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 is a global phenomenon. Founded in the suburbs and on the airwaves of 1980s Detroit, it has since expanded drastically, becoming a mainstream sound in clubs throughout the world. It’s the pulse ...

When the doors opened to the Museum of Modern Electronic Music (MOMEM) in Frankfurt’s Hauptwache square, last year, it seemed that club music was finally getting its due. MOMEM was billed as the world ...

I guess it's only fitting that somewhere in a blog about Berlin we'd have to talk about Techno music. But to be sure we were giving the music genre a fair shake, we went to techno aficionado and music ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Lisa Kocay covers electronic dance music. The Internet and social media revolutionized how music was shared, making music more ...

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 ...