without techno, there would be no crap rap
techno is more than beats also; it's spawned the likes of prodigy, orbital, kraftwerk.

it's also given rise to big beat, industrial, gabba, acid, trance, ambient etc
I like a combination of music, namely electronic music and rock, but I have no time for rap, eminem may take the piss out of moby but if it wasn't for early electronic and techno influences, pop shit, rap and hip hop would be nowhere.
by techno head May 4, 2004
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The most accurate post I've seen so far is

"An ETERNALLY mislabeled genre of music which has nothing to do with Moby, Tiesto, Chemical Brothers, or Fatboy Slim. Techno is indeed a broad sub-genre of electronic dance music (or EDM, what many people use "techno" inproperly as a blanket term for) which fulfills these following constituents:

1. It is in some form minimalist, whether in composition or in sequencing.
2. It is created for the sole purpose of making people dance.
3. It is constructed in a manner to allow DJs to quickly and expertly mix and layer 2 or more of these compositions simultaneously.

Due to it's building-block nature, true techno is closer to hip-hop than many of the genres (such as trance and breakbeat) which it is erroneously associated with. "

Some well known techno DJ's would be Chris liebing, Jeff Mills, and Dj Rush

and trance has nothing to do with techno, techno is a very very very very very very very very unground subgenre of music

"azns" dont listen to "techno" if someone tells you something like alice deejay - better off alone is techno, they are stupid

techno is its own subgenre of electronica just like house, progressive house, trance, hard trance, progressive trance, breaks (breakbeat), prog breaks, acid house, and much much much more
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scooter and other mainstream shit is NOT techno, it's not even trance, it goes in its own genre of really bad music AKA cheese

techno, the real techno is a developed taste, download a dj rush set and find out
by joe dirt December 28, 2004
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*sigh* people have no clue, techno is not listened to by ravers, it's a form of techno most commonly called rave music.
Techno is everywhere, whether it be from subtle synthesizer based special effects to actual songs.
Please don't mistake rubbish for techno, it is a very unique form of electronic music, different to the rubbish played on kiss100 everyday.
Don't go with the majority like eminem, he even requires techno based background music, but then again rap is crap.
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by techno fan July 9, 2004
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Very misunderstud sub genre of dance. You only here it played in clubs like lakota in bristol or dance academy in plymouth, you wont find it in clubs like ministry or gatecrasher, except on a very very rare occasion! If you own a ministry CD or infact any CD thats proberly charted it wont be techno!!!
Get a slammin vinyl techno tape back. Most popular artist are Producer, Scorpio and Mark EG when he starts of his sets usally. My advice listern to hard style alot better (e.g. M-Zone, Analogue Disturbance, Vortex, Mark EG when he's on form).
by FutureHardstyle June 20, 2006
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I remember 20 years ago or so, the word 'Techno' was used more similarly to the way the word 'Electronica' is used now.

Over time, 'electronica' has seemingly assumed its position at the top of the tree, and 'techno' has sort of un-evolved into a less broad, or more specific term.
"In the 80's we called it techno; now we call it electronica."
by Cali June 28, 2004
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the sound of robots beat boxing, and not doing too bad at it.
Robot Chuck Norris can fart techno.
by Topher65 October 31, 2007
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