Contemporary dance music includes many different styles or music genres, such as: A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ... Music can be divided into genres in many different ways. ... A B C D E F # 2Step 4-beat A Aa-Ad - Af-Ak - Al - Am - An - Ap-Ax A cappella - any singing performed without instrumental backing Aa-Ad Aak - Chinese ritual music Aaroubi - evolved form of al-andalous classical music which comes from Algiers Abaimajani Abajeños - folk music... G H I J K L M G Ga - Ge-Gn - Go-Gr - Gu-Gy G-funk Gab-Gal Gabba (also spelled as Gabber) Gagá Gagaku - Japanese classical music derived from ancient court traditions Gaikyoku Gaita - Afro-Venezuelan form of percussion music Gallant Gam-Gan Gamad - Malay-style ballad Gambang... N O P Q R N Na trapeza - Greek-Turkish slow songs Nagauta - Japanese style of shamisen-playing Naghmehs Nakasi - Taiwanese musical form Naked funk Nangma - Tibetan dance music Nanguan - Taiwanese instrumental music Narcocorrido - Spanish for Drug ballad, this mexican musics theme was equivalent to gangster rap Narodni muzika... S T U V W X Y Z S Sabar - drumming style found in Senegal Sacred Harp Sadcore Saetas Saibara Saiyidi - folk music of the upper Nile Delta Sakyapa chanting - form of Tibetan Buddhist chanting Salegy Salsa - fusion of multiple Cuban- and Puerto Rican-derived pop genres from immigrants in... Classical music is a broad, somewhat imprecise term, referring to music produced in, or rooted in the traditions of, European art, ecclesiastical and concert music, encompassing a broad period from roughly 1000 to the present day. ... Popular music is music belonging to any of a number of musical styles that are accessible to the general public and mostly distributed commercially. ... This is a list of cities that are strongly associated with the evolution of a genre of music. ... Cultural genres By race, ethnicity or origin Afrikaner Afro-Caribbean African American: blues, gospel, soul, funk, jazz, rock n roll, hip hop Ainu: yukar Andean: nueva cancion Arab: classical Arab music, rai, sout, gnawa, al-jil, chaabi Ashkenazi Jewish: klezmer Australian Aborigine: didgeridoo, Aboriginal rock Basque: trikitrixa, bersolari, shawm and... Blues can be categorized into a number of genres. ... Alternative country Americana Cosmic American music Close harmony Country gospel Country pop/Cosmopolitan country Country soul New country Urban cowboy Country rock Bluegrass New traditional bluegrass Old-time bluegrass/Appalachian bluegrass Progressive bluegrass Honky-tonk Bakersfield Sound Instrumental country Nashville Sound Outlaw country Truckin songs Western swing Categories: Wikipedia cleanup... Contemporary electronic music includes many different styles or musical genres, such as: Ambient Ambient dub Ambient Goa Ambient house Berlin School Chillout Dark ambient Dronology Illbient Lowercase New Age Psybient Sub Dub Breakbeat/Breaks Baltimore breaks Big beat Breakcore Brokenbeat Cut & paste Florida breaks Grime Nu skool breaks Progressive breaks... This is a listing of Wikipedia resources on genres of folk music, arranged alphabetically by nation and ethnicity. ... Hip hop music can be subdivided into subgenres, fusions with other genres and regional hip hop scenes. ... A number of overlapping heavy metal genres have developed since the emergence of heavy metal in the late 1960s. ... Acid jazz Avant-jazz Bebop Dixieland Calypso jazz Chamber jazz Cool jazz Creative jazz Free jazz Gypsy jazz Hard bop Jazz blues Jazz fusion Jazz rap Latin jazz Mini-jazz Modal jazz M-Base Nu jazz Smooth jazz Soul jazz Swing Trad jazz West coast jazz ... The suffix -punk appears in the names of a number of genres of modern fiction and music as well as cultural references. ... The term Reggae is, in a proper sense, only supposed to cover the period in Jamaican music from 1969 to 1979 or 1985 (depending on how you look at it). ... For Popular music (music that is popular, rather than of a specific genre or style), see Popular music. ... This is a list of music genres derived from rock and roll Alternative rock Aquabeat Arena rock Art-Metal Art-Pop Art-Punk Avant-rock Avant-progressive rock Blues-rock British Blues Rock British Invasion Bubblegum Rock Cello rock Celtic rock Christian rock Classic rock Comedy rock Country rock Death... Dance music is music composed, played, or both, specifically to accompany social dancing. ... A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ...

• Ambient House
  • Ambient dub
  • Ambient Goa
  • Chillout
  • Dark ambient
  • Dronology
  • Illbient
  • Lowercase
  • Psybient
  • Sub Dub

• Breakbeat/Breaks
  • Baltimore breaks
  • Big beat
  • Breakcore
  • Brokenbeat
  • Cut & paste
  • Florida breaks
  • Grime
  • Nu skool breaks
  • Progressive breaks
  • Raggacore

• Downtempo/IDM
  • Acid jazz
  • Balearic Beat
  • Bitpop
  • Chiptune
  • Minimal Electronica/Glitch
  • Nu jazz
  • Trip Hop (aka The Bristol Sound)
  • Turntablism

• Electro
  • Electro bass
  • Electroclash
  • Electropop
  • Italo disco
  • Euro disco
  • Eurodance
  • Miami bass
  • Synthpop

• Hardcore
  • 4-beat
  • Bouncy techno
  • Breakbeat hardcore
  • Digital hardcore
  • Gabber
  • Happy hardcore
  • New beat
  • Nu style gabber
  • Speedcore
  • Terrorcore

• House
  • 2Step
  • Acid house
  • Chicago house
  • Deep house
  • Eurodance
  • French house
  • Freestyle house
  • Funky house
  • Garage
  • Ghetto house
  • Hard house
  • Hi-NRG
  • Hip house
  • Tribal
  • Italo house
  • Minimal house/Microhouse
  • Pumpin' house
  • Progressive house
  • Tribal house
  • Spacesynth
  • Tech house

• Industrial
  • Aggrotech
  • Electronic body music
  • Futurepop
  • Industrial techno
  • Noise music
  • Power noise

• Jungle/Drum and Bass
  • Clownstep
  • Darkcore
  • Darkstep
  • Drill n bass
  • Drumfunk
  • Hardstep
  • Jump-Up
  • Liquid funk
  • Neurofunk
  • Ragga
  • Techstep

• Techno
  • Acid techno
  • Detroit techno/U.S. techno
  • Electroclash
  • Freetekno
  • Ghettotech
  • Minimal techno/Glitch techno
  • Nortec
  • Rave music
  • Schranz
  • U.K. techno/Euro techno
  • Yorkshire Bleeps and Bass

• Trance
  • Acid trance
  • Goa trance
  • Nu-NRG
  • Hard trance
  • Hardcore trance
  • Minimalist trance
  • Progressive trance
  • Psychedelic trance
  • Vocal trance
  • Uplifting trance
  • Hardstyle
  • Hands-up
  • Euro-Trance

Ambient house, a mix between house music and ambient music is a music style that describes itself as dreamy, chill out and quiet music. ... 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. ... Dark ambient is a subgenre of ambient music which emerged in the 1980s and 1990s with the introduction of new synthesizer and sampling technology in the electronic music genre and other technical advances in music. ... The dronology, drone music, or simply drone, is a music genre with a special emphasis on the use of sustained sounds, notes, or tones – called drones. ... Illbient music is an offshoot of the intelligent dance music (IDM) movement, similar in style to ambient music but far different in theme. ... Originally coined by minimal artist Steve Roden, lowercase is an extreme form of ambient minimalism in which very quiet sounds bookend long stretches of silence. ... Psybient is an electronic music genre that combines elements of psychedelic trance and ambient. ... 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). ... This article is about breakbeat, the genre. ... Big beat (also Big Beat, or sometimes 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. ... Breakcore is a loosely defined electronic music style that brings together elements of jungle, hardcore techno and IDM into a breakbeat-oriented sound that encourages speed, complexity, impact and maximum sonic density. ... Brokenbeat is an electronic music genre first appearing at the beginning of the 21st century. ... Florida breaks (a. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Nu skool breaks is a form of breakbeat music genre, combining the futuristic sense of drum and bass, the sounds of techno, the bass of dub and the beats from real drummers and drum machines. ... Progressive electronica (sometimes prog) is a collection of electronic music genres which draw upon progressive music, generally, and include the sub-styles of progressive trance, progressive house, progressive techno and progressive breaks. ... Raggacore is a genre of music resembling breakcore but with ragga or reggae style vocals. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Acid jazz (sometimes groove jazz) is a musical genre that combines jazz influences with elements of soul music, funk, disco and hip hop. ... Balearic Beat is a style of electronic dance music that emerged in the late 1980s and was popular into the mid-1990s. ... 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 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. ... This article needs to be wikified. ... Glitch (also known as Clicks and Cuts from a representative compilation series by the German record label Mille Plateaux) is a genre of electronic music that became popular in the late 1990s with the increasing use of digital signal processing, particularly on computers. ... 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. ... 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. ... 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. ... Turntablism: The art of manipulating sound and creating music using phonograph turntables and an audio mixer. ... Electro, also known as robot hip hop and electro funk, is an electronic style of hip hop directly influenced by Kraftwerk and funk records (unlike earlier rap records which were closer to disco). ... Electroclash describes a style of fashion, music, and attitude that fuses new wave, punk, & electronic dance music with somewhat campy and absurdist post-industrial detachment - alongside vampy and/or campy sexuality. ... Electropop (also called Technopop) is a subgenre of synth pop music which flourished during the early 1980s, although the first recordings were made in the late 1970s. ... Cover of the ZYX Music compilation album. ... The term Euro Disco refers to a collection of styles and genres of electronic dance music in Europe in 1980s, such as Hi-NRG, Italo Disco, Euro-House, British Pop and others. ... Eurodance is a dance music current that was popular in Europe, Oceania, South America, and somewhat in Canada between 1992 and 2000. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Synthpop is a style of popular music in which the synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument. ... Hardcore techno, often referred to as hardcore, is a style of techno music that originated in the early-to-mid-1990s in multiple locations including Rotterdam, New York City and Newcastle, New South Wales. ... 4-beat (also known as hardcore or happy hardcore) is a breakbeat style of music circa 1993, that evolved from breakbeat hardcore emanating from the United Kingdom rave scene. ... Bouncy techno is a style of music circa 1992, mostly emanating from the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. ... Breakbeat hardcore (popularly known as rave music, originally referred to as simply hardcore in the United Kingdom, with old school hardcore a common term in the 21st century) is a style of electronic music that primarily uses breakbeats for its rhythm lines. ... Digital Hardcore is a music genre or style that was first defined by Alec Empire. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... New Beat music was a contemptorary genre to Techno and House music from Detroit and Chicago respectively, although not intrinsically linked. ... Speedcore is a form of hardcore techno that is typically identified by its high rate of beats per minute and aggressive themes. ... Terrorcore is a term used by a listener to describe a piece of hardcore techno. ... House music is a collection of styles of electronic dance music, the earliest forms of which originated in the United States in the early- to mid-1980s. ... 2Step (also known as 2 step, two step or 2 step garage) is a typically British style of modern dance music, and one of the two major sub-genres of UK Garage (although UK Garage is sometimes imprecisely used as a synonym for 2Step), together with its brother 4x4 Garage. ... Acid house is a variant of house music characterized by the use of simple tone generators with tempo-controlled resonant filters. ... Chicago house is a style of house music. ... Deep house is a style of house music. ... Eurodance is a dance music current that was popular in Europe, Oceania, South America, and somewhat in Canada between 1992 and 2000. ... French House is a late 1990s form of house music, greatly influenced by 1970s and 1980s disco and funk , as well as the productions of Thomas Bangalter. ... This article needs cleanup. ... ... It has been suggested that UKG: UK Garage and Two-step be merged into this article or section. ... Ghetto house is a type of Chicago House which started being recognised in its own right from around 1994 onwards. ... Hard house is a style of electronic music that evolved from mixing techno and house music in the 1990s. ... Hi-NRG (High Energy) is a type of electronic dance music popular in nightclubs in the early 1980s. ... Hip house, also known as house rap, is a mixture of house music and hip-hop which arose during the 1980s in New York. ... Tribal house is a form of electronic dance music derived from house music but being highly drum-centric and often without a core melody. ... Italo House is a form of house music popular in Italy in the late 1980s, coming from a fusion of Italian disco and house music. ... The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. ... Microhouse music also known as Buftech takes minimal house to a new level, focusing on the essential dance-inducing elements of house music: the beat, the bass and the melody. ... Pumpin house is a subgenre of House music. ... Progressive electronica (sometimes prog) is a collection of electronic music genres which draw upon progressive music, generally, and include the sub-styles of progressive trance, progressive house, progressive techno and progressive breaks. ... Tribal house is a form of electronic dance music derived from house music but being highly drum-centric and often without a core melody. ... Spacesynth, synthdance, spacedance, spacedisco or whatever you want to call it is instrumental upbeat synth music that focuses on melodies instead of rhythm. ... Tech house is a fusion of house and techno music. ... Aggrotech, also refered more recently to as Terror EBM and sometimes as Hellektro (a corruption/portmanteau of hell and elektro), is a term that surfaced in the mid-1990s to describe an evolution of electro-industrial typified by somewhat harsh song structures, aggressive and generally uptempo beats and lyrics of... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Futurepop is a recently-emerging electronic dance music genre, an outgrowth of electronic body music incorporating influences from synth pop (such as song structure and vocal style) and trance (uplifting, grandiose and arpeggiated synthesizer melodies). ... Industrial music is a loose term for a number of different styles of electronic and experimental music. ... Noise music is music that uses sounds regarded as unpleasant or painful under normal circumstances. ... Nord by Imminent Starvation Power noise (also known as powernoise, rhythmic noise, noize and occasionally as distorted beat music), a subgenre of industrial music, takes its inspiration from some of the more structured and distorted early industrial acts, such as Esplendor Geométrico. ... // Musical Derivation Jungle - derived from Ragga-Jungle - derived from Jungle-Techno - derived from Hardcore (aka UK Rave Breakbeat) Explanation of the Name The name Jungle has hazy origins. ... Drum and bass (commonly abbreviated dnb) is a type of electronic dance music also known as jungle. ... Clownstep is a pejorative term used to describe a certain type of sound found in the electronic music genre drum and bass. ... Darkcore is a reference to a subgenre which was, at the time (1993), part of a music movement referred to simply as Hardcore-Techno, or Hardcore-Underground as part of the overall British rave scene, and which eventually was recognized as being a precursor to one of the modern Macro... Darkstep is a sub genre of Drum and Bass which became popular in the late 1990s. ... Drill n bass is the popular name for a type of electronic music that emerged from drum n bass in the mid-1990s. ... Drumfunk is a subgenre of drum & bass sometimes referred to as edits or choppage. The term came into widespread use ca. ... Hardstep is a drumnbass style which started in 1996 and is characterized by fast speed beats, steelhard breaks, and thumping bass lines. ... Jump-Up is a subgenre of jungle and drum and bass music that was popular with fans of drum and bass in the late 1990s. ... Liquid funk is a style of drum and bass. ... Neurofunk is a subgenre of Drum and Bass pioneered by producers Optical, Matrix and Ed Rush circa 1997/1998 as a progression of Techstep. ... Techstep is a major subgenre of drum and bass, characterised by a dark, sci-fi mood, near-exclusive use of synthesised or sampled sound sources, and influences from industrial and techno music at the forefront. ... Techno is a form of electronic music that became prominent in Detroit, 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. ... Acid techno is the term used to describe a style of techno that originated in the London squat party scene in the early 1990s. ... Detroit techno is an early style of techno music originating from Detroit, Michigan, USA in the mid-1980s. ... Electroclash describes a style of fashion, music, and attitude that fuses new wave, punk, & electronic dance music with somewhat campy and absurdist post-industrial detachment - alongside vampy and/or campy sexuality. ... Freeteknitians at Teknival 2004, Ontario, Canada A group of friends enjoying Northtek 2005, Ontario, Canada Freetekno is the name for both a type of music (also known as hardtek) and a cultural movement that is present in both Europe and North America. ... Ghettotech is a form of electronic dance music based in Detroit that combines Chicagos ghetto house, electro, hip-hop, techno, and grafts the perceived raunch of Miami Bass. ... Minimal techno is a sub-genre of techno , characterized by subtle changes in rhythms and a stripped-down, dubby sound. ... Nortec (from the combination of norteño and tecno) is an electronic musical genre from Tijuana, a city in the north of Mexico. ... Rave music consists of forms of electronic bollocks for dancing that are associated with the wank rave scene. ... Schranz is the name given to European (especially German) hard techno, a style of techno typically around 140-150 BPM and based around massively bass-heavy kick drums, driving percussion and distorted, looping synth noises. ... Yorkshire Bleeps and Bass or Yorkshire Techno was a short-lived and very localised musical movement centred on the northern English cities of Bradford & Leeds in West Yorkshire and Sheffield in South Yorkshire in 1989-1991. ... Trance is a style of electronic dance music that developed in the 1990s. ... A style of trance music emerging in the late 80s and Early 90s. ... Goa trance (often referred as Goa or by the number 604) is a form of electronic dance music and is often mistakenly thought to be a style of trance music. ... NU NRG are two Italian DJs, Andrea Ribeca and Giuseppe Ottaviani. ... Hard trance is an aggressive sounding subgenre of trance music. ... Hardcore trance is a hybrid of Trance music and Happy Hardcore with House elements. ... An emerging style of electronic trance music developed in the early 2000s, minimal psytrance is a form of psychedelic trance which developed as a backlash to the older and (some would argue) stale and overused sound of goa trance. ... Progressive electronica is a collection of electronic music genres which draw upon progressive music, generally, and include the sub-styles of progressive trance, progressive house, progressive techno and progressive breaks. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Vocal trance is a subgenre of trance music, and contains highly melodic sessions, intro/outros which are similar to those of hard trance and tracks of usually about 6 to 8 minutes long. ... Uplifting trance, also known as anthem trance, is a subgenre of trance music that emerged in the wake of progressive trance in the late 1990s. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

See also

• Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music