Hyper techno is a genre derived from Belgian Techno, differing from it in higher speed and a special emphasis on riffs with samples and synth sounds typical of 1990s dance tracks. It's a kind of techno counterpart of Eurobeat, especially its modern form, because it was born in the same environment, has a very similar history and often goes hand in hand with it.

The history of the genre began in 1992 from two independent sources. The first source was the experiment of two friends and eurobeat producers, Andrea Leonardi (better known as Bratt Sinclaire) and Alberto Contini (better known as A.C. Wild and the frontman of Bulldozer), in an attempt to mix the then-fashionable Belgian techno with various forms of extreme metal such as Thrash Metal (which resulted in the "Dance Got Sick Part Three" track from the Dance Got Sick! Trilogy record). Another source was the emerging techno-boom in Japan with the release of James Brown Is Dead in the Japanese market and with the music associated with this boom that reigned on the dance floor of the legendary Juliana's Tokyo nightclub. Already in Japan itself, the genre was almost immediately rethought as an accelerated hypertrophied version of Belgian techno, becoming for rave a kind of analogue of eurobeat, which it acted in relation to Italo-Disco.

Against the backdrop of a sharp displacement of Belgian techno in Europe by other genres by the mid-90s, hyper techno gained immense popularity in Japan, which was the reason for the reorientation of some producers of such music to the Japanese market, thereby repeating the history of eurobeat. Almost without leaving East Asia, the genre became for a certain time the main music of Japanese night clubs, and also fixed as one of the traditional genres of Bemani rhythm games, like Dance Dance Revolution and beatmania. Hyper techno also spawned the phenomenon of "TechPara", a variant of the "ParaPara" dance style that is predominantly danced to hyper techno and Eurodance.

Having absorbed numerous elements of eurodance, eurobeat, Italo House, Breakbeat Hardcore, Gabber, Happy Hardcore, Makina, as well as various forms of Trance throughout its life, nowadays hyper techno is perceived as a tribute to the club music of the 1990s.