Techno
Techno is electronic dance music built on a repetitive, machine-made four-on-the-floor beat, usually at 120 to 150 beats per minute, and made mainly for DJ sets.
It began in Detroit in the mid-1980s, where Juan Atkins, Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson combined the synthesizer music of Kraftwerk with funk, electro and Chicago house. It later took deep root in Europe, especially in Berlin. Techno tracks are mostly instrumental and change slowly, with layers of drums and synth patterns added and removed over time. It is colder, harder and less song-like than house.
Artists it is known for: Juan Atkins, Derrick May, Kevin Saunderson, Jeff Mills.
- Family
- Electronic & Dance
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A genre
- From
- Detroit, mid-1980s
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 2%
About 1,300 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have techno among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Techno artists
HOLY PRIEST
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Vieze Asbak
Fantasm
Brutalismus 3000
Anyma
TNT
Klangkuenstler
Sara LandryThe techno artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
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The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.