Detroit Techno (1981): Detroit techno was born in the mid 1980s when Juan Atkins, Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson, suburban kids from Belleville, crossed the synthetic funk of…
Bleep Techno (1989): Bleep techno is Britain's first properly homegrown techno, born in Sheffield and Leeds in 1989 around the Warp label. Crystalline, almost naive synth bleeps…
Broken Techno (2012): Broken techno refuses the four-on-the-floor kick without ever leaving the dancefloor: displaced kicks, smashed-up breaks, and a swing digested from electro…
Acid Techno (1992): Acid techno replants the TB-303 in techno soil, harder and faster than its Chicago house origins. London's squats and free parties turned it into a subculture…
Euro Techno (1989): Euro techno is techno as continental Europe digested it in the early 1990s, forged between German raves, post new beat Belgium and Italian studios. More…
Hard Techno (1993): Techno pushed to extremes of speed and pressure, running from 140 to well over 160 beats per minute, built on distorted kicks and percussive function above…
Schranz (1999): German hard techno of the 2000s, named by Chris Liebing: saturated, rolling percussion loops planed down until they become a single block of friction, around…
Industrial Techno (1996): Industrial techno is techno that fully owns its industrial heritage: wasteland textures, hangar-sized reverbs, and kicks that land like hydraulic presses.…
Banging Techno (1993): Banging techno is 1990s English warehouse techno at its most direct: hard, fast and stripped of melodic detour, sitting between the acid sound of free parties…
Birmingham Techno (1994): Birmingham techno is the city's 1990s school: grey, hammering, with no melodic concession, sitting between the city's industrial heritage and an almost…
Peak Time Techno (2017): The retailer's genre tag turned into programming reality: big room techno of the 2010s and 2020s, builds, drops, clean kicks and maximum efficiency between…
Belgian Techno (1990): Between 1990 and 1992, Belgium invented a kind of stadium techno: gloomy organ stabs, siren-like hoover sounds and heavy kicks inherited from the new beat…
Dub Techno (1993): Berlin, 1993: Basic Channel applies the methods of Jamaican dub, echo, filtering, disappearance, to techno. Chords become misty pads that pulse inside the…
Deep Techno (2008): Deep techno is a techno of patient repetition, an heir to minimalism and dub, carried through the 2010s by the Italian scene around Donato Dozzy and Neel. Its…
Ambient Techno (1990): Ambient techno is the contemplative side of 1990s techno, the machinery of the dancefloor put to the service of listening rather than dancing. Wide synthetic…
Melodic Techno (2013): The 2010s label for a slow, grandiose strain of techno built on minor-key arpeggios, emotional builds, and polished production, sitting somewhere between the…
