Jan 19, 2023 | Musical Genre Terminology, Resources
Drum and Bass ( DnB, D&B, Drum n Bass) is an electronic music genre. It started in the UK rave scene (and its derivatives are darkcore and hardcore jungle). The genre eventually became one of the most well-known subgenres of electronic dance music. It also spread...
Dec 15, 2022 | Musical Genre Terminology, Resources
Trance is perhaps the most ambiguous dance music genre. It could be defined as very melodic. Some say trance is more or less freeform music evolving partly from house music. And while there is no precise definition, one can describe these tracks as anthemic, epic, and...
August 12, 2022 | Musical Genre Terminology, Resources
Pioneering techno productions made in Detroit throughout the 1980s and early 1990s defined the Detroit techno style. The beginning of the post-industrial renaissance was symbolically represented by the collapse of the automobile sector in the United States. This...
Oct 27, 2022 | Musical Genre Terminology, Resources
Hardbass is a subgenre of Pumping House music. St. Petersburg DJs produced electronic mixes in the late 1990s for large, noisy clubs. Accordingly, their mixes combined the ruthless intensity of UK Hardcore with the steady beat of Hard House. In these times, Pumping...
Oct 20, 2022 | Musical Genre Terminology, Resources
Early 1990s German techno and hardcore scenes, and the British new-age music scene, gave rise to this subgenre called trance. A trance is a hypnotic, active state of awareness. This genre illustrates this by combining layers of anticipated build-up and...