Electronic music genres

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 99. Chapters: Trance music, New Wave music, Drum and bass, Musique concrète, Intelligent dance music, Ambient music, Breakbeat, Synthpop, Electroclash, Techno, Dubstep, History of drum and bass, Drone music, Electronic rock, Post-disco, Grime, Electroacoustic music, UK garage, Electropop, A&D, EAI, Breakcore, 2-step garage, Bassline, Electro hop, Electro house, Electro music, Disco Lento, Synthpunk, Hi-NRG, New Beat, Electroswing, Hardcore techno, Acid techno, Chill-out music, Kosmische musik, Boogie, List of electronic music genres, Digital hardcore, Asian Underground, Hardbag, Berlin School of electronic music, Shibuya-kei, Nu-funk, Mákina, Wonky, Tribal house, Isolationism, Acid trance, Lento Violento, Post-dubstep, Nortec, Livetronica, Fidget house, Swing house, Hard dance, Ethnic electronica, Tech noire, Ethnoambient, Yass, Jungle music, Dance mix. Excerpt: Techno is a form of electronic dance music (EDM) that emerged in Detroit, Michigan in the United States 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 European electronic music by artists such as Kraftwerk with African American music including funk, electro, Chicago house and electric jazz. Added to this is the influence of futuristic and fictional themes that are 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". 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. The initial blueprint for techno was developed during the mid-1980s in Belleville, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit by Juan Atkins, Kevin Saunderson, Derrick May (the so-called Belleville Three), and Eddie Fowlkes, all of whom attended school together at Belleville High. By the close of the 1980s, the four had recorded and released material under various guises: Atkins as Mo