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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Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 28 Feb. 2025
Black artists in Detroit in the early 1980s ventured into the future to create a transformative global genre: techno.
—Annalise Frank, Axios, 27 Feb. 2025
The tongue-in-cheek reference then, naturally, accompanied a needle drop of the film’s signature techno score, the brainchild of Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.
—Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 23 Feb. 2025
Expand February Skyline Festival: Feb. 15-16 Insomniac Events’ techno brand Factory 93 and house music counterpart Day Trip, are once again joining forces to bring the two genres together.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Feb. 2025
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Noun
Inspired by Shoshana Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Davidson grapples with the tendrils of Big Tech in songs that play out as a militant techno march interrupted by bursts of pop abandon.
—Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 28 Feb. 2025
Black artists in Detroit in the early 1980s ventured into the future to create a transformative global genre: techno.
—Annalise Frank, Axios, 27 Feb. 2025
The tongue-in-cheek reference then, naturally, accompanied a needle drop of the film’s signature techno score, the brainchild of Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.
—Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 23 Feb. 2025
Expand February Skyline Festival: Feb. 15-16 Insomniac Events’ techno brand Factory 93 and house music counterpart Day Trip, are once again joining forces to bring the two genres together.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Feb. 2025
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“Techno.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/techno. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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