Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of various styles of dance music characterized by electronic sounds and a high-energy, rhythmic beat.
Wiktionary
- n. A style of music characterised by electronic sounds and fast, energetic, very repetitive rhythms.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a form of music primarily created by computer sound synthizers rather than by musicians playing instruments.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a style of fast heavy electronic dance music usually without vocals
Examples
“I too believe that digital literacy is part of literacy -- however I categorize digital citizenship to include more than literacy, online safety, privacy protection, civility, and what I call techno-personal skills.”
“The more that the future science is swathed in techno-babble the less I tend to like it and the less real it feels, which is why Star Trek (post original series) irritates me immensely.”
“And when I say Suarez puts the 'tech' in 'techno-thriller', I mean it.”
“And the obnoxious rantings of certain techno-utopians border on the asinine when they don't cross it.”
“What it lacks in techno-chic it more than makes up for in character.”
“The weekly outing features DJs, performance artists, art, fashion and live music taking place across three rooms, each with its own decorative style and dedicated musical theme, taking in techno, house, hip-hop and R&B.”
“What became known as techno came from these weird parties full of nerdy cats and fashion slave kids – guys who wanted to emulate L'uomo Vogue magazine because fashion was their mode of rebellion.”
The Guardian: Mick Collins's Dirtbombs are in the Detroit mix
“It's also the latest success story in what researchers call techno-archaeology: pulling data from archaic storage systems.”
“I feel like minimal techno is one of those things where I just know "it" when I hear it.”
“Minimal techno, is what I will refer to it from now.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘techno’.
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music genre
list of music genres - anything. even the most obscure sub-genres of sub-genres
twee pop, indie, shoegaze, doo-wop, punk, rock, jazz, pop, classical, hard rock, emo, goth and 161 more...
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Musikgenres
indietronic, shoegaze, antifolk, freak-folk, dance punk, dubstep, indie, electro, house, minimalist, underground, drum'n'base and 74 more...
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techno-
art; science; skill
technocracy, technology, technological, technochemistry, pyrotechny, pyrotechnics, technical, techno, technician
uselessness If the robots win, we'll have to listen to techno.
Heck no! Heck no, I'll never list to techno! Feb 11, 2007