RA concludes its week-long look back with our round-up of the best tracks of the past decade.

In his recent book, Berlin, Techno and the Easy Jetset, Tobias Rapp claims that techno in the ’00s was in many ways a reaction to techno from a decade earlier. “The nineties were about rave and everything that went with it,” he writes, “and then, after all the great successes and excesses, the whole thing collapsed as the end of the decade approached. Around the turn of the century, the music went back underground in order to revitalize itself.”
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