Sorts & Styles of Electronic Music

Electronic music is one of the types of music that but are listened to in the celebrations and discotheques world-wide, in which are mainly used electronic devices like sintetizadores and boxes of rate.

This type of music had its origins in the fusion between the New Beat, Techno MGP and the Industrial sound. It is born in like a new alternative listening and dancing. The DJs de Chicago began to mix their music dances with sintetizadores and was as well as the House was born. This it was the first style that reflected to the DJ like center of attention in the celebrations.

Although electronic music is perceived by the majority like a single style of music, this has many sorts like the Critical moment, the Goa Critical moment, the Techno Critical moment, the Progressive Techno, the House, the Commercial Techno and Dance. Styles that have marked to times and generations.

Within these styles, the most recognized and with greater commercial reach it is denominated Techno MGP, a sound that combines the romantic letters with the sintetizador. The result was so positive that artists of England as Eurythmics and Depeche Mode reached the highest positions in the musical lists of their time.

The Techno in all forms consolidated and their subgenera also reached the recognition of the public and the radio stations. The Critical moment turned the discotheques into places to free itself of everything; the Hardcore reached the greater rythmical speed and this other rates and sorts like the Happy Hardcore, the Break Beat were come off, the Jungle and Drum and Bass that has their greater diffusion in England.

The Techno has become one of the sorts more listened to and enjoyed by young people worldwide who find in this music a way to release and to express their variable feelings more.

The essence of electronic music is in constant change thanks to the fact that every day a new style is created, old woman rates are combined of diverse ways and new things are invented.

Without a doubt, the main contribution of electronic music to the new generations is the Pacific character that impregnates to him to the celebrations and to the being a type of instrumental music also is much more universal.

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Listing of Sorts & Styles

Here we presented/displayed a quite complete listing on the sorts and styles of electronic music, from a to the T… until he appears one that begins with Z.

 

Acid
Evolution of house towards the crisp, repetitive and lysergic sounds created with apparatus TB-303 of Roland. Its symbol was the famous Smiley, and its inventors the Phuture group (DJ Pierre and Spanky) with the subject “Acid Trax� (published in 1987). In 1988 acid house gave rise in Great Britain to the denominated Summer of the Love. Damon Wild and Hardfloor were the flagmen of the sound post-acid in the middle of the ninety, and it is already close the day in which there is a revival in all rule.
 

Acid-jazz
At the time at which acid-house was developed, it took place a recovery of the sound funk of the 70 through esthetic the modern although revisionist. To the phenomenon acid was called to him jazz, and is one of the sorts that the ascent made possible of the denominated culture of club.
 

Ambient
Climatic music, relaxed, atmospheric and evocative that affects the depth and the open spaces. One is based on the superposition of sounds and synthetic layers and his unquestionable inventor was Brian Eno. Nothing that to see with new age.
 

Ambientdub
Mixture of sound ambient with the echoes and the effects dub of Jamaican music. Surrounding music. The Orb is teachers of the style.
 

Artcore
Name that the most experimental tendency receives and ambient of jungle. Intelligent has also been called him jungle. LTJ Bukem and Omni Trio have been the great figures of the sort.
 

Bakalao
It arose like denomination of the dance scene generated in the Valencian discotheques at the beginning of the ninety. But also it is another form to call to a music that outside Spain knows like happy hardcore or hardcore-techno and that, here, is called mákina to him. It has given name also to the famous and unlucky “route of bakalao�.
 

BigBeat
Before thus denominating itself, also brit-hop, amylhouse or chemical were called beats. And in any case, it has represented a new passage in the connection dance-rock. The Chemical Brothers, with their artillery of breakbeats furious, was pioneering of a sort that had many other defenders - Propellerheads, Bentley Rhytm Ace or the groups of the Skint seals and Wall Of Sound- but that succumbed to the dark of their experimental side, skool breakz.
 

Breakbeat
It is the rate bases of hip-hop, thanks to the instrumental fragment sampled one of funk of the seventy, like the omnipresent “Funky Drummer� of James Brown. But also, by extension, it is a current of techno arisen in Great Britain - also called hardcore- that gave rise to jungle through the acceleration of breakbeat.
 

Cheesecore
The slope more MGP and commercial of the criminal sound to gabber Dutch, with idiot melodies and until pegadizas. Also fluffycore is denominated to him. A clear example: the subject “I Wanna Be Hippy� of Technohead.
 

Deep house
The warmest, surrounding and full current of soul of house. It has a great influence of the sound disc, and their capitals are New York (where garage is denominated to him), New Jersey (with the Blaze group at the top) and Chicago. His moment of maximum splendor they were the last Eighties and the first ninety.
 

Detroit
The cradle of techno present, city of where the Santísima comes Trinidad from inventors: Juan Atkins, Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson. Also they come from there Kenny Larkin and the influential group Underground Resistance, where monsters like Jeff Mills, Robert Hood or Suburban Knight have left.
 

Disc
Music born in the United States in the middle of the 70 like logical evolution from soul, funk and rhythm&blues, recognizable by its repetitive and pegadizos rates, the exuberance of its adjustments of cord and by his divas chillonas. In Munich, Giorgio Moroder patented computer disc, based on electronic and futurist adjustments. Between the flagmen of music disc they are MFSB, David Mancuso, Patrick Cowley and Tom Moulton.
 

Downtempo
Its name (low tempo, smooth rate) says everything to it. At the moment it is mentioned like the evolution of trip-hop towards placid lands, almost pastoral, decidedly influenced by dub. The Viennese scene (Kruder & Dorfmeister, Tufa) and the German (the Compost seal) have been some of their bastions.
 

Drum' n' bass
Generic name that is applied to jungle to the being this combination (low and battery) the base of its rythmical prescription. Drum' n' bass also designates to the most complex and scientific ramifications (the works of Goldie, Photek, Spring Heel Jack and others) of the genuine music of English dance.
 

Dub
It has his origin in Jamaica, in the instrumental versions of the subjects reggae, to which to echoes and sound effects were added. By extension, dub is a sort that uses the bases of reggae to create electronic effects, echoes and reverberations.
 

Electro
Sort practiced at the beginning of the 80, born from the fusion of funk, hip-hop and the European electronic music of Kraftwerk. The pioneer is Afrika Bambaata and its hymn “Planet Rock�, produced by Arthur Baker. Egyptian Lover, Mantronix and Man Parrish were other important names of a sort that, to half-full of the ninety, was rescued of the forgetfulness after the pertinent revival.
 

Electroniclistening music
Electronic music to listen in house, and not especially in the dance tracks, generally intelligent techno. In England it is denominated to him electronic and in the United States label IDM has been adopted (Intelligent Dance Music).
 

Ethno-techno
Fusion of ethnic elements (African or Hindu) and technological now in disuse but that was popular at the beginning of the ninety of the hand of groups like Transglobal Underground or Loop Guru.
 

Eurobeat
Style of very commercial European dance based on pegadizas vocal melodies, schemes house and incrustations of rap and ragga. Their main representatives responded to names like Twenty 4 Seven, Snap! , Culture Beat and, by all means, Technotronic.
 

Experimental
Stranger, unclassifiable, vanguardista. He says himself of all that one musical sort that break rules, that try to go more far in search of new rates, sounds and constructions.
 

Freestyle
Initially, in years 80, it was the denomination that received a style to horse between electro and Latin hip-hop, practiced by feminine singers who imprimían to their subjects a strong melodic component. In the world of hip-hop also it is used to designate the improvised rhyme of a MC or the style to puncture (only hip-hop underground) of the DJs with more criterion. But in the ninety it has defined the form to puncture of some DJs (Coldcut at the top), that absolutely mixes of everything, of techno to drum' n' bass passing through dub and house.
 

French Groove
The scene dances Parisian in the last generated of the ninety its own sound, characterized groove third, house and music disc, everything with an exquisite French touch that confers own signs to him of identity. Of there the name of french groove, an attitude that have known to combine house and funk of imaginative form (and commercial), and that groups to artists like Air, Motorbass, I: Cube, Dimitri From Paris or Daft Punk.
 

Gabber
Also call gabba, something as well as trash metal of techno. Hardcore originated in Rotterdam that is characterized by a quick rate (between 200 and 250 bpms) and martilleante that it attracts an adolescent public generally of working class. When it is mixed with simple melodies and until idiots happy is called to him hardcore (something that in Spain receives the mákina name or bakalao).
 

Garage
House of ancestry disc and soul. One mainly characterizes by the powerful voices, overflowing of feeling and black tradition, house divas like Adeva, Liz Towers or the fireproof Jocelyn Brown.
 

Ghetto-Tek
Evolution of techno bass towards positions gangsters: hyperquick and almost pornographic, ghetto-tek is electro of working class that practices in the suburbs of Detroit. Its better bastion is DJ Assault, and their letters pure poetry: they speak of asses, teats, dandies and putas.
 

Goa
City of the south of the India whose scene critical moment, deep and psychedelic, has given rise to the Goa sort Critical moment. The most exotic variant and hippie of techno, also called psychedelic critical moment.
 

Hardcore
After the second Summer of the Love (1989), the music of raves began to be faster and cradle in difficult rates, harder and plagued of voices chillonas, like of a Mickey Mouse euphoric. The Prodigy was the most popular group of the phenomenon hardcore that later it gave to light jungle, although also was a variant techno impelled from Belgium by the seal R&S that it had to Joey Beltram like main name.
 

Hardhouse
House of more implacable rates been born, simultaneously, in Chicago (Paul Johnson) and New York (Armand Van Helden), generally quite minimalist and only for hard types.
 

Hardstep
One of the multiple derivations of drum' n' bass, that is characterized by its low full which they simulate a criminal humming of funk and its violent and vertiginous rates. Jungle more brewer, than had in Aphrodite and Ganja Kru its main defenders.
 

Hardtrance
Harder and quick evolution of the critical moment towards more severe formulas and rates, a ferocious collision between critical moment and hardcore. There is who also calls hypnotrance and pirra by the references of the Blackhand seal.
 

Hi-Nrg
Abbreviation of High Energy, that one slope of the music disc arisen in clubs and bars gays baptized after hit homonymous of Evelyn Thomas. Commercial rotunda and, successfully practiced producing like Bobby Or and Patrick Cowley.
 

Hip-hop
Urban culture born in the middle of the seventy in the Bronx that gave rise rap. It also includes artistic manifestations like the DJing juggler, the graffitti and breakdance.
 

Instrumental Hip-hop
Taking like example instrumental discs from DJ Mark The 45 King and thanks to the height from mixológica science (partly due to DJ Shadow and other guerillas of trip-hop), the work of the DJ as sculptor of sonorous forms recovered in the middle of the ninety, and scratcher resurged, to the way of the Bird Fénix, like a magician who could chain rate and noise. Q-Bert, Kid Koala or The Automator are the kings of scratch and new hip-hop instrumental.
 

Hip-house
One treats, obvious, of a mixture between hip-hop and house, practiced first by American artists like Tyree or DJ Fast Eddie and that finished becoming an authentic European specialty, with Technotronic, 4 Twenty 2 Seven and Unlimited at the top.
 

House
The rate with which the credibility of the dance music began. It was born in Chicago in the middle of the eighty in the Warehouse club (of there the name of the style), where it punctured the great Frankie Knuckles. It comes from the musical culture black American, and picks up influences of music disc, funk and the synth-MGP European of groups like Kraftwerk or Depeche Mode.
 

Illbient
The dense and exciting mutation of ambient. Also denominated Crooklyn Dub due to its origin (Brooklyn, in New York), illbient is the sound of the ill city, with its noises and mysteries. Taking advantage of the deep lines of under dub Jamaican and the complexity of contemporary music, illbient is constituted in sonorous pollution of disquieting effects that, lately, has owned to American drum' n' bass and to hip-hop more extraterrestrial. DJ Spooky is their great ideologist.
 

Indietrónica
The interest of many independent groups of MGP by the technology of portable and the chisqueantes sounds (clicks' n' cuts) has caused the return of a electronics of risk that does not neglect the melody, especially consumed in the circles indies. Seals as Morr Music and groups as Múm or Hood is their better tricks.
 

Industrialist
Music born at the end of the seventy, and initiated by groups like Throbbling Gristle, SPK or Dept Test, the metallic explorers of the limits of the noise and pain, of the music of the machines, rates and the urban sounds. Industrial music has its magical, dense and onírico side (Coil), but is generally noise to all volume with the mission to attack minds and you bring back to consciousness. Hard techno present of people as Surgeon must much to him.
 

Intelligenttechno
The compilations “Artificial Intelligence of the Warp seal patented a type of electronics, inspired by techno of Detroit, more thought for the mental trip and listening about house that does not stop the dance in the club. From the intelligent concept comes there “techno�, that talk about to the electronics with class and a noticeable experimental character of Orbital, Letfield or Autechre.
 

Jazzstep
The encounter of polirritmia of drum' n' bass with the organic sounds of the jazz is what it was understood by jazzstep, machinery of last generation with live instruments (saxos, impetuous contrabasses) that takes to a futurist redefinition of concepts like cool or bebop, although lately goes more to the label liquid funk. Almost disappeared Alex Reece and the equipment Reprazent de Roni Size knows much of all that.
 

Jungle
Arisen musical sort in England that is based on the acceleration of breakbeat and full lines of under, able to mix itself yet: soul, ambient, raggamuffin, hip-hop and industrial music. Years ago he was massive and creative, but now the innovation is in one of the sorts born in its shade, two-step.
 

LatinHouse
Although their origins are as old as those of own house (Liz Towers, T-Hammock, Ralphi Rosary), the certain thing is that the combination of rate house and Latin flavor continued evolving in the ninety and gave substantial results as the disc pluscuamperfecto of Nuyorican Soul, the rythmical, sexual and wild convulsion of the artists of the Digital seal Dungeon or captivating house santero of River Ocean. That without telling that best the DJs and producers of house are Hispanic: Masters AT Work, Roger Sanchez, David Alvarado…
 

Mákina
Happy hardcore and hardcore-techno to the Spanish, also called bakalao. Its more popular slope was the Valencia Sound, with Bay Chimo like visible head, and although its pursuit no longer is the one that was, lately has stayed lives thanks to gurús like Pastis and Buenri.
 

Minimal
It describes to a type of music that uses very few repetitive sounds and rates and that, nevertheless, usually throws amazing creative results. Normally it is applied to techno (all the sound derived from BASIC Chanel) and house more experimental.
 

Muzak
One says of environmental music that it is heard in airports, waiting rooms of the dentist and elevators. It serves to also designate to intrascendente, boring instrumental music and soda.

 

Neurofank
Jungle returns to its roots, to the purest simplicity, the rate and funk, but with a futurist and mental touch. With winks to techno darker, neurofunk has in the Grooverider veteran its great flagman, and to Optical, Matrix or Bad Company like main heraldos
 

Newage
Synthetic music next to ambient but much less creative, with will to create relax and used by the yuppies to fight stress. There is one who says that it is the inheriting style of the German planeadora scene of the seventy “Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze, for example�, but also there is one who affirms that muzak is pure.
 

Newbeat
Dragged enough and slow modality of techno that has its origin in the clubs Belgians of Ghent and Brussels at the end of the eighty, turn out to puncture maxis of EBM to 33 revolutions. Previously AB was called “music� because its walking began in the club Ancienne Belgique. Its hymn was “Rock To The Beat� (Reese & Santonio) and constituted an advance payment of hardcore-techno of seals like R&S.
 

NorthernSoul
Scene arisen in the north of England at the beginning of the seventy dedicated exclusively to the collecting and public exhibition from old (and nowadays most expensive) singles in 7 " from classic hidden from soul American. In the scene northern soul is only listened to rare discs at the most better and original copies are punctured solely, and in spite of these monetary limitations and of patience, the culture survives, especially in Great Gretaña and Japan.
 

NuHouse
At the outset new was called to him also brit house. House is, in fact, the form to denominate to house British of the ninety more purist: warm, tie groovy and to the classic black sorts (soul, funk, disc, jazz). Projects like Faze Action, Basement Jaxx or Idjut Boys, and seals like Nuphonic, Paper or Muzique Tropique, perfectly define a sort that became retro and with a touch afro too much soon.
 

NuSkoolBreakz
At first it was a dark fusion and with stuck between breakbeat and electro, the serious vision of popular big beat. With time it happened to be the dance style in which all the others could rest: influences of jungle, techno, house, hip-hop, critical moment - but always with experimental vocation.
 

Nu-jazz
Under protection of seals like Compost, many producers of downtempo have looked for inspiration in the jazz-funk of the seventy. They use real instruments and they trim the rates (it is for that reason reason why also the label is used broken beats) to create a jazz halfway enters the past and the future.
 

MGP electronic
The influence that the new electronic music has had on the MGP in the ninety has been decisive and has transformed its concept of radical form. It is enough with listening to discs of Björk, Laika, Stereolab, Saint Etienne or Everything But The Girl to realize it.
 

Post-rock
After the wake of Dog, Fast, Neu! and other heraldos of krautrock, second half of the ninety has served as field of experimentation to groups that, like Tortoise, Labradford, Seefeel or Kreidler, have applied electronic formulas to a conception of the abierta rock to new sonorous horizons, that forget the traditional formation of guitar-under-battery. Between the improvisation, ambient and the inspiration dub.
 

Progressive
Denomination that is applied so much house as to techno, although lately also is applied to “the serious� evolution of the critical moment after the change of century. At the beginning of the ninety, progressive house was a complex and evolutionary style, with dubs, bases of percussion and samples of the MGP and exotic musics. Their representatives were Drum Club, Spooky, William Orbit and all the catalog of the Guerilla seal.
 

Raggamuffin
Alliance between the vocalization of reggae Jamaican and rap that as much can be understood of fused pure form as with other styles of dance, or is jungle, house (in the branch eurobeat, especially) or two step.
 

Speed Garage
A style that leaves its intentions in the two words very clear that compose their name: on the one hand, speed “its rythmical base is quick, with origin in breakbeat and jungle�, and on the other, garage, because house recovers the taste by the great voices of deep American. Mixed these ingredients, and others like full lines of low, voices passed of typical revolutions and toastings of raggamuffin, one of the rates more exciting is obtained than they flooded the dance tracks. Groups of DJs like Tuff Jam or Dreem Teem were the defending declared ones of a sort that has not stopped evolving, first towards UK Garage and finally to two step.
 

Speedcore
Rate still more express than hardcore, an overdose of bpms (over the 250) that is used to arriving at the denominated “white noise�. The subject “Thousand� of Moby “that reachs the thousands bpms� is a good example.
 

Swingbeat
Also call new jack swing. It is the combination of soul, funk and rates hip-hop, a sort that was very popular in the United States (with Bobby Brown and Guy at the top) and that has been surpassed by r&b.
 

Synth-MGP
Also call “only in Spain� tecno-MGP, is an own sort of the Eighties consisting of elaborating MGP futurist with sintetizadores. Their great kings were The Human League, Soft Cell and Depeche Mode, except for cows sagradas like Pet Shop Boys and New Order. Some of their branches were the first electronic punk (Normal The, Tubeway Army, Fad Gadget), cold wave (Ultravox, Japan, Magazine) and the movement of new the romantic ones (Visage, Spandau Ballet and Last Last).
 

Tech-house
Interaction between techno and house in a same subject. Normally it is applied house that, far from the inheritance disc or the pulse funk, prefers the most futurist and cold sound of techno.
 

Techno
Musical sort that appears in Detroit at the end of the eighty, very influenced by house of Chicago, electro New York, the synth-MGP European and the music of Kraftwerk. Music of abstract and futurist dance that in successive years has been become harder and more complex.
 

Techno Bass
Denomination that has occurred to the combination of techno and electro him arisen in Detroit, of the hand of Aux 88 and other projects of escudería Direct Beat. It has had part of responsibility in the resurrection of the electro-MGP, commanded by formation like Adult or Dopplereffekt.
 

Techstep
Drum' n' bass nearer the cold sounds and the artillery technological-industrialist. It was born towards 1996 from the hand from Nico Sykes and its accomplices in the magnificent seal Not Or Turn, whose compilation “Torque� is fundamental. Exciting, noisy and deafening, Hardware, BC Recordings or Virus have been prolonged by seals like Renegade.
 

Toaster
The equivalent of the MC in raggamuffin, one appears habitual in first discs of jungle.
 

Critical moment
Variant of techno been born in Germany at the beginning of the ninety that combines fast rates and long synthetic evolutions with acid effects. Its cradle is Frankfurt and its first gurú the DJ Sven Väth. At the end of the ninety there was a resurrection in England driven by DJs stars like Sasha & John Digweed, Paul Oakenfold and Seb Fontaine.
 

Tribal
Adjective that is applied house and to techno that they use tribal percussions to create hypnotic effects. A good example is the first productions of Deep Dish.
 

Trip-hop
Sort arisen from hip-hop, generally from instrumental character. It has an extra experimental, travelling and abierto to multitude of different sounds: ambient, jazz, dub, sound tracks… It has his origin in the music of Smith & Mighty, Massive Attack, Tricky, Portishead and other groups of the sound of Bristol, as well as of first editions of the seals Ninja Tune and Mo' Wax.

 

Two Step
The evolution of speed garage towards more winding forms: broken rates inherited of drum' n' bass, low heavy and soul Martian in which it is the English interpretation of r&b American. The productions are rare by nature, but simultaneously sexys, plagued of strange effects, rebellious trimmed voices and rappers.

 

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