Electronic
What Is IDM? Intelligent Dance Music, Explained
IDM is the laptop-era art school of electronic music — braindance, home-listening electronica and the records that made software an instrument.
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House, techno, bass, trance and their offshoots traced through the machines that made them: drum machines, samplers, synth presets, studio habits.
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Electronic Music BPM Cheat Sheet: Every Genre
A working tempo map of electronic music — what runs at 120, what runs at 174, and how to use BPM when you mix or browse crates.
Electronic
What Is UK Garage? The Genre Guide
UK garage is London's swinging, soulful 2-step sound — the genre that raised dubstep, grime and half of modern pop's drum language.
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What Is Gabber? Hardcore, Explained
Gabber, the Rotterdam-born hardcore strain that runs past 180 BPM, is dance music at its most physical — and it is booming again.
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What Is Trance Music? The Complete Guide
Trance is dance music's cathedral sound — long builds, melodic payoffs and 138 BPM — and it never actually went away.
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What Is Dubstep? A History Explainer
Dubstep is the South London sound that went from a 100-capacity club night to global festival main stages — then split in two.