<answer>Detroit</answer> is cited as the birthplace of techno music in the early 1980s. The city also lends its name to an early and pioneering genre of electronic dance music, "<answer>Detroit</answer> techno". Featuring science fiction imagery and robotic themes, its futuristic style was greatly influenced by the geography of <answer>Detroit</answer>'s urban decline and its industrial past. Prominent <answer>Detroit</answer> techno artists include Juan Atkins, Derrick May, and Kevin Saunderson. The <answer>Detroit</answer> Electronic Music Festival, now known as "Movement", occurs annually in late May on Memorial Day Weekend, and takes place in Hart Plaza. In the early years (2000-2002), this was a landmark event, boasting over a million estimated attendees annually, coming from all over the world to celebrate Techno music in the city of its birth.
Techno started in which city?
Detroit