# Top 27 Techno Tracks of All Time

> Basement-born Detroit twelve-inches sit beside Berlin warehouse weapons, half-hour minimal epics and big-room anthems still played at festivals. A few charted; most spread through DJ crates and word of mouth.

*By YPB Team · Published November 2, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/top-27-techno-tracks-of-all-time*

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1. **Strings of Life** — score 1000/1000
   Derrick May's 1987 piano-and-strings track released as Rhythim Is Rhythim on his Transmat label.
2. **No UFO's** — score 999/1000
   Juan Atkins's 1985 track as Model 500 and the first release on his Detroit label Metroplex.
3. **Hi-Tech Jazz** — score 900/1000
   Mad Mike Banks's 1993 Galaxy 2 Galaxy track released on Underground Resistance.
4. **Big Fun** — score 900/1000
   Inner City's 1988 debut single by Kevin Saunderson with vocalist Paris Grey, a UK top-ten hit.
5. **Fizheuer Zieheuer** — score 866/1000
   Ricardo Villalobos's 2006 minimal track of over half an hour, released on Playhouse.
6. **The Bells** — score 750/1000
   Jeff Mills track made in the mid-1990s and issued on his Purpose Maker label's Kat Moda EP.
7. **Subzero** — score 750/1000
   Ben Klock track first released in January 2009 on his Before One EP (O-TON 19) on Ostgut Ton.
8. **Throw** — score 750/1000
   Carl Craig's 1994 track as Paperclip People, released on his Planet E label.
9. **Rainbow Delta** — score 680/1000
   Len Faki's 2007 Ostgut Ton release (O-TON 04), with Mekong Delta on the B-side.
10. **Sonic Destroyer** — score 600/1000
   Track from the 1991 X-101 EP by Underground Resistance members, the first release on Berlin's Tresor label.
11. **La La Land** — score 600/1000
   Curtis Jones's 2001 single as Green Velvet, released on Relief Records.
12. **Spastik** — score 600/1000
   Richie Hawtin's 1993 percussion-only track as Plastikman, released on Plus 8.
13. **Mentasm** — score 600/1000
   Joey Beltram and Mundo Muzique's 1991 track as Second Phase on R&S, known for its 'hoover' synth sound.
14. **Phylyps Trak** — score 600/1000
   Moritz von Oswald and Mark Ernestus's 1993 Basic Channel release, catalogue BC-02, from Berlin.
15. **Higher State of Consciousness** — score 600/1000
   Josh Wink's 1995 acid track released on Strictly Rhythm, a UK top-ten hit.
16. **Your Mind** — score 507/1000
   Adam Beyer and Bart Skils's 2018 collaboration released on Drumcode as DC191.
17. **Incident** — score 507/1000
   Joris Voorn's 2004 track from his Lost Memories Part 2 EP on Technasia's Sino label.
18. **Singularity** — score 400/1000
   Stephan Bodzin's 2015 melodic techno track, also the opening track of his album Powers of Ten.
19. **Clear** — score 400/1000
   Cybotron's 1983 electro-techno track by Juan Atkins and Rick Davis, released on Fantasy Records.
20. **Domina** — score 400/1000
   Moritz von Oswald and Mark Ernestus's 1993 track as Maurizio, issued as M3 on the Maurizio label.
21. **Crispy Bacon** — score 273/1000
   Laurent Garnier's 1997 single on F Communications, which reached No. 60 on the UK Singles Chart.
22. **Knights of the Jaguar** — score 273/1000
   DJ Rolando's 1999 track, title of his Knights of the Jaguar EP on Underground Resistance.
23. **The Man with the Red Face** — score 273/1000
   Laurent Garnier's 2000 saxophone-led track from his album Unreasonable Behaviour on F Communications.
24. **Good Life** — score 273/1000
   Inner City's 1988 follow-up single by Kevin Saunderson and Paris Grey, which reached the UK top five.
25. **Energy Flash** — score 273/1000
   New York producer Joey Beltram's 1990 track, released on Belgium's R&S Records and licensed to Transmat in the US.
26. **Positive Education** — score 0/1000
   Glasgow duo Slam's 1993 track released on their own Soma Recordings label.
27. **Nude Photo** — score 0/1000
   Derrick May and Thomas Barnett's 1987 Rhythim Is Rhythim track, released on Transmat.

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