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Originally posted by mehta considering that any of those types of music can be (and often are) produced electronically, that doesn't make much sense.

ok then, its a broad term for any type of music which is or has been produced electronically.

basically, music falls into two categories.

acoustic or electronic.

then it goes down in the chain of endless sub-categories.

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electronic music is atmospheric noises

there's always the acronym 'EDM'

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Originally posted by netroM there's always the acronym 'EDM'

Not all electronic music is dance-oriented, though.

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Originally posted by netroM there's always the acronym 'EDM'

Polka music is dance music.
Tango music is dance music.
Salsa music is dance music.

Sorry, but it's still a too broad term.

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nearly all music produced for the mainstream since the 1950s is electronic music. at the same time all the weird academic stuff you can do only with the supercomputers of the era came out. electronic music is about the recording technologies and their manipulation. this is why almost everything is included. there is no set aesthetic or anything like that.

the names are silly, and electronic music is so broad that it doesn't describe anything, which is why most of the conversations on this board can happen only in reference to specific sounds.

example: a classical music enthusiast would crucify anyone for calling Tchaikovsky's work "classical music" -- it's Romantic. "Classical" was the era before that. but most people still call anything with an orchestra or a single violin "classical music".

Meh, as a classical music fan, I say that "classical" is actually the best term for the general category, because all the other terms suck.

"Symphonic music" leaves out chamber and choral music. "Orchestral music" would include things like soundtracks and stringy pop music that aren't the same thing. And "art music" and "serious music" sound snotty.

Unless someone gives me a better option, I am sticking with "classical."

what is electronic music: good shit. i love them muddy synthesized tones and overtones and big bass booms.

Electronica = Techno

Not the "Sub-Genre". But as a Term that defines the entire Field itself. Electronica is not its own genre. If it were, I'd prefer to call it experimental. Techno was the broad term, but then Techno felt like being its own genre so they fond a new word.

Electronic means....electronic.

Techno, short for Technologic Music.

Tomato Tomato. Different way describing the same thing.

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Originally posted by essentia89 To me, electronic music is like music that has no identity or lose identity. For example,trance, house, DnB & etc.... Every genre has its own identity rite, how about electronic music?

I always use this as the ultimate qualifier:

If you have to plug it in to make music with it, it's electronic.

I better post a followup before people reply with dumbass exceptions before thinking it through first:

percussion/wind/string/brass/wood instruments are not electronic. You can play them manually without the need of electric power.

Yes, a polysynth can recreate any of those sounds and technically be called electronic by doing so, but because those sounds can be recreated in their native environment without the need for electronic instrumentation, they are considered non-electronic sounds.

Now, take a unique electronic sound such as the TB-303 (or SH-101, TR-808/909), Yamaha DX7, Roland Alpha Juno, Roland JP 8080, or any of the myriad synthesizers, sequencers, samplers and effects processors that have flooded the market over the past 40 years. These are unique sounds that can not be created by any mechanical instrument. They require electric power to produce their sounds.

So too do the softsynths and sample playback virtual synths that reproduce these sounds -- still electronic instrumentation.

You can make non-electronic music using electronic instruments (which is what the ethnic/worldbeat/new age/ambient scene is all about), but if you're going to use uniquely electronic sounds in your project, no one will ever not call it electronic music. Regardless of what it sounds like.