Techno is fast electronic dance music built from machines. Play techno, a techno club, Detroit techno.
It began in Detroit in the mid-1980s and is built on a steady four-to-the-floor kick, usually somewhere between 120 and 150 beats a minute, with the machines audible rather than hidden. Berlin became its second home after 1989, when empty buildings in the east made room for it. Note techno as a prefix in technophobe and technobabble, which is a different word doing different work.
1nountechnoFast electronic dance music built from machines.
“Techno runs about 130 beats a minute.”
techno is a music genre.
Techno is a clipping of technology, chosen deliberately by the Detroit producers who named the genre in the mid-1980s.
a clipping of technology.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA