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430 relations: A Guy Called Gerald, A Thousand Plateaus, Ableton Live, Acid house, Acid techno, Aesthetics of music, African-American music, Afrika Bambaataa, Afro tech, Afterhours club, Akai S900, Alexander Robotnick, Alfredo Fiorito, Algorithmic composition, Alternative dance, Alton Miller, Alvin Toffler, Ambient techno, Amsterdam, Anthony Shakir, Aphex Twin, Artificial Intelligence (compilation album), Artists and repertoire, Audio filter, Australia, Autechre, Babalu Club, Balearic beat, Bar (music), Basic Channel, Bass drum, Bassiani, Beat (music), Belgian hardcore techno, Belgium, Berghain, Berlin, Bev Sage, Big Fun (Inner City song), Bigod 20, Billboard (magazine), Birmingham, Birmingham sound, Blake Baxter, Bleep techno, Blitz Club, Blumenbar, Breakbeat hardcore, Brighton, Bunker (Berlin), ... Expand index (380 more) »
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A Guy Called Gerald
Gerald Rydel Simpson (born 16 February 1967), better known as A Guy Called Gerald, is a British record producer and musician.
See Techno and A Guy Called Gerald
A Thousand Plateaus
A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Mille plateaux) is a 1980 book by the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze and the French psychoanalyst Félix Guattari.
See Techno and A Thousand Plateaus
Ableton Live
Ableton Live, also known as Live or sometimes colloquially as "Ableton", is a digital audio workstation for macOS and Windows developed by the German company Ableton.
Acid house
Acid house (also simply known as just "acid") is a subgenre of house music developed around the mid-1980s by DJs from Chicago. The style is defined primarily by the squelching sounds and basslines of the Roland TB-303 electronic bass synthesizer-sequencer, an innovation attributed to Chicago artists Phuture and Sleezy D circa 1986.
Acid techno
Acid techno, sometimes known generally as "acid", is a genre of techno that was derived from acid house and developed in Europe in the late 1980s to early 1990s.
Aesthetics of music
Aesthetics of music is a branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of art, beauty and taste in music, and with the creation or appreciation of beauty in music.
See Techno and Aesthetics of music
African-American music
African-American music is a broad term covering a diverse range of musical genres largely developed by African Americans and their culture. Techno and African-American music are American styles of music.
See Techno and African-American music
Afrika Bambaataa
Lance Taylor (born on April 17, 1957), also known as Afrika Bambaataa, is an American DJ, rapper, and producer from the South Bronx, New York.
See Techno and Afrika Bambaataa
Afro tech
Afro tech, (also Afro-tech or AfroTech) is a sub-genre of house music and afro house which originates and is predominantly made in South Africa.
Afterhours club
An afterhours club (aka after hours club and afterhour club) is a nightclub that is open past the designated curfew closing time for clubs that serve alcohol (which is often an hour long).
See Techno and Afterhours club
Akai S900
The Akai S900 is a 12-bit sampler, with a variable sample rate from 7.5 kHz through to 40 kHz.
Alexander Robotnick
Maurizio Dami, known professionally as Alexander Robotnick, is an Italian electronic musician.
See Techno and Alexander Robotnick
Alfredo Fiorito
Alfredo Fiorito (born 1953) is an Argentinian DJ.
See Techno and Alfredo Fiorito
Algorithmic composition
Algorithmic composition is the technique of using algorithms to create music.
See Techno and Algorithmic composition
Alternative dance
Alternative dance (also known as indie dance or underground dance in the United States) is a musical genre that mixes alternative rock with electronic dance music. Techno and alternative dance are electronic dance music genres.
See Techno and Alternative dance
Alton Miller
Alton Miller is an American, Detroit-based DJ, producer, singer, and percussionist, as well as a pioneer of Detroit house music.
Alvin Toffler
Alvin Eugene Toffler (October 4, 1928 – June 27, 2016) was an American writer, futurist, and businessman known for his works discussing modern technologies, including the digital revolution and the communication revolution, with emphasis on their effects on cultures worldwide.
Ambient techno
Ambient techno is a subgenre of techno that incorporates the atmospheric textures of ambient music with the rhythmic elements and production of techno.
Amsterdam
Amsterdam (literally, "The Dam on the River Amstel") is the capital and most populated city of the Netherlands.
Anthony Shakir
Anthony "Shake" Shakir, who also uses the aliases Sequence 10 and Da Sampla, is an American techno producer, best known for his contributions to Detroit techno.
Aphex Twin
Richard David James (born 18 August 1971), known professionally as Aphex Twin, is a British musician, record producer, composer and DJ.
Artificial Intelligence (compilation album)
Artificial Intelligence is a compilation album released via Warp on 6 July 1992.
See Techno and Artificial Intelligence (compilation album)
Artists and repertoire
Artists and repertoire (or A&R for short) is the division of a record label or music publishing company that is responsible for scouting and overseeing the artistic development of recording artists and songwriters.
See Techno and Artists and repertoire
Audio filter
An audio filter is a frequency dependent circuit, working in the audio frequency range, 0 Hz to 20 kHz.
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.
Autechre
Autechre are an English electronic music duo consisting of Rob Brown and Sean Booth, both from Rochdale, Greater Manchester.
Babalu Club
Babalu Club was one of the most well-known nightclubs of the early German techno scene and was located in Munich's Schwabing district from 1990 to 1994.
Balearic beat
Balearic beat, also known as Balearic house, Balearic, Ibiza house or Ibizan chillout, is an eclectic blend of DJ-led dance music that emerged in the mid-1980s.
Bar (music)
In musical notation, a bar (or measure) is a segment of music bounded by vertical lines, known as bar lines (or barlines), usually indicating one of more recurring beats. The length of the bar, measured by the number of note values it contains, is normally indicated by the time signature.
Basic Channel
Basic Channel is a German music duo and record label, composed of Moritz von Oswald and Mark Ernestus, that originated in Berlin in 1993.
Bass drum
The bass drum is a large drum that produces a note of low definite or indefinite pitch.
Bassiani
Bassiani (ბასიანი) is a nightclub in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia.
Beat (music)
In music and music theory, the beat is the basic unit of time, the pulse (regularly repeating event), of the mensural level (or beat level).
Belgian hardcore techno
Belgian hardcore techno (also referred to as Belgian techno or rave techno) is an early style of hardcore techno that emerged from new beat as EBM and techno influences became more prevalent in this genre. Techno and Belgian hardcore techno are electronic dance music genres.
See Techno and Belgian hardcore techno
Belgium
Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe.
Berghain
Berghain is a nightclub in Berlin, Germany.
Berlin
Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population.
Bev Sage
Bev Sage is a British artist and singer/songwriter.
Big Fun (Inner City song)
"Big Fun" is a song by American electronic music group Inner City, released in August 1988 by 10 Records and Virgin as the first single from their debut album, Paradise (1988).
See Techno and Big Fun (Inner City song)
Bigod 20
Bigod 20 was a German EBM-techno band which was formed in 1988 by music producers Andreas Tomalla (a.k.a. Talla 2XLC and formerly of the band Moskwa TV) and Markus Nikolai (a.k.a. Jallokin).
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard (stylized in lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation.
See Techno and Billboard (magazine)
Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England.
Birmingham sound
The Birmingham sound is a subgenre of techno that emerged in Birmingham, England in the early 1990s.
See Techno and Birmingham sound
Blake Baxter
Blake Baxter (born 1963) is an American techno musician, associated with the first wave of Detroit techno.
Bleep techno
Bleep techno (or simply bleep) is a regional subgenre of techno which developed in the late 1980s in Northern England, specifically Yorkshire.
Blitz Club
Blitz Club is a techno nightclub in the Munich district of Ludwigsvorstadt-Isarvorstadt.
Blumenbar
Blumenbar Verlag GmbH&Co KG is a small avantgarde publishing house in Germany.
Breakbeat hardcore
Breakbeat hardcore (also referred to as hardcore rave, oldskool hardcore or simply hardcore) is a music genre that spawned from the UK rave scene during the early 1990s.
See Techno and Breakbeat hardcore
Brighton
Brighton is a seaside resort and one of the two main areas of the city of Brighton and Hove in the county of East Sussex, England.
Bunker (Berlin)
The Bunker (also Reichsbahnbunker Friedrichstraße) in Berlin-Mitte, Germany, is a listed air-raid shelter that was constructed in 1943 and is nowadays used as an art gallery and private apartment.
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C. J. Bolland
Christian Jay "C.
Cabaret Voltaire (band)
Cabaret Voltaire were an English music group formed in Sheffield in 1973 and initially composed of Stephen Mallinder, Richard H. Kirk, and Chris Watson.
See Techno and Cabaret Voltaire (band)
Carl Craig
Carl Craig (born May 22, 1969) is an American electronic music producer, DJ, and founder of the record label Planet E Communications.
Castlemorton Common Festival
The Castlemorton Common Festival was a week-long free festival and rave held in the Malvern Hills near Malvern, Worcestershire, England, between 22 and 29 May 1992.
See Techno and Castlemorton Common Festival
Cerrone
Marc CerroneDaryl Easlea, "Supernature Boy", Record Collector, #502, February 2020, pp.60-63 (born 24 May 1952) is a French disco drummer, composer, record producer and creator of concerts.
Chicago house
Chicago house refers to house music produced during the mid to late 1980s within Chicago.
ChucK
ChucK is a concurrent, strongly timed audio programming language for real-time synthesis, composition, and performance, which runs on Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, and iOS.
See Techno and ChucK
Classical music
Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions.
See Techno and Classical music
Claudio Simonetti
Claudio Simonetti (born 19 February 1952) is an Italian musician and film composer.
See Techno and Claudio Simonetti
Clear (Cybotron song)
"Clear" is a 1983 electro song performed by the American group Cybotron, and composed by Cybotron members Juan Atkins and Richard Davis.
See Techno and Clear (Cybotron song)
Colin Faver
Colin Faver (24 December 1951 – 5 September 2015) was a British club and radio DJ, best known for his 1990s cutting-edge show on London's Kiss FM, and an important role in the development of British club culture.
Cologne
Cologne (Köln; Kölle) is the largest city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with nearly 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and over 3.1 million people in the Cologne Bonn urban region.
Computer music
Computer music is the application of computing technology in music composition, to help human composers create new music or to have computers independently create music, such as with algorithmic composition programs.
Continental Europe
Continental Europe or mainland Europe is the contiguous mainland of Europe, excluding its surrounding islands.
See Techno and Continental Europe
Counterculture
A counterculture is a culture whose values and norms of behavior differ substantially from those of mainstream society, sometimes diametrically opposed to mainstream cultural mores. Techno and counterculture are subcultures.
Country
A country is a distinct part of the world, such as a state, nation, or other political entity.
Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994
The Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 (c. 33) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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Crossover music
Crossover is a term applied to musical works or performers who appeal to different types of audiences.
See Techno and Crossover music
Crust punk
Crust punk (also known as stenchcore or simply crust) is a subgenre of punk rock influenced by the English punk scene as well as extreme metal.
Cybotron (American band)
Cybotron is an American electro music group formed in 1980 by Juan Atkins and Richard "3070" Davis in Detroit.
See Techno and Cybotron (American band)
CzechTek
CzechTek was an annual teknival normally held on the weekend at the end of July in the Czech Republic.
Dance music
Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing.
Dance Music Report
Dance Music Report, initially Disco News and later DMR, was a biweekly U.S. trade magazine oriented toward nightclub and radio DJs in the dance music industry.
See Techno and Dance Music Report
Daniel Bell (musician)
Daniel Bell (born 1967) is an American minimal techno DJ.
See Techno and Daniel Bell (musician)
Danielle de Picciotto
Danielle de Picciotto is an American-born artist, musician and filmmaker.
See Techno and Danielle de Picciotto
Danny Rampling
Danny Rampling (born 15 July 1961) is an English house music DJ and is widely credited as one of the original founders of the UK's rave/club scene.
Dave Angel
Dave Angel (born David Angelico Nicholas Gooden; 13 May 1966) is an English techno musician.
Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany.
Deep house
Deep house is a subgenre of house music that originated in the 1980s, initially fusing elements of Chicago house with the lush chords of 1980s jazz-funk and touches of soul music.
Delia Derbyshire
Delia Ann Derbyshire (5 May 1937 – 3 July 2001) was an English musician and composer of electronic music.
See Techno and Delia Derbyshire
Depeche Mode
Depeche Mode are an English electronic music band formed in Basildon, Essex in 1980.
Der Spiegel
(stylized in all caps) is a German weekly news magazine published in Hamburg.
Derrick May (musician)
Derrick May (born April 6, 1963), also known as Mayday and Is, is an American electronic musician from Belleville, Michigan, United States.
See Techno and Derrick May (musician)
Detroit
Detroit is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan.
Detroit Electronic Music Archive
The Detroit Electronic Music Archive (DEMA) began in June 2005 in Detroit, Michigan.
See Techno and Detroit Electronic Music Archive
Detroit Electronic Music Festival
Movement Electronic Music Festival is an annual electronic dance music event held in the birthplace of Techno, Detroit, each Memorial Day weekend since 2006.
See Techno and Detroit Electronic Music Festival
Detroit techno
Detroit techno is a type of techno music that generally includes the first techno productions by Detroit-based artists during the 1980s and early 1990s.
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft ("German-American Friendship"), or D.A.F., was a German electropunk/Neue Deutsche Welle band from Düsseldorf, formed in 1978 featuring Gabriel "Gabi" Delgado-López (vocals), Robert Görl (drums, percussion, electronic instruments), Kurt "Pyrolator" Dahlke (electronic instruments), Michael Kemner (bass-guitar) and Wolfgang Spelmans (guitar).
See Techno and Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft
Devo
Devo (originally), often stylized as DEVO, is an American new wave band from Akron, Ohio, formed in 1973.
See Techno and Devo
Digital audio workstation
A digital audio workstation (DAW) is an electronic device or application software used for recording, editing and producing audio files.
See Techno and Digital audio workstation
Digital hardcore
Digital hardcore is a fusion genre that combines hardcore punk with electronic dance music genres such as breakbeat, techno, and drum and bass while also drawing on heavy metal and noise music.
See Techno and Digital hardcore
Digital signal processing
Digital signal processing (DSP) is the use of digital processing, such as by computers or more specialized digital signal processors, to perform a wide variety of signal processing operations.
See Techno and Digital signal processing
DIN sync
DIN sync, also called Sync24, is a synchronization interface for electronic musical instruments.
Disc jockey
A disc jockey, more commonly abbreviated as DJ, is a person who plays recorded music for an audience.
Disco
Disco is a genre of dance music and a subculture that emerged in the late 1960s from the United States' urban nightlife scene. Techno and Disco are American styles of music.
See Techno and Disco
DiY Sound System
DiY Sound System, also known as the DiY Collective, was a British house music sound system, co-founded by Harry Harrison, Rick "Digs" Down, Simon "DK" Smith and Pete "Woosh" Birch, in 1989.
See Techno and DiY Sound System
DJ Hell
Helmut Josef Geier (born 6 September 1962), known professionally as DJ Hell, is a German DJ.
DJ mix
A DJ mix or DJ mixset is a sequence of musical tracks typically mixed together to appear as one continuous track.
Do it yourself
"Do it yourself" ("DIY") is the method of building, modifying, or repairing things by oneself without the direct aid of professionals or certified experts.
Doctor Who
Doctor Who is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963.
Donna Summer
Donna Adrian Gaines (December 31, 1948May 17, 2012), known professionally as Donna Summer, was an American singer and songwriter.
Dorian Gray (club)
Dorian Gray was a nightclub in the 1980s and 1990s, located in Frankfurt Airport in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
See Techno and Dorian Gray (club)
Drum and bass
Drum and bass (commonly abbreviated as DnB, D&B, or D'n'B) is a genre of electronic dance music characterised by fast breakbeats (typically 165–185 beats per minute) with heavy bass and sub-bass lines, samples, and synthesizers. Techno and Drum and bass are electronic dance music genres.
Drum beat
A drum beat or drum pattern is a rhythmic pattern, or repeated rhythm establishing the meter and groove through the pulse and subdivision, played on drum kits and other percussion instruments.
Drum machine
A drum machine is an electronic musical instrument that creates percussion sounds, drum beats, and patterns.
Dub techno
Dub techno is a subgenre of techno that combines the style with elements of dub music, including its sparse, delay-heavy production and prominent bass.
Dynamic range compression
Dynamic range compression (DRC) or simply compression is an audio signal processing operation that reduces the volume of loud sounds or amplifies quiet sounds, thus reducing or compressing an audio signal's dynamic range.
See Techno and Dynamic range compression
E-Werk (Berlin)
E-Werk was a techno music club in Berlin, Germany that was held in a former electrical substation called Abspannwerk Buchhändlerhof.
See Techno and E-Werk (Berlin)
E2-E4
E2-E4, released in 1984, is a solo recording by German musician and Ash Ra Tempel founder Manuel Göttsching.
See Techno and E2-E4
E=MC² (Giorgio Moroder album)
E.
See Techno and E=MC² (Giorgio Moroder album)
East Berlin
East Berlin (Ost-Berlin) was the partially recognised capital of East Germany (GDR) from 1949 to 1990.
Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe is a subregion of the European continent.
Economy
An economy is an area of the production, distribution and trade, as well as consumption of goods and services.
Eddie Fowlkes
Eddie Fowlkes (born December 24, 1962) is an American techno DJ.
Egg London
Egg London or Egg LDN is an electronic dance music venue and nightclub based in Kings Cross, North London.
Electro (music)
Electro (or electro-funk). Techno and electro (music) are electronic dance music genres.
See Techno and Electro (music)
Electroclash
Electroclash (also known as synthcore, retro-electro, tech-pop, nouveau disco, and the new new wave) is a genre of popular music that fuses 1980s electro, new wave and synth-pop with 1990s techno, retro-style electropop and electronic dance music. Techno and Electroclash are electronic dance music genres.
Electronic Beats
Telekom Electronic Beats (TEB) is an international music marketing program of Deutsche Telekom focusing on electronic music and international club culture.
See Techno and Electronic Beats
Electronic body music
Electronic body music (EBM) is a genre of electronic music that combines elements of industrial music and synth-punk with elements of dance music. Techno and electronic body music are electronic dance music genres and German styles of music.
See Techno and Electronic body music
Electronic dance music
Electronic dance music (EDM), also referred to as club music, is a broad range of percussive electronic music genres originally made for nightclubs, raves, and festivals.
See Techno and Electronic dance music
Electronic music
Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music technology and software, or general-purpose electronics (such as personal computers) in its creation.
See Techno and Electronic music
Electronic musical instrument
An electronic musical instrument or electrophone is a musical instrument that produces sound using electronic circuitry.
See Techno and Electronic musical instrument
Electronica
Electronica is both a broad group of electronic-based music styles intended for listening rather than strictly for dancing and a music scene that came to prominence in the early 1990s in the United Kingdom.
Elements of music
Music can be analysed by considering a variety of its elements, or parts (aspects, characteristics, features), individually or together.
See Techno and Elements of music
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
Equalization (audio)
Equalization, or simply EQ, in sound recording and reproduction is the process of adjusting the volume of different frequency bands within an audio signal.
See Techno and Equalization (audio)
Eurodance
Eurodance (sometimes referred to as Euro-NRG, Euro-electronica or Euro) is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in the late 1980s in Europe. Techno and Eurodance are electronic dance music genres.
Eurodisco
Eurodisco (also spelled as Euro disco) is the variety of European forms of electronic dance music that evolved from disco in the middle 1970s, incorporating elements of pop and rock into a disco-like continuous dance atmosphere. Techno and Eurodisco are electronic dance music genres.
Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
Fabric (club)
Fabric (stylized as fabric) is a nightclub in Farringdon, London, England.
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The fall of the Berlin Wall (Mauerfall) on November 9, 1989, during the Peaceful Revolution, marked the beginning of the destruction of the Berlin Wall and the figurative Iron Curtain, as East Berlin transit restrictions were overwhelmed and discarded.
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Flexi disc
The flexi disc (also known as a phonosheet, Sonosheet or Soundsheet, a trademark) is a phonograph record made of a thin, flexible vinyl sheet with a molded-in spiral stylus groove, and is designed to be playable on a normal phonograph turntable.
Ford Focus
The Ford Focus is a compact car (C-segment in Europe) manufactured by Ford Motor Company since 1999.
Ford Motor Company
Ford Motor Company (commonly known as Ford) is an American multinational automobile manufacturer headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, United States.
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Four on the floor (music)
Four-on-the-floor (or four-to-the-floor) is a rhythm used primarily in dance genres such as disco and electronic dance music.
See Techno and Four on the floor (music)
Frankfurt
Frankfurt am Main ("Frank ford on the Main") is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse.
Frankfurt Airport
Frankfurt Airport (Flughafen Frankfurt Main), is Germany's main international airport by passenger numbers, located in Frankfurt, Germany's fifth-largest city.
See Techno and Frankfurt Airport
Frankie Bones
Frankie ‘Bones’ Mitchell is a prominent figure in the development of dance music within the United States.
Frankie Knuckles
Francis Warren Nicholls Jr. (January 18, 1955 – March 31, 2014), known professionally as Frankie Knuckles, was an American DJ, record producer, and remixer.
See Techno and Frankie Knuckles
Free party
A free party is a party "free" from the restrictions of the legal club scene, similar to the free festival movement.
Free tekno
Free tekno, also known as tekno, freetekno and hardtek, is the music predominantly played at free parties in Europe. Techno and free tekno are electronic dance music genres.
Freeware
Freeware is software, most often proprietary, that is distributed at no monetary cost to the end user.
Front 242
Front 242 is a Belgian electronic music group that came into prominence during the 1980s.
Funk
Funk is a music genre that originated in African-American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that were popular among African-Americans in the mid-20th century. Techno and Funk are American styles of music.
See Techno and Funk
Funkadelic
Funkadelic was an American funk rock band formed in Plainfield, New Jersey in 1968 and active until 1982.
Futurism
Futurism (Futurismo) was an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy, and to a lesser extent in other countries, in the early 20th century.
Futurist
Futurists (also known as futurologists, prospectivists, foresight practitioners and horizon scanners) are people whose specialty or interest is futurology or the attempt to systematically explore predictions and possibilities about the future and how they can emerge from the present, whether that of human society in particular or of life on Earth in general.
Gabber
Gabber is a style of electronic dance music and a subgenre of hardcore techno, as well as the surrounding subculture.
Galaxy 2 Galaxy
Galaxy 2 Galaxy is a live electronic and jazz music collective featuring members of Underground Resistance.
See Techno and Galaxy 2 Galaxy
Gary Numan
Gary Anthony James Webb (born 8 March 1958), known professionally as Gary Numan, is an English musician.
George Baker (Dutch singer)
Johannes "Hans" Bouwens (born 8 December 1944), known as George Baker, is a Dutch singer and songwriter who, with his band George Baker Selection, scored three international hits; "Little Green Bag" (1969), "Paloma Blanca" (1975) and "Santa Lucia by Night" (1985).
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George Clinton (funk musician)
George Edward Clinton (born July 22, 1941) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and bandleader.
See Techno and George Clinton (funk musician)
German reunification
German reunification (Deutsche Wiedervereinigung) was the process of re-establishing Germany as a single full sovereign state, which took place between 9 November 1989 and 15 March 1991.
See Techno and German reunification
Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.
Ghent
Ghent (Gent; Gand; historically known as Gaunt in English) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium.
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Ghettotech
Ghettotech (also known as Detroit club) is a genre of electronic music originating from Detroit.
Giorgio Moroder
Giovanni Giorgio Moroder (born 26 April 1940) is an Italian composer and music producer.
See Techno and Giorgio Moroder
Glasgow
Glasgow is the most populous city in Scotland, located on the banks of the River Clyde in west central Scotland.
Glitch (music)
Glitch is a genre of electronic music that emerged in the 1990s which is distinguished by the deliberate use of glitch-based audio media and other sonic artifacts.
Goa
Goa is a state on the southwestern coast of India within the Konkan region, geographically separated from the Deccan highlands by the Western Ghats.
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Gqom
Gqom (igqomu, gqom tech, sgubhu, 3-Step or G.Q.O.M) is an electronic dance music genre and subgenre of house music that emerged in the early 2010s from Durban, South Africa, pioneered and innovated by music producers Naked Boyz, Rudeboyz, Sbucardo, Griffit Vigo, Nasty Boyz, DJ Lag, Menzi Shabane, Distruction Boyz and Citizen Boy. Techno and gqom are electronic dance music genres.
See Techno and Gqom
Graeme Park (DJ)
Graeme Park is a British house music DJ and is widely credited as one of the original founders of the UK's rave/club scene, notably as a leading figure of The Haçienda club in Manchester, England.
See Techno and Graeme Park (DJ)
Graham Massey
Graham Vernon Massey (born 4 August 1960 in Manchester) is a British record producer, musician, and remixer.
Grammy Awards
The Grammy Awards, stylized as GRAMMY, and often referred to as the Grammys, are awards presented by the Recording Academy of the United States to recognize outstanding achievements in the music industry.
Hal Leonard
Hal Leonard LLC (formerly Hal Leonard Corporation) is an American music publishing and distribution company founded in Winona, Minnesota, by Harold "Hal" Edstrom, his brother, Everett "Leonard" Edstrom, and fellow musician Roger Busdicker.
Hardcore (electronic dance music genre)
Hardcore (also known as hardcore techno) is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany in the early 1990s. Techno and hardcore (electronic dance music genre) are electronic dance music genres.
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Hardstyle
Hardstyle is an electronic dance genre that emerged in the late 1990s, with origins in the Netherlands, Belgium and Italy. Techno and Hardstyle are electronic dance music genres.
Hardvapour
Hardvapour is an Internet-based microgenre of music that emerged in late 2015 as a tongue-in-cheek response to vaporwave, departing from the calm, muzak-sampling capitalist utopia concept of the latter in favor of a gabber- and punk-influenced sound. Techno and Hardvapour are electronic dance music genres.
Harmony
In music, harmony is the concept of combining different sounds together in order to create new, distinct musical ideas.
Harthouse
Harthouse is a German record label specializing in techno music.
Heaven 17
Heaven 17 are an English synth-pop band formed in Sheffield in 1980.
Hi-hat
A hi-hat (hihat, high-hat, etc.) is a combination of two cymbals and a pedal, all mounted on a metal stand.
Hi-NRG
Hi-NRG (pronounced "high energy") is a genre of uptempo disco or electronic dance music (EDM) that originated during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Techno and Hi-NRG are American styles of music and electronic dance music genres.
Hip hop music
Hip hop or hip-hop, also known as rap and formerly as disco rap, is a genre of popular music that originated in the early 1970s from the African American community. Techno and hip hop music are American styles of music.
Hippie
A hippie, also spelled hippy, especially in British English, is someone associated with the counterculture of the 1960s, originally a youth movement that began in the United States during or around 1964 and spread to different countries around the world. Techno and hippie are subcultures.
Homosexuality
Homosexuality is sexual attraction, romantic attraction, or sexual behavior between members of the same sex or gender.
House music
House is a genre of electronic dance music characterized by a repetitive four-on-the-floor beat and a typical tempo of 115–130 beats per minute. Techno and House music are American styles of music and electronic dance music genres.
I Feel Love
"I Feel Love" is a song by the American singer Donna Summer.
Ikue Sakakibara
is a Japanese actress and a J-pop singer.
See Techno and Ikue Sakakibara
India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.
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Industrial music
Industrial music is a genre of music that draws on harsh, mechanical, transgressive, or provocative sounds and themes. Techno and Industrial music are American styles of music and German styles of music.
See Techno and Industrial music
Industrial techno
Industrial techno is a subgenre of techno and industrial dance music that originated in the 1990s.
See Techno and Industrial techno
Instrumental
An instrumental or instrumental song is music normally without any vocals, although it might include some inarticulate vocals, such as shouted backup vocals in a big band setting.
Instrumentation (music)
In music, instrumentation is the particular combination of musical instruments employed in a composition, and the properties of those instruments individually.
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Intelligent dance music
Intelligent dance music (IDM) is a style of electronic music originating in the early 1990s, defined by idiosyncratic experimentation rather than specific genre constraints.
See Techno and Intelligent dance music
ISSN
An International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) is an eight-digit serial number used to uniquely identify a serial publication (periodical), such as a magazine.
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Italo disco
Italo disco (variously capitalized, and sometimes hyphenated as Italo-disco) is a music genre which originated in Italy in the late 1970s and was mainly produced in the 1980s. Techno and Italo disco are electronic dance music genres.
James Pennington
James Pennington, also known as Suburban Knight, is a DJ and producer with Underground Resistance (UR), an independent record label based in Detroit, United States.
See Techno and James Pennington
Jeff Mills
Jeff Mills (born June 18, 1963, in Detroit, Michigan), also known as "the Wizard", is an American DJ, record producer, and composer.
Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis
James Samuel "Jimmy Jam" Harris III (born June 6, 1959) and Terry Steven Lewis (born November 24, 1956) are an American R&B/pop songwriting and record production team.
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Joey Beltram
Joey Beltram (born 6 September 1971) is an American DJ and music producer, best known for his pioneering singles "Energy Flash" and "Mentasm" and for remixing Human Resource's "Dominator".
John Acquaviva
John Acquaviva (born 1963) is an Italian-Canadian DJ, producer, and musical entrepreneur.
John Peel
John Robert Parker Ravenscroft (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), better known as John Peel, was an English radio presenter and journalist.
Juan Atkins
Juan Atkins (born September 12, 1962), also known as Model 500 and Infiniti, is an American record producer and DJ from Detroit, Michigan.
Jungle music
Jungle is a genre of electronic music that developed out of the UK rave scene and roots reggae and dancehall sound system culture in the 1990s. Techno and Jungle music are electronic dance music genres.
Kenny Larkin
Kenny Larkin (who also releases as Dark Comedy) is an American techno producer from Detroit.
Kevin Saunderson
Kevin Maurice Saunderson (born September 5, 1964) is an American electronic dance music DJ and record producer.
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Keyboard (magazine)
Keyboard is a magazine that originally covered electronic keyboard instruments and keyboardists, though with the advent of computer-based recording and audio technology, they have added digital music technology to their regular coverage, including those not strictly pertaining to the keyboard-related instruments.
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Keyboard instrument
A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers that are pressed by the fingers.
See Techno and Keyboard instrument
Kirk Degiorgio
Kirk Degiorgio, better known as As One, is a British techno producer and DJ.
Ko Pha-ngan
Ko Pha-ngan (เกาะพะงัน) is an island in the Gulf of Thailand in Surat Thani Province of southern Thailand.
Kodwo Eshun
Kodwo Eshun (born 1967) is a British-Ghanaian writer, theorist and filmmaker.
KPCC (FM)
KPCC (89.3 FM) – branded LAist 89.3 – is a non-commercial educational radio station licensed to Pasadena, California, primarily serving Greater Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley.
Kraftwerk
Kraftwerk ("power plant") are a German electronic band formed in Düsseldorf in 1970 by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider.
Krautrock
Krautrock (also called, German for) is a broad genre of experimental rock that developed in West Germany in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Techno and Krautrock are German styles of music.
Kuduro
Kuduro (or kuduru) is a type of music and dance from Angola.
KW – Das Heizkraftwerk
KW – Das Heizkraftwerk was a nightclub in Munich, Germany from 1996 to 2003.
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Laid Back
Laid Back is a Danish electronic music duo group from Copenhagen, formed in 1979.
Laptop
A laptop computer or notebook computer, also known as a laptop or notebook, is a small, portable personal computer (PC).
Leeds
Leeds is a city in West Yorkshire, England.
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Leipzig
Leipzig (Upper Saxon: Leibz'sch) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony.
List of electronic music record labels
This is a list of notable electronic music record labels.
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List of music software
This is a list of software for creating, performing, learning, analyzing, researching, broadcasting and editing music.
See Techno and List of music software
Live coding
Live coding, sometimes referred to as on-the-fly programming,Wang G. & Cook P. (2004), In Proceedings of the 2004 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) (New York: NIME, 2004).
London
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.
Love Parade
The Love Parade (Loveparade) was an electronic dance music festival and technoparade that originated in 1989 in West Berlin, Germany.
Low Spirit
Low Spirit Recordings was a German techno record label.
Madonna
Madonna Louise Ciccone (born August 16, 1958) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress.
Mainz
Mainz (see below) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, and with around 223,000 inhabitants, it is Germany's 35th-largest city.
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Manchester
Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England, which had a population of 552,000 at the 2021 census.
Manhattan Research, Inc.
Manhattan Research, Inc. is a two-CD compilation of electronic music created by the musician, composer and inventor, Raymond Scott and his company, "Manhattan Research Inc." Posthumously released in 2000 by Basta Music of the Netherlands, the album contains selected samples of Scott's work from the 1950s and 1960s for film soundtracks, commercials, and for his own technical and musical experiments.
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Manuel Göttsching
Manuel Göttsching (9 September 1952 – 4 December 2022) was a German musician and composer.
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Mark Moore
Mark Moore (born 12 January 1965) is a British dance music record producer and DJ.
Marshall Jefferson
Marshall Julius Jefferson (born September 19, 1959) is an American musician, working in the house music subgenres of Chicago house and deep house.
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Marusha
Marusha Aphrodite Gleiß (born 18 November 1966), known by her stage name Marusha, is a German-Greek electronic music disc jockey, producer and television presenter who had hits in the mid-1990s including her 1994 single "Somewhere Over the Rainbow".
Mastering (audio)
Mastering, a form of audio post production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device (the master), the source from which all copies will be produced (via methods such as pressing, duplication or replication).
See Techno and Mastering (audio)
Max (software)
Max, also known as Max/MSP/Jitter, is a visual programming language for music and multimedia developed and maintained by San Francisco-based software company Cycling '74.
Mayday (music festival)
Mayday is an electronic music festival in Germany, where it debuted in 1991, and in Katowice, Poland where it debuted in 2000.
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MDMA
3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), commonly known as ecstasy (tablet form), and molly or mandy (crystal form), is a potent empathogen–entactogen with stimulant and minor psychedelic properties.
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Melody
A melody, also tune, voice or line, is a linear succession of musical tones that the listener perceives as a single entity.
Metroplex (record label)
Metroplex is an American techno record label in Detroit, Michigan, United States, founded in 1985 by techno pioneer Juan Atkins.
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Microprocessor
A microprocessor is a computer processor for which the data processing logic and control is included on a single integrated circuit (IC), or a small number of ICs.
MIDI
MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a technical standard that describes a communication protocol, digital interface, and electrical connectors that connect a wide variety of electronic musical instruments, computers, and related audio devices for playing, editing, and recording music.
See Techno and MIDI
Mike Banks (musician)
Michael Anthony Banks, better known as "Mad" Mike Banks, is an American record producer.
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Mike Pickering
Mike Pickering is an English musician, DJ, songwriter, A&R Executive from Manchester, UK.
Mille Plateaux (record label)
Mille Plateaux is a German record label founded in 1994 by Achim Szepanski in Frankfurt, as a sublabel of Force Inc.
See Techno and Mille Plateaux (record label)
Minimal techno
Minimal techno is a subgenre of techno music.
Miss E... So Addictive
Miss E...
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Missy Elliott
Melissa Arnette Elliott (born July 1, 1971), also known as Misdemeanor, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer.
Mixing console
A mixing console or mixing desk is an electronic device for mixing audio signals, used in sound recording and reproduction and sound reinforcement systems.
Mixmag
Mixmag is a British electronic dance and clubbing magazine published in London.
MMA Club
MMA Club (Mixed Munich Arts Club) was a techno nightclub in Munich, Germany, renowned as one of the best in Germany in the 2010s.
Moby
Richard Melville Hall (born September 11, 1965), known professionally as Moby, is an American musician, songwriter, record producer, DJ and animal rights activist.
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Monika Kruse
Monika Kruse (born 23 July 1971) is a German techno DJ/producer and record label owner, with a career in electronic music spanning more than 25 years.
Moritz von Oswald
Moritz von Oswald (born 1962) is a German record producer and percussionist from Hamburg and based in Berlin.
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Motif (music)
In music, a motif IPA: (/moʊˈtiːf/) or motive is a short musical idea, a salient recurring figure, musical fragment or succession of notes that has some special importance in or is characteristic of a composition.
Motown
Motown is an American record label owned by the Universal Music Group. Techno and Motown are culture of Detroit.
MTV
MTV (originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable television channel.
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Muddy Waters
McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1913April 30, 1983), known professionally as Muddy Waters, was an American blues singer and musician who was an important figure in the post-World War II blues scene, and is often cited as the "father of modern Chicago blues".
Multitrack recording
Multitrack recording (MTR), also known as multitracking, is a method of sound recording developed in 1955 that allows for the separate recording of multiple sound sources or of sound sources recorded at different times to create a cohesive whole.
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Munich
Munich (München) is the capital and most populous city of the Free State of Bavaria, Germany.
Music genre
A music genre is a conventional category that identifies some pieces of music as belonging to a shared tradition or set of conventions.
Music sequencer
A music sequencer (or audio sequencer or simply sequencer) is a device or application software that can record, edit, or play back music, by handling note and performance information in several forms, typically CV/Gate, MIDI, or Open Sound Control, and possibly audio and automation data for digital audio workstations (DAWs) and plug-ins.
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Music technology
Music technology is the study or the use of any device, mechanism, machine or tool by a musician or composer to make or perform music; to compose, notate, playback or record songs or pieces; or to analyze or edit music.
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Musical composition
Musical composition can refer to an original piece or work of music, either vocal or instrumental, the structure of a musical piece or to the process of creating or writing a new piece of music.
See Techno and Musical composition
Musical improvisation
Musical improvisation (also known as musical extemporization) is the creative activity of immediate ("in the moment") musical composition, which combines performance with communication of emotions and instrumental technique as well as spontaneous response to other musicians.
See Techno and Musical improvisation
Muzik
Muzik was a British dance music magazine published by IPC Media from June 1995 to August 2003.
See Techno and Muzik
Napalm Death
Napalm Death are an English grindcore band formed in Meriden, West Midlands in 1981.
Neil Rushton
Neil Rushton is a British journalist, DJ, record dealer, record label entrepreneur, event promoter and author who is closely associated with the Northern soul scene.
Netherlands
The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.
Network Records
Network Records (formed out of Kool Kat Records) was an independent record label founded in Birmingham, England, in 1988 by Neil Rushton and Dave Barker.
See Techno and Network Records
New Age travellers
New Age Travellers (synonymous with and otherwise known as New Travellers) are people located primarily in the United Kingdom generally espousing New Age beliefs with hippie or Bohemian culture of the 1960s.
See Techno and New Age travellers
New beat
New beat is a Belgian electronic dance music genre that fuses elements of new wave, hi-NRG,Simon Reynolds: Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture. Routledge 1999,, p. 124. Techno and new beat are electronic dance music genres.
New Order (band)
New Order are an English rock band formed in 1980 by vocalist and guitarist Bernard Sumner, bassist Peter Hook, and drummer Stephen Morris.
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New Romantic
New Romantic was an underground subculture movement that originated in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s.
New wave music
New wave is a music genre that encompasses pop-oriented styles from the 1970s through the 1980s. Techno and New wave music are American styles of music.
New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
Nightclub
A nightclub is a club that is open at night, usually for drinking, dancing and other entertainment.
Nitzer Ebb
Nitzer Ebb are a British EBM group formed in 1982 by Essex school friends Vaughan "Bon" Harris (programming, synthesizers, drums, vocals), Douglas McCarthy (vocals), and David Gooday (drums).
No UFO's
"No UFO's" is a 1985 techno song by Juan Atkins under the alias of Model 500.
Nortec
Nortec (from the combination of "norteño" and "techno") is a genre of electronic dance music developed in Tijuana (a border city in Baja California, Mexico) that first gained popularity in 2001. Techno and Nortec are electronic dance music genres.
Northern soul
Northern soul is a music and dance movement that emerged in Northern England and the Midlands in the early 1970s.
Nottingham
Nottingham (locally) is a city and unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England.
Nuremberg
Nuremberg (Nürnberg; in the local East Franconian dialect: Nämberch) is the largest city in Franconia, the second-largest city in the German state of Bavaria, and its 544,414 (2023) inhabitants make it the 14th-largest city in Germany.
Octave One
Octave One is a group of American techno musicians composed of siblings Lenny Burden and Lawrence Burden, sometimes associated with their three other brothers, Lorne Burden, Lynell Burden and Lance Burden.
Offenbach am Main
Offenbach am Main is a city in Hesse, Germany, on the left bank of the river Main.
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Office of Public Sector Information
The Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI) is the body responsible for the operation of His Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO) and of other public information services of the United Kingdom.
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Optimo
Optimo Espacio ('Optimum Space') was a weekly Sunday-night club based in Glasgow, Scotland at the Sub Club on Jamaica Street, as well as a collective moniker for the night's resident DJ duo.
Orbital (band)
Orbital are an English electronic music duo from Otford, Kent, England, consisting of brothers Phil and Paul Hartnoll.
Overdubbing
Overdubbing (also known as layering) is a technique used in audio recording in which audio tracks that have been pre-recorded are then played back and monitored, while simultaneously recording new, doubled, or augmented tracks onto one or more available tracks of a digital audio workstation (DAW) or tape recorder.
Pacific State (song)
"Pacific" is a single by the English electronic music group 808 State, released in 1989.
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Paradigm
In science and philosophy, a paradigm is a distinct set of concepts or thought patterns, including theories, research methods, postulates, and standards for what constitute legitimate contributions to a field.
Parliament (band)
Parliament was an American funk band formed in the late 1960s by George Clinton as a flagship act of his P-Funk collective.
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Parliament-Funkadelic
Parliament-Funkadelic (abbreviated as P-Funk) is an American music collective of rotating musicians headed by George Clinton, primarily consisting of the funk bands Parliament and Funkadelic, both active since the 1960s.
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Paul Hartnoll
Paul Hartnoll (born 19 May 1968) is one of two brothers (the other being Phil Hartnoll) who make up the electronic dance act Orbital.
Paul Oakenfold
Paul Mark Oakenfold (born 30 August 1963), formerly known mononymously as Oakenfold, is an English record producer, remixer and trance DJ.
Paul van Dyk
Matthias Paul (born 16 December 1971), known professionally as Paul van Dyk is a German DJ, record producer and musician.
Performance
A performance is an act or process of staging or presenting a play, concert, or other form of entertainment.
Pet Shop Boys
Pet Shop Boys are an English synth-pop duo formed in London in 1981.
Pete Shelley
Pete Shelley (born Peter Campbell McNeish; 17 April 1955 – 6 December 2018) was an English singer, songwriter and guitarist.
Pitchfork (website)
Pitchfork (formerly Pitchfork Media) is an American online music publication founded in 1996 by Ryan Schreiber in Minneapolis.
See Techno and Pitchfork (website)
Planet Rock (song)
"Planet Rock" is a song by the American hip hop artists Afrika Bambaataa and the Soul Sonic Force.
See Techno and Planet Rock (song)
Plus 8
Plus 8 (also spelled as Plus8) is a Canadian techno record label founded by Richie Hawtin and John Acquaviva in 1990 that's based in Windsor, Ontario.
Polka
Polka is a dance style and genre of dance music originating in nineteenth-century Bohemia, now part of the Czech Republic. Techno and Polka are German styles of music.
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Polyrhythm
Polyrhythm is the simultaneous use of two or more rhythms that are not readily perceived as deriving from one another, or as simple manifestations of the same meter.
Post-disco
Post-disco is a term to describe an aftermath in popular music history circa 1979–1986, imprecisely beginning with the backlash against disco music in the United States, leading to civil unrest and a riot in Chicago known as the Disco Demolition Night on July 12, 1979, and indistinctly ending with the mainstream appearance of new wave in 1980. Techno and Post-disco are American styles of music.
Psychedelic music
Psychedelic music (sometimes called psychedelia) is a wide range of popular music styles and genres influenced by 1960s psychedelia, a subculture of people who used psychedelic drugs such as DMT, LSD, mescaline, and psilocybin mushrooms, to experience synesthesia and altered states of consciousness.
See Techno and Psychedelic music
Public Enemy
Public Enemy is an American hip hop group formed by Chuck D and Flavor Flav on Long Island, New York, in 1985.
Pulse (music)
In music theory, the pulse is a series of uniformly spaced beats—either audible or implied—that sets the tempo and is the scaffolding for the rhythm.
Pure Data
Pure Data (Pd) is a visual programming language developed by Miller Puckette in the 1990s for creating interactive computer music and multimedia works.
Quadrastate
Quadrastate is a mini-album by English electronic music group 808 State.
Quarter note
A quarter note (American) or crotchet (British) is a musical note played for one quarter of the duration of a whole note (or semibreve).
R&S Records
R&S Records is an independent record label founded in 1983 in Ghent, Belgium.
Rave
A rave (from the verb: to rave) is a dance party at a warehouse, club, or other public or private venue, typically featuring performances by DJs playing electronic dance music.
See Techno and Rave
Raymond Scott
Raymond Scott (born Harry Warnow; September 10, 1908 – February 8, 1994) was an American composer, band leader, pianist, record producer, and inventor of electronic instruments.
Reaktor
Reaktor is a graphical modular software music studio developed by Native Instruments (NI).
Reason (software)
Reason is a digital audio workstation and audio plug-in developed by the Swedish company Reason Studios (formerly known as Propellerhead Software) for macOS and Windows.
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Reason Studios
Reason Studios (formerly known as Propellerhead Software) is a music software company, based in Stockholm, Sweden.
ReBirth RB-338
ReBirth RB-338 is a software synthesizer for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS 8-9 and iOS for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.
Record producer
A record producer or music producer is a music creating project's overall supervisor whose responsibilities can involve a range of creative and technical leadership roles.
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Recording studio
A recording studio is a specialized facility for recording and mixing of instrumental or vocal musical performances, spoken words, and other sounds.
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Recoupment
For recoupment in terms of U.S. tax law, see equitable recoupment. Recoupment, in the music industry, is when a record label pays for a musical artist's expenses, such as for recording and marketing, and later deducts an equal amount from the artist's royalties, which are between 15 and 20 percent of sales revenue.
Red Bull Music Academy
The Red Bull Music Academy (RBMA) is a world-traveling series of music workshops and festivals that was founded in 1998 by Red Bull GmbH.
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Reggae
Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s.
Resident Advisor
Resident Advisor (also known as RA) is an online music magazine and community platform established in 2001 and dedicated to showcasing electronic music, artists and events across the globe.
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Retro style
Retro style is imitative or consciously derivative of lifestyles, trends, or art forms from the past, including in music, modes, fashions, or attitudes.
Rhythm
Rhythm (from Greek ῥυθμός, rhythmos, "any regular recurring motion, symmetry") generally means a "movement marked by the regulated succession of strong and weak elements, or of opposite or different conditions".
Rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated within African-American communities in the 1940s. Techno and Rhythm and blues are American styles of music.
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Richie Hawtin
Richard "Richie" Hawtin (born June 4, 1970) is a British-Canadian electronic musician and DJ.
Robert Hood
Robert Hood (born 1965) is an American electronic music producer and DJ.
Roland Corporation
is a Japanese multinational manufacturer of electronic musical instruments, electronic equipment, and software.
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Roland SH-101
The Roland SH-101 is an analog synthesizer manufactured by the Roland Corporation between 1982 and 1986.
Roland TB-303
The Roland TB-303 Bass Line (also known as the 303) is a bass synthesizer released by Roland Corporation in 1981.
Roland TR-808
The Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer, commonly known as the 808, is a drum machine manufactured by Roland Corporation between 1980 and 1983.
Roland TR-909
The Roland TR-909 Rhythm Composer, commonly known as the 909, is a drum machine introduced by Roland Corporation in 1983, succeeding the TR-808.
Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture.
Routledge
Routledge is a British multinational publisher.
Ryuichi Sakamoto
was a Japanese composer, pianist, record producer, and actor who pursued a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO).
See Techno and Ryuichi Sakamoto
Sampling (music)
In sound and music, sampling is the reuse of a portion (or sample) of a sound recording in another recording.
See Techno and Sampling (music)
Schaffel
Schaffel (the German spelling to match the English pronunciation of "shuffle") is a fusion style of techno and rock in which minimal techno's straight-up drum kick is shuffled to offbeat emphasis. Techno and Schaffel are German styles of music.
Science fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.
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Second Summer of Love
The Second Summer of Love was a late-1980s social phenomenon in the United Kingdom which saw the rise of acid house music and unlicensed rave parties.
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Segue
A segue is a transition from one topic or section to the next.
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Sheffield
Sheffield is a city in South Yorkshire, England, whose name derives from the River Sheaf which runs through it.
Simon Reynolds
Simon Reynolds (born 19 June 1963) is an English music journalist and author who began his career at Melody Maker in the mid-1980s.
Singing
Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice.
Skinny Puppy
Skinny Puppy was a Canadian electro-industrial band formed in Vancouver in 1982.
Slant Magazine
Slant Magazine is an American online publication that features reviews of movies, music, TV, DVDs, theater, and video games, as well as interviews with actors, directors, and musicians.
Smart drink
Smart drinks, also known as nootropic drinks, are beverages made from a mix of fruit juices, vitamins, herbal supplements, and a variety of amino acid supplements.
Snare drum
The snare drum (or side drum) is a percussion instrument that produces a sharp staccato sound when the head is struck with a drum stick, due to the use of a series of stiff wires held under tension against the lower skin.
Software synthesizer
A software synthesizer or softsynth is a computer program that generates digital audio, usually for music.
See Techno and Software synthesizer
Solid State Survivor
Solid State Survivor is the second album by Japanese electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra, released in 1979.
See Techno and Solid State Survivor
Soul music
Soul music is a popular music genre that originated in the African-American community throughout the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Techno and Soul music are American styles of music.
Sound on Sound
Sound on Sound is a monthly music technology magazine.
Sound reinforcement system
A sound reinforcement system is the combination of microphones, signal processors, amplifiers, and loudspeakers in enclosures all controlled by a mixing console that makes live or pre-recorded sounds louder and may also distribute those sounds to a larger or more distant audience.
See Techno and Sound reinforcement system
Sound system (DJ)
A sound system is a group of DJs and audio engineers contributing and working together as one, playing and producing music over a large PA system or sound reinforcement system, typically for a dance event or party.
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Sound system (Jamaican)
In Jamaican popular culture, a sound system is a group of disc jockeys, engineers and MCs playing ska, rocksteady or reggae music.
See Techno and Sound system (Jamaican)
Spin (magazine)
Spin (stylized in all caps as SPIN) is an American music magazine founded in 1985 by publisher Bob Guccione Jr. Now owned by Next Management Partners, the magazine is an online publication since it stopped issuing a print edition in 2012.
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Spiral Tribe
Spiral Tribe is an arts collective and free party sound system formed in 1990.
Squatting
Squatting is the action of occupying an abandoned or unoccupied area of land or a building, usually residential, that the squatter does not own, rent or otherwise have lawful permission to use.
Stacey Pullen
Stacey Pullen is an American techno musician based in Detroit, Michigan, United States.
Steve Fairnie
Stephen Angus Fairnie (died 22 February 1993) was a British musician, artist and actor, the frontman of the post-punk band Writz, and as one half, with Bev Sage, of the 1980s outfit Techno Twins (later just The Technos).
Strings of Life
"Strings of Life" is a 1987 song by American electronic musician Derrick May, in collaboration with Michael James, and released under the name Rhythim Is Rhythim.
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Sub Club
The Sub Club is a club and music venue located at 22 Jamaica Street in Glasgow, Scotland.
Subculture
A subculture is a group of people within a cultural society that differentiates itself from the conservative and standard values to which it belongs, often maintaining some of its founding principles. Techno and subculture are subcultures.
Suicide (band)
Suicide was an American musical duo composed of vocalist Alan Vega and instrumentalist Martin Rev, intermittently active between 1970 and 2016.
SuperCollider
SuperCollider is an environment and programming language originally released in 1996 by James McCartney for real-time audio synthesis and algorithmic composition.
Supergroup (music)
A supergroup is a musical group formed with members who are already successful as solo artists or as members of other successful groups.
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Sven Väth
Sven Väth (born 26 October 1964) is a German DJ and electronic music producer.
Synchronization
Synchronization is the coordination of events to operate a system in unison.
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Syncopation
In music, syncopation is a variety of rhythms played together to make a piece of music, making part or all of a tune or piece of music off-beat.
Synth-pop
Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop) is a music genre that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument.
Synthesizer
A synthesizer (also synthesiser, or simply synth) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals.
Tangerine Dream
Tangerine Dream is a German electronic music band founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese.
See Techno and Tangerine Dream
Tanith (DJ)
Thomas Andrezak (born 4 August 1962 in Bad Kreuznach), better known as Tanith, is a German DJ and producer of electronic dance music.
Tech house
Tech house is a subgenre of house music that combines stylistic features of techno with house.
Techno Twins
The Techno Twins (later known simply as The Technos) were a British electronic music duo formed in London.
Techno! The New Dance Sound of Detroit
Techno! The New Dance Sound of Detroit is a 1988 compilation of early Detroit techno tracks released on the Virgin Records UK imprint 10 Records.
See Techno and Techno! The New Dance Sound of Detroit
Techstep
Techstep is a dark subgenre of drum and bass that was created in the mid-1990s.
Tecno brega
Tecno brega or technobrega (technotacky) is a form of music from northern Brazil, particularly Belém, Pará. Techno and Tecno brega are electronic dance music genres.
Teknival
Teknivals (a portmanteau of the words tekno and festival) are large free parties which take place for several days.
Tele 5
Tele 5 is a German free-to-air television channel that primarily broadcasts classic American films, science fiction series and anime.
Telex (band)
Telex was a Belgian synth-pop group formed in 1978 by Marc Moulin, Dan Lacksman and Michel Moers, with the intention of "making something really European, different from rock, without guitar—and the idea was electronic music".
Tempo
In musical terminology, tempo (Italian for 'time'; plural 'tempos', or tempi from the Italian plural), also known as beats per minute, is the speed or pace of a given composition.
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Thailand
Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Indochinese Peninsula.
The B-52s
The B-52s, originally presented as the B-52's (with an apostrophe; used until 2008), are an American new wave band formed in Athens, Georgia, in 1976.
The Belleville Three
The Belleville Three are three American musicians, Juan Atkins, Derrick May, and Kevin Saunderson, who are credited with inventing the Detroit techno genre in Belleville, Michigan.
See Techno and The Belleville Three
The Black Dog (band)
The Black Dog is a British electronic music group, founded in 1989 by Ken Downie along with Ed Handley and Andy Turner.
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The Electrifying Mojo
The Electrifying Mojo (born Charles Johnson in Little Rock, Arkansas) is an American radio personality.
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The Haçienda
The Haçienda was a nightclub and music venue in Manchester, England, which became famous during the Madchester years of the 1980s and early 1990s.
The Human League
The Human League is an English synth-pop band formed in Sheffield in 1977.
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The Independent
The Independent is a British online newspaper.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London in 1962.
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The Spectator
The Spectator is a weekly British news magazine focusing on politics, culture, and current affairs.
The Third Wave (Toffler book)
The Third Wave is a 1980 book by Alvin Toffler.
See Techno and The Third Wave (Toffler book)
The Wire (magazine)
The Wire (or simply Wire) is a British music magazine publishing out of London, which has been issued monthly in print since 1982.
See Techno and The Wire (magazine)
Thirty-two-bar form
The 32-bar form, also known as the AABA song form, American popular song form and the ballad form, is a song structure commonly found in Tin Pan Alley songs and other American popular music, especially in the first half of the 20th century.
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Thomas Fehlmann
Thomas Fehlmann (born 1957) is a Swiss composer/producer who lives in Berlin, Germany, and has been active in electronic music since the 1980s.
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Timbre
In music, timbre, also known as tone color or tone quality (from psychoacoustics), is the perceived sound quality of a musical note, sound or tone.
Time
Time is the continued sequence of existence and events that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, and into the future.
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Time signature
A time signature (also known as meter signature, metre signature, and measure signature) is a convention in Western music notation that specifies how many note values of a particular type are contained in each measure (bar).
Tokyo
Tokyo (東京), officially the Tokyo Metropolis (label), is the capital of Japan and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of over 14 million residents as of 2023 and the second-most-populated capital in the world.
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Tom Novy
Tom Novy (born Thomas Reichold; March 10, 1970) is a DJ and producer from Munich, Germany.
Top of the Pops
Top of the Pops (TOTP) is a British music chart television programme, made by the BBC and broadcast weekly between 1January 1964 and 30 July 2006.
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Toytown techno
Toytown techno (also known as kiddy rave or cartoon rave) is an underground subgenre of techno that emerged in the early 1990s, characterized by merging techno, jungle, or breakbeat hardcore with samples from children's television series or public information films.
Trade (nightclub)
Trade was a culturally important gay club night held at Turnmills in London founded in 1990 by Laurence Malice.
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Trance music
Trance is a genre of electronic dance music that emerged from EBM in Frankfurt, Germany, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and quickly spread throughout Europe. Techno and Trance music are electronic dance music genres and German styles of music.
Tresor (club)
Tresor (German for safe or vault) is a techno nightclub in Berlin and a record label.
Trevor Horn
Trevor Charles Horn (born 15 July 1949) is an English record producer and musician.
Twin Peaks
Twin Peaks is an American mystery drama television series created by Mark Frost and David Lynch.
U2
U2 are an Irish rock band formed in Dublin in 1976.
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Ufo (club, Berlin)
The Ufo (lit. UFO) was the first acid house club in Berlin.
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UK singles chart
The UK Singles Chart (currently titled the Official Singles Chart, with the upper section more commonly known as the Official UK Top 40) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.
See Techno and UK singles chart
Ultraschall
Ultraschall (German: Ultrasound) was a nightclub in Munich, Germany from 1994 to 2003.
Ultravox
Ultravox (earlier styled as Ultravox!) were a British new wave band, formed in London in April 1974 as Tiger Lily.
Underground music
Underground music is music with practices perceived as outside, or somehow opposed to, mainstream popular music culture.
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Underground Resistance
Underground Resistance (commonly abbreviated to UR) are an American musical collective from Detroit, Michigan.
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Underworld (band)
Underworld are a British electronic music group formed in 1987 in Cardiff, Wales and the principal collaborative project of Karl Hyde and Rick Smith.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.
Uwe Schmidt
Uwe H. Schmidt (born 27 August 1968), also known as Atom™, Atom Heart, or Señor Coconut, is a German composer, musician and producer of electronic music.
Virgin Records
Virgin Records is a British record label owned by Universal Music Group.
Visage (band)
Visage were a British synth-pop band formed in London in 1978.
VIVA (German TV channel)
VIVA (abbreviation for: Videoverwertungsanstalt translating to "Video Exploitation Facility") was a German free-to-air music television channel, first broadcast on December 1, 1993.
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Warp (record label)
Warp Records (or simply Warp) is a British independent record label founded in Sheffield in 1989 by record store employees Steve Beckett and Rob Mitchell and record producer Robert Gordon.
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West Berlin
West Berlin (Berlin (West) or West-Berlin) was a political enclave which comprised the western part of Berlin from 1948 until 1990, during the Cold War.
West Germany
West Germany is the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) from its formation on 23 May 1949 until the reunification with East Germany on 3 October 1990. The Cold War-era country is sometimes known as the Bonn Republic (Bonner Republik) after its capital city of Bonn. During the Cold War, the western portion of Germany and the associated territory of West Berlin were parts of the Western Bloc.
WestBam
Maximilian Lenz (born 4 March 1965), known by his stage name WestBam, is a German DJ and musician.
WGPR
WGPR (107.5 FM) is a commercial radio station in Detroit, Michigan, broadcasting an urban contemporary radio format.
See Techno and WGPR
White Horse (Laid Back song)
"White Horse" is a song written and performed by Tim Stahl and John Guldberg of the Danish duo Laid Back.
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Windsor, Ontario
Windsor is a city in southwestern Ontario, Canada, on the south bank of the Detroit River directly across from Detroit, Michigan, United States.
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WMKM
WMKM (1440 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Inkster, Michigan, and serving the Detroit metropolitan area.
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Yamaha DX7
The Yamaha DX7 is a synthesizer manufactured by Yamaha Corporation from 1983 to 1989.
Yellow Magic Orchestra
Yellow Magic Orchestra (abbreviated to YMO) was a Japanese electronic music band formed in Tokyo in 1978 by Haruomi Hosono (bass, keyboards, vocals), Yukihiro Takahashi (drums, lead vocals, occasional keyboards) and Ryuichi Sakamoto (keyboards, vocals).
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YMCA
YMCA, sometimes regionally called the Y, is a worldwide youth organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, with more than 64 million beneficiaries in 120 countries.
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YouTube
YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.
Zeitgeist
In 18th- and 19th-century German philosophy, a Zeitgeist (capitalized in German) ("spirit of the age") is an invisible agent, force, or daemon dominating the characteristics of a given epoch in world history.
ZTT Records
ZTT Records is a British record label founded in 1983 by the record producer Trevor Horn, the businesswoman Jill Sinclair and the NME journalist Paul Morley.
(Not Just) Knee Deep
"(Not Just) Knee Deep" is a song by the American funk band Funkadelic written by George Clinton.
See Techno and (Not Just) Knee Deep
808 State
808 State are an English electronic music group formed in 1987 in Manchester by Graham Massey, Martin Price and Gerald Simpson.
See also
German styles of music
- Burger-highlife
- Commercium song
- Deutschpunk
- Die anderen Bands
- Electronic body music
- German folk music
- German jazz
- German punk
- Hamburger Schule
- Industrial music
- Krautrock
- Medieval metal
- Motorik
- Neue Deutsche Härte
- Neue Deutsche Todeskunst
- Neue Deutsche Welle
- Opera in German
- Polka
- Rock music in Germany
- Schaffel
- Schlager
- Techno
- Teutonic thrash metal
- Trance music
- Yodeling
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