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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Midland, Lone & more remix Tom VR’s Please Keep Shimmering

Box-fresh futurist techno with remixed tracks from Tom VR's Please Keep Shimmering album.
Hector Ram Midnight Sounds

True to the roots: Hector Ram drops vinyl cut Midnight Sounds

Bouncing basement thumps and the unapologetic love for the motherbeat carries through across all four original tracks on Midnight Sounds, a vinyl-only cut from Hector Ram and Short Attention Records.

MAL.E emerges with a new techno identity on Something Manufactured

Fixed Rhythms drops this crash between high tech and low tech soul from MAL.E, the new alias of Mali Mase.
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Electro Cherry – RISE mix vol 25

Wake up with a new set from Brooklyn-based DJ Electro Cherry for 5 Mag's weekly RISE series.
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DJ Skull: Don’t Look Back

One of the most versatile producers to come out of Chicago in the 1990s, DJ Skull is back on the scene and working at a more prolific pace than ever. Consider it making up for...

In Residence with Housepitality, San Francisco

The poet Allen Ginsberg called them the "classic stations of the earth" - the points on a map where people seemed to gather, quite spontaneously, to celebrate life and create a scene. We're calling...
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Leigh Morgan vs Lucatwana: Made In Jupiter

Leigh Morgan sends his greetings. The founder of what had been one of my favorite labels, Urban Torque, has reappeared with a new release on a new label, Fancy Human. That hiatus was always...

Occidental: Pariah Dreams

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Jeff Derringer on Seven Years of OKTAVE

Chicago DJ Jeff Derringer celebrates seven years of his Oktave residency and playing Techno in a House Music town.
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Various Artists: Discordian Dreaming 8

Discordian Dreaming takes in the full breadth of the label's output, from terse, borderline-sinister late night tech house moods to meditative, goose-bump inducing electronica.

Static Music Releases Phutek’s Make You Rain

Phutek makes music that just cries out to be played loud.

Nathan Surreal’s Star Dust

Nathan Surreal's Star Dust is a buzzy, ravey adventure with some deft edits from Adesse Versions and Neville Watson.

D’Marc Cantu: A Spiritual Thing

Reigniting a pure love for music: Lauren Krieger sits down for a fascinating talk with D'Marc Cantu for 5 Magazine's cover story.
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Pearl Vision: Clair Obscur

The choice cut from the Storm EP, the debut release from Dany Rodriguez and Tindra's Pearl Vision project on EPM Music.

#ListenUp Upfront Techno Action from Jason Patrick on TimeFlex

Jason Patrick offers up four tracks of sonorous, steely and atmospheric techno, out now on DJ Hyperactive's 4 Track Recordings.
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Compost 25 – Michael Reinboth on a Quarter Century of Compost Records

Will Sumsuch talks with Michael Reinboth, founder of Compost Records — the most important electronic music label of the last 25 years.
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Cosmic Trax: The Electronic Sutras of Scape One

Kurt Baggaley is a techno producer born for the Bandcamp age.
5 Mag Issue 190 featuring Franck Roger

#Rejuvenate – inside the new 5 Mag

Franck Roger, Ed Nine, Rodney Baker, Berlin under lockdown and more in the new issue of 5 Mag, out now.
Arpanet Hydrostatic Equilibrium

30D to reissue two Gerald Donald Arpanet tracks as Hydrostatic Equilibrium

Single sided vinyl release on Hydrostatic Equilibrium focuses on Gerald Donald's first Arpanet tracks since 2006 on ExoPlanets.
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Homegrown 21st Century Beat Smuggling by Bootleg Contraband

Chicago noise corps called Bootleg Contraband collect nine energizing tracks for a new album.

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