Budots (/buˈdɔːts/; boo-DOTS) is an electronic dance music (EDM) genre that originated in Davao City, Philippines, and is considered as street style techno. It eventually spread in Bisaya-speaking regions. Based on techno and house music with Sama-Bajau tangonggo rhythms, it is regarded as the first "Filipino-fied" electronic music, characterized by its aggressive percussion, heavy use of sampling, off-beat basslines, high-pitched "tiw ti-ti-tiw" whistle hooks, and organic noises that surround the city. It is created to complement a form of freestyle street dance that bears the same name.

Budots is a Bisaya slang word for slacker (Tagalog: tambay). An undergraduate thesis published in University of the Philippines Mindanao suggests the slang originated from the Bisaya word burot meaning "to inflate", a euphemism for the glue-sniffing juvenile delinquents called "rugby boys". The publication also claims that rugby boys dance in a style that would be called budots to disguise their drug use. It can also be traced from the Bisaya word tabudots, which means "a person dancing with unpredictable movements."

The style seems "worm-like" or "ragdoll-like" in nature, wriggling the hips while moving the arms and legs in slow movements. One of its characteristic moves features opening and closing the knees while in a low squat, the arms swaying and pointing at random. Despite its freestyle movements, the poses in budots dance are possibly inspired by the Sama-Bajau (locally referred to as simply Badjao) people who perform as street buskers, either through variations of the traditional Pangalay dance or their indigenous martial arts such as kuntaw and langka baruwang. Writer and musician Dominic Zinampan claims the connection between budots and the Badjao people remains inconclusive, as it is hard to tell which influenced the other.

Budots dance was performed with foreign electronic dance music until Sherwin Calumpang Tuna, an internet café manager who goes by the stage name DJ Love or Lablab, created a new techno music genre that would complement the dance using FL Studio, which locals referred to as "bistik" (short for Bisayang Tikno, "Visayan techno"). He also choreographed dance steps for his friends to perform on his budots music videos, which were uploaded on his YouTube channel since February 3, 2009. According to Vice, the budots dance compilation videos features "Myspace-era graphics, free-wheeling dances, and the names 'CamusBoyz' or 'DJ Love.'" In an article published on February 18, 2025, The Philippine Daily Inquirer writer Gabriel Pabico Lalu identified budots as a "Visayan pop dance craze".

While local impression about budots is through its association with overt sexuality, gang wars, and juvenile delinquency, DJ Love has distanced himself and his budots mixes from such issues that plague Davao City. His music videos are incorporated with captions such as, "Yes to Dance; No to Drugs" or "Yes to Dance; No to Riots." The genre–and its creators–have also become at the receiving end of cyberbullying.

Budots music is characterized as a derivation from electronic and house music. It features 140 bpm four-on-the-floor patterns, notably having a kick-snare-kick-snare pattern, off-beat basslines, drum loops, a distinctive snare sound, distorted vocal samples, vocal chops, DJ fills placed throughout the track and distinct high-pitched dutch house inspired synth hooks that locals onomatopoetically refer to as tiw tiw. The melodies and patterns are similar of that from early forms of hardstyle and tribal rhythms. Its basslines are influenced from Eurodance. There are also expressions of emotional vulnerability in exchange for lewd jokes and calls for rowdy partying. Most budots tracks follow the structure of techno and early hardstyle. The energetic beats are usually accompanied with sound effects such as vinyl scratches or chipmunk laughter. Meanwhile, budots tracks with lyrics are written in any of the Bisayan languages, those that lack any lyrical content take advantage of sampling vocal speeches from any source. Budots producers also put their producer tags that typically goes "(DJ name) on the mix" or "(DJ name) on the beat".

Unlike most dance music that is commonly played in nightclubs, budots is performed on public places such as basketball courts. It also has an element of virality, as its distinct repetitive sound and the craziness of its dance moves serve as the background of a number of Filipino internet memes such as Hala Mahulog! ("Oh no, it's about to fall!") videos and Taga-asa Ka/ Tagasaan Ka ("Where are you from?") challenge.

In 2024, "Emergency Budots" by DJ Johnrey received international attention through a dance trend in TikTok and other short form content exposing budots to international audiences for the first time.