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The History of Electronic Dance Music


When I mention electronic dance music, the first thing that comes to many people’s minds is the constant “boom boom boom” of your average house track, or maybe the “bleeps and boops” of a techno track. What they don’t realize is that electronic music has been a rather large part of musical ...

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Generated out of disco music in New York and Chicago in the mid-1980's, by 1990, house had blitzkrieged Europe, revolutionizing and spawning modern-era club culture in the process. House epitomizes electronic dance grooves, and is probably more mainstream and widely accepted than any other of type of DJ music today. Characterized by groovy 4/4 beat tempos, and swinging upbeat harmonies, house can cover a lot of territory, from disco house, to acid house to Latin and French house, it is perhaps the most versatile of all electronic music genres, ranging in style from deep, to hardcore to progressive.


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The creation of rave music has created confusing definitions and additions of unnecessary sub genres to the electronic music industry. The commodity structure of raves today have created a standardized form of yet another mainstream culture controlled by global ...