All Techno Subgenres (With Examples) 

Some of these are bad examples fam

theres no way these are all of the sub genres

I appreciate the hard work mate but there's a lot of ways in which this video could have been better. It seems like it was made by somebody with superficial knowledge on electronic music genres. My main issues: 1. The lack of musical characteristics mentioned: most of the descriptions were very general and poetic, they look like they were made by ChatGPT. They do not include any information about the MUSICAL characteristics of the genre, e.g., the 303 machine was not mentioned in acid techno (the main characteristic of it!); rumble kick/bass wasn't mentioned in Hard Techno; etc. 2. It's missing many important subgenres like Schranz, Hardgroove, Reverse bass, etc. You could even add Hardcore, as the Hard Techno in the 2020s very much resembles it. 3. There was no mention of overlapping of genres. For example, 2/4 of the hard techno examples were hard acid techno tracks. That can be confusing for some people who may think "acid techno" and "hard techno" are mutually exclusive. It would be good to note that these genres very often overlap. For example, Sonder by Brecc is a hard industrial acid techno song. 4. The examples were a bit off. Children is a trance song, not a tech-trance song; the Tech House tracks sound mainly house; and some others. Still, thank you for the video.

Convinced this video was made by AI

was the script written in chat gpt? lol

Thumbs down for doing Detroit dirty. And no Hardgroove.

AI was harmed during the making of this video.

"If you don't know all the subgenres of techno it's okay because I do" yeah bro, clearly you don't lol

I appreciate the video, but you showed 2 Acid Techno tunes during the Hard Techno examples, I clearly heard 303s

i think Trance is an own genre with own subgenres. Dark Techno is also big. You can also differ them by BPM. And a lot of so called Detroit Techno was Acid House.

Tech house is eric prydz midnight city??

WHERE IS SCHRANZ

I correct the title for you: "All the wrongly techno subgenres" wellcome...

missing out Dark Techno. It's somewhat similar to industrial techno, but it has some more hardcore elements in it. Check out the likes of [KRTM], Tripped, Synaptic Memories and Tymon for some examples (their catalogues also include industrial hardcore, so don't be too surprised if the first release you come across from one of them ends up being hardcore).

oh boy, where do I start on this one...

The way he didn't even mention Hardgroove, Gabber, and techno with breakbeats..

I'm afraid most of your sub-genres are incorrect. Many tracks mentioned here are just Pop, Disco, Italo or simply just Trance. It is possible that you are presenting this from a USA point of view, which is completely incorrect. Even though the genre originates from Detroit, most sub-genres originate from Europe. That is why in Europe genres are more focused on the specific musical elements than overal vibe. Like the fact that Tech House has Swing, Hard Techno is fast and over modulated and Trance Techno (Melodic Techno) is just Trance with a typical Tech drive instead of the normal basic disco drive. And finally you seem to have missed one of the most important sub-genre of Techno ever......TRIBAL-TECH and TRIBAL-TECH TRANS. Also called TT or just TTT, which basically accounts for at least 65% of all modern techno tracks.

I feel like there's some missing, couldn't tell you specifically, but missing styles from across the pond, UK, Holland, Germany etc. but apart from that, solid video! thanks.

Dude, nice vid! Solid editing and you nailed the audio balance, which is really important but often overlooked! Keep up the good work! When I think of techno, industrial techno plays in my head. I love progressive techno though, well, I love all kinds depending on the occasion but prog, dub and tech house I listen to the most.

1:55 that maddix song is considered “bigroom techno” its very popular now by artists like hardwell to play on big edm mainstages

you mixed hard techno and acid. modern hard techno is mixed with acid, modern acid is mixed with hard techno.

Robert Miles - Children - it's Dream House! Chicane - Saltwater - it's Progressive Trance! Eric Pridz - Midnight city - Progressive House!

I love acid techno ❤

As a guy who mainly went clubbing between 2003 and 2008 I'd say you screwed up the minimal techno part. Plastikman may be one of the early producers (check out Sistol for another real oldskool super minimalstic sound), but the stuff that came out in the period I mentioned lifted the bar substantially in terms of producing quality and groove.

I am a big fan of N++ soundtrack (and the game itself), but i could never figure out, what kind of genre the tracks were. Dub/Progressive Techno now gives me an idea and thats the techno genres i like - are there similar ones? Or how would you define the soundtrack of the game?

all house subgenres anytime soon? i would love to see your opinion on microhouse

The fact that there was no schranz says everything

Without Schranz, without me

all of sudden genre experts speak up

What about Hypnotic techno? The likes of Oscar Mulero

Ambient techno?

What happeneds with Chicago and the techno from Chicago??

I don't know which generation's interpretation this video is but these are not "main subgenres of techno"...

there is at least one parent missing: Chicago House, and brother Acid House

I was gonna link Sikoti - Firing Squad as an example of Hard Acid Techno, but i guess i don't have to. :D

Definition of prog techno is 100% spot on

I just really appreciate how little we all agree on sub-genres of music. Not even kidding, if you think about it, look at how much we all care that we teach others how to find the music they want. That's all classifying this stuff is IMO. But also, I am right.

No way he forgot the most famous one but did so many niche with bad examples

this is like 50% acid

is tech house really a part of techno ? thought it belongs to house ? and maddix is more like peaktime techno pared with acid sounds ?

You missed a few: Proper techno Tribal techno Hypnotic techno Hardgroove Schranz

everytime asys acid is playing i feel so much moments and memories of my life at the same time.... ...only 100 views? bro, really top notch the vid.... keep going

As someone who is starting to discover the world of techno, I want to tell you this video is really helpful and the definitions provide an excellent guide to each sub-genre. Don’t listen to those wannabe purist haters

Can’t imagine being on acid and listening to that

this is how hard techno sounds: (puts modern hard rave with hardstyle base)

Acid Techno and Tech Trance are my favorites subgeneres of Techno

Is Space92 making acid techno combined with hard techno then?

For your last example I always thought that stuff was Cyber Trance

what abut Drak techno, EBM artis like Ancient Methods, Perc, Orphx, Makaton, AdamX, Phase Fatale.NX1, Ontal .

Bro just decided not to include the absolute 👑 being Melodic Techno

some good stuff but clearly lacking a lot. The examples for industrial, hard, and acid sound very similar, I would've picked something with more of a synth screech (dion, oguz, nico moreno style) for hardtech. also no mention of hardgroove?? what's up with that

Oh,cmon, Basic Channel - Phylyps trak is not a dub-techno at all. Though very happy it is in this video; same with Octave one - Pure detroit techno, not the minimal Tech house examples are unfortunately also wrong.

good shit dude, thx for this

my boy got it right, video edited in 30min written by chat gpt for 40k visuals? thats awesome

this was great, thanks

more tracks like inspector Norse?

Oh God, I haven't heard Robert Miles- children is FOREVER. I use to listen to it constantly in 2008 while on the long bus rides to marching band competitions.

Where’s Funky Techno, Tribal Tech, Ambient Techno, Schranz, Bleep Techno?

Melodic techno, like Stephan Bodzin

What about Techno Peak Time, Melodic Techno, Techno Raw/Hypnotic, Dark Techno, etc?

Bro like where the fuck is Melodic Techno?? I thought that was the most popular one at this time

Industrial techno goes too hard

Cybotron is better known for electro but maybe later stuff crosses over, the first acid techno example sounds more like psytrance which came much later

At least, thank you for clarifying that not everything that comes out now with a 4 bars kick saying "techno remix" is actual techno

when I heard the german accent I knew this was going to be fire

I've only been getting into techno relatively recently which youtube has helped a lot with. So far my favourite sub genres comprise of mixes of acid, hard, industrial, dark, house and trance. I gradually drifted towards techno from my love of acid jazz, lo fi hip hop, synthwave, edm, house, melodic rock, pop rock, grunge and metal. Quite a mix huh but I think techno incorporates essences of all those genres and gives it such energy or chill vibes, that's what draws me to it! I also love 70s, 80s pop/motown and 90s ballads 😂

Very nice!!

Modular, deep, raw, hypnotic, groove, hardgroove?

This AI bot video forgot hypnotic techno and psychedelic techno sigh

Acid Techno > Everything. Long live the 303

What happend to Melodic Techno, Dark Techno, Hypnotic Techno, Raw Techno, Ambient Techno, PeakTime Techno, ........

None of the tech house tracks are tech house. Examples of tech house: Asad Rizvi - Smiling At The Sun Krios - Bajor Fred VR - Get Down

I liked the track selection and the video, I’ve heard the music but never knew many track names 🤩

bro forgot all the other sub-genres

There is also a whole different genre of Deutscher Schwermaschinenbau

Some of the tracks are bad examples, I know its not easy to explain it all correctly, but Acid-Techno for me its like DJ MIsjah, Germany: "Man, Woman, Love," or Emmanuel Top-Tracks, then, there is also Acid-Trance like Nostrum-Tracks for example, too...and Gamma Loop, or simply called Acid-Warrior's-Acid...and Acid-House...... Acid-House, Acid-Trance and Acid-Techno are all subgenres... even Acid-Jazz exist! For me, in the beginning was HOUSE, from Chicago, started in 1985,86.. It was like a big tree with many branches. All genres growing out of this tree...and the thickest branch of all was the Techno branch.... Acid/ Electro/ Techno/Trance/ and other electronic genres like Drumn Bass, Jungle, Breakbeat, Breakdance was in the 80's in the hip hop-scene... Don' t forget Chill-Out and Ambient. All European countries had their own scene... Drumn Bass was very populated in the UK, the Belgians had their New Wave, Electric Boogie early scene in the 80's.. There was a sound of Berlin, of Frankfurt, for example, and of Detroit... Watch, the interview of the famous DJ Sven Väth, , he gives us a small overview over the electronic scene and their beginnings...Musical pioneers. in germany were the Electronic Group " Kraftwerk" or "Tangerine Dream"...you can see it wasn't house alone, in Germany we had our roots, also... And one word to MINIMAL.. Minimal alone don't stand for genre, Its a definition for a soundproperty, many young kids who listen to nowadays techno, don't understand this..There is Minimal-Techno of course..but Minimal don't stand for itself..its a definition of a sound... and SCHRANZ is a fashion-word😊, its no style..Chris Liebing used this word one day, because the techno in his club was so heavy and crashing...its Techno !!

"Todd Terje - Inspector Norse" is not a tech house, it is nu disco or indie dance

and by the way very nice cuts and visuals, how do you do such nice background animations?

Trance Techno? 🤔 WHAT? 😂 those examples were Dream Trance

Awesome video pla

Brownie points for having Doruksen as a hard tech example because im in love with him , but overall, your kinda understating quite a bit.

Vrry nice thank you

I think, the rhythm is the main point, to recognize and explain. The typical rhythm always sounds like "bumm chick bumm chick bumm chick". If it s not, it s not a pure techno.

hell yeah inner city and derrick may

Good video

No Bleep Techno? No Ghetto House. No Berlin Style. No Frankfurt Style. No Goa .. No nothing

I love acid and industrial

YOu must have been hit SO HARD with copyright striks from youtube in this vid. Great work !

for all who are interessed in hardcore techno: if you are into gabba, thunderdome is the best way to find out. speedcore and doomcore: terrordrome VI and VII is a great way to start - with tracks up to 340 bpm and the iconic hölle mix from nordcore

Where is Schranz?!😢

The best subgenre is missing and that is hardgroove !

puttin vaunt on there, bold move.

The tracks you played in the video were great.

What about Happy Hardcore?

...and Techno is NOT a Subgenre of ELECTRO. ... ELECTRO is ELECTRO. Amen.

Of course this list misses exactly the two sub genres which are my favorite: Schranz and Hardgroove

no hardgroove and no schranz?

Hard Techno gang!

Future techno, melodic techno, hypertechno, etc...