[Lio]

> Belgian Techno > UK Acid House is not a natural progression

I had to laugh at the idea of Technotronic being a big influence, that just makes me think of Philomena Cunk.

However, (off the top of my head) LFO, Orbital and Luke Slater have all listed Belgian EBM acts like Front 242 as inspiration.

Front 242 list Kraftwerk as an inflence so there is a lineage.

[piltdownman]

If I wanted to get all Cunk about it, I'd have made a passionate argument for "Doctorin' the Tardis" being the ultimate precursor to all American EDM given its role as the precursor to 'What Time Is Love?' - the acid-house chart-topper in 1989 that birthed Stadium-House and the sort of cacophonous Stadium House/Electronica you'd associate with a 16 bit Beat-Em-Up's Menu music.

The KLF - to paraphrase Coogan as Tony Wilson '...the only bona fide geniuses in this story'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctorin%27_the_Tardis