Categories: Electronica | Music genres | Music genre stubs Electronica is a rather vague term that covers a wide range of electronic or electronic-influenced music. ... 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. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... 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. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... 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. ... Electronic music is a term for music created using electronic devices. ... 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... 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). ... Drum and bass (commonly abbreviated dnb) is a type of electronic dance music also known as jungle. ... Electronica is a rather vague term that covers a wide range of electronic or electronic-influenced music. ... Electronic music has existed, in various forms, for more than a century. ... The term hard dance refers to a grouping of electronic dance music genres including hard trance, nu-NRG and hardstyle. ... Hardcore (sometimes ardcore) is a term that has been used to describe a variety of related electronic dance music styles over almost two decades. ... 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. ... 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. ... Trance is a style of electronic dance music that developed in the 1990s. ... Synthpop is a style of popular music in which the synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument. ...