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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music (EDM), [1] also referred to as dance music or club music, is a broad range of percussive electronic music genres originally made for nightclubs, raves, and festivals.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]
One of the biggest electronic music-centered events in Spain, held every second weekend [verification needed] at Barcelona, with DJs as Martin Garrix, Hardwell, Alesso, and Sander Van Doorn. Moonrise (festival) 2014–present Baltimore, Maryland: Electronic music festival held at Pimlico Race Course, taking the place of Starscape Festival. The ...
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 ...
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.
Electronic body music (EBM) Early 1980s Germany, Belgium: House: 1983 United States Garage house: 1983 United States (New York & New Jersey) Chicago house: