Categories: Electronica | Funk genres | Music genre stubs Electronica is a term that covers a wide range of electronic or electronic-influenced music. ... Big beat (sometimes called chemical breaks) is a term devised in the mid 1990s by the British music press as a way of describing the work of The Chemical Brothers, but was defined by the work of Fatboy Slim and The Prodigy. ... Bitpop is a type of electronic music, where at least part of the music is made using old 8-bit computers or game consoles. ... MOS 6581 and 8580 Commodore 64 SID chips Chiptune, or chip music, or micromusic 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. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Folktronica is a genre of music comprised of varying elements of folk music and electronica. ... Glitch (also known as Clicks and Cuts from a representative compilation series by the German record label Mille Plateaux) (See Clicks & Cuts Series) is a genre of electronic music that became popular in the late 1990s with the increasing use of digital signal processing, particularly on computers. ... Indietronica, also known as indie electronic , indietronic, indietronics and lap-pop, is a music genre that combines indie rock and shoegaze with elements of electronic music styles such as IDM and glitch. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Chill out (sometimes chillout), a term derived from a slang injunction to relax, emerged in the early and mid-1990s as a catch-all term for various styles of relatively mellow, slow-tempo music made by contemporary producers in the electronic music scene. ... Nu-jazz (sometimes electro-jazz) was coined in the late 1990s to refer to styles which combine jazz textures and sometimes jazz instrumentation with electronic music. ... The term post-rock was coined by Simon Reynolds in issue 123 of The Wire (May 1994) to describe a sort of music using rock instrumentation for non-rock purposes, using guitars as facilitators of timbres and textures rather than riffs and powerchords. ... Trip hop (also known as the Bristol sound) is a term coined by United Kingdom dance magazine Mixmag, to describe a musical trend in the mid-1990s; trip hop is downtempo electronic music that grew out of Englands hip hop and house scenes. ... Uptempo (sometimes UpTempo or up tempo) is an umbrella term for a quick-paced electronic music style. ... Electronic music is a term for music created using electronic devices. ... Contemporary electronic music includes many different styles or musical genres, such as: External links vagabondage: genres (Humour: Generates new names of electronic music genres) Genrerator (A little bit like above, but in Finnish) Ishkurs Guide to Electronic Music v2 (A guide hosted by DI.fm presenting 180 genres and... Ambient music is a loosely defined musical genre that incorporates elements of a number of different styles - including jazz, electronic music, new age, rock and roll, modern classical music, reggae, traditional, world and even noise. ... Breakbeat (sometimes breakbeats or breaks) is a term used to describe a collection of sub-genres of electronic music, usually characterized by the use of a non-straighted 4/4 drum pattern (as opposed to the steady beat of house or trance). ... Dance music is a style of popular music commonly played in dance music nightclubs, radio stations and shows and raves. ... Drum and bass (commonly abbreviated to DnB, drum n bass and drum & bass) is a type of electronic dance music also known as jungle. ... Electronica is a term that covers a wide range of electronic or electronic-influenced music. ... Electronic music has existed, in various forms, for more than a century. ... Hard dance is a term that refers to a grouping of modern electronic dance music genres including hard trance, hard house, nu-NRG, hard-NRG, hardstyle, freeform hardcore and jumpstyle. ... Hardcore (sometimes ardcore) is a term that has been used to describe a variety of related electronic dance music styles over almost two decades. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... It has been suggested that Modern synthpop be merged into this article or section. ... Techno is a form of electronic dance music that became prominent in Detroit, Michigan during the mid-1980s with influences from electro, New Wave, Funk and futuristic fiction themes that were prevalent and relative to modern culture during the end of the Cold War in industrial America at that time. ... Trance is a style of electronic dance music that developed in the 1990s. ...