This Memorial Day weekend, techno music and its fans come home — to Detroit — for the annual Movement Electronic Music Festival. Today, most of techno's audience is in Europe. But its futuristic sound ...

We delve back through decades' worth of interviews to discover how the changing face of technology has shaped the sound of techno When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

“There's a lot of very backwards-looking dance music which is just fucking boring,” says Batu, who runs the Timedance label and party out of Bristol. His point of view makes sense given that he’s ...

Although widely associated with Europe, techno music was invented in Detroit and its suburbs in the early 1980s by young African-Americans armed with drum machines, futurist ideals and a predilection ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Juan Atkins fused electronics, analogue synths and dance music to forge Detroit house, a sound ...

In Episode 1 of the RISE Podcast, we explore Detroit techno as a form of Black speculative practice and Afrofuturism, rooted in innovation and cultural expression by Black youth. It highlights ...

A non-profit group called Detroit Sound Conservancy is seeking to rebuild Club Heaven's sound system, one of Detroit's most famous techno sound systems from the 1980s. During house and techno's ...

From Downwards To Rephlex, this is your guide to some of the most influential techno labels of the past 30 years. This piece is part of our archival features series, originally published 2021. We're ...

LAIDBACK LUKE is something of a chameleon. Perhaps known best under his main stream EDM alias, some may not know that Luke van Scheppingen started out his career far away from this world with his ...