Music Definitions

Electronica : genre breakdown

• Ambient

• Dark ambient
• Illbient
• New Age
• Ambient Dub
• Ambient House
• Lowercase (music)

• Breakbeat

• Electro
• Big Beat
• Breaks
• Miami Bass
• Brokenbeat
• Cut & Paste
• Florida breaks
• nu skool breaks
• Progressive breaks
• Techstep
• Turntablism
• Grime

• Downtempo/IDM

• Bleep
• Electroclash
• Electropop
• Laptronica
• Bitpop
• Chiptune
• Minimal Electronica/Glitch
• Acid Jazz
• Nu jazz
• Trip hop (aka The Bristol Sound)

• Hardcore

• Breakbeat hardcore
• New beat
• Breakcore
• Speedcore
• Terrorcore
• Happy Hardcore
• Gabba
• Nu style gabber
• Digital hardcore
• Hardcore trance
• Hardstyle

• House

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

• Industrial

• EBM
• Noise music
• Old-school EBM
• Futurepop

• Jungle/Drum and Bass

• Darkcore
• Ragga
• Drill n bass
• Jump-Up
• Liquid funk
• Neurofunk

• Techno

• Detroit Techno/U.S. Techno
• 4-beat
• Bouncy Techno
• Ghettotech
• Freetekno
• Nortec
• Electroclash
• Minimal Techno/Glitch Techno
• U.K. Techno/Euro Techno
• Schranz
• Rave music
• Acid techno
• Tartan techno

• Trance

• Psychedelic trance/Goa trance
• Acid Trance
• Vocal Trance
• Minimalist trance
• NU-NRG
• Progressive trance

 

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