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Timeline of electronic music genres

Index Timeline of electronic music genres

A timeline of electronic music genres, with a date of origin, the locale of origin, and music samples. [1]

98 relations: A & C Black, Acid house, Acid trance, Acousmatic music, Al Jeel, Ambient music, Arabic pop music, Asian Underground, Bass music, Bhangra (music), Bhangragga, Bitpop, Breakbeat, Breakbeat hardcore, Chicago house, Chiptune, Christian electronic dance music, Contemporary R&B, Dance-pop, Dancehall, Deep house, Detroit techno, Disco, Downtempo, Drone music, Drum and bass, Dub music, Dub techno, Dubstep, Electro (music), Electro house, Electro-industrial, Electroacoustic music, Electroclash, Electronic dance music, Electronic music, Electronic rock, Electronica, Electronicore, Euro disco, Eurobeat, Eurodance, French house, Funky house, Future house, Futurepop, Garage house, Genesis P-Orridge, Glitch (music), Goa trance, ..., Grime (music genre), Hardcore (electronic dance music genre), Hardstyle, Hi-NRG, Hip hop music, House music, Industrial dance music, Industrial music, Industrial rock, Intelligent dance music, Italo disco, J-pop, Japanoise, Jersey Club, Jungle music, K-pop, Krautrock, List of electronic music genres, List of trance genres, Musique concrète, New Beat, New jack swing, New wave music, Post-disco, Progressive house, Psychedelic trance, Ragga jungle, Rave music, Resident Advisor, Routledge, Shibuya-kei, Space disco, Space music, Speed garage, Styles of house music, Synth-pop, Synthwave, Taylor & Francis, Techno, The Guardian, The Wire (magazine), Trance music, Trap music (EDM), Trip hop, Tropical house, UK funky, UK garage, 2-step garage. Expand index (48 more) »

A & C Black

A & C Black is a British book publishing company, owned since 2002 by Bloomsbury Publishing.

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Acid house

Acid house is a subgenre of house music developed around the mid-1980s by DJs from Chicago.

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Acid trance

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

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Acousmatic music

Acousmatic music (from Greek ἄκουσμα akousma, "a thing heard") is a form of electroacoustic music that is specifically composed for presentation using speakers, as opposed to a live performance.

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Al Jeel

Al Jeel, also known as Jeel, Geel (Egyptian Arabic), is an Egyptian alternative to foreign popular forms of music that developed in the 1970s.

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Ambient music

Ambient music is a genre of music that puts an emphasis on tone and atmosphere over traditional musical structure or rhythm.

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Arabic pop music

Arabic pop music or Arab pop is a subgenre of Pop music and Arabic music.

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Asian Underground

Asian Underground is a term associated with various British Asian and South Asian Canadian musicians (mostly Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Sri Lankan) who blend elements of Western underground dance music and the traditional Asian music of their home countries in South Asia.

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Bass music

Bass music (also called UK bass or post-dubstep) is an umbrella term for club music that emerged in the United Kingdom during the mid-2000s under the influence of dubstep, UK garage, R&B, wonky, 2-step, house, grime, and other electronic styles that coalesced amongst varied artists.

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Bhangra (music)

Bhaṅgṛā (بھنگڑ(Shahmukhi), ਭੰਗੜਾ (Gurmukhi)) is a type of upbeat popular music associated with India and the diaspora of southeast Asia into the North America and Europe.

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Bhangragga

Bhangragga is a slang term for the style of music incorporating elements of Bhangra and dancehall (or Ragga, short for the word Raggamuffin) created by British Asian producers alex and lennart on the debut album by Apache Indian No Reservations (1993).

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Bitpop

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.

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Breakbeat

Breakbeat is a broad style of electronic or dance-oriented music which utilizes breaks, often sampled from earlier recordings in funk, jazz and R&B, for the main rhythm.

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Breakbeat hardcore

Breakbeat hardcore (also called oldskool rave hardcore) is a genre of electronic dance music and a derivative of acid house and techno music of the late 1980s and early 1990s, that combines four-on-the-floor rhythms with breakbeats, and is associated with the UK rave scene.

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Chicago house

Chicago house refers to house music produced during the mid to late 1980s within Chicago.

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Chiptune

Chiptune, also known as chip music or 8-bit music, is synthesized electronic music which is made for programmable sound generator (PSG) sound chips used in vintage computers, consoles, and arcade machines.

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Christian electronic dance music

Christian electronic dance music, also known as CEDM, Christian EDM, Christian Dance Music, CDM, or Christian electronic music is a genre of electronic dance music and Christian music.

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Contemporary R&B

Contemporary R&B (also known as simply R&B), is a music genre that combines elements of rhythm and blues, pop, soul, funk, hip hop, and electronic music.

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Dance-pop

Dance-pop is a pop and dance subgenre that originated in the early 1980s.

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Dancehall

Dancehall is a genre of Jamaican popular music that originated in the late 1970s.

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Deep house

Deep house is a subgenre of house music.

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Detroit techno

Detroit techno is a type of techno music that generally includes the first techno productions by Detroit-based artists during the 1980s and early 1990s.

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Disco

Disco is a musical style that emerged in the mid 1960s and early 1970s from America's urban nightlife scene, where it originated in house parties and makeshift discothèques, reaching its peak popularity between the mid-1970s and early 1980s.

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Downtempo

Downtempo (sometimes used synonymously with "trip hop") is a genre of electronic music similar to ambient music, but with a greater emphasis on beats and a less "earthy" sound than trip hop.

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Drone music

Drone music, drone-based music, or simply drone, is a subgenre of minimal music that emphasizes the use of sustained or repeated sounds, notes, or tone-clusters – called drones.

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Drum and bass

Drum and bass (also written as "drum 'n' bass" or "drum & bass"; commonly abbreviated as "D&B", "DnB" or "D'n'B"), is a genre and branch of electronic music which emerged from rave and jungle scenes in Britain during the early 1990s.

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Dub music

Dub is a genre of music that grew out of reggae in the 1960s, and is commonly considered a subgenre,Dub: soundscapes and shattered songs in Jamaican reggae, p.2 though it has developed to extend beyond the scope of reggae.

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Dub techno

Dub techno is a subgenre of techno that combines the style with elements of dub music, including its production techniques and cultural influences.

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Dubstep

Dubstep is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in South London in the late 1990s.

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Electro (music)

Electro (or electro-funk).

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Electro house

Electro house is a form of house music characterized by a prominent bassline or kick drum and a tempo between 125 and 135 beats per minute.

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Electro-industrial

Electro-industrial is a music genre that emerged from industrial music in the mid-1980s.

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Electroacoustic music

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

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Electroclash

Electroclash (also known as synthcore, retro-electro, tech-pop, nouveau disco, and the new new wave) is a genre of music that fuses 1980s electro, new wave and synth-pop with 1990s techno, retro-style electropop and electronic dance music.

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Electronic dance music

Electronic dance music (also known as EDM, dance music, club music, or simply dance) is a broad range of percussive electronic music genres made largely for nightclubs, raves, and festivals.

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Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments and circuitry-based music technology.

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Electronic rock

Electronic rock is a broad music genre that involves a combination of rock music and electronic music, featuring instruments typically found within both genres.

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Electronica

Electronica encompasses a broad group of electronic-based styles such as techno, house, ambient, jungle and other electronic music styles intended not just for dancing.

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Electronicore

Electronicore (also known as synthcore or trancecore) describes a stylistic fusion of post-hardcore and metalcore with elements of various electronic music genres, such as trance, electronica, and dubstep.

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Euro disco

Euro disco (or Eurodisco) is the variety of European forms of electronic dance music that evolved from disco in the later 1970s; incorporating elements of pop, new wave and rock into a disco-like continuous dance atmosphere.

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Eurobeat

Eurobeat is either a form of the British dance-pop variant of Eurodisco, or Hi-NRG-driven Italo disco music.

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Eurodance

Eurodance (sometimes known as Euro-NRG or Euro) is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in the late 1980s in Europe.

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French house

French house is a style of house music originally produced by French artists, a popular strand of the late 1990s and 2000s European dance music scene and a form of Euro disco.

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Funky house

Funky house, also known as disco house (though the latter can also refer to nu-disco and to a style of French house), is a subgenre of house music that uses funk or disco samples, a funk or disco-inspired bass line or a strong soul influence, combined with drum breaks that draw inspiration from 1970s and 1980s funk or disco records.

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Future house

Future house (also known as UK deep house) is an electronic dance music genre that emerged in the 2010s United Kingdom, described as a fusion of deep house, UK garage and other techniques of EDM.

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Futurepop

Futurepop is an electronic music genre, an outgrowth of EBM, that evolved in the late 1990s with groups like VNV Nation, Covenant, and Apoptygma Berzerk.

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Garage house

Garage house (originally known as "garage music"; also "New York house") is a dance music style that was developed alongside house music.

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Genesis P-Orridge

Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (born Neil Andrew Megson; 22 February 1950) is an English singer-songwriter, musician, poet, performance artist, and occultist.

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Glitch (music)

Glitch is a genre of electronic music that emerged in the late 1990s.

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Goa trance

Goa trance is an electronic music style that originated during the late 1980s in Goa, India.

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Grime (music genre)

Grime (also known as, Eskibeat, 8Bar, Sublow and UK Bashment) is a genre of music that emerged in London in the early 2000s.

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Hardcore (electronic dance music genre)

Hardcore/Gabber is one of the many sides of electronic dance music that originated in the Netherlands from the emergent raves in the 1990s.

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Hardstyle

Hardstyle is an electronic dance genre mixing influences from techno and hardcore.

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Hi-NRG

Hi-NRG (pronounced "high energy") is a genre of uptempo disco or electronic dance music (EDM) that originated in the United States during the late 1970s and early 1980s.

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Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hopMerriam-Webster Dictionary entry on hip-hop, retrieved from: A subculture especially of inner-city black youths who are typically devotees of rap music; the stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rap; also rap together with this music.

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House music

House music is a genre of electronic dance music created by club DJs and music producers in Chicago in the early 1980s.

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Industrial dance music

Industrial dance music is a North American alternative term for electronic body music and electro-industrial music.

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Industrial music

Industrial music is a fusion genre of electronic and experimental music which draws on harsh, transgressive or provocative sounds and themes.

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Industrial rock

Industrial rock is a musical genre that fuses industrial music and rock music.

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Intelligent dance music

Intelligent dance music (commonly abbreviated as IDM) is a form of electronic music that emerged in the early 1990s, characterized by an abstract or "cerebral" sound better suited for home listening than dancing.

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Italo disco

Italo disco (sometimes hyphenated, such as Italo-disco, subjected to varying capitalization, or abbreviated as Italo) is a music genre which originated in Italy and was mainly produced from the late 1970s to the late 1980s.

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J-pop

J-pop (often stylized as J-POP; ジェイポップ jeipoppu; an abbreviation for Japanese pop), natively also known simply as, is a musical genre that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s.

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Japanoise

, a portmanteau of "Japanese" and "noise", is the noise music scene of Japan.

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Jersey Club

Jersey Club, also known as Brick City club, is a breakbeat genre of music.

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Jungle music

Jungle is a genre of electronic music derived from breakbeat hardcore that developed in England in the early 1990s as part of UK rave scenes.

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K-pop

K-pop (abbreviation of Korean pop) characterized by a wide variety of audiovisual elements.

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Krautrock

Krautrock (also called " ", cosmic music") is a broad genre of experimental rock that developed in Germany in the late 1960s.

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List of electronic music genres

This is a list of electronic music genres, consisting of genres of electronic music, primarily created with electronic musical instruments or electronic music technology.

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List of trance genres

A list of trance music subgenres.

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Musique concrète

Musique concrète (meaning "concrete music")" problem for any translator of an academic work in French is that the language is relatively abstract and theoretical compared to English; one might even say that the mode of thinking itself tends to be more schematic, with a readiness to see material for study in terms of highly abstract dualisms and correlations, which on occasion does not sit easily with the perhaps more pragmatic English language.

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New Beat

New Beat is a style of Belgian underground music and subculture that fused techno and acid genres and flourished in Western Europe during the late-1980s.

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New jack swing

New jack swing or swingbeatSilverton, Peter.

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New wave music

New wave is a genre of rock music popular in the late 1970s and the 1980s with ties to mid-1970s punk rock.

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Post-disco

Post-disco is a term to describe an aftermath in popular music history circa late 1979–1986, imprecisely beginning with an unprecedented backlash against disco music in the United States, leading to civil unrest and a riot in Chicago known as the Disco Demolition Night on July 12, 1979, and indistinctly ending with the mainstream appearance of house music in the late 1980s.

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Progressive house

Progressive house is a style (subgenre) of house music.

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Psychedelic trance

Psychedelic trance, psytrance or psy is a subgenre of trance music characterized by arrangements of synthetic rhythms and layered melodies created by high tempo riffs.

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Ragga jungle

Ragga jungle is a subgenre of oldschool jungle that emerged c. 1989–1990 and was initially heavily based on production of Michael West (Rebel MC, Congo Natty Label) and James Stephens' Noise Factory.

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Rave music

Rave music may either refer to the late 1980s/early 1990s genres of breakbeat, acid, techno and hardcore techno, which were the first genres of music to be played at rave parties, or to any other genre of electronic dance music (EDM) that may be played at a rave.

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Resident Advisor

Resident Advisor (also known as RA) is an online music magazine and community platform that's dedicated to showcasing electronic music, artists and events across the globe.

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Routledge

Routledge is a British multinational publisher.

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Shibuya-kei

is an eclectic form of pop music and an aesthetic that flourished in the mid to late 1990s.

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Space disco

Space disco is the fusion of disco music with futuristic themes, sounds and visuals, a genre that became popular in the late 1970s.

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Space music

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

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Speed garage

Speed garage (occasionally known as Plus-8) is a genre of electronic dance music, associated with the UK garage scene.

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Styles of house music

Larry Heard mixed house with jazz.

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Synth-pop

Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop) is a subgenre of new wave music that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument.

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Synthwave

Synthwave (also called outrun, retrowave and futuresynth) is a genre of electronic music influenced by 1980s film soundtracks and video games.

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Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis Group is an international company originating in England that publishes books and academic journals.

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Techno

Techno is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in Detroit, Michigan, in the United States during the mid-to-late 1980s.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Wire (magazine)

The Wire (sometimes stylised as WIRE) is a British avant garde music magazine, founded in May 1982 by jazz promoter Anthony Wood and journalist Chrissie Murray.

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Trance music

Trance is a genre of electronic<!-- The source says electronic music, not electronic dance music ---> music that emerged from the rave scene in the United Kingdom in the late 1980s and developed further during the early 1990s in Germany before spreading throughout the rest of Europe, as a more melodic offshoot from techno and house.

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Trap music (EDM)

In the late 2000s and early 2010s, elements of trap music—which was originally derived from southern hip hop—filtered into electronic music and created a distinct style of electronic dance music (EDM).

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Trip hop

Trip hop (sometimes used synonymously with "downtempo") is a musical genre that originated in the early 1990s in the United Kingdom, especially Bristol.

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Tropical house

Tropical house, also known as trop house, is a subgenre of deep house, with elements of dancehall and Balearic house.

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UK funky

UK funky (sometimes known as UKF or funky) is a genre of dance music from the United Kingdom that is heavily influenced by soulful house, Afrobeat, soca, tribal house, broken beat, grime and UK garage.

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UK garage

UK garage (also known as UKG) is a genre of electronic music originating from England in the early 1990s.

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2-step garage

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

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_electronic_music_genres

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