List of electronic music genres
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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] Examples of electromechanical sound producing devices include the telharmonium, Hammond organ, electric piano, and the electric guitar. Purely electronic sound production can be achieved using devices such as the theremin, sound synthesizer, and computer.[2] Genre, however, is not always dependent on instrumentation.
In its early development, electronic music was associated almost exclusively with Western art music, but from the late 1960s, the availability of affordable music technology—particularly of synthesizers—meant that music produced using electronic means became increasingly common in the popular domains of rock and pop music and classical music, resulting in major electronically based subgenres.[3] After the definition of MIDI in 1982 and the development of digital audio, the creation of purely electronic sounds and their manipulation became much simpler.[4] As a result, synthesizers came to dominate the pop music of the early 1980s.[5] In the late 1980s, electronic dance music (EDM) records made using only electronic instruments became increasingly popular, resulting in a proliferation of electronic genres, subgenres, and scenes.[6] In the new millennium, as computer technology became even more accessible and music software advanced, interacting with music production technology made it possible to create music that has some similarities and some differences to traditional musical performance practices, leading to further developments and rapidly evolving subgenres.[7]
Genres
- Ambient
- Bass music
- Breakbeat
- Chill-out
- Disco
- Drum and bass
- Dub
- Electroacoustic music
- Electronic rock
- Electronica
- Ethnic electronica / regional EDM
- Asian underground
- African electronic dance music
- Budots
- Changa tuki
- Dancehall pop
- Funk carioca
- Merenhouse
- Nortec
- Rabòday
- Rara tech
- Russ music
- Shamstep
- Tribal guarachero
- Worldbeat
- Funk fusion genres
- Jungle
- Hardcore
- Hardstyle
- Hauntology
- Hip hop fusion genres
- House music
- Acid house
- Afro house
- Ambient house
- Balearic beat
- Ballroom
- Bass house
- Brazilian bass
- Chicago hard house
- Chicago house
- Deep house
- Disco house
- Diva house
- Electro house
- Electro swing
- Eurohouse
- French house
- Funky house
- Future house
- Garage house
- Ghetto house
- Hip house
- Italo house
- Jazz house
- Latin house
- Melodic house
- Microhouse
- Moombahcore
- Moombahton
- New Jersey sound
- Outsider house
- Progressive house
- Soulful house
- Tech house
- Tribal house
- Tropical house
- UK hard house
- Industrial / post-industrial
- Intelligent dance music (IDM)
- Neo soul
- Noise music
- Plunderphonics
- Techno
- Trance music
- UK garage
- Video game music
Remix derivatives
See also
- Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music
- List of electronic music festivals
- List of electronic musicians
- Dance music
- List of hip hop genres
- List of industrial music genres
- List of trance genres
- Styles of house music
- List of subcultures
- Timeline of electronic music genres
Notes
- ^ T. B. Holmes, Electronic and Experimental Music: Pioneers in Technology and Composition (London: Routledge, 2nd ed., 2002), ISBN 0-415-93643-8, p. 6.
- ^ T. B. Holmes, Electronic and Experimental Music: Pioneers in Technology and Composition (London: Routledge, 2nd ed., 2002), ISBN 0-415-93643-8, p. 8.
- ^ T. B. Holmes, Electronic and Experimental Music: Pioneers in Technology and Composition (London: Routledge, 2nd ed., 2002), ISBN 0-415-93643-8, p. 1.
- ^ M. Russ (2004), Sound Synthesis and Sampling (3 ed.), Burlington MA: Elsevier, p. 66, ISBN 0-240-52105-6
- ^ N. Rama Lohan (2 March 2007), "Dawn of the plastic age", Malaysia Star, archived from the original on 9 June 2012
- ^ A. Verderosa, The Techno Primer: The Essential Reference for Loop-Based Music Styles (Hal Leonard Corporation, 2002), ISBN 0634017888, pp. 18-19.
- ^ S. Emmerson, Living Electronic Music (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007), ISBN 0-7546-5548-2, pp. 111-13.