Essential Techno Vinyl Records

Techno is a 12-inch format. It always has been. The single, with its extended mixes, dub versions and locked grooves, is the natural unit of techno music. LPs matter too, but the 12-inch is where the music lives.

This collection is our curated guide to the essential techno vinyl in our catalogue. It's not a greatest hits. It's a living document, updated as new stock arrives. We've broken it down by lineage: Detroit originals and their inheritors, the Berlin minimal school, dub techno's Rotterdam and Chicago tributaries, and the acid techno tradition that never quite went away.

Whether you're building a DJ collection or assembling a listening library, these are the records that matter. Each one has been chosen because we'd play it, not because it fills a category.