indeed they are...i mean i can kinda see where people are coming from when they say that techno is repetitive...but you have to take into the fact that theres only so many beats you can make before you have to sit down for a few hours and create some more....take darude for example...he basically repeated himself with his sandstorm beat....but now hes finally came out with a few new beats and such i think his new song is called music or something....all i know is that its finally nothing like sandstorm....