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Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music technology and software, or general-purpose electronics (such as personal computers) in its creation.
This is a list of electronic music genres, consisting of genres of electronic music, primarily created with electronic musical instruments or electronic music technology.A distinction has been made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. [1]
Electro (or electro-funk, sometimes called electro-pop) [3] [4] [5] is a genre of electronic dance music directly influenced by the use of the Roland TR-808 drum machines, [6] [7] with an immediate origin in early hip hop and funk genres.
Electronic dance music (EDM), [1] also referred to as dance music or club music, is a broad range of percussive electronic music genres originally made for nightclubs, raves, and festivals. It is generally produced for playback by DJs who create seamless selections of tracks, called a DJ mix , by segueing from one recording to another. [ 2 ]
Electronic music is a loose term for music created using electronic instruments. Any sound produced by the means of an electrical signal may reasonably be called electronic, but as a category of criticism and marketing, electronic music refers to music produced largely by electronic components, such as electronic keyboards, synthesizers drum machines etc.
A timeline of electronic music genres, with a date of origin, the locale of origin, and music samples. Genre Date of origin Locale of origin Electroacoustic music:
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Laptronica is a form of live electronic music or computer music in which laptops are used as musical instruments. The term is a portmanteau of " lap top computer" and "elec tronica " . The term gained a certain degree of currency in the 1990s and is of significance due to the use of highly powerful computation being made available to musicians ...