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While a sort of electronic music that came to be known as "techno" had developed in Germany in the early 1980s, a trio of Black DJs out of Detroit, comprising Derrick May, Juan Atkins and Kevin Saunderson, created a sound all their own in the late '80s. By melding the synthpop sounds of Kraftwerk, Giorgio Moroder and Yellow Magic Orchestra with Black styles like house, electro and funk, they created Detroit techno. In fact, a complication album put together, in part, by May called Techno! The New Dance Sound of Detroit marked the first use of the term for the genre.