often attributive
: electronic dance music that features a fast beat and synthesized sounds usually without vocals or a conventional popular song structure
: technical : technological
technocracy
Examples of techno in a Sentence
Noun
The club plays only techno.
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Puja Patel, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2025
With early roots in house and techno, Luke’s discography today touches and influences a diverse array of dance/electronic subgenres.
—Danny Klein, SPIN, 31 Jan. 2025
Drawing influences from French electro and hard techno, the two have crafted a score full of musical flourishes that intensify and clarify what makes Challengers such a ride.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 5 Jan. 2025
Channel Tres is best known for his blend of Detroit techno with the silky sounds of Chicago house and West Coast rap, creating his distinct style of Compton house.
—Lisa Kocay, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
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Noun
Her weekends were spent in old warehouses on the outskirts of the city—rooms filled with blaring techno and young Czechs lost in their own transient states of bliss.
—Puja Patel, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2025
With early roots in house and techno, Luke’s discography today touches and influences a diverse array of dance/electronic subgenres.
—Danny Klein, SPIN, 31 Jan. 2025
Drawing influences from French electro and hard techno, the two have crafted a score full of musical flourishes that intensify and clarify what makes Challengers such a ride.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 5 Jan. 2025
Channel Tres is best known for his blend of Detroit techno with the silky sounds of Chicago house and West Coast rap, creating his distinct style of Compton house.
—Lisa Kocay, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
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“Techno.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/techno. Accessed 14 Feb. 2025.
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