this really depends who you are listening to, eg compare some archetypical bigroom corporate techno performer like Charlotte deWitte vs some crate digger like Om Unit, or since we talk about techno, uhm, Tommy Fourseven
im big on the UK continuum - it gets a lot of UK Bass music from boiler room sets - all the time. My music tastes are very obscure...and it works incredibly well for me. I dont know about techno/house.