LIVE TECHNO INDEX
The criterion

What counts as live

This index lists live techno, not DJ sets. A set counts as live when the music is made in the room.

Live techno acts →Modular techno live acts →

  1. Everything is decided in the room. No second take.
  2. No full tracks played back. Patterns, sounds and structure are generated and shaped during the set.
  3. The instrument is on stage: modular, hardware or a self-built system, played by hand.
  4. Every night is different, because it is built from silence each time.
  5. Hybrid sets count when the live part carries the set.

Detection is automatic: a set is listed when the promoter writes "live" next to the act, and an act is listed as modular when "modular" or "eurorack" is written on the line-up or in the event text.