All Techno Subgenres (With Examples)

These are some of the main subgenres of what we know as Techno. Let's talk about it!

Let's go! 00:00
Detroit Techno 00:17
Acid Techno 01:14
Dub Techno 02:25
Hard Techno 03:35
Minimal Techno 04:48
Industrial Techno 05:59
Progressive Techno 07:10
Tech House 08:13
Trance Techno 09:09
There You Go! 10:02

[diarhajrizi]

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.

[dylanbecker]

theres no way these are all of the sub genres

[Funnysterste]

AI was harmed during the making of this video.

[shfunky]

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

[LowTunedHalftime]

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

[trumanb]

Thumbs down for doing Detroit dirty. And no Hardgroove.

[nipz]

was the script written in chat gpt? lol

[Sokratekk]

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.

[dealbreaker]

Better title suggestion: Techno for amateurs, by amateurs.

[tawkinhedz]

Tech house is eric prydz midnight city??

[nigel]

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

[VDMDienst]

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 and TRIBAL-TECH TRANS. Also called TT or just TTT, which basically accounts for at least 65% of all modern techno tracks.

[Heavysweating]

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).

[xsm]

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.

[ltdada]

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

[AggressiveGold]

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

[МаксимПавлов-тл]

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

[searchfortech]

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.

[lodh]

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

[neutralerotten]

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