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History of Electronic Music

Electronic music has been around for almost 50 years, evolving from experimental compositions in the 1960s using early synthesizers to broad genres today including dubstep, house, and trance. While electronic music was incorporated into pop music in the 1970s, it grew into a massive genre in its own right in the 1990s with styles like techno and drum and bass emerging. Since 2000, genres like dubstep and trance have influenced mainstream pop music, bringing electronic dance music into the mainstream.

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History of Electronic Music

Electronic music has been around for almost 50 years, evolving from experimental compositions in the 1960s using early synthesizers to broad genres today including dubstep, house, and trance. While electronic music was incorporated into pop music in the 1970s, it grew into a massive genre in its own right in the 1990s with styles like techno and drum and bass emerging. Since 2000, genres like dubstep and trance have influenced mainstream pop music, bringing electronic dance music into the mainstream.

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FROM DUBSTEP TO DISCO, ELECTRONIC MUSIC IS A BROAD CATEGORY OF MODERN MUSIC

THAT INCLUDES A WIDE VARIETY OF STYLES. WHILE MOST PEOPLE THINK OF ELECTRONIC
MUSIC AS A PRODUCT OF THE 21ST CENTURY, THE REALITY IS THAT ELECTRONIC MUSIC
HAS BEEN AROUND FOR ALMOST 50 YEARS.

JULIANE D.
MAYORGA

10-Photon

Electronic music
- any music involving 2018.11.09
electronic processing,

MUSIC 4
such as recording and
editing on tape, and
whose reproduction
involves the use
of loudspeakers.

HISTORY
OF
ELECTRONIC
MUSIC
THE ORIGINS OF
Artists were using electronic instruments as early as the 1960s. ELECTRONIC
Progressive rock bands like Pink Floyd made the iconic Moog
synthesizer one of the most important aspects of their sound.
MUSIC
Pop rock bands like The Beatles also began to incorporate keyboards
and synthesizers into some of their experimental songs.
At the same time, composers were using new instruments like the
Theremin in their work, particularly in the film industry.
Commercial Moog synthesizer
released in the mid-1960s
the first iconic instrument of electronic music.

The 1970s , when electronic music entered the mainstream.


Kraftwerk
– an iconic West German band
– introduced the electronic sound to a wider audience.
Kraftwerk paired the driving rhythms of bands like Led Zeppelin and
SYNTHPOP AND DISCO: Deep Purple with the futuristic sounds of the Moog synthesizer and

THE 1970S vocoder.


In the 1970s, their interesting new sound influenced a wide variety of
musicians and created the foundations for the electronic music scene.
Once Kraftwerk had introduced electronic music into the 1970s
music scene, other artists soon followed.
Giorgio Moroder
– now famous for his involvement with Daft Punk
– used electronic instruments to capitalize on the growing disco musi
trend.
Moroder collaborated with mainstream artists to bring electronic
music to a new audience, producing tracks for Donna Summer,
David Bowie, and more.
His use of synthesizers introduced the electronic sound to the
musical mainstream.
The 1980s the era of glitz, glamor, and excess was a great time for
electronic music, with new styles such as synthpop and house, as
well as new technology like MIDI emerging. THE SYNTH ERA:
Many of today’s most popular electronic music styles, such as house THE 1980S
and trance, are the product of 1980s synth music.
The 1980s club scene made new wave, post-disco, and synthpop well-
known styles and brought electronic music into the mainstream.
Bands like A-ha, Pet Shop Boys, and Depeche Mode combined the
structure of rock music with the new sounds made possible by MIDI.
Even hard rock bands like The Sisters of Mercy embraced electronic
music, using MIDI effects and drum machines to create new forms of
music like dark wave and alternative dance.
Towards the end of the 1980s, band like Orbital created the
foundations for dance music genres like trance and techno.
The rising popularity of home computers like the Atari ST introduced
MIDI technology to a wide audience of producers.

The 1990s that electronic music grew into the massive genre it is
today.
Distinct genres of electronic music emerged, from hard house and
DANCE MUSIC: THE 1990S techno to ambient and experimental.
Marked the emergence of well-known electronic music genres like
trance and drum and bass.
Influential electronic hits from the time include Halcyon + on +
on, a famous ambient trance track from English band Orbital.
Techno developed from an underground form of music into a
mainstream style in Germany and the UK.
The first decade in which electronic music composition became
something anyone could do.
The massive popularity of PCs resulted in the creation of new
software like Fruity Loops (now FL Studio) aimed at home users.

Since 2000, electronic dance music (EDM) has grown from a popular
genre into an influential part of all mainstream music.
THE EDM ERA:
Today, iconic electronic artists like Tiësto and David Guetta have
worked with mainstream artists and reached the top of the most 2000 TO TODAY
important album and singles charts.
Genres like dubstep and trance have influenced the structure of
mainstream pop music. From Taylor Swift to Justin Bieber, many of
today’s most popular pop artists have implemented aspects of
dubstep, house, and trance into their singles.

Although electronic music is more popular than ever, it remains a genre that exists both in and out of the
mainstream. While dubstep and electro entered the world of pop music, many of the electronic world’s most
iconic artists continue to produce music aimed not at the mainstream but at smaller, underground audiences.
Source: https://blog.udemy.com/history-of-electronic-music/

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