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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Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 20 June 2025
There’s a new big techno festival in Italy, the Adriatic Sound Festival.
—Billboard Italy, Billboard, 19 June 2025
McCarthy worked with former tour mate Depeche Mode’s Alan Wilder on the side project Recoil, and collaborated with techno producer Terence Fixmer.
—August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2025
Think the legendary Motown Museum, indie spots like El Club, and the techno venue Spot Lite.
—AFAR Media, 4 June 2025
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Noun
The very mid-Nineties sound is Springsteen exploring new beats, like most of his peers; this was the era of Paul McCartney’s techno project The Fireman, Bowie’s drum-and-bass album, and the Stones sampling Biz Markie.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 20 June 2025
There’s a new big techno festival in Italy, the Adriatic Sound Festival.
—Billboard Italy, Billboard, 19 June 2025
McCarthy worked with former tour mate Depeche Mode’s Alan Wilder on the side project Recoil, and collaborated with techno producer Terence Fixmer.
—August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2025
Think the legendary Motown Museum, indie spots like El Club, and the techno venue Spot Lite.
—AFAR Media, 4 June 2025
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“Techno.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/techno. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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