Guide to Electronic Music Genres

SORRY IF I DIDNT INCLUDE A CERTAIN GENRE, BUT THIS IS JUST A YOUTUBE VIDEO NOT EVERY SINGLE GENRE CAN BE FEATURED WITHOUT THE VIDEO BEING TOO LONG

If you have questions or remarks please put them in the comments, I read them requently.
The songs used are mentionned by artist and track in the video itself.
I don't own any of the songs, rights go to the artists.

Some more genres that didn't make the cut:
Aggrotech
Breakcore
Dark Electro
Dutch House
Eurotrance
Future Bass
Future House
Grime
Hands Up
Happy Hardcore
Jumpstyle
Jump-up DnB
Melodic Dubstep
Moombacore
Speedcore/Terrorcore
Tech Trance
Tropical House
Witch House

[jacobsims]

Can everyone just be thankful that this person took the time to make a video explaining genres for new people who know nothing about our music. It’s a decent video.

[hexx]

>Apologizes for missing a certain genre
>still gets comments complaining about not having [Insert genre here]

[plumdog]

House
0:57 House* (Daft Punk - Revolution 909)
1:11 Progressive House (Underworld - Dark Train)
1:25 Deep House (Arco - Clouds)
1:40 Electro House* (Tobu - Higher)
1:53 Techno House (Gramatik - Illegal)
2:07 Acid House (808 State - Flow Coma)
2:21 Jackin' House [Bass House] (Prince Club - Good Club)
2:35 Disco House (Hot22 - Want You)
2:49 Funky/French House (Madeon - Pay No Mind)
3:03 Garage (Todd Edwards - Push The Love)
3:16 Big Room House (DVBBS & Borgeous - Tsunami)
3:31 Nu Disco* (Todd Terje - Inspector Norse)
3:45 Eurodance (2Unlimited - Jump For Joy)

Techno
3:59 Techno (Orbital - Tunnel Vision), (Leftfield - Universal Everything)

Trance
4:27 Trance (Above & Beyond - Alone Tonight)
4:41 Classic Trance (Push - Universal Nation)
4:55 Epic Trance (A.R.D.I - Landscape)
5:09 Progressive Trance (Solarstone - Pure)
5:23 Goa/Psy Trance (Talamasca - Drops of Madness)
5:37 Nightcore (Nightcore - Angel of Darkness)

Downtempo
5:50 Downtempo (Moby - Porcelain)
6:06 Ambient (Brian Eno - Signals)
6:19 Chill Out (Zircon - Cubic Movement)
6:33 Downbeat (The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds)
6:47 Chillhop (Gramatik - Chillaxin By The Sea)
7:01 Chillstep (The Art of Noise - Moments in Love)
7:15 Trip Hop* (Massive Attack - Teardrop)

Breakbeat
7:29 Breakbeat (Fluke - Atom Bomb)
7:43 Big Beat (The Chemical Brothers - Elektrobank)
7:57 Funky Breaks* (Propellerheads - Take California)
8:11 Rave Breaks (The Prodigy - Your Love Remix)
8:25 Jungle (Paradox - Creator)
8:39 Drum and Bass* (Pendulum - Hold Your Color)
8:53 Liquid DnB (Nu: Tone - Tides)
9:07 Neurofunk (Noisia - Running Blind)
9:21 2Step Garage (Craig David - Re Rewind)

Bass
9:35 Dub (King Tubby - Leaving Babylon)
9:49 Dubstep (Skream - Rutten)
10:03 Brostep (Skrillex - First of the Year)
10:17 Drumstep* (Netsky - Come Alive)
10:31 Trap* (DJ Snake - Turn Down For What)
10:45 Moombathon* (Major Lazer - Watch Out For This)
10:59 Bounce (Mike L. - G.T.F.U)
11:13 Glitch (Savant - Pirate Bay)

Hardcode
11:27 Hardcore (Showtek - FTS)
11:41 Industrial (Front Line Assembly - Mindphaser)
11:55 New Beat (Lords of Acid - I sit on Acid)
12:09 EBM (Front242 - Headhunter)
12:23 Future Pop (Assemblage 23 - The Noise Inside My Head)
12:37 Gabber/Hardstyle (Headhunterz - Colors)
12:51 Hard Dance/Techno (EnV - RPM)

Other
13:05 Early Electronic (Tangerine Dream - Love on a Real Train)
13:19 Electropop (Kraftwerk - The Model)
13:33 New Wave (New Order - Blue Monday)
13:47 IDM (Aphex Twin - minipops 67 120.2 source field mix)
14:01 Chiptune* (_ensnare_ - There is always love)
14:15 Electro Swing* (Caravan Palace - Suzy)
14:29 Complextro (Zircon - Augment)
14:43 EDM / Electronica (Just a catchall term for any of the above genres)

* = My favourites

You're welcome :)

[atata]

0:57 HOUSE
1:10 Progressive House
1:25 Deep House
1:39 Electro House
1:53 Tech House
2:07 Acid House
2:21 Jackin' House
2:35 Disco House
2:49 Funky/French House
3:03 Garage
3:17 Big Room House
3:31 Nu Disco
3:45 Eurodance
3:59 TECHNO (4:15 sounds like Deep House to me)
4:27 TRANCE
4:41 Classic Trance
4:55 Epic Trance
5:09 Progressive Trance
5:23 Goa/Psy Trance
3:37 Nightcore
5:51 DOWNTEMPO
6:05 Ambient
6:19 ChillOut (or ""Chill-Out"?)
6:33 Downbeat
6:47 ChillHop
7:00 ChillStep
7:15 Trip Hop
7:29 BREAKBEAT
7:43 Big Beat
7:57 Funky Breaks
8:11 Rave Breaks
8:25 Jungle
8:39 Drum and Bass
8:54 Liquid DbN
9:07 Neurofunk
9:21 25Step Garage
(BASS)
9:35 Dub
9:48 Dubstep
10:03 Brostep
10:17 Drumstep
10:31 Trap
10:44 Moonbathon
10:59 Bounce
11:13 Glitch
11:27 HARDCORE
11:40 Industrial
11:55 New Beat
12:09 EBM (Electronic Body Music)
12:23 Futurepop
12:36 Gabber/Hardstyle
12:51 Harder Dance/Techno
"OTHER"
13:05 Early Electronic
13:19 Electro Pop
13:33 New Wave
13:47 IDM (Intelligent Dance Music)
14:01 Chiptune
14:15 Electro Swing
14:29 Complextro
14:43 EDM(Electronic Dance Música)/Electrónica
I have a question. DeadMau5 & Kaskade's song "I Remember" which genre is?

[ragetasticgames]

I clicked on this just to look at the genrepolice in the comments.

[Sabrintwittr]

Boy, dubstep was like football
Different in the UK and the US

[JaredtheRabbit]

Fun fact: Brian Eno also made the startup sound for the classic Windows 95 operating system.

[trippy]

Me every 10 seconds when a new song comes: "Oh gotta add that banger to the playlist!"

[KriAsb]

Nightcore is as much of a genre as [BASS BOOSTED] is.

[rekaviles]

Spent way too little time on techno. It's as versatile and vast as house music with its own liat of sub genres.

[helostcontroll]

im so fucking glad you separated dubstep from brostep.

[zoltanlukacs]

In all the comments I saw no reccommendation or mention of one genre:

Synthwave

(also sometimes called retro-electro, basically mid-to-late 80's beats and tracks with just a touch of "modernism").
There are even subgenres of it, like Darksynth, Post-Darksynth, Horror Synth and Slasherwave, Cybersynth, Chillsynth, FutureSynth / Space Synth, Dreamwave, Outrun, (Neo) Italo Disco and Vaporwave (and probably some more).
I just feel like it should not be left out, It's getting more and more popular (at least where I live) and I love it!

[foodforthoughtreviews]

That description of Big Room House was the most accurate thing ever.

[xylophone]

Only 1 nitpick: Breakbeat isn't called that because the beat is 'broken', it's because the beat came from sampled drum breaks (especially from RnB)

[KapitalP]

30 years of being an EDM fan. Been through many phases and have music in nearly every one of these genres. Some better and more memorable than others. Good vid - thanks for this.

[MrTheinfoman]

list of edm's (with sub genres ) 2016

Ambient
Ambient dub
Dark ambient
Drone music
Breakbeat
Acid breaks
Baltimore club
Big beat
Broken beat
Florida breaks
Nu-funk
Miami bass
Jersey club
Nu skool breaks
Disco
Afro / Cosmic disco
Disco polo
Euro disco
Italo disco
Nu-disco
Space disco
Downtempo
Acid jazz
Chill-out
New-age music
Space music
Trip hop
Drum and bass
Darkstep
Drill and bass
Drumstep
Funkstep
Hardstep
Jump-up
Liquid funk
Neurofunk
Neurohop
Sambass
Techstep
Dub
Electro music
Freestyle music
Electroacoustic music
Acousmatic music
Musique concrète
Electronic rock
Alternative dance
Indietronica
Coldwave
Dance-punk
Dark wave
Electroclash
Electronicore
Electropunk
Ethereal wave
Krautrock
Minimal wave
New rave
Nu-gaze
Space rock
Synthpop
Synthwave
Electronica
Berlin School
Dubtronica
Ethnic electronica
Folktronica
Funktronica
Laptronica
Livetronica
Hardcore
Gabber
4-beat
Breakbeat hardcore
Bouncy techno
Breakcore
Digital hardcore
Darkcore
Happy hardcore
Mákina
Speedcore
UK hardcore
Hardstyle
Dubstyle
Jumpstyle
Lento violento
Hi-NRG
Eurobeat
Eurodance
Bubblegum dance
Italo dance
House music
Acid house
Ambient house
Balearic beat
Chicago house
Deep house
Future house
Tropical house
Bouncy house
Diva house/Handbag house
Electro house
Big room
Complextro
Fidget house
Dutch house
Moombahton
Moombahcore
Electro swing
French house
Funky house
Garage house
Ghetto house
Ghettotech
Hardbag
Hard house
Hard NRG
Nu-NRG
Hip house
Italo house
Jazz house
Kwaito
Latin house
Microhouse/Minimal house
New beat
Outsider house
Progressive house
Rara tech
Tech house
Tribal house
Trival (Mexican House AKA (3BALL) PS THIS COUNTS AS EDM
Witch house
Industrial music
Aggrotech
Cybergrind
Electro-industrial
Dark electro
Electronic body music
Futurepop
Industrial metal
Industrial rock
Japanoise
Neue Deutsche Härte
Power electronics
Death industrial
Power noise
IDM
Glitch
Glitch Hop
Wonky
Jungle
Darkcore jungle
Raggacore
Post-disco
Boogie
Electropop
Chillwave
Dance-pop
Dance-rock
Techno
Acid techno
Detroit techno
Dub techno
Free tekno
Minimal techno
Nortec
Tecno brega
Techdombe
Trance music
Acid trance
Balearic trance
Dream trance
Goa trance
Hard trance
Nitzhonot
Psychedelic trance
Suomisaundi
Full on
Progressive trance
Tech trance
Uplifting trance
Vocal trance
Trap
Drill
Future bass
UK garage
2-step garage
Dubstep
Brostep
Chillstep
Reggaestep
Breakstep
Future garage
Grime
Grindie
Speed garage
Bassline/4x4 garage
UK funky
Vaporwave
Video game music
Chiptune
Bitpop
Game Boy music
Skweee
Nintendocore
CHOP AND SCREWED

ALL IN WIKI


Disclaimer "Tribal" and "Trival" are different Genres

1. One is African Style (Tribal without a v) and the other is Mexican Regional Cumbia (Trival with a V or 3Ball)

[ohokay]

I actually love glitch. In a song, every new note grabs my attention and throws it in another direction. Glitch makes me bounce around in my own head, kinda, but it keeps me paying attention to the music to appreciate it, as I tend to daydream a lot in other genres

[Raulmore]

Some more genres:

Hard Trap
Jungle Terror (the Wiwek thing)
Hard Bass (the Russian thing)
FrenchCore
Future Bass
Melodic Dubstep (The Seven Lions thing)
Tropical House
Brazilian Bass
Minimal Techno
Groove
Happy Hardcore (the S3RL thing)
Synth Pop (the Porter Robinson thing)

Great video btw

[PhoniexStudio]

The only way I could ever explain Hardstyle was, and I quote, "very catchy beat that sounds like an amplified version of someone slapping a metal hood of a car, hard."






Still my favorite genre.

[droidzilla]

There's too many subgenres with only a negligible amount of structural differences. Makes it hard to classify and also boxes in producers creatively.