Electronic music 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.... genres, sub-genres and styles, though for the latter, not all possess their own article (in which case, see the main genre article).
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Electronic music 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.... genres, sub-genres and styles, though for the latter, not all possess their own article (in which case, see the main genre article).
Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses on the timbre characteristics of sounds, particularly organised or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality....
Ambient house, a music genre that first emerged in the late 1980s, is a sub-genre of house music, combining elements of acid house and ambient music....
Dark ambient is a subgenre of ambient music that features foreboding, ominous, or discordant overtones. Dark ambient emerged in the 1980s and 1990s with the introduction of new synthesizer and Sampling technology in the electronic music genre and other technical advances in music....
Psybient, also known as "Ambient Psy", "Psychedelic Ambient", "Ambient Goa", "Ambient Psytrance" and more commonly within the Goa trance music/psychedelic trance scene as "Psychill" & "Psydub", is a genre of electronic music that combines elements of psychedelic trance, ambient music, world music, new age m...
Space music, also spelled spacemusic, is an umbrella term used to describe music that evokes a feeling of contemplative spaciousness. Space music can be found within a wide range of music genres....
Italian house is a form of house music popular in Italy, UK and United States since the late 1980s. It fuses house music and Italo disco. The genre's main musical characteristic is its use of predominantly electronic piano chords in a more lyrical form than classic Chicago House records....
Breakbeat is a term used to describe a collection of sub-music genres of electronic music, usually characterized by the use of a non-straightened 4/4 drum pattern ....
Baltimore club, also called "Bmore Club" or "Club Music" is a genre of House music and dance music. A blend of Hip hop music and chopped, stacatto house music, it was created in Baltimore, Maryland, Maryland in the early 1990s by pioneers Scottie B., Frank Ski, Big Tony, and DJ Spen....
Big beat is a term deployed in the mid 1990s by the British music press to describe the music of The Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim, The Crystal Method, Propellerheads and The Prodigy that relied on beat-driven, drum-heavy mixes....
Broken beat is an electronic music genre which can be characterized by Syncopation typically in Metre , with staggered or punctuated snare beats and/or hand claps....
Florida breaks, also referred to as Florida breakbeat, Funky Breaks, and Tampa Breaks, is a genre of breakbeat music which, as the name suggests, is most popular in the areas around the United States state of Florida....
Nu skool breaks is a term used to describe a sub-genre of breakbeat. The sub-genre is usually characterized by its darker and heavier bass lines that are normally dominant throughout the track....
Disco is a genre of dance music that originated in and was initially popular among African American, gay and Hispanic and Latino Americans communities in the United States in the late 1960s....
Cosmic disco is a style of dance music named after the "Cosmic" nightclub in northern Italy, which the cosmic disco scene was centered around. The Cosmic scene's most notable DJ was Daniele Baldelli, who was hired as Cosmic's DJ in 1979; Stylus Magazine has described Baldelli and Beppe Loda as Cosmic Disco's pioneers....
Eurobeat, as the name implies, is a music genre from Europe. It is a sub-genre of 80s italo disco . In the USA, it was sometimes marketed as Hi-NRG and for a short while shared this term with the very early freestyle music hits....
Eurodance is a subgenre of electronic dance music originating in the early 1990s#Music. It combines many elements from House music, Hi-NRG, Italo-disco, and Hip-Hop music....
Euro Disco is a term that was first used during the 1970s to describe a variety of non UK-based European disco pop music. Euro-disco songs, like other related genres such as Euro-pop and Euro-dance are usually lightweight, slickly produced, catchy songs with bouncy dance beats, and English-language vocals over a verse-chorus form and later,...
Hi-NRG is high-tempo disco music , as well as a more specific, derivative genre of electronic dance music that achieved mainstream popularity in the mid to late 1980s....
Italodance, 'Nu Italo Disco', 'Nu-Italo' or just 'Italo' is a derivate of the Eurodance genre which became popular in Europe in the late 1990s to early 2000s....
Italo-Disco is a very broad term, encompassing much of the disco music output in Europe during the 1980s. It is one of the world's first forms of electronic dance music....
Nu-disco is a 21st century dance music genre associated with a renewed interest in 1970s and early 1980s disco, mid-1980s Italo disco, and the synthesizer-heavy Eurodisco aesthetics....
Spacesynth, also known as synthdance and spacedance, is a modern U.S.A. term to describe various 1980s music styles of European electronic dance music, that emerge from a 70s Eurodisco music style, called Space Disco....
Downtempo is a laid-back electronic music style similar to ambient music, but usually with a rhythm or Groove unlike the beatless forms of Ambient music....
Acid jazz is a musical genre that combines elements of jazz, funk and hip-hop, particularly Music loop beats. It developed in the UK over the 1980s and 1990s and could be seen as tacking the sound of jazz-funk onto electronic music dance/pop music: jazz-funk musicians such as Roy Ayers and Donald Byrd are often credited as forerunners of aci...
Balearic Beat or Balearic House is an electric blend of DJed dance music that originally emerged in the mid-1980s. It later became the name of a more specific style of electronic music that was popular into the mid-1990s....
Ethnic electronica combines elements of electronic music and world music and was developed in the 1990s. The term ethnic electronica appears in music zines, in online music-related forums and blogs, and also in a title of a 2003 compilation "Another Life: A Journey Into Ethnic Electronica" ....
Glitch is a term used to describe a genre of experimental electronic music that emerged in the mid to late 1990s. The origins of the glitch aesthetic can be traced back to Luigi Russolo Futurist manifesto The Art of Noises, the basis of noise music....
Illbient is a term coined by DJ Olive to describe the iconoclastic music being produced by a community of artists based in the Williamsburg, Brooklyn neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City in the early 1990s....
Minimal electronica is a musical genre containing elements of other Electronic music genres, such as Ambient music and glitch .The style of music, produced, for example, by Pan sonic, is that which allows easy focus on simple rhythmic elements that seem to be made of the most necessary sounds in order to create momentum that flows with long...
New Age music is peaceful music of various styles, which is intended to create inspiration, relaxation, and positive feelings, often used by listeners for yoga, massage, inspiration, relaxation, meditation, and Reading as a method of stress management or to create a peaceful atmosphere in their home or other environments often associated wit...
Nu jazz is an umbrella term coined in the late 1990s to refer to music that blends jazz elements with other musical styles, such as funk, soul music, electronic dance music, and free improvisation....
Trip hop is a music genre also known as the Bristol sound. The trip hop description was applied to the musical trend in the mid-1990s of downtempo electronic music that grew out of England's hip hop music and house music scenes....
Electronic music 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....
The Berlin School of electronic music, or just Berlin School, was a development of electronic music in the 1970s, shaped by Berlin-based artists like Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream and Ash Ra Tempel....
Electroacoustic music includes several different sonic and musical genres or musical techniques. Electroacoustic music is a diverse field. Important centers of research and composition can be found around the world, and there are numerous conferences and festivals which present electroacoustic music, notably the International Computer Musi...
Electro is a genre of electronic music directly influenced by the use of TR-808 and funk records. Records in the genre typically have electronic sounds and some vocals are delivered in a deadpan, mechanical manner, often through a Vocoder#Musical applications or other electronic distortion....
Electro-hop is the fusion of electro music with hip hop music or rap music. The electro-hop movement had come about after seeing the underground electro movement on the East Coast gain popularity with artists such as Mantronix, Man Parrish, Jonzun Crew, Newcleus, Planet Patrol etc....
Electro backbeat is a term used to describe a diversion from the collection of sub-genres of electronic music, usually characterized by the use of a 4/4 drum pattern....
Freestyle or Latin Freestyle, also called Latin Hip Hop in its early years, is a form of electronic music. Performers such as Sa-Fire, Information Society , Noel , Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam, TKA, George Lamond, and Expos? are notable performers of the genre....
Techno bass is a genre of electro music that is heavily influenced by Miami bass and Detroit techno. It frequently includes themes about technology, sensuality and futurism....
Electronica 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....
Electropop is a form of electronic music that is made with synthesizers, and which first flourished from 1978 to 1981. Electropop laid the groundwork for a mass market in chart-oriented synthpop....
Nu jazz is an umbrella term coined in the late 1990s to refer to music that blends jazz elements with other musical styles, such as funk, soul music, electronic dance music, and free improvisation....
Trip hop is a music genre also known as the Bristol sound. The trip hop description was applied to the musical trend in the mid-1990s of downtempo electronic music that grew out of England's hip hop music and house music scenes....
UK garage is an umbrella term that refers to several different varieties of modern electronic dance music generally connected to the evolution of House music in the United Kingdom from early/mid-1990s.... (UKG)
2-step garage, or simply 2-step, is a typically United Kingdom style of modern electronic dance music, and a relatively popular subgenre of UK garage...
4x4 garage is an umbrella term, associated with the UK garage scene. It can refer to:* Speed garage, a genre of undeground music, popular in mid-late 1990s....
Bassline is a type of music related to UK garage that originated from speed garage, and shares characteristics with fellow subgenres dubstep and grime for their emphasis on bass ....
Breakstep, or breakbeat garage, is a type of music that evolved from the UK garage scene music and influenced the emergence of dubstep.Breakstep evolved from the 2-step garage sound....
Dubstep is a genre of electronic music that has its roots in London's early 2000s UK garage scene. Musically, dubstep is distinguished by its dark mood, sparse rhythms, and emphasis on bass ....
Hardcore techno, often referred to as just "hardcore", is a style of electronic music that originated in the early-to-mid-1990s in multiple locations including the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Belgium and the UK.... /Hard dance
Hard dance
Hard Dance is an umbrella term that refers to the grouping of modern electronic music dance music genres. The term usually includes genres such as UK Hard House, Hard NRG, Hard Trance, and Hardstyle....
Breakcore is an electronic music style that brings together elements of Industrial music, jungle music, hardcore techno and Intelligent dance music into a breakbeat-oriented sound that encourages speed, complexity, impact and maximum sonic density....
Darkcore is a music genre of Oldschool jungle that became popular in the United Kingdom hardcore dance music rave scene in 1993. It is recognized as being one of the direct precursors of the modern electronic music genre now known as drum and bass....
Digital hardcore is a music genre fusing elements of hardcore punk and various forms of electronic music. It developed in Germany during the early 1990s....
Doomcore is a type of electronic music, and a less known subgenre of hardcore techno. The first doomcore tracks were released in early 1990s, and they continued the slower, and darker style of the first hardcore tracks....
The word freeform may refer to:* Freeform , an alias used by Experimental music/Intelligent dance music producer Simon Pyke* Freeform Five, UK electro-house band...
Happy Hardcore is a form of dance music typified by a very fast tempo , often coupled with solo vocals, and sentimental lyrics. Its characteristically Time signature "happy" sound distinguishes it from most other forms of breakbeat hardcore, which tend to be "darker"....
Hardstyle is a music genre consisting of influences from trance , Hardcore house and Rave . Hardstyle is a subgenre of Hard Dance Music. The average tempo is between 135 and 160 bpm , however, hardstyle djs are known to go for unique tempo....
Jumpstyle is a dance and music genre mainly practiced in Europe, Asia,, specifically the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, and northern France. The dance is also called Jumpen ....
M?kina, "Bakalao", and "Poky" are electronic music genres originated in Spain, similar in sound to UK Hardcore, but with certain elements of bouncy techno among other differences....
Noisecore as a music genre:* A subgenre of hardcore techno synonymous with industrial techno.* A derivative of extreme metal that is sometimes synonymous with mathcore....
Speedcore is a type of techno that is typically identified by its high rate of beats per minute and aggressive themes. The range of bpm is quite vague, some people claim the minimum beats per minute start at 230bpm, but this is not clear....
Terrorcore, terror is a music genre. It originated in Frankfurt in 1994 with the birth of the record label Kotzaak . For a short time, terrorcore artists began to appear in Europe, with Netherlands and Germany having the largest terror scenes....
UK hardcore is a broad term to describe the evolved United Kingdom rave lineage 4/4-kick Bass drum and breakbeat fueled sound, which emerged around the start of the 1990s and grew in strength during the 21st century....
House music 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 discoth?ques catering to the African-American, Latino, and gay communities, first in Chicago, then in New York City and Detroit....
Acid house is a sub-genre of house music that emphasizes a repetitive, hypnotic and trance music-like style, often with samples or spoken lines rather than sung lyrics....
Bubblegum dance is a type of Euro House, a.k.a. Eurodance music that usually has cute lyrics and happy sounds. Bubblegum dance usually has a more Pop music sound than other Eurodance....
Chicago house is the earliest style of house music. House music originated in North America at a Chicago, Illinois, USA, nightclub called Warehouse ....
Dark house is the name used by some people to describe certain progressive house records that are characterised by deep penetrating lowtempo beats and the use of words and sounds that create a foreboding atmosphere....
Deep house is a style of house music which fuses elements of Chicago house, disco, 80's soul, jazz-funk and Detroit techno. The Jazz influences of deep house are most frequently brought out by using more complex chords than simple triads which are held for many bar s, which give the tracks a slightly Consonance and dissonance feel....
This article is about Electro house music. For original Electro music, see Electro music.Electro house is a subgenre of house music that rose to become one of the most prominent genres of electronic dance music today....
French house is a late 1990s form of house music, part of the 1990s and 2000s European dance music scene and the latest form of Euro disco. The genre is also known as "neu-disco" "French touch", "filter house" or "tekfunk"....
Ghetto house, booty house or Juke house is a type of Chicago House which started being recognised in its own right from around 1992 in music onwards....
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Hi-NRG is high-tempo disco music , as well as a more specific, derivative genre of electronic dance music that achieved mainstream popularity in the mid to late 1980s....
Hip house, also known as house rap, is a musical genre that mixes elements of house music and Hip hop music. The style rose to prominence during the 1980s in New York and Chicago....
Italian house is a form of house music popular in Italy, UK and United States since the late 1980s. It fuses house music and Italo disco. The genre's main musical characteristic is its use of predominantly electronic piano chords in a more lyrical form than classic Chicago House records....
Kwaito is a music genre that emerged in Johannesburg, South Africa in the early 1990s. It is based on house music beats, but typically at a slower tempo and containing melodic and percussive Music of Africa which are looped, deep basslines and often vocals, generally male, shouted or chanted rather than sung or rapped....
Latin house is an electronic dance music subgenre that mixes together house music and Latin American music, such as that of Brazilian, Music of Puerto Rico, Mexico, Cuban, Dominican and Colombian origin....
Merenhouse is a style of electronic music developed in the United States and Latin America by groups such as Proyecto Uno, Fulanito, Los Ilegales, Sandy y Papo, Sancocho and Zona 7....
Electronica 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....
Skacid is a genre of house music from 1988-1989 that is a mix of ska and acid house. The name most probably originates from Longsy D's House Sound 1988 "Mental Ska", where the lyrics repeat the word skacid in the second verse when he raps about his new style of "hiphop-reggae"....
Tech house, like progressive house, represents a fusion of house music and techno. However, whereas progressive house tends to incorporate atmospheric, ethereal, almost ambient music sounds and is often mixed to varying degrees with trance music and progressive trance, tech-house tends to have more in common with soulful deep house, tradition...
Industrial music 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....
Dark ambient is a subgenre of ambient music that features foreboding, ominous, or discordant overtones. Dark ambient emerged in the 1980s and 1990s with the introduction of new synthesizer and Sampling technology in the electronic music genre and other technical advances in music....
Death industrial is a music genre that can be described as having much of the same source sounds as List of post-industrial music genres and related fusion genres#Power electronics, but used to create a deep atmospheric sound....
Electronic body music is a music genre that combines elements of industrial music and electronic dance music. It first came to prominence in Belgium....
Electro-industrial is a music genre drawing on Electronic body music and industrial music that developed in the mid-1980s. While EBM has a minimal structure and clean production, electro-industrial has a deep and layered sound, incorporating elements of ambient industrial....
Futurepop is an electronic dance music genre, incorporating influences from synthpop , uplifting trance , and Electronic body music. The term was coined by Ronan Harris and Stephan Groth while attempting to describe the style of music their bands produced....
Industrial metal is a musical genre that draws from industrial music and Heavy metal music, using repeating Heavy metal music Electric guitar riffs, sampling , synthesizer or music sequencer lines, and distorted vocals....
Industrial rock is a musical genre that fuses industrial music and specific rock subgenres, mainly punk rock and hard rock. Industrial rock spawned industrial metal, with which it is often confused....
Japanoise, or ??????, is a portmanteau of the words "Japanese" and "noise": a term applied to the diverse, prolific, and influential noise music scene of Japan....
Neofolk is a form of folk music-inspired experimental music that emerged from post-industrial music circles. Neofolk can either be solely acoustic folk music or a blend of acoustic folk instrumentation aided by varieties of accompanying sounds such as pianos, strings and elements of industrial music and experimental music....
Noise music is a term used to describe varieties of avant-garde music and sound art that may use elements such as cacophony, Consonance and dissonance#Dissonance, atonality, noise, indeterminacy, and repetition in their realization....
Power noise is a fusion genre among Noise and various styles of electronic dance music. It should not be confused with "List of post-industrial music genres and related fusion genres#Power electronics", which lacks rhythmic elements and is closer to harsh noise....
Drum and bass , also known as jungle, is a type of electronic dance music which emerged in the late 1980s. The genre is characterized by fast Break #Break beat , with heavy sub-bass lines....
Clownstep or doofstep is a pejorative term used to describe a certain type of sound found in the electronic music genre drum and bass. The sound is typified as having a 'screech' bassline, simple beat structure and/or a large amount of swingbeats....
Darkstep is a sub-genre of Drum and Bass commonly known as Hard Drum n Bass which became popular in the late 1990s. It combines the dark elements of Darkcore with highly energetic breakbeats....
Drumfunk is a subgenre of drum & bass sometimes referred to as "edits" or "choppage". The term came into widespread use ca. 2000, when drumfunk itself began to expand....
Hardstep is a subgenre of drum and bass which emerged in 1994. It is characterised by a gritty production style, that has a in inner-city feel to it....
Liquid funk is a sub-genre of drum and bass. While it uses similar basslines and bar layouts to other styles, it contains fewer bar-oriented samples and more instrumental layers , harmonies, and ambience, producing a calmer atmosphere directed at both home listeners and nightclub audiences....
Neurofunk is a subgenre of drum and bass pioneered by Music producer Ed Rush, Optical and Matrix , between 1997 and 1998 in London, England as a Progressive dance music of techstep....
Raggacore is a genre of music resembling a heavier version of ragga jungleThe earliest examples of raggacore can be found in productions of Remarc, who is sometimes called 'a king of amen' for his highly messed "hardcore" amen jungle rhythms as early as from 1994....
Sambass, Drum 'n' Bossa or drum 'n' sambass is a regional sub-genre of drum and bass music mostly native to Brazil, which combines drum and bass rhythms with influences from Latin American music....
Rock music is a loosely defined genre of popular music that entered the mainstream in the mid 1950's. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rhythm and blues, country music and other influences.... /Punk
Punk rock
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed the perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock.... influenced electronic music
Alternative dance is a term used for the genre of music combining elements of dance-pop and alternative rock genres such as indie rock. Alternative dance music is typically predominantly electronic, with programmed beats from drum machines or sampling drum loops and sequenced synthesizer melodies, and thus musically very similar to commerci...
Digital hardcore is a music genre fusing elements of hardcore punk and various forms of electronic music. It developed in Germany during the early 1990s....
Electroclash, sometimes alternatively spelled as Elektroklash, is a style of music that fuses new wave music and electronic dance music. Larry Tee coined the term, but DJ Hell from Gigolo Records is also often regarded as one of the pioneers of the genre....
Electronic rock refers to music that includes elements of both rock music and electronic music. This genre of rock is distinct for its utilization of laptops and music software in synthesizing or altering sound either in studio or live....
Ethereal wave, also called ethereal darkwave in Europe and ethereal goth or simply ethereal in the United States, is a term that describes a subgenre of Dark Wave music....
Industrial rock is a musical genre that fuses industrial music and specific rock subgenres, mainly punk rock and hard rock. Industrial rock spawned industrial metal, with which it is often confused....
Industrial metal is a musical genre that draws from industrial music and Heavy metal music, using repeating Heavy metal music Electric guitar riffs, sampling , synthesizer or music sequencer lines, and distorted vocals....
New Rave is a term applied to several types of music that go from fusing elements of Electronic music, Rock music, Indie music, to techno, hip house, Electro music, breakbeat....
New Wave is a genre of rock music which originated from the late 1970s. It emerged from punk rock as a reaction against the popular music of the 1970s....
Synthpop is a subgenre of New Wave music and pop music in which the synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument. It is most closely associated with the era between the late 1970s and early to middle 1980s, although it has continued to exist and develop ever since....
Progressive rock is a form of rock music that evolved in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." The term "art rock" is often used interchangeably with "progressive rock", but while there are crossovers between the two genres, they are not identical....
Synthpunk is a music genre combining elements of synth rock and punk rock. The term invented by Damian Ramsey in 1999 as an attempt to retroactively identify a small sub-genre of punk music from 1977?1984 that involved musicians playing synthesizers in place of electric guitars....
Acid techno is the term used to describe a style of techno that developed out of late 1980?s Chicago Acid house. Acid house was essentially house music made with a specific sound, obtained by using very distinctive instruments created mainly by Roland corporation, such as the TB-303 for bass and lead sounds, and the TR-909 and TR-808 for...
Detroit techno is an early style of electronic music beginning in 1980s. Detroit has been cited as the birthplace of techno music. Prominent Detroit Techno artists include Juan Atkins, Derrick May , and Kevin Saunderson....
Free tekno is the name given to the music predominantly played at free party in Europe. The spelling of the word tekno is made to deliberately differentiate the musical style from that of techno....
Ghettotech is a form of electronic dance music originating from Detroit, Michigan. It combines elements of Chicago's ghetto house with electro , hip hop music, Techno music, and grafts the perceived raunch of Miami Bass as the vocal stamp of the music....
Jtek or Japanese Techno is an electronic music genre, and also a subgenre of Techno. Like many other techno genres, the difference between Jtek and techno music originating in Europe and the United States sometimes has more to do with nationality than style, still it has several idiosyncratic qualities including the use of more trancey synth...
Minimal techno is a form of electronic dance music that is considered a minimalism sub-genre of techno. It is characterized by a stripped-down aesthetic that exploits the use of repetition, and understated development....
Nortec is an electronic music musical genre from Tijuana that first gained popularity in 2001. Nortec music is characterized by hard dance beats and samples from traditional forms of Mexican music such as Banda music and Norte?o - unmistakably Mexican horns are often used....
Schranz [] is a European hard style of techno music. It is typically played at around 150?170 beats per minute but can also be slower. Schranz is based on massive kick drums, driving percussion, and distorted, looping synthesizer noises....
Wonky techno is a style of techno music that is based around breaking from a formulaic 4-4 beat structure and experimenting with new sounds and rhythms....
Trance is a style of electronic dance music developed in the early 1990s. Trance music is generally characterized by a tempo of between approximately 128 and 150 beats per minute, melodic synthesizer phrase , and a musical form that is progressive as it builds up and down throughout a track....
Acid trance is a style of trance music that emerged in the late '80s early '90s focusing on utilising the acid sound. The trademark sound of "acid" is produced with a Roland TB-303 by playing a sequenced melody while altering the instrument's filter cutoff frequency, resonance, envelope modulation, and accent controls....
Classic trance is the original style of trance music that emerged in the late '80s early '90s, focusing on atmosphere and softer synth-lines compared to the acid trance style that emerged shortly after....
Euro-Trance is used to describe all the "trance music"-like European imports for the UK market, especially those recorded in Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium....
Hard Trance is a genre of music that originated in Germany in the early to mid-90's and is one of the earliest forms of trance music. It was one of the most common forms of Trance throughout the decade, characterized by strong kicks, with a very dry and heavy sound....
Hardstyle is a music genre consisting of influences from trance , Hardcore house and Rave . Hardstyle is a subgenre of Hard Dance Music. The average tempo is between 135 and 160 bpm , however, hardstyle djs are known to go for unique tempo....
Nu-NRG is a form of electronic dance music that evolved from the 1980s hi-NRG. Pioneered by DJ Jakimo in the late 1990s, Nu-NRG is similar to epic trance and mainstream European house music but has a harder and faster beat....
Tech Trance is a sub-genre within Electronic Dance Music that draws upon the Techno and Trance genres as the name suggests. Tech Trance was pioneered by Oliver Lieb in the mid 90's....
Uplifting trance is a term to describe several styles of music; all of which are subgenres of trance music. The name, which emerged in the wake of Progressive electronic music in 1997, is derived from the feeling which listeners claim to get ....
Vocal trance is a subgenre of trance music. It contains vocals, highly melodic sessions, intro/outros which are similar to those of hard trance or progressive trance and tracks of usually about 6 to 8 minutes long....
Hard Trance is a genre of music that originated in Germany in the early to mid-90's and is one of the earliest forms of trance music. It was one of the most common forms of Trance throughout the decade, characterized by strong kicks, with a very dry and heavy sound....
Psychedelic trance or psytrance is a form of electronic music characterized by hypnotic arrangements of synthetic rhythms and mesmerizing melodies.... /Goa trance
Goa trance
Goa Trance is a form of electronic music that originated during the late 1980s in Goa, India....
Psybient, also known as "Ambient Psy", "Psychedelic Ambient", "Ambient Goa", "Ambient Psytrance" and more commonly within the Goa trance music/psychedelic trance scene as "Psychill" & "Psydub", is a genre of electronic music that combines elements of psychedelic trance, ambient music, world music, new age m...
South African night trance is a form of darker psychedelic trance music that started and is produced mostly in South Africa. Unlike the Russian and German dark psytrance, South African psytrance is more rhythmic with large percussion usage, melodic and danceable, yet keeps the nasty-like attitude although it is highly influenced by melodic p...
Hardcore breaks is a genre of electronic music written in the style of old skool rave music or breakbeat hardcore using modern technology. The music is composed of from looped, edited and processed breakbeat samples, intense bassline sounds, melodic piano lines, staccato synthesizer riffs, and various vocal samples ....
Rave breaks is a genre aiming to incorporate and combine elements of old skool rave music with modern breaks. The music is largely composed of a simple breakbeat, intense bassline sounds, melodic piano lines, staccato synthesizer riffs, and vocals....
A chiptune, or chip music, is music written in sound formats where all the sounds are synthesized in realtime by a computer or video game console sound chip, instead of using sample-based synthesis....
8-bit refers to a style of electronic music inspired by the sound of old computer consoles from the 8 bit era of video games. This music will often reflect sounds from technology that is seen as primitive or "outdated" such as the Game Boy and home made synthesizers....
A demo is a non-interactive multimedia presentation made within the computer subculture known as the demoscene. Demogroups create demos to demonstrate their abilities in programming, music, drawing, and 3D modeling....
Nintendocore is a subgenre of music inspired by metalcore music and the instruments which accompany video game console#Bits soundtracks, most notably those on the Nintendo Entertainment System ....
Picopop is a type of electronic music, similar to electropop, with origins in Japanese experimental bands.The name derives from "pikopiko" and pop music....
Game Boy music is a type of chiptune produced using a game system of the Game Boy line. To produce music of the genre, one needs a Game Boy and a cartridge containing the appropriate software....
Gamewave is primarily classified as an electronic music genre that was born in the early 1990s with the idea of creating original songs influenced by video game music....
Oldschool jungle is the name given to a style of electronic music that incorporates influences from genres including breakbeat hardcore, techno music, rare groove and reggae/Dub music/dancehall....
Oldschool jungle is the name given to a style of electronic music that incorporates influences from genres including breakbeat hardcore, techno music, rare groove and reggae/Dub music/dancehall....
Europop refers to a style of pop music that first developed in today's form in Europe, throughout the late 1970s. Europop topped the charts throughout the 1980s and ?90s....
Eurobeat, as the name implies, is a music genre from Europe. It is a sub-genre of 80s italo disco . In the USA, it was sometimes marketed as Hi-NRG and for a short while shared this term with the very early freestyle music hits....
Eurodance is a subgenre of electronic dance music originating in the early 1990s#Music. It combines many elements from House music, Hi-NRG, Italo-disco, and Hip-Hop music....
Dance-pop is a style of electronic dance music and a subgenre of pop music that evolved from disco, circa 1981, that combines dance beats with a pop music/contemporary R&B song structure....
Euro-Trance is used to describe all the "trance music"-like European imports for the UK market, especially those recorded in Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium....
Happy Hardcore is a form of dance music typified by a very fast tempo , often coupled with solo vocals, and sentimental lyrics. Its characteristically Time signature "happy" sound distinguishes it from most other forms of breakbeat hardcore, which tend to be "darker"....
Bubblegum dance is a type of Euro House, a.k.a. Eurodance music that usually has cute lyrics and happy sounds. Bubblegum dance usually has a more Pop music sound than other Eurodance....
