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'''Schranz''' ({{IPA-de|ˈʃʁants}}) is a European hard style of [[techno music]]. It is typically played at around 150–170 BPM (beats per minute) but can also be slower. Schranz is based on massive kick drums, driving percussion, and distorted, repetitive synthesizer noises.

==Etymology==
The term emerged in 1994 when [[Frankfurt]]-based DJ [[Chris Liebing]] and [[The Advent]] described a certain type of techno while searching for records at the now closed "Boy Records" store. The next time he visited the shop, the owner had a selection of harder techno records filed under ''Schranz''. "For me personally, since that day in 1994, Schranz is a description for various dark and distorted sounds in techno", Liebing said in 2002.

To this day, speculation remains about the meaning of the word ''Schranz'' within the techno scene. Many believe it to simply imitate the sound of a crunchy low fidelity (lo-fi) percussion loop. For example, ''schranzen'' means to eat loudly and voraciously in [[German language|German]] (and [[Dutch language|Dutch]]) slang and it is also a surname found predominantly in Austria. Meaningful speculations indicate that it was meant as a contraction of the two German nouns ''Schrei'' (scream) and ''Tanz'' (dance), i.e., ''Schr-anz''.

==Characteristic==
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