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Techno BPM
Techno runs at 125 to 135 BPM where the sources agree, faster in clubs: every style's tempo from dub to hard techno, the drum pattern, a groove at 130 to hum over.
Mika keeps the night at 123 in the app. Techno asks him for seven more.Play the groove at this tempo, or tap the pad along with a track to check its tempo against the range.
130 BPM
Techno: 125–135 BPM
Hum over a groove at techno tempo
The button opens Brumm at 130 BPM with the swing off, techno's straight grid. Tap Play, the app builds a beat at that tempo, and you hum one line over it; it comes back as an instrument in the loop. What you get is a groove at techno's tempo on the app's own sounds, not a techno track: no rumble, no 909, no arrangement. It is a quick way to find the line before you open a DAW.
How to make a techno beat
Most techno stands on a kick on every beat and a grid without swing. MusicRadar’s Jeff Mills-style 909 walkthrough draws exactly that at 137 BPM, with an open hat on every offbeat between the kicks, and moves it by riding the open hat's length and pitch live rather than by adding notes. The weight between the kicks is often a second, longer kick sent into a long reverb and filtered: the rumble Attack Magazine’s dark techno beat builds, with the swing held between 50 and 54 %, next to none. The track then moves by taking things away and bringing them back every 8 or 16 bars, not by changing chords.
Techno drum pattern
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kick | ● | ● | ● | ● | ||||||||||||
| Clap | ● | ● | ||||||||||||||
| Open hat | ● | ● | ● | ● | ||||||||||||
| Hat | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | ||||
| Perc | ● | ● | ● |
The grid is the groove this page plays, one bar of 16 steps: the kick on steps 1, 5, 9 and 13, the open hat on each offbeat (3, 7, 11, 15), quiet closed hats around it, a soft clap on 5 and 13 and percussion on 7, 10 and 15. Program it straight, no swing, and vary it the way the 909 players do: shorten or open the hat, retune the kick, mute the clap for eight bars. The same pattern holds from house's 125 to hard techno past 145.
Techno bassline
The groove on this page has no bass, and that is the part to hum. A techno bass stays low and short and lands between the kicks rather than on them, so the two don't fight; one or two pitches are enough. Hum short "dum" sounds after each kick, and the app snaps them to the grid at 130.
How fast, and who says so
Where the two sources overlap: 125–135 BPM. Each in its own words:
- Wikipedia, Techno: 120–150 BPM
- Soundtrap, How To Find BPM Of A Song (2025): 125–135 BPM
The groove on this page
The same pattern changes character with the tempo. At 125 a beat lasts 480 ms, room for a kick with a long tail and a rumble under it; at 145 it is 414 ms, and at 160 only 375, so hard techno shortens the kick or lets it distort into the bass. Play the groove and walk it up with +: the hats get busier, the gaps get shorter, and somewhere past 140 it stops sounding like a groove and starts sounding like a drive.
On this page: the app's Dry kit at 130 BPM, straight 16ths.
Delay and LFO values
A delay in time with the track repeats once per note value: a quarter note lasts 60,000 divided by the BPM, in milliseconds. Dotted is one and a half times that, triplet two thirds. An LFO synced to a note value cycles at 1,000 divided by those milliseconds, in Hz. The table follows the tempo above: − and + move it, and so does a tempo you tap.
| Note | Straight | Dotted | Triplet | LFO Hz |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1/1 (a bar) | 1,846.2 | 2,769.2 | 1,230.8 | 0.54 |
| 1/2 | 923.1 | 1,384.6 | 615.4 | 1.08 |
| 1/4 (a beat) | 461.5 | 692.3 | 307.7 | 2.17 |
| 1/8 | 230.8 | 346.2 | 153.8 | 4.33 |
| 1/16 | 115.4 | 173.1 | 76.9 | 8.67 |
| 1/32 | 57.7 | 86.5 | 38.5 | 17.33 |
Genres near this tempo
- House: 115–130 BPM
- Deep house: 120–125 BPM
- Tech house: 125–128 BPM
- UK garage: about 130 BPM
All twenty genres on one axis, with 130 BPM marked: the BPM chart.
Techno BPM in 2026: written and played
The two sources above overlap at 125 to 135, and Wikipedia's 120 to 150 covers techno's whole history. Played out, it has moved up. The DJ tool Mixgraph's 2026 count of 6,582 techno tracks has a median of 130, with nine in ten between 124 and 140. Peak-time records now mostly sit at 130 to 140, DJs often play them faster, and hard techno, the big-room sound of the 2020s, sits at 145 to 160 (Vibes' DJ guide gives the same range).
Is techno 70 BPM or 140? Techno is counted on the kick, and the kick is on every beat, so 140 is 140. Nothing in techno is felt at half time the way dubstep or trap are. Why is 120 BPM so common? Ableton Live, Logic and GarageBand all open a new project at 120, two beats a second. It is the slow edge of techno and the low end of where most house sits, 120 to 130.
Techno BPM by style
| Style | BPM | Start with |
|---|---|---|
| Detroit techno | about 120–135 | Model 500, "No UFO's" (1985); Derrick May, "Strings of Life" (1987) |
| Ambient techno | 100–130 | Biosphere, The Black Dog |
| Bleep techno | 120–130 | LFO, "LFO" (1990), Sheffield |
| Dub techno | 120–130 | Basic Channel, Deepchord |
| Minimal techno | 125–132 | Robert Hood, Plastikman |
| Melodic techno | 122–128 | Tale Of Us, Stephan Bodzin |
| Hypnotic techno | 130–140 | Donato Dozzy |
| Peak-time techno | 130–140 | Adam Beyer, Amelie Lens |
| Acid techno | 130–145 | Emmanuel Top, "Acid Phase" (1994); Chris Liberator |
| Industrial techno | 135–150 | Surgeon, Perc, Ancient Methods |
| Hard techno | 145–160 | Sara Landry, Klangkuenstler, 999999999 |
| Schranz | 150–160 | Chris Liebing's early-2000s records |
| Hardcore, gabber | 160–200 and up | Marc Acardipane (Frankfurt), Paul Elstak and Rotterdam from 1992 |
| Breakcore, terrorcore | up to about 300 | Praxis, Noisekick |
| Speedcore, extratone | 300 and up, 1,000 and up | Moby, "Thousand" (1993) |
The hardcore range is Wikipedia's; the fastest styles follow Boiler Room's history of extreme tempos (2019). Hardstyle, at about 150, is a separate Dutch branch with its own kick.
What BPM is hard techno?
Hard techno is 145 to 160 BPM, most of it around 150. It took over big rooms after 2020: a distorted, pitched kick, a rolling bass glued to it, and borrowed rave stabs and trance leads. Schranz is the older German version from around 2000, a looped, filtered wall of percussion at the same speed. What is the hardest techno genre? By tempo, the hardcore branch at the foot of the table: gabber, speedcore, extratone. Is gabber considered techno? It is hardcore techno, a Rotterdam branch at 160 to 200 built on a distorted kick; in clubs today "techno" means the 120-to-160 family.
What genre has 1,000 BPM?
Extratone. Past about 1,000 BPM the kicks stop being beats: at 1,200 a minute they come 20 times a second, the bottom of human pitch hearing, and fuse into a tone. Moby's "Thousand" (1993) peaks near 1,015 BPM and is in Guinness World Records for it (Boiler Room, 2019). A 400 BPM track is speedcore, which starts at 300. The fastest record is not Moby's: Influid's "The Destroyer (1.2 million BPM mix)" (1994) speeds its beat up until it becomes a tone and disappears past the top of hearing, since 1.2 million a minute is 20,000 a second; Moby's "Thousand" is the one Guinness lists. 10,000 BPM would be 167 hits a second, a buzzing note close to E3.
Who invented techno
The Belleville Three: Juan Atkins, Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson, schoolfriends from Belleville outside Detroit. Atkins' Model 500 record "No UFO's" (1985), May's "Strings of Life" (1987) and Saunderson's Inner City hit "Big Fun" (1988) set the sound: Kraftwerk and Giorgio Moroder meeting funk, on the Roland TR-808 and TR-909. The UK compilation "Techno! The New Dance Sound of Detroit" (1988) made the word, which Atkins had used on Cybotron's "Techno City" (1984), the name of the genre. Then Berlin: the first Love Parade in July 1989, months before the Wall fell; after it, techno moved into the empty buildings of the east, and Detroit producers such as Jeff Mills and Blake Baxter came to live and play there. Underground Resistance gave it its harder politics, Robert Hood the minimal branch and Basic Channel (Berlin, 1993) the dub branch.
What genre is 130 BPM?
At 130 a four-on-the-floor kick could be techno, the top of tech house, the slow end of trance, or UK garage if the kick skips. What tells them apart is everything but the tempo. Trance builds on melody and chords, breaks down for 16 or 32 bars and comes back with a lead; techno repeats a few bars for minutes and moves by filter, texture and the kick's tail. House swings its 16ths and carries chords and vocals; techno stays straight. More neighbours: trance BPM, tech house BPM, UK garage BPM.
Playing techno faster
A pitch fader at ±8 % takes a 130 record anywhere from 119.6 to 140.4 BPM; at ±6 %, from 122.2 to 137.8. A set that opens at 128 and closes at 145 has climbed 13 %, which is why techno DJs ride the tempo up a little with every mix rather than jumping. With key lock off, every 6 % is about one semitone up. A 32-bar blend at 135 lasts 57 seconds.
Then make something of it
The door opens Brumm at the tempo on screen, with this genre's swing on or off, and the app names the tempo once on its start screen. Its range is 90 to 150 BPM, so a tempo outside goes in at half or double. No account, no upload: the tempo travels inside the link. Tap Play, hum a line over the beat, and it becomes an instrument.
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