Genres
15 terms
IDM
IDM (Intelligent Dance Music) is an experimental electronic music direction with complex rhythms, unconventional structures, and an intelle…
Ambient
Ambient is a genre of atmospheric electronic music without a distinct rhythm or melody.
Dub
Dub is a Jamaican genre that grew out of reggae through instrumental remixes emphasising bass, drums, and echo effects.
Dubstep
Dubstep is an electronic genre of the early 2000s with a “half-time” beat and a characteristic “wobble” bass.
Drum and Bass
Drum and bass is an electronic genre with fast breakbeats and a powerful sub-bass, which emerged in 1990s Britain.
Electroacoustic Music
Electroacoustic music is a movement in which sounds are created or processed by electronic means: tape recorders, synthesizers, computers.
Electronic Music
Electronic music is the broad term for all music created by electronic instruments and computers.
Industrial
Industrial is an experimental musical direction that uses machine sounds, noise, and electronics to create a “mechanical” sonority.
Musique concrète
Musique concrète — the direction founded by Pierre Schaeffer in 1948 that composes from recorded real-world sounds rather than notes.
Synthwave
Synthwave is a 21st-century electronic genre that nostalgically recreates the sound and aesthetic of 1980s soundtracks.
