Not familiar with techno? Here are the basics everyone should know about the electronic music genre born in Detroit.

George Orwell's 1984 starts with, "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen." Nights of techno ravers end similarly—dancers stepping out of the club after a long night ...

From Detroit to Budapest, each major city has its own distinct style of techno but no country embraces the genre quite like Germany. It’s an affinity rooted in history, particularly around the fall of ...

The song burbles and snaps beneath the beat of a droning metronomic drum machine. A synthesizer warbles, like the underlying score to a dystopian thriller. The lyrics are spoken more than sung, in an ...

A new exhibit at the Michigan State University Museum celebrates Detroit as the birthplace of techno music in the 1980s and '90s and how the genre has progressed to today. "Techno: The Rise of Detroit ...

Carla Vecchiola is affiliated with Exhibit 3000. For over two decades, Detroit has celebrated its status as the birthplace of techno with an electronic music festival held over Memorial Day weekend.

The sound of Balkan Beat Box carries a faint reminder of the day the circus came to town, with dancing ladies and big trombones. But the dancers are belly dancers and the saxophones and brass recalls ...

The whole concept behind the beat-side of the ambient techno genre, is in providing a relatively forthright and driving ...

Garbatech – meaning garba with techno beats – and Bollytech – Bollywood (Hindi songs) with techno beats – are ruling garba nights this season This Navratri, let love twirl with every beat of Sun Sajni ...

The pact with the dance music investment vehicle of Armada Music, co-founded by Armin van Buuren, will allow the DJ and producer to "reinvigorate my work and expand the influence of the techno genre." ...