>"I am quite familiar with techno culture and this piece is extremely misrepresentative. Reads like a promo piece from the artist's clueless PR agent. Maybe the Detroit scene sees things like this (I am from Europe), but no, techno is definitely not "a combination of technology and funk"

I'm not sure why you would be disputing this. Historically that part is correct and non-misrepresentative at all. Derrick May even has pretty famous quote that.

[techno is]"like George Clinton and Kraftwerk caught in an elevator, with only a sequencer to keep them company."

Afrika Bambaataa and Arthur Baker were also very much influenced by Kraftwerk's peculiar "funkiness"(Planet Rock)[1] and what was coming out of the South Bronx at that time influenced Detroit Techno as much as the European influences. And Kraftwerk themselves were also influenced by James Brown[2]. It doesn't get any funkier than that. And then of course there is P-funk which was a huge influence on electronic music(Bernie Worell alone for that matter.) And P-Funk has root in the JBs - James Brown's band.

Honestly this is really less about just knowing "techo culture" and a lot more about music history.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/arts/music/06kraftwerk.ht...

[2] http://www.electronicbeats.net/juan-atkins-about-kraftwerk/