Techno Interests Me

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"Techno Interests Me" is a memorable quote uttered by Finnish DJ Antii Salonen while being photographed by photographer Liisa Jokinen in Helsinki, Finland. After the photograph was posted online in late 2011, it subsequently circulated as an in-joke among electronic music enthusiasts on various communities online.

Origin

On October 26th, 2011, Jokinen posted a picture of Salonen wearing all black on the photography website Hel-Looks.^[5] In the sidebar of the page, the quote "Techno interests me" was placed directly under Salonen's name (shown below).

Spread

On October 30th, the Hel-looks Tumblr^[4] blog reposted the photograph. On January 25th, 2012, Redditor patrickgun posted the photograph page on the /r/electronicmusic^[6] subreddit. On February 16th, 2015, a "I Wish I Was At Home" comic featuring a parody of the Salonen photograph was submitted to the /r/Techno^[1] subreddit (shown below).

God, that is Ripatti's worst album, why are you even puting it on? Techno interests me My ears hurt Are they honestly listening to Gesaffelstein? Imao tumblrcore plebs This party is lame >tfw spent all my life saving$ on that Basic Channel dubplate Pretty sure I can re-sell it on Discogs later on I wish I was at Berghain can u plebs even into Mika Vainio? Andy Stott? what is this? p4k circa 2012? The light is hurting my eyes oh God my tube DAC just died >tfw no Laurel Halo qt3.14 gf wait nvm, she's banging Oneohtrixpointnever, disgusting Oh so you like Plastikman? lemme guess, "Spastik, the list could on" mfw too young to have been part of Berlin's 1990s techno scene

On July 11th, 2014, a Matrix Morpheus image macro with the caption "What if I told you / techno interests me" was created on Meme Generator^[7] (shown below, left). In November, an OKCupid^[8] account named antti25 was created, which featured the photograph of Salonen along with various references to techno music in the profile sections (shown below, right).

antti25。 28 Helsinki, Finland My self-summary Techno interests me What I'm doing with my life Techno I'm really good at Being interested in Techno. The first things people usually notice about me Techno interests me

In March 2015, a Facebook^[2] page for an event titled "Techno Interests Me" in Helsinki, Finland was launched. On May 9th, 2016, the Vice music site Thump^[3] published an interview with Salonen, who discussed his taste in music and revealed that he found the meme "very funny."