Techno

Techno is a form of electronic music featuring driving 4/4 beats varying in tempo from 120 to 150 beats per minute.

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Ultra Music Festival reveals daily stage programming

The three day festival starting March 28 2025 marks the 25th anniversary of the premiere EDM festival.
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ARC Music Festival announces 2025 lineup

ARC Music Festival returns to Chicago's Union Park this August 2025. Auris just announced this year's lineup featuring Amelie Lens, Cajmere, Eric Prydz, Eris Drew, Jamie XX, Richie Hawtin, Floorplan, John Summit, Nicole Moudaber, DJ Tennis, Mike Dunn and more.
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Madison’s Musique Électronique festival returns in July 2025 with Todd Terry, Mark Broom, Octave One, DJ...

Started 15 years ago, the multi-day festival on July 11 through July 13 2025 remains free for everyone with world-class talent and a legendary afterparty scene.
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Jeff Mills added as Movement 2025 Day 1 headliner

"To be able to play in Detroit is and has always been a special kind of magic..."
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Renegades of Electronic Funk: Revisiting Dan Sicko’s Techno Rebels

25 years after its debut Techno Rebels still shines as a love letter to techno and the city of Detroit where it was born.
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Inner Voyage: Music for psychedelic dancefloors by Owen Ni

There's no let-up on Inner Voyage, and no filler either: every one of these 10 tracks can be played by real working DJs in one context or another. They also sound amazing in your headphones at home. Brilliantly conceived and produced album by Owen Ni.
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MOVE! Inside the New Issue of 5 Mag

Detroit ambassador-at-large Mike Agent X Clark in 5 Mag's cover profile, plus DJ Slugo cover mix, Mystic Freaks featuring Jamie 3:26, Danou P and Young Pulse and more inside the new issue of 5 Mag, out now.
Innate Editions debuts with reissue of Connective Zone's 2001 Palm Palm EP

Innate Editions debuts with reissue of Connective Zone’s 2001 “Palm Palm”

A new sub-label of Owain K's Innate digs into the ethereal, ambient techno sounds of the early '00s on Palm Palm.
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Smartbar announces 2025 guest resident: DVS1

Frequent guest and Midwest techno stalwart DVS1 has been named a 2025 guest resident at Chicago's Smartbar.
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House of Fouk: Inside the New Issue of 5 Mag

Dutch deep house duo Fouk's first 5 Mag cover story and an exclusive mix, plus London soul with Paris Cesvette, Azzad, Thando, Moby, Aslice, another lost Paul Johnson mix and more inside the new issue of 5 Mag, out now.
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Taran & Lomov mix: RISE vol 29

This week's 5 Mag RISE mix featuring the wonderful sounds out of the Riga electronic underground with Taran & Lomov of Amber Muse.
Oh Annie Oh - Block N Delete

Oh Annie Oh debuts on Future Bounce with the anti-romance “Block N Delete”

The London-based Korean producer packs four tracks with a bassline so strong it sucks the air out of the room and pulls on your heart like a suction cup.
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Detour celebrates a decade of Pittsburgh electronics on DTR-007

A ten track V/A from Pittsburgh label Detour featuring techno, acid, deep house, breakbeats and everything in between, from Shawn Rudiman, Paul Fleetwood, Doc Sleep, Naeem, Gusto and more.
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“Ghetto Capitalism” is a radical electronic manifesto from Jaymie Silk

Ghetto Capitalism is an eclectic and wonderful EP and there's a vital message behind Jaymie Silk's latest for !K7 but "You Can Do It" is music that sounds like it's having a heart attack and I love it.
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Dance music pioneers Utah Saints reissue their debut LP for National Album Day

The first repress of Utah Saints' self-titled first album is packed with additional remixes from David Morales, CJ Bolland and Andrew Weatherall among others.
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3, 6, 9: Suburban Knight debuts new EP series for Detroit Techno Records

High caloric electronic nutrition from Suburban Knight and Detroit Techno, one of Detroit's best artist/label partnerships.
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True, Necessary, Kind: Gems from Lay-Far’s album remix project

Seventeen remixes of five album tracks from Lay-Far's True, Necessary, Kind album, covering various flavours of house, broken beat, bass, techno and drum & bass.
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John Digweed cancels September gigs after hospitalization

The British DJ, manager and owner of Bedrock Records is "very ill" according to a statement from his management.
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5 Mag Book Club: Join The Future

Harold Heath on Matt Anniss' newly revised & expanded "Join The Future: Bleep Techno & The Birth of British Bass Music."
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Daily Lineups & Set Times for ARC Music Festival 2024

It's finally here: Daily line-ups and set times for ARC Music Festival 2024 this Labor Day Weekend in Chicago.

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