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Electronic dance music
Although many artists in the 50s and 60s created pure Electronic music with pop structures, fully formed electronic dance music as we know it today really emerged in 1977 with Giorgio Moroder's From Here to Eternity album.
There are now many subgenres of electronic music, these include: techno (mechanical sounding dance music featuring little melody and more noise), Trance music (with a distinct ****of instrumentation focused on complex, uplifting chord progressions and melodies), Goa trance (spawning from Industrial music and tribal dance, focusing on creating psychedelic sound effects within the songs), House music (fully electronic Disco music), Big beat (using older drum loops and more melodic elements sampled and looped), Drum and bass (an offshoot of hardcore and Jamaican Dancehall, utilizing quick tempos with sampled break beats, most notably the Amen break and the Funky drummer), gabber or gabba, (a Dutch development on techno, which features extremely high tempos and lots of overdrive and distortion on the music, especially the base drum being distorted into a square wave tone), Happy hardcore (a slightly more palatable version of Gabba, fusing elements of drum and bass as well), Synthpop (features strong pop songwriting/melodies with roots in 1980's dance music), and Electro. Of these subgenres, trance and house are probably the most widespread. "
"Electronica
Electronic music that does not fall into the new age, techno or dance categories are often referred to as "left-field" or "Electronica" (although there are critics who maintain that the term "electronica" is an invention of the media). **** of electronica include ambient, Downtempo, Illbient and trip-hop (among countless others, see List of electronic music genres), which are all related in that they usually rely more on their atmospheric qualities than electronic dance music, and make use of slower, more subtle tempos, sometimes excluding rhythm completely.
IDM (an abbreviation for Intelligent dance music) is an elusive and confusing genre ****fication that can only be truly defined by flagbearers and flagburners like Aphex Twin and Autechre.
All electronic music owes at least its historical existence to early pioneers of tape experiments known as Musique concrète, such as John Cage, Pierre Schaeffer and Karlheinz Stockhausen, as well as early synthesists like Wendy Carlos, Jean-Michel Jarre, and Morton Subotnick . "
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