Techno
Techno is repetitive, machine-made dance music. Tracks change slowly, so a set works like one long build. It is usually darker and less song-based than house.
Neighbouring sounds
- House50 artists
- Trance19 artists
- Tech house12 artists
- Hard techno9 artists
- Melodic6 artists
- Progressive4 artists
Counted from artists tagged with both techno and the other sound.
Who plays it
AlsoTrance
EDC Las Vegas, Elements Music & Arts Festival, HARD Summer, III Points, and 6 more
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CRSSD Festival, Decadence Arizona, EDC Orlando, Elements Music & Arts Festival, and 5 more
Escape Halloween, Movement Music Festival, Skyline LA, Time Warp Los Angeles, and 1 more
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Day Trip Festival NorCal, Decadence Arizona, Proper NYE, Skyline LA, and 1 more
Day Trip Festival, Proper NYE, Seismic Dance Event, Countdown NYE, and 2 more
Seismic Dance Event, Proper NYE, Escape Halloween, Ultra Music Festival
CRSSD Festival, III Points, Seismic Dance Event, Skyline LA
AlsoHouseTech house
Movement Music Festival, Ultra Music Festival, Seismic Dance Event
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Escape Halloween, III Points, Ultra Music Festival
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HARD Summer, Ultra Music Festival, Movement Music Festival
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These artists are tagged with techno as their main sound, then ranked by how many festival lineups record them. A Spotify player is shown only when a confirmed embed already exists. Tags cover 739 artists. Names without a tag are left off this list.
Where it plays
Time Warp Los Angeles
60%Los Angeles, CA. Recorded genre mix. Too little of this bill is tagged to use names.
Movement Music Festival
40%Detroit, MI. Tagged lineup, 2026. 4 of 10 tagged names play techno as a main sound.
Wasteland Southern California
35%San Bernardino, CA. Tagged lineup, 2026. 15 of 43 tagged names play techno as a main sound.
Seismic Dance Event
33%Austin, TX. Tagged lineup, 2026. 15 of 45 tagged names play techno as a main sound.
HARD Summer
29%Inglewood, CA. Tagged lineup, 2026. 2 of 7 tagged names play techno as a main sound.
Skyline LA
25%Los Angeles, CA. Recorded genre mix. Too little of this bill is tagged to use names.
Lights All Night
21%Dallas, TX. Tagged lineup, 2026. 7 of 34 tagged names play techno as a main sound.
Escape Halloween
20%San Bernardino, CA. Tagged lineup, 2026. 19 of 94 tagged names play techno as a main sound.
CRSSD Festival
18%San Diego, CA. Tagged lineup, 2026. 3 of 17 tagged names play techno as a main sound.
Freaky Deaky
18%Austin, TX. Tagged lineup, 2026. 7 of 38 tagged names play techno as a main sound.
III Points
17%Miami, FL. Recorded genre mix. Too little of this bill is tagged to use names.
Day Trip Festival
16%Long Beach, CA. Tagged lineup, 2026. 5 of 32 tagged names play techno as a main sound.
Ultra Music Festival
15%Miami, FL. Tagged lineup, 2026. 2 of 13 tagged names play techno as a main sound.
Get Freaky
12%Magna, UT. Tagged lineup, 2026. 3 of 26 tagged names play techno as a main sound.
11 of 14 rows use tagged names. A tagged share is used when at least 5 names are tagged and they cover at least 30% of the bill. The other rows use the genre mix in the festival file. Each row says which.