic Body Music, up to the many faces of techno like Trance, Ambient, Gabba, Intelligent, Jungle, Psychedelic, Electro, Trip-Hop and whatever is being created right now. The cultural revolution triggered by Techno sampling turned out to be a fucking giant leap in evolution. Homerecording made the diversity of techno possible.
Techno is digital, thus involunteerily becoming sampling material itself.
The Digitization in art and culture springs up like 2-day new sprouts right now. Techno music was the startup-sequence, nothing more and nothing less. Techno as a movement is not dead, but has become stagnant, because it has been destroyed by many dumb promoters and fast-forward marketing strategies. Diversity became less and less important as well as the disssolving of the ego in a group. Cool Clubbers, formerly part of the event on the whole, have been replaced by lemminglike hordes at megaraves.