George Orwell's 1984 starts with, "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen." Nights of techno ravers end similarly—dancers stepping out of the club after a long night ...

Techno: A universal language. No matter your native tongue, the myriad beats that define the genre can be understood by all. By cultivating emotions, causing movement, forming sounds and generating ...

[image-1]Nearly a decade after the untimely death of J Dilla, the prolific hip-hop producer is still releasing records. The latest comes in the form of Dillatronic, a sprawling set that features more ...

Such moments are, in a way, the essence of techno — an escape from reality that pulls the dance floor into a raw, instinctive headspace, stripping away self-consciousness. The Sejong Center described ...

From Detroit to Budapest, each major city has its own distinct style of techno but no country embraces the genre quite like Germany. It’s an affinity rooted in history, particularly around the fall of ...

A new exhibit at the Michigan State University Museum celebrates Detroit as the birthplace of techno music in the 1980s and '90s and how the genre has progressed to today. "Techno: The Rise of Detroit ...

You don’t need to be a music historian to know why it’s called “techno” music. If that isn’t obvious enough, though, the “E” in EDM stands for electronic. But even then, all you have to do to ...

In song, the ocean is often—usually?—a metaphor. It can represent a bunch of things: distance, eternity, fathomless emotion. But metaphor is also a luxury, one that many people—reduced by circumstance ...

Manchester Metropolitan University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. In the wake of the demolition of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, something strange and wonderful happened.