Electronic dance
Electronic dance music as we know it today really emerged in 1977 with Giorgio Moroder's From Here to Eternity album.
There are now many subgenres of electronic dance music, these include: techno (mechanical sounding dance music featuring little melody and more noise), trance (with a distinct style of instrumentation focused on complex, uplifting chord progressions and melodies), Goa trance (spawning from industrial music and tribal dance, focusing on creating psychedelic sound effects within the songs), house music (fully electronic disco music), big beat (using older drum loops and more melodic elements sampled and looped), the formerly called jungle, now drum and bass (an offshoot of hardcore and Jamaican dancehall, that was named utilizing quick tempos with sampled break beats, most notably the amen break and the funky drummer), Gabber (a Dutch development on techno, which features extremely high tempos and lots of overdrive and distortion on the music, especially the bass drum being distorted into a square wave tone), happy hardcore (a less confronting take on Gabber, fusing elements of drum and bass as well and often including sped up vocals from 70s pop music), synthpop (features strong pop songwriting/melodies with roots in 1980s dance music), and electro. Of these subgenres, trance and house are probably the most widespread.
Electronic dance music is often composed to fit easily into a live DJ set.
bbreviation for intelligent dance music) is an elusive and confusing genre classification that can only be truly defined by flagbearers and flagburners like Aphex Twin and Autechre.
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