Electronica - Intelligent Dance Music, Trip Hop, Chiptune, A&d, Glitch, Big Beat, NU Jazz, Big Bang, Alternative Dance, Fierce Angel (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: Intelligent dance music, Trip hop, Chiptune, A&D, Glitch, Big beat, Nu jazz, Big Bang, Alternative dance, Fierce Angel, Blip Festival, Downtempo, Karin Strom, Mixing It, Bitpop, I'm in Love with a German Film Star, Nonclassical, Funktronica, Amp, Deadline for My Memories, Wired Records, Terry Poison, North, Snare rush, Eduardo Makaroff, Mana ERG, Electrogaze, Guitartronica, Untitled, Action Radius. Excerpt: Electronica includes a wide range of contemporary electronic music designed for a wide range of uses, including foreground listening, some forms of dancing, and background music for other activities; however, unlike electronic dance music, it is not specifically made for dancing. The term was first used in the United States in the early 1990s with regards to post-rave global-influenced electronic dance music. Genres such as techno, drum and bass, downtempo, and ambient are among those encompassed by the umbrella term, entering the American mainstream from "alternative" or "underground" venues during the late 1990s. Prior to the adoption of electronica for this purpose, terms such as electronic listening music, and intelligent dance music (IDM) were used. Allmusic categorises electronica as a top-level genre on their main page, where they state that electronica includes danceable grooves to music for headphones and chillout areas. Electronica has grown to influence mainstream crossover recordings. Electronic sounds began to form the basis of a wide array of popular music in the late 1970s, and became key to the mainstream pop and rock sounds of the 1980s. Since the adoption of "electronica" in the 1990s to describe more underground music with an electronic aesthetic, elements of modern electronica have been adopted by many popular artists in mainstream music. Electronic Dance Music Culture, a contemporary subcultu...