The 15 Best Techno Albums of 2025

From an unexpected album from Sandwell District and Voices From the Lake to one of the best from Death In Vegas, here are the 15 best techno albums of 2025.

2025 found techno in an odd state of transition. By virtually every metric, techno seems to be losing its grip on the collective fascination, falling off of search engines and festival listings alike. Even without the ngram, it doesn’t take a diviner to realize that thudding, relentless 4/4 music doesn’t have the same sway as it did in the late 2010s.

As music journalist Shawn Reynaldo puts it in an essay on the state of techno in 2024, “Good Techno Still Exists.” According to Reynaldo, techno is as big and as influential as it ever was, even if much of it is what he calls “business techno.” Maybe we just don’t get to Ibiza often enough and it’s just our bubble that’s seen techno fallen off.

That’s all the more reason to dig, though, as there were countless artful, thoughtful, well-executed techno albums from 2025 that left us breathless, inspired, raging until dawn on dancefloors and over decks and DAWs. There were so many outstanding techno albums in 2025 that we couldn’t limit our list to just 10, opting for 15 instead. We’ve favored atmospheric and heavy, hard-hitting techno, as that’s mainly what we’re into, but you’ll still find plenty of catchy, hooky, energetic techno for big room and peak time sets on our list. With that, lean back, buckle up, here are the…

15 Best Techno Albums of 2025

15. Alarico – Sonora (Primal Instinct)

It’s been a big year for Italy’s Alarico, turning in not just one but two full-lengths as well as an EP on Primal Instinct as part of Funk Assault. Of the three, Sonora’s our favorite; 10 tracks of driving, pummeling, no-nonsense hardgroove techno. Just the thing when you need to shut down your mind and dance your ass off.

14. Imagens – Perennial Wishes (SubSubSub)

Brazilian producer imagens is proving to be an unstoppable force in techno, releasing an unbelievable six LPS in 2025 alone. Perennial Wishes is our favorite of the batch, delivering nine tracks of hypnotic ambient techno in a sharp monochromatic package. One to watch in 2026, for sure.

13. Efdemin – Poly (Ostgut Ton)

Efdemin returns to Ostgut Ton with an album of tasty, understated minimal techno. So subtle it verges on microhouse at times, but it never loses its narrative thrust. As good for headphones as dancefloors.

12. Charles A.D. – Ice Algae (Self-Released)

Japanese producer Charles A.D. just doesn’t quit. He released an unbelievable four LPs of top-shelf dub techno in 2025. Of the four, Ice Algae’s our favorite, with the smudged, skudged-out dub textures forming an ambient, atmospheric blur over A.D’s insistent beats. Energetic but still relaxing.

11. Sam Prekop – Open Close (Thrill Jockey)

For the last decade, The Sea and Cake’s Sam Prekop has been increasingly focusing on ambient and electronic music. On Open Close, he turns his intricate sonic worldbuilding and impeccable craftsmanship to ambient techno, creating an album that’s hazy and tranquil while still being propulsive and engaging.

10. DJ Bone – DJ Bone XXXV The End Of Never (Self-Released)

Locked-in, heads-down Detroit techno built with little more than two drum machines and a sampler. It’s one of the most relentless techno albums of 2025, its pillowy kicks never letting up, with enough vocal samples and acid synths materializing in the margins to keep it invigorating.

9. Claudio PRC – Self Surrender (Delsin)

Claudio PRC’s fifth LP isn’t flashy. It’s not loud or brash. It doesn’t get in your face, screaming for attention. Instead, Self Surrender lingers and broods. It hovers and glides. It’s an absolute masterclass in subtle, understated dub techno, ambient and evolving as a tidal pool. It’s gorgeous, glorious stuff that gets better and better with each spin.

8. Wata Igarashi – My Supernova (Dekmantel)

Wata Igarashi’s My Supernova does. not. stop. It’s an unceasing barrage of corrosive acid synthesizers over primitive EBM beats at double-time, like the whole thing could shake apart at any time. Verging on hardcore/gabber territory, it’s some of the hardest, starkest, most punishing techno of the year – perfect for your dancefloor arsenal when you want to leave them slicked in sweat, blinking and dazed.

7. Myriad Myriads – All the Hits (Wrong Speed)

Can we finally get a big beat resurgence? Please? Bass Clef’s Myriad Myriads moniker reminds us of the addictive pleasure principle of impeccably-mixed beats paired with a molecular understanding of dancefloor mechanics and enough unpredictability to keep you on your toes.

6. Sa Pa – Ambeesh (Short Span)

Berlin’s Sa Pa returns with an album of heady, hazy, hypnotic beats that somehow manage to sound even more trance-inducing that 2023’s Atmospheric Fragments, but with a beat.

5. Africanoise – Cabaca (Self-Released)

From Gqom to Amapiano, there’s been an incredible amount of amazing African electronic music in the last 10 years. Some of this year’s most fascinating African techno comes from Brazil, though, blending traditional Candomblé drumming with hard, driving 4/4 rhythms and carnivalesque percussion. It’s virtually impossible to not dance to Cabaca.

4. Death In Vegas – Death Mask (Drone)

Death In Vegas may’ve built his name blending dancefloor momentum and pop radio populism in the late ’90s, but don’t expect to find any on Death Mask. Instead, Richard Fearless turns in an album of his most unhinged, deranged industrial techno, operating more like heavy artillery than dancefloor fodder. It’s some of Death In Vegas’ most satisfying work in his decades-long career.

3. Voices From the Lake – ii (Spazio Disponibile)

Over a decade from their legendary self-titled debut, Donata Dozzy and Neel return with a new Voices From the Lake LP. As tranquil as a forest meadow without ever becoming static and dull, ii blends the pastoral and the technological to stunning effect, creating an artifact somewhere between Wolfgang Voight’s Teutonic ambient techno as Gas and an Environments kiosk recording.

2. Surgeon – Shell~Wave (Tresor)

On Shell~Wave, the relentlessly prolific Anthony Child embraces restraint, coming into the studio armed only with a Soma Lyra-8 synthesizer, a Pulsar 23 drum machine, and the goal of capturing tracks in a single take. The result is a galloping, barnburning album of steely, driving techno that’s still detailed enough to fascinate and hypnotize.

1. Sandwell District – End Beginnings (The Point of Departure)

It’s been almost 15 years since we last get a record from Sandwell District, the influential techno grouping of Regis, Female, Function, and, formerly, Silent Servant. End Beginnings sounds even fresher and more relevant in 2025 than they did when they went into cryostasis in 2011, with its Swiss-engineered beats and fearless delivery. It’s the only good thing to come out of last year’s tragic passing of Silent Servant.