Flashcards: Electronic music

Downtempo is a genre of electronic music similar to ambient, but with a greater emphasis on rhythm, and is not as earthy as trip-hop.

Alternative dance is a genre that mixes alternative/indie rock with post-disco dance music.

Lento Violento, sometimes shortened to simply Lento, is a style of electronic dance music that developed in Italy.

A rave (from the verb: to rave) is a large dance party featuring performances by DJs and occasionally live performers playing electronic music, particularly electronic dance music (EDM).

Electroacoustic music originated in Western art music around the middle of the 20th century, following the incorporation of electric sound production into compositional practice.

Uplifting trance (often synonymous with epic trance, energetic trance, anthem trance, emotional trance, or euphoric trance) is a large subgenre of trance music.

Programming is a form of music production and performance using electronic devices, such as sequencers, to generate sounds of musical instruments.

Space music, also called spacemusic, is a subgenre of new-age music and is described as "tranquil, hypnotic and moving".

Electronicore (also known as synthcore and trancecore) describes a stylistic fusion of metalcore and/or post-hardcore with electronic music, specifically electronica.

Speedcore is a form of hardcore that is characterized by a high tempo and aggressive themes.

IRCAM (Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique, or Institute for Research and Coordination Acoustic / Music in English) is a French institute for science about music and sound and avant garde electro-acoustical art music.

Crunkcore (also called crunk punk, screamo crunk, crunk rock, and scrunk) is a musical genre that combines crunk with the vocal style of screamo.

Happy hardcore, also known as happy rave or happycore, is a genre of hard dance typified by a very fast tempo (usually around 160–180 BPM), often coupled with solo vocals and sentimental lyrics.

Jungle (sometimes oldschool jungle), is a genre of electronic music that developed in England in the early 1990s as part of rave music scenes.

Jumpstyle is an electronic dance style and music genre popular in Eastern Europe, as well as certain parts of Australia and the United States.

Big beat is a style of electronic music that typically uses heavy breakbeats and synthesizer-generated loops and patterns common to acid house.

2-step garage, or simply 2-step, is a typically English genre of modern electronic music and a relatively popular subgenre of UK garage.

Garage music or garage house is a subgenre of electronic music that developed alongside house music, yet is classified by some sources as being a subgenre of house music, as an overlap between these two genres began in the late 1980s.

Turbo-folk (Serbian: турбо фолк, turbo folk), is a musical genre that originated in Serbia.

Intelligent dance music (IDM) is a genre of electronic music that emerged in the early 1990s.

Trap music is a subgenre that originated during 1990s from Southern hip hop in the Southern United States.

Acid trance is a genre of trance music that emerged in the late 1980s and early 1990s focusing on using the acid sound.

(Not to be confused with Britpop.) Bitpop is a type of electronic music and subgenre of chiptune music, where at least part of the music is made using the sound chips of old 8-bit (or 16-bit) computers and video game consoles.

Breakstep, or breakbeat garage, is a genre of music that evolved from the UK garage scene and influenced the emergence of dubstep.

Ethnic electronica (also known as ethnotronica, ethno electronica or ethno techno) combines elements of electronic and world music and was developed in the 1990s.

Electro dance (otherwise known as Tecktonik and Milky Way) is a frenetic and quirky form of street dance typically performed to electro house music.

The electronic music of Germany consists of a number of genres that are popular around the world today.

A free party is a party "free" from the restrictions of the legal club scene, similar to the free festival movement.

Mahraganat (English: festivals; Arabic: مهرجانات‎‎ [mɑh.ɾɑ.ɡɑˈnɑːt]) or electro chaabi is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in Cairo.

An envelope detector is an electronic circuit that takes a high-frequency signal as input and provides an output which is the envelope of the original signal.

An Algorave is an event where people dance to music generated from algorithms, often using live coding techniques, and short for "algorithmic rave.

A timeline of electronic music genres with date of origin, locale of origin, and music samples.

Low-frequency oscillation (LFO) is an electronic signal which is usually below 20 Hz and creates a rhythmic pulse or sweep.

Evolutionary music is the audio counterpart to evolutionary art, whereby algorithmic music is created using an evolutionary algorithm.

Live electronic music (also known as live electronics and electroacoustic improvisation) is any kind of music that can include the use of electroacoustic instruments, various electronic sound-generating devices, and computers, but which generally excludes the use of prerecorded or sampled material.

Shangaan Electro is a dance movement and musical style born from a 21st-century reboot of local folk traditions in South African townships, Tsonga Disco and Kwaito House.

In music, noise is variously described as unpitched, indeterminate, uncontrolled, loud, unmusical, or unwanted sound.