Most good music shares similar characteristics, and while those may be hard to define, they work together to produce grooviness, no matter what the genre. A lot of jazz, (stripped down to its basic elements) as well as most types of house work on the same principle as techno. Repetitive elements, deep basslines, intricate syncopation, pattern play. But when you combine them, the non-techno elements can be made to "submerge" - this mix is my study of this technique.
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