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A musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an “atmospheric”,”visual” or “unobtrusive” quality. Ambient evolved from the early 20th century music of the impressionists, composers such as John Cage, Morton Feldman and minimalist composers and early electronic composers of the 1960s and 1970s, to rock musician Brian Eno, who is responsible for coining the phrase ambient music in the manifesto liner notes of his 1978 album Ambient 1: Music for Airports.
Other sub styles include:
* Ambient house
* Ambient techno
* Dark ambient
* Drone music
* Psybient
* Space music
* Italo house
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, hip-hop DJs (starting with Kool DJ Herc) began using several breaks (the part of a funk or jazz song in which the music “breaks” to let the rhythm section play unaccompanied) in a row to use as the rhythmic basis for hip-hop songs. Kool DJ Herc’s breakbeat style was to play the same record on two turntables and play the break repeatedly by alternating between the two records (letting one play while spinning the second record back to the beginning of the break). This style was copied and improved upon by early hip hop DJs Afrika Bambaataa and Grand Wizard Theodore.This style was extremely popular in clubs and dance halls because the extended breakbeat was the perfect backdrop for breakdancers to show their skills.
Other sub styles include:
* Baltimore Club
* Big beat
* Broken beat
* Florida breaks
* Hip hop
* Nu skool breaks
* Progressive breaks
is a genre of dance music that originated in African American, and Hispanic communities in the United States, especially New York City, in the late 1960s and early 1970s.= In what is considered a forerunner to disco style clubs, in February 1970, the New York City DJ, David Mancuso, opened The Loft, a members-only private dance club set in his own home.= Most agree that the first disco songs were released in 1973, though some claim Manu Dibango’s 1972 Soul Makossa to be the first disco record.[6] The first article about disco was written in September 1973 by Vince Aletti for Rolling Stone Magazine.= In 1974 New York City’s WPIX-FM premiered the first disco radio show.
Other Disco Subsets include:
* Cosmic disco
* Eurobeat
* Eurodance
* Euro disco
* Hi-NRG
* Italo dance
* Italo disco
* Nu-disco
* Spacesynth
is a laid-back electronic music style similar to ambient music, but usually with a beat or groove unlike the beatless forms of Ambient music. The beat is sometimes made from loops that have a hypnotic feeling. Sometimes the beats are more complicated and more featured instead of being in the background, but even then they are usually less intense than other kinds of electronic music like Trance.
Often the name chill out music is used to refer to songs demonstrative of the genre, but those names also refer to other styles of music, and downtempo encompasses a wider variety of styles than those terms alone would indicate. Another related genre is Trip hop, though Downtempo usually uses a slower tempo than Trip-hop. Due to the relaxing and often sensual or romantic feel of most downtempo music, along with the absence or minimal use of lyrics or vocals, it is a popular form of background music in ‘chill out rooms’ of dance parties, and many alternative cafes.
Other styles include:
* Acid jazz
* Balearic Beat
* Chill out
* Ethnic electronica
* Glitch
* Illbient
* Minimal Electronica
* New Age music
* Nu jazz
* Trip hop
is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound producing devices include the telharmonium, Hammond organ, and the electric guitar. Purely electronic sound production can be achieved using devices such as the Theremin, sound synthesizer, and computer.
Including
* Analogue & digital
* Berlin School
* Electroacoustic
is a genre of electronic music directly influenced by the use of TR-808and funk records.Records in the genre typically have electronic sounds and some vocals are delivered in a deadpan, mechanical manner, often through a vocoder or other electronic distortion.
Including:
* Electro-hop
* Electro backbeat
* Freestyle music
* Techno bass
includes a wide range of contemporary electronic music designed for a wide range of uses, including foreground listening, some forms of dancing, and background music for other activities; however, unlike electronic dance music, it is not specifically made for dancing.[ The term was first used in the United States in the early 1990s with regards to post-rave global-influenced electronic dance music.[citation needed] Genres such as techno, drum and bass, downtempo, and ambient are among those encompassed by the umbrella term, entering the American mainstream from “alternative” or “underground” venues during the late 1990s. Prior to the adoption of electronica for this purpose, terms such as electronic listening music, and intelligent dance music (IDM) were used.
Including
* Electropop
* Folktronica
* Glitch
* IDM
* Nu Jazz
* Trip hop
is an umbrella term that refers to several different varieties of modern electronic dance music generally connected to the evolution of house in the United Kingdom from early/mid-1990s.
The evolution of house music in the UK in the mid 1990s led to the term, as previously coined by the Paradise Garage DJs, being applied to a new form of music also known as speed garage. In the late nineties the term UK garage was settled upon by the scene. This style is now frequently combined with other forms of music like hip hop, rap and R&B, all broadly filed under the description urban music.
Also Includes:
* 2-step
* 4×4
* Bassline
* Breakstep
* Dubstep
* Funky
* Grime
* Speed garage
is an umbrella term that refers to the grouping of modern electronic dance music genres. The term usually includes genres such as UK Hard House, Hard NRG, Hard Trance, and Hardstyle. The BPM for these genres typically ranges from 140-150BPM, and consists of a 4×4 rhythm (specifically “four on the floor”).
Includes:
* Bouncy techno
* Breakbeat Hardcore
* Breakcore
* Darkcore
* Digital hardcore
* Doomcore
* Freeform
* Gabber
* Happy hardcore
* Hardstyle
* Jumpstyle
* Makina
* Noisecore
* Speedcore
* Terrorcore
* UK Hardcore
is a style of electronic dance music that originated in Chicago, Illinois, USA in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It was initially popularized in mid-1980s discothèques catering to the African-American, Latino,and gay communities, first in Chicago, then in New York City and Detroit. It eventually reached Europe before becoming infused in mainstream pop & dance music worldwide.
House music is strongly influenced by elements of soul- and funk-infused varieties of disco. House music generally mimics disco’s percussion, especially the use of a prominent bass drum on every beat, but may feature a prominent synthesizer bassline, electronic drums, electronic effects, funk and pop samples, and reverb- or delay-enhanced vocals.
House Music Includes:
* Acid house
* Bubblegum dance
* Chicago house
* Dark house
* Deep house
* Disco house
* Electro house
* Fidget house
* French house
* Freestyle house
* US garage
* Ghetto house
* Grind house
* Hi-NRG
* UK Hard house
* Hip house
* Italo house
* Kwaito
* Latin house
* Merenhouse
* Minimal house/Microhouse
* Progressive house
* Scouse house
* Electronica
* Skacid
* Tribal house
* Tech house
comprises many styles of experimental music, including many forms of electronic music. The term was coined in the mid-1970s to describe Industrial Records artists. Since then, a wide variety of labels and artists have come to be called “industrial.” The Allmusic website defines industrial as the “most abrasive and aggressive fusion of rock and electronic music”; “initially a blend of avant-garde electronics experiments (tape music, musique concrète, white noise, synthesizers, sequencers, etc.) and punk provocation”.
Includes:
* Aggrotech
* Ambient industrial
* Cybergrind
* Dark ambient
* Dark electro
* Death industrial
* Electronic body music
* Electro-industrial
* Futurepop
* Industrial DnB
* Industrial metal
* Industrial rock
* Industrial techno
* Japanoise
* Martial industrial
* Neofolk
* Noise
* Power noise
also known as jungle, is a type of electronic dance music which emerged in the late 1980s. The genre is characterized by fast breakbeats (typically between 165–185 bpm, occasional variation is noted in older compositions), with heavy sub-bass lines. Drum and bass began as an offshoot of the United Kingdom rave scene of the very early 1990s. Over the first decade of its existence, the incorporation of elements from various musical genres lent to many permutations in its overall style.
Including:
* Clownstep
* Darkstep
* Drumfunk
* Hardstep
* Intelligent drum and bass
* Jump-Up
* Liquid funk
* Neurofunk
* Raggacore
* Sambass
* Techstep
* Trancestep
is a form of electronic dance music (EDM) that emerged in Detroit, Michigan, USA during the mid to late 1980s. The first recorded use of the word techno, in reference to a genre of music, was in 1988. Many styles of techno now exist, but Detroit techno is seen as the foundation upon which a number of subgenres have been built..
The initial take on techno arose from the melding of Eurocentric synthesizer-based music with various African American styles such as Chicago house, funk, electro, and electric jazz. Added to this was the influence of futuristic and fictional themes that were relevant to life in American late capitalist society—particularly the book The Third Wave by Alvin Toffler .Pioneering producer Juan Atkins cites Toffler’s phrase “techno rebels” as inspiring him to use the word techno to describe the musical style he helped to create. This unique blend of influences aligns techno with the aesthetic referred to as afrofuturism. To producers such as Derrick May, the transference of spirit from the body to the machine is often a central preoccupation; essentially an expression of technological spirituality. In this manner: “techno dance music defeats what Adorno saw as the alienating effect of mechanisation on the modern consciousness”. Kevin Saunderson rounds out the third member , known to Dance Music Historians as The Detroit Holy Trinity.
Music journalists and fans of techno are generally selective in their use of the term; so a clear distinction can be made between sometimes related but often qualitatively different styles, such as tech house and trance. “Techno” is also commonly confused with generalized descriptors, such as electronic music and dance music
Includes:
* Acid techno
* Detroit techno
* Free tekno
* Ghettotech
* Jtek
* Minimal
* New beat
* Nortec
* Schranz
* Wonky techno
is a style of electronic dance music developed in Germany and the United Kingdom in the early 1990s. Trance music is generally characterized by a tempo of between approximately 128 and 150 BPM, melodic synthesizer phrases, and a musical form that is progressive as it builds up and down throughout a track. Trance is a combination of many forms of electronic music, such as ambient, techno, and house.
Some of the earliest identifiable trance recordings came from The KLF, a UK-based acid house group. The most notable of these were the original 1988 / 1989 versions of “What Time Is Love?” and “3 a.m. Eternal”, along with “Kylie Said Trance” (1989) and “Last Train to Trancentral” (1990). The KLF labeled these early recordings “Pure Trance”. While the KLF’s works are clear examples of proto-trance, two songs, both from 1990, are widely regarded as being the first “true” trance records. The first is Age of Love’s self-titled debut single which they released in early 1990 and is seen a basis for the original trance single. The second track was Dance 2 Trance’s “We Came in Peace”, the b-side of their own self-titled debut single. Another influential song was Future Sound Of London’s “Papua New Guinea” (1991).
Trance Styles:
* Acid trance
* Ambient trance
* Classic trance
* Dream trance
* Euro-trance
* Hard trance
* Hardstyle
* Nu-NRG
* Progressive trance
* Tech trance
* Uplifting trance
* Vocal trance
* Hard Trance
is a form of electronic music characterized by hypnotic arrangements of synthetic rhythms and mesmerizing melodies. It first broke out into the mainstream in 1995 as the UK music press began to report on the exploding trend of Goa trance. Since then the genre has diversified immensely and now offers considerable variety in terms of mood, tempo, and style. Some examples include melodic, full on, dark, progressive, suomi, psybreaks and psybient.
Including:
* Dark psy
* Full on
* Nitzhonot
o Uplifting
* Psyprog
* Psybient
* Psybreaks
* South African psytrance
* Suomisaundi
The aesthetics of the New Rave scene are largely similar to those of the original rave scene, being mostly centered around psychedelic visual effects. Glowsticks, neon and other lights are common, and followers of the scene often dress in extremely bright and fluorescent colored clothing.Indeed, many consider New Rave to be defined more by the image and aesthetic of its bands and supporters, than by the somewhat vague sonic criteria. Trash Fashion lead singer, Jet Storm has been described as the scenes very own pin up. Nevertheless, the usage of electronic instruments, a musical fusion of rock and dance styles, and a particular anarchic, trashy energy are certainly key elements.
Including:
* Hardcore breaks
* Rave breaks
* Jungle techno
is the name given to a style of electronic music that incorporates influences from genres including breakbeat hardcore, techno, rare groove and reggae/dub/dancehall. There is significant debate as to whether Jungle is a separate genre from drum and bass as some use the terms interchangeably. Jungle and Drum and bass started to separate musically in the late 1990s. There is a fuzzy period there where it is harder to distinguish the difference between the two. There is much politics attached to labeling different tracks as a specific genre.
Including:
* Ragga-jungle
* Intelligent jungle
* Darkside jungle
Source: Wikipedia
