Does anyone know what the different genres of club music are?

Question

I have a really big pet pieve about people catorgarizing club muisc and or dance music, techno music. I was just wondering if people actually know what the genres of dance music are. Or do people just a ssume that that kind of music is Techno music. Techno music is actually a sub-genre of dance music. Does anyone else agree?

Answer 1

Acid House-This dates back to the 1980's, a style that was played at the club "The Warehouse" in Chicago. This is where the characteristic synthetic plip-plop sound you often hear in dance music comes from.

Big Beat-Big Beat is a late ‘90s phenomenon combining Hip Hop and breakbeats with rock vocals and guitars, all within a techno aesthetic. The Chemical Brothers and Fat Boy Slim


Digital Hardcore-DHC or Gabber, is, primarily, Hardcore Punk/Noise made digitally. This stuff is very noisy and aggressive, yet vaguely catchy.



Euro dance ( eurotrash)-Its distinctive, synthetic, yet pounding sounds became the most important rhythmic basis for the offshoot of Techno Dance or Hip Hop called Electro - a purer, more electronic, more instrumental, and more experimental form.

Happy Hardcore-Happy Hardcore, also known as 4-Beat, grafts the high speeds of Garage on to bubblegum pop records by the likes of Cyndi Lauper. It's very fast, very bouncy and extremely high-energy.

House- House is a further development of Disco and is the musical core of today's dance music.

Industrial-ndustrial is harsh, pessimistic electro-rock with a sonic palette of abrasive, mechanical sounds. The genre takes its name from Industrial Records, the label that hosted Industrial pioneers Throbbing Gristle. Nine Inch Nails’ “Pretty Hate Machine” is a masterpiece of the genre..

Progessive- Refers to dance music with unusual sound-sections and new rhythms. Often tied to DJs and artists with high credibility. This is music that is too progressive to fit the general house definition but not as dark or hard as Trance or Techno-House.

Techno- echno, arguably (along with House) the most prominent and recognizable form of Electronica, grew out of German experimental synth music (Kraftwerk) and early Hip Hop and Electro Funk.

Trip-Hop
Not hip-hop, not trippy, a useless name for another useless subset of loungey electronica. Usually melancholic in nature, the mainstays of Trip-Hop are R&B vocals woman vocals over smooth Hip Hop beats/scratching layered with Rock and Jazz.

Rave- Heavy basslines with fast rolling drum sounds and fast synths. Not much in the vocals department, just a few words being repeated over and over.