NRJ Techno Story

NRJ Techno Story wears its mission in the title: this is techno as a lineage, not a trend. It's NRJ Techno Story live, and it plays like a crate digger's history lesson. The programming digs into the music's family tree, so a set might run from Detroit's Underground Resistance through Jeff Mills' harder edges and land somewhere near Laurent Garnier's long, patient builds. Paris gets its due too. French producers have shaped the harder, faster end of the genre for decades, and there's real pleasure in hearing that thread pulled straight rather than chopped into a greatest-hits loop. Don't expec…