History Main / ElectronicMusic

* CyberpunkIsTechno: For when {{cyberpunk}} and its offshoots have a soundtrack comprised of techno.

* Classical Electronic or AvantGardeMusic (experimental electronic music from the 1940s-1960s. Includes early synthesiser works like Wendy Carlos' "Switched-On Bach" and most tape manipulation music such as that of Delia Derbyshire (best known for producing the original ''Series/DoctorWho'' theme at the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Radiophonic_Workshop BBC Radiophonic Workshop]]).

->''"Every time I even try to talk about EDM, I get a bunch of people telling me that what I was talking about isn't even 'real' EDM. I assume because it was too artificial and had too much studio-polish."''\\
--'''WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows'''

* ItaloDisco (not funky as traditional disco)

* {{Vaporwave}}: A genre that originated from UsefulNote/TheInternet that once mainly relied on [[{{Sampling}} slowed-down samples of music]] from TheEighties or TheNineties, but has grown to take on many different forms since then.

* Downtempo

* Electro (think "Planet Rock" - basically HipHop meets Electronic Music)

* Electronic Rock (a catch-all term referring any artist that uses elements of both Electronic Music and Rock.)

* Freestyle

* IDM (Intelligent Dance Music)

* Jumpstyle

* Musique Concrete (tape-manipulation-based music that was part of the AvantGardeMusic scene in the 40s-60s, mostly; a huge influence on later [[{{Sampling}} sample-based]] music)

* Skweee

* UK Garage (differentiated from American Garage, which is a subgenre of HouseMusic)

* HouseMusic (no, not that Series/{{House}}--although the theme song is by Massive Attack, one of the {{Trope Codifier}}s of another genre that was partially influenced by House Music, called Trip-Hop.)

Arguably, pure electronic (pop) music can be traced back to ''{{Music/Kraftwerk}}'', who made SynthPop music that deliberately exploited its synthetic origins. Kraftwerk was one of the first acts, if not ''the'' first, that ''exclusively'' used electronic instruments (though not exclusively synthesizers) to generate their output. Electronic music itself dates back much further than the 1970s, though; the theremin was invented ca.1920, the "croix sonore" in 1926, the ondes Martenot in 1928, and all of these were written for by avant-garde classical composers like Nikolai Obukhov, Music/OlivierMessiaen, and Joseph Schillinger. (For an example, see Obukhov's ''The Third and Last Testament'', composed in 1946.) The synthesizer itself dates back to 1895 (the Teleharmonium), although modern voltage-controlled synths (along with the name "synthesizer") were first devised by a team at RCA in the 1950s, and didn't enter popular consciousness until Robert Moog left that team to found his own company. In addition to writing for physical instruments that were powered by electricity, as early as the 1920s some composers were making use of 'found sounds' generated by radios, sometimes making longer works largely using collage and even going as far as manipulating them directly (see Dziga Vertov's ''Enthusiasm! The Dombass Symphony''). This technique, reasonably popular among the Italian and Russian Futurists, strongly foreshadowed the later "musique concrete" movement, kicked off by radio engineer Pierre Schaeffer in the late 1940s with works like "Etude aux chemins de fer" (1948), which was created by manipulating the taped sound of a [[CaptainObvious train]].

* MinimalWave (a sub-culture fir DIY PostPunk and SynthPop bands, also known as Minimal Synth)

* MinimalWave (a DIY sub-culture inspired by PostPunk and SynthPop, also known as Minimal Synth)

* MinimalWave (a DIY approach to PostPunk and SynthPop)

* MinimelWave (a subgenre of DIY PostPunk and SynthPop)

* FreakyElectronicMusic (a trope for electronic music used to symbolize villainy)

* DrumAndBass ([=DnB=] for short, includes jungle)
* Electro (think "Planet Rock"- basically HipHop meets Electronic Music)

* {{Industrial}} (including all of its subgenres- see that page for more details)

->''"Every time I even try to talk about EDM, I get a bunch of people telling me that what I was talking about isn't even '[[NoTrueScotsman real]]' EDM. I assume because it was [[ShapedLikeItself too artificial and had too much studio-polish.]]"''\\

ElectronicMusic is, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin unsurprisingly enough]], music made with electronic instruments, such as synthesizers, samplers and drum machines.

* Electro (think "Planet Rock"- basically HipHop meets ElectronicMusic)

Arguably, pure electronic (pop) music can be traced back to ''{{Music/Kraftwerk}}'', who made SynthPop music that deliberately exploited its synthetic origins. Kraftwerk was one of the first acts, if not ''the'' first, that ''exclusively'' used electronic instruments (though not exclusively synthesizers) to generate their output. Electronic music itself dates back much further than the 1970s, though; the theremin was invented ca.1920, the "croix sonore" in 1926, the ondes Martenot in 1928, and all of these were written for by avant-garde classical composers like Nikolai Obukhov, Music/OlivierMessiaen, and Joseph Schillinger. (For an example, see Obukhov's ''The Third and Last Testament'', composed in 1946.) The synthesizer itself dates back to 1895 (the Teleharmonium), although modern voltage-controlled synths (along with the name "synthesizer") were first devised by a team at RCA in the 1950s, and didn't enter popular consciousness ontil Robert Moog left that team to found his own company. In addition to writing for physical instruments that were powered by electricity, as early as the 1920s some composers were making use of 'found sounds' generated by radios, sometimes making longer works largely using collage and even going as far as manipulating them directly (see Dziga Vertov's ''Enthusiasm! The Dombass Symphony''). This technique, reasonably popular among the Italian and Russian Futurists, strongly foreshadowed the later "musique concrete" movement, kicked off by radio engineer Pierre Schaeffer in the late 1940s with works like "Etude aux chemins de fer" (1948), which was created by manipulating the taped sound of a [[CaptainObvious train]].