> Can someone please tell me how important new order was for the development > of techno? What do the detroit guys think of new order? how did it influence > what they were doing?
pretty important i would say, but i'll let the more verbose 313 members go on about that ;) > And what new order albums should I buy as an introduction to the band? definitely Substance. or The Best Of. but i would recommend spending the extra $ for Substance. you'll get a kick out of hearing all the New Order songs that were either remixed into techno anthems (Everything's Gone Green, Confusion) or the songs that have been sampled, mangled or otherwise played to death in techno/house/etc sets a million times (Blue Monday, Bizarre Love Triangle, True Faith, etc.) while you're at it, buy some Joy Division records too. (~fun fact of the day: Joy Division's second album, released in 1980, was called Closer.)
