I vaguely recall in an interview hawtin giving 808 State credit with Cubic before Technarchy was released. Of course before Cubic there was Fank De Wulfs' Acid Rock.
In cronological order it would have been: acid rock cubik technarchy On the subject of older techno like 808 State sounding dated, I would say that is true especially with techno from the rave era. With electro, Detroit techno, and older Chicago house from the Trax era, some of the music seems to obtain an electronic purity. A term people quite often use to describe this pure electronic concept is techno purist. I've always considered myself somewhat of a techno purist, you can breath new life into a lot of the older Trax releases by mixing them with more contemporary minimal style techno, for example I like to ride Adonis No Way Back over Panasonic, they both are minimal and have a purist electronic sound and tend to compliment each others sound. On the flip of Technarchy the track Algorithm is another nice one for mixing. Current music that will not stand the test of time in my opinion and will sound extremely dated atypical of this time period are idm, trance, progressive house, and drum'n base. With idm you find that people are almost trying to be too clever with the the use of sampling and plug-ins/ software, more focused on clever sequence sound aesthetics than good practical dance music. It reminds me of the Art Of Noise and Yellow in the 1980's, more about technology and experimentation than good music, the use of sampling was supposed to sound hip and sophisticated at the time but now sounds extremely dated.
