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Electronic dance music (EDM), [1] also referred to as club music, is a broad range of percussive electronic music genres originally made for nightclubs, raves, and festivals.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 ]
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 ]
The category "indie electronic" (or "indietronica") [208] has been used to refer to a wave of groups with roots in independent rock who embraced electronic elements (such as synthesizers, samplers, drum machines, and computer programs) and influences such as early electronic composition, krautrock, synth-pop, and dance music. [209]
The rise of disco in the early 1970s led to dance music becoming popular with the public. By the late 1970s, electronic dance music was developing. This music, made using electronics, is a style of popular music commonly played in nightclubs, radio stations, shows and raves. Many subgenres of electronic dance music have evolved.
Hardcore is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany [2] in the early 1990s. It is distinguished by faster tempos and a distorted sawtooth kick (160 to 200 BPM or more [3]), the intensity of the kicks and the synthesized bass (in some subgenres), [4] the rhythm and the atmosphere of the themes (sometimes violent), [5] the usage of saturation ...
The original widespread use of the term "electronica" derives from the influential English experimental techno label New Electronica, which was one of the leading forces of the early 1990s introducing and supporting dance-based electronic music oriented towards home listening rather than dance-floor play, [1] although the word "electronica" had already begun to be associated with synthesizer ...
Dance music producer Marc Kinchen ("MK") is experiencing U.S. commercial success with his single "17," but not all popular dance songs sound so smooth.
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.