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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Jeff Mills Reissues Four Catalog Classics on the Remastered Director’s Cut Chapter 2

Technical and musical mastery preserved on the latest Jeff Mills Director's Cut reissue - Chapter 2.
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Marco Faraone: Uncaged

Techno producer Marco Faraone has been DJing since he was 14 years old and released his first record a decade ago. 2019 turned out to be his biggest year yet.
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#ListenUp Dark Techno on Golbon Moltaji’s “Karané”

Low Noise Productions suits up with the intriguing dark techno of the Ekur EP from "DJ, live performer and visual artist from Tehran," Golbon Moltaji.
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Hudd Traxx celebrates the Here & Now on a 10 track compilation of new music

Jovonn, Black Loops, Mark Hawkins, Nightmares on Wax, JT Donaldson & more spread the gospel of the Huddersfield miracle on Hudd Traxx's 15 year anniversary compilation.
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#Praise – Inside the new issue of 5 Mag

Live from Detroit with Norm Talley & Upstairs Asylum, Lea Lisa, Cratan and more inside the new issue of 5 Mag.
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SELECT: the Sound of Beretta Music

The first, last, best and deepest deep house and techno cuts from the catalog of Detroit's Beretta Music.
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The Last Love Note from Brooklyn

Though nobody could have guessed at the time, this would be the final record for Love Notes, one of our favorite labels and one of the best to emerge in the last half of the '10s.
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The Bullfrog: a new synth designed by Richie Hawtin & Erica

The Bullfrog is an educational but fully functional hardware synthesizer retailing for €500.
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Will Azada: Proper Traxx EP

Will Azada has a touch, a style distinctive enough that you can differentiate his tracks from the stack by ear alone. The first clue: they're really, really good. The Proper Traxx EP is something of an...
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Malcolm Moore, Chicago Skyway, Specter, Steven Tang: Pancake Sessions

Attention Deep House heads: there is vinyl heat circulating in breakfast form entitled Pancake Sessions. The label is equipped with delicious pancake art on Side A and the cool-down after a Tetrode-Downbeat party on...

Hakim Murphy & Rev S: CPH Sessions

This right here - this is the good shit. CPH Sessions is the best work Hakim Murphy has done and I say that knowing just how many amazing records he's got under his belt....
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Nathan Drew Larsen: Prairie Path Frustration

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Heathered Pearls Releases Belleville Renderings Part I on Ghostly

A rich homage to early Detroit Techno in Heathered Pearls' latest release.

Unit Black Flight: Evocations

If John Carpenter made a record for Plus-8, it might have sounded a bit like Evocations from Unit Black Flight.
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Andre Crom: Off the Safe Path & Into the World

Change and reinvention through the eyes (and ears) of DJ and producer Andre Crom.

TenGrams: SpaceLab

The Italian dance music pioneers Alessandro and Davide Piatto from N.O.I.A. showcase their new project, the dreamy and classic techno sound of TenGrams on the SpaceLab EP.

Casey Tucker Returns to Love Notes with Alternative Faction

Acid grooves polished until they gleam like chrome, Casey Tucker's Alternative Faction exists where the high tech funk of Eddie Fowlkes meets the virtuosity of Larry Heard.
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Deep Club Drops Occidental and Grey People’s Cop Watch/Trespass

Occidental and Grey People anchor Deep Club's latest 12 inch, Trespass/Cop Watch and it's another revelatory experience.
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DJ 3000 and the Story of Motech Records

Ben Sims, Santiago Salazar, Gerald Mitchell, Fabrice Lig, Robert Hood – these are just a few of the best and brightest techno producers in the world that have left a trace of their art in the back catalog of Motech.
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Ataxia Releases Whirling Industrial Serenade “Oblivion”

Detroit OGs Ataxia have their track "Oblivion" at the center of a new EP from Carl Craig's Planet E Communications.

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Beloved: Inside the new 5 Mag

An oral history of Freerange Records with Jimpster, Tom Roberts, Matt Masters, Pezzner, Manuel Tur and Fred Everything, plus Chicago house with Black Sjuan, DJ Paulette's welcome to the club, Elbert Phillips on Tears, Dark Heaven and more inside the new issue of 5 Mag, out now.