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Techno

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

Viva Acid 2025 events

Viva Acid announces music programming for 2025 event series

Four separate events over four nights as part of Viva Acid's 2025 Chicago event series.
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Four tracks of analog android bebop on DJ Haus’ “Humanoid”

8 bit vocals by MC Speak'N'Spell, 909s and 303s idling in anxiety and a vacuum tube techno groove: It's Humanoid from DJ Haus on Unknown To The Unknown.
SCB: Loss... The Re-Up album art

Demon Dubs: Mr. G remixes Scuba’s 2011 classic “Loss”

Mr. G takes Scuba's reissued "Loss" to school with a glowering, slightly demonic dub that goes to a few places the original hadn't thought of.
Jeff Mills announces four show artist residency in Detroit

Jeff Mills announces four show artist residency in Detroit

Star Chronicle takes place over four nights starting September 10 at Spot Lite and features films, special guests Terrence Dixon, Developer and Optic Nerve and art and artifacts from Jeff Mills' collection.
Kirk Degiorgio Seven Minutes Of Funk is the white-hot Detroit techno machine funk gem you've been looking for

Kirk Degiorgio’s “Seven Minutes Of Funk” is the white-hot Detroit techno machine funk gem you’ve been...

The lead track from Kirk Degiorgio's Elate EP on Cyphon is a proper dancefloor record, with the low-end funk for your body and that cerebral dreaminess to transport your mind.
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Melancholonica: A Man Named Phil Western

Afterflash is a remixed tribute album to the innovative Phil Western, who released electronic music on Harthouse and LA label Exist Dance as well as collaborating with cEvin Key, Download, Skinny Puppy and releasing a huge catalog of solo material.
5 Mag Issue 220 Cover with Jamie 3:26

Made In Chicago: Jamie 3:26 in the new 5 Mag

Chicago house hero Jamie 3:26 on the cover, plus Alexander Flood, Ryan Sadorus, Collective Rhythm Network, Liara Tsai and more inside 5 Mag Issue 220, out now.
DJ I.V. 5 Mag RISE vol 34 mix

DJ I.V. – 5 Mag RISE vol 34

Bangin' Detroit techno set from DJ I.V. for 5 Mag's weekly RISE mix.
Movement Monday: Industry Mixer honoring Juan Atkins & 40 years of Metroplex at TV Lounge

Movement Monday: Industry Mixer honoring Juan Atkins & 40 years of Metroplex

Featuring a guest DJ set from Eddie Fowlkes and art from Abdul Qadim Haqq on Monday May 26 at TV Lounge.
From Post-Disco to Pre-Techno: Movement week panel spotlights the emergence of techno in Detroit

From Post-Disco to Pre-Techno: Movement week panel spotlights the emergence of techno in Detroit

Panelists Norm Talley, Delano Smith, Stacey "Hotwaxx" Hale and moderator Kai Alcé chart the formation of techno among Detroit's youth in the late 1970s and 1980s.
Detroit's Movement Festival releases full 2025 lineup

Movement unveils set-times for 2025 festival

Movement has announced set times for the 2025 Movement Festival, taking place over Memorial Day Weekend in Hart Plaza, Detroit.
5 Mag Issue 219 cover with Hieroglyphic Being

Visions: Inside the New Issue of 5 Mag

Chicago house music visionary Hieroglyphic Being, plus cover mix and interview with Galen, Z.I.P.P.O., a new label called FLURB, the breaking of Live Nation and more inside the new issue of 5 Mag, out now.
Maarten Goetheer featuring Pong Nakornchai: Suite For Chick

Suite for Chick: Reinterpreting the genius of Chick Corea

Nu Northern Soul drops a mini-album of "re-interpretations" of fusion maestro Chick Corea tracks by DJ Maarten Goetheer featuring Thai power-house drummer Pong Nakornchai.
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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.
ARC music festival 2024

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.
Flyer for Madison Wisconsin free festival Musique Electronique

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.
Jeff Mills

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..."
Cover of Dan Sicko's book Techno Rebels

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.
5 Magazine Issue 218 featuring Mike Clark

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.

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