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Electronic music genres

Techno, hardstyle, drum & bass, psytrance… browse by style and find your frequency.

11 styles tracked and 1717 upcoming dates across Europe. Each genre gets its own page: what's on, the artists carrying it and the cities where it hits hardest.

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Techno

The 4/4 heartbeat of Berlin & beyond

Tempo 125–150 BPMOrigin Detroit, mid-1980supcoming 875 dates

Born in Detroit through Juan Atkins, Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson, the Belleville Three, where American funk met European synthesizers. Europe took it up as the Wall came down: Berlin made it the sound of reunification, and its clubs still run unbroken nights on it. A steady 4/4 kick, little or no vocal, tension built by layers added and pulled away rather than by a chorus.

What you hear A kick that never stops and not a single chorus.

Amsterdam 36Manchester 25London 23Glasgow 22
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Hard Techno

Faster, harder, relentless BPM

Tempo 145–170 BPMOrigin Germany and the Netherlands, 2000supcoming 295 dates

Techno pushed to saturation: distorted kick, tempo climbing past 150, and the tribal-percussion "hard groove" that has pulled a whole generation back into clubs since 2020. It owes plenty to German schranz of the 2000s but parts ways with it through melodic breaks and unabashed borrowings from trance. Right now it is the style filling European rooms fastest.

What you hear The kick clips, then everything cuts out for a melodic build.

Amsterdam 13Cologne 10Loire-Atlantique 9Strasbourg 9
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Acid Techno

Squelching 303 hypnosis

Tempo 130–150 BPMOrigin Chicago 1987, then 1990s Londonupcoming 67 dates

It all comes from one machine used wrong: the Roland TB-303, a bassline box built for guitarists playing alone, whose filter cranked wide open gives that liquid squelch called acid. Phuture laid the cornerstone with "Acid Tracks" in Chicago in 1987. The sound then crossed the Atlantic and became the emblem of 1990s London raves and squat parties.

What you hear That bassline gurgling and twisting without ever changing note.

Hérault 5Indre-et-Loire 5Strasbourg 3Isère 2
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Hardstyle

Euphoric kicks & reverse bass

Tempo 150–155 BPMOrigin The Netherlands, early 2000supcoming 168 dates

A Dutch invention, born between hardcore and trance. Its signature is two things: a long kick shaped until it turns melodic, and the "reverse bass", played off the beat to give that rocking, see-saw feel. The style lives at very large scale, the Netherlands and Belgium give it whole festivals and arenas, with pyrotechnic staging that is part of the genre itself.

What you hear The kick sings, and the bass lands between the beats.

Glasgow 12Gironde 7Liverpool 6Cologne 5
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Hardcore

200 BPM pure adrenaline

Tempo 160–200+ BPMOrigin Rotterdam, early 1990supcoming 137 dates

Rotterdam gabber against Amsterdam house: the style was born from a rivalry between cities as much as from an aesthetic. The kick is deliberately distorted to the edge of noise, the tempo passes 180, and the fastest branches (terror, uptempo, frenchcore) run well beyond 200. Thirty years on the scene is still here, built around Dutch and French labels and festivals.

What you hear A kick so fast and so clipped it becomes a note in itself.

Strasbourg 10Rotterdam 7Nord 6Loire-Atlantique 5
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EDM

Festival mainstage energy

Tempo 126–130 BPMOrigin United States, 2010supcoming 128 dates

EDM is not a style but an umbrella term, coined by the American industry around 2010 to sell electronic music to big stages. What it actually points at is the mainstage format: big room, electro house, a verse-build-drop structure modelled on pop, and headliners playing to tens of thousands. For a large part of the audience, it is the way into electronic music.

What you hear The build announces the drop and everyone sees it coming, that's the point.

Manchester 6Glasgow 6Paris 6Nord 5
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Drum & Bass

Rolling 174 basslines

Tempo 170–180 BPMOrigin United Kingdom, mid-1990supcoming 219 dates

Out of British jungle and breakbeat hardcore, drum & bass rests on a split: the drum breaks run at 174 BPM while the bassline plays at half that speed. Hence the feeling of being fast and heavy at once. The breakbeat that started it all, the "Amen break", is a six-second sample lifted from a 1969 soul record.

What you hear The drums sprint, the bass drags, two speeds in one track.

London 24Bristol 20Brighton 18Manchester 14
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House

Soulful grooves all night

Tempo 118–130 BPMOrigin Chicago, early 1980supcoming 831 dates

House takes its name from a club: Chicago's Warehouse, where Frankie Knuckles played to a Black and gay crowd in the early 1980s. It is the template for nearly everything after, 4/4 kick, hi-hat on the off-beat, and room left for vocals and groove that techno would later drop. Its branches are countless: deep, tech house, disco house, afro house.

What you hear The hi-hat between the beats, and a vocal you can hum.

Manchester 40London 39Leeds 26Liverpool 23
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Trance

Euphoric uplifting journeys

Tempo 130–145 BPMOrigin Germany, early 1990supcoming 192 dates

Born in Frankfurt and Berlin in the early 1990s, trance builds everything around one mechanism: a long breakdown where the rhythm drops out, a build that stretches, then the kick returning under a sheet of melodic synth. It is the most openly emotional style in the electronic family, and the one that keeps coming back into fashion, the current hard-trance wave being the latest proof.

What you hear Everything drops out, it builds for thirty seconds, then the kick returns.

Bordeaux 10Glasgow 9Amsterdam 7London 7
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Psytrance

Forest & goa frequencies

Tempo 140–150 BPMOrigin Goa, India, 1990supcoming 54 dates

The style was born on the beaches of Goa, where European travellers threw open-air parties from the 1980s on, before Israel and then Europe built it into a scene of its own. Its signature: a rolling triplet bassline, hypnotic and unbroken, under layered psychedelic textures. It is played outdoors and over long stretches, psytrance's natural format is the multi-day festival, not the club night.

What you hear A bassline rolling without pause, under textures that swirl.

Paris 3Toulouse 3Lyon 2Hérault 2
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Warehouse

Raw industrial spaces

Tempo 130–150 BPMOrigin Chicago, London, Berlin, 1980s-1990supcoming 7 dates

Warehouse is not a musical style, it is a place, and it stays as a category here because it is what people search for. Disused warehouses, hangars, former factories: raw, often temporary spaces where sound bounces off concrete and the night doesn't end at two. The name comes from Chicago's Warehouse, the same club that gave house its name. What gets played there is mostly techno and hard techno.

What you hear Concrete, a rig too big for the room, and no closing time.

Leeds 4Copenhague 1Manchester 1
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Artists on the bill

La P'tite FuméeNTOBen KlockAmelie LensAngerfistAutechreI Hate ModelsFakearJoachim PastorJoris DelacroixTEHØAdam BeyerJeff MillsCharlotte de WitteClara CuvéKrueltySeth Troxler★Yoshiko★Andy CBØĘRYBoris BrejchaChris StussyDax JEric PrydzHystaJayda GKobosilLekkerfacesVieze AsbakVladimir Cauchemar

Clubs & venues to explore

🏛 Bootshaus🏛 Depot Mayfield🏛 Warehouse🏛 Thuishaven🏛 Concorde 2🏛 Studio Saglio🏛 Grelle Forelle🏛 Kodz🏛 D! Club🏛 Drumsheds🏛 Fuse🏛 LAB11🏛 Maassilo🏛 The Warehouse Leeds

Top festivals

✦ reworks✦ FOG Festival✦ The Warehouse Project: KI/KI✦ Bloom Festival✦ DHB Portugal✦ FUSE Malta✦ Techno Parade✦ Sunset Festival✦ The Magician - Dionysa Festival✦ After Festival : Badmonday And More...✦ Révélatiôn Festival✦ Equinox Festival · Autumn Edition✦ Elektricity✦ Lunchmeat Festival✦ AVA London✦ Forward Motion On The Rock

Frequently asked questions about genres

What's the difference between techno and hard techno?

Tempo and kick. Techno runs 125–150 BPM with a clean, steady kick; hard techno climbs to 145–170 with a saturated, distorted kick and melodic breaks borrowed from trance that classic techno doesn't have. They are two separate pages here, with two separate calendars.

What is BPM, and why does it matter?

BPM (beats per minute) is the speed of a track, and it is the most reliable way to place a style: house sits around 125, techno 130–140, drum & bass 174, hardcore beyond 180. Every genre card above shows its range, a tempo is common practice, not a rule.

I'm new to this, which genre should I start with?

House and techno are the two trunks nearly everything else grows from, and the easiest way in at a club. If you want something more immediate, EDM and hardstyle use very legible structures, with the build and drop announced. The "This weekend" page will show you what's on near you over the next few days.

Is warehouse actually a music genre?

No, and that's deliberate: it's a place, a warehouse, a hangar, a former factory. We keep it as a category because it is what people search for, and because the format genuinely changes the night: an oversized rig, concrete, no closing time. What gets played there is mostly techno and hard techno.

How do I find a night in my style?

Open the genre's page: it lists every upcoming date across Europe, the artists carrying the style and the cities where it plays most. You can also set an alert on a genre to hear about new dates near you as they are announced.