You don't normally think of mysterious weirdos in the hills making techno--or minimal techno or ambient techno, somewhere in the middle really--but it's also easy enough to consider guy-and-a-laptop as not all that far away in spirit from guy-and-a-guitar: introverted, solitary music that perhaps isn't participating as much in the big-city culture stew. Which is sometimes an asset in the field of new music.