The most comprehensive list of electronic music and electronic dance music (EDM) genres available on the Internet
The Music Genres List site covers many of the most popular styles of EDM and electronic music, we hope this becomes the definitive list of electronic dance music genres on the Internet, send an email to add @ musicgenreslist dot com if you feel any EDM music genres are missing and we’ll add to complete the music list.
Dance (EDM – Electronic Dance Music – see Electronic below)
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- Club / Club Dance
- Breakcore
- Breakbeat / Breakstep
- 4-Beat
- Acid Breaks
- Baltimore Club
- Big Beat
- Breakbeat Hardcore
- Broken Beat
- Florida Breaks
- Nu Skool Breaks
- Brostep
- Chillstep
- Deep House
- Dubstep
- Electro House
- Electroswing
- Exercise
- Future Garage
- Garage
- Glitch Hop
- Glitch Pop
- Grime
- Hardcore
- Bouncy House
- Bouncy Techno
- Breakcore
- Digital Hardcore
- Doomcore
- Dubstyle
- Gabber
- Happy Hardcore
- Hardstyle
- Jumpstyle
- Makina
- Speedcore
- Terrorcore
- Uk Hardcore
- Hard Dance
- Hi-NRG / Eurodance
- Horrorcore (thx Matt)
- House
- Acid House
- Chicago House
- Deep House
- Diva House
- Dutch House
- Electro House
- Freestyle House
- French House
- Funky House
- Ghetto House
- Hardbag
- Hip House
- Italo House
- Latin House
- Minimal House
- Progressive House
- Rave Music
- Swing House
- Tech House
- Tribal House
- Tropical House
- UK Hard House
- US Garage
- Vocal House
- Jackin House
- Jungle / Drum’n’bass
- Liquid Dub
- Regstep
- Speedcore
- Techno
- Acid Techno
- Detroit Techno
- Free Tekno
- Ghettotech
- Minimal
- Nortec
- Schranz
- Techno-Dnb
- Technopop
- Tecno Brega
- Toytown Techno
- Trance
- Acid Trance
- Acid-House
- Classic Trance
- Dark Psy
- Deep House
- Dream Trance
- Goa Trance
- Dark Psytrance
- Full on
- Psybreaks
- Psyprog
- Suomisaundi
- Hard Trance
- Prog. Trance
- Psy-Trance
- Minimal Techno
- Tech House
- Tech Trance
- Uplifting Trance
- Orchestral Uplifting
- Vocal Trance
- Trap
- Vocaloid
Electronic / EDM
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- 2-Step (thx Ran’dom Haug)
- 8bit – aka 8-bit, Bitpop and Chiptune (see below)
- Ambient
- Ambient Dub
- Ambient House
- Ambient Techno
- Dark Ambient
- Drone Music
- Illbient
- Isolationism
- Lowercase
- Asian Underground
- Bassline
- Chillwave
- Chiptune
- Bitpop
- Game Boy
- Nintendocore
- Video Game Music
- Yorkshire Bleeps and Bass
- Crunk
- Downtempo
- Acid Jazz
- Balearic Beat
- Chill Out
- Dub Music
- Dubtronica
- Ethnic Electronica
- Moombahton
- Nu Jazz
- Trip Hop
- Drum & Bass
- Darkcore
- Darkstep
- Drumfunk
- Drumstep
- Hardstep
- Intelligent Drum and Bass
- Jump-Up
- Liquid Funk
- Neurofunk
- Oldschool Jungle:
- Darkside Jungle
- Ragga Jungle
- Raggacore
- Sambass
- Techstep
- Electro
- Crunk
- Electro Backbeat
- Electro-Grime
- Electropop
- Electro-swing
- Electroacoustic
- Acousmatic Music
- Computer Music
- Electroacoustic Improvisation
- Field Recording
- Live Coding
- Live Electronics
- Soundscape Composition
- Tape Music
- Electronica
- Berlin School
- Chillwave
- Electronic Art Music
- Electronic Dance Music
- Folktronica
- Freestyle Music
- Glitch
- Idm
- Laptronica
- Skweee
- Sound Art
- Synthcore
- Electronic Rock
- Alternative Dance
- Baggy
- Madchester
- Dance-Punk
- Dance-Rock
- Dark Wave
- Electroclash
- Electronicore
- Electropunk
- Ethereal Wave
- Indietronica
- New Rave
- Space Rock
- Synthpop
- Synthpunk
- Alternative Dance
- Eurodance
- Bubblegum Dance
- Italo Dance
- Turbofolk
- Hardstyle
- Hi-Nrg
- Eurobeat
- Hard Nrg
- New Beat
- IDM/Experimental
- Industrial
- Trip Hop
- Vaporwave
- Hyponagogic
- Vektroid
- Mallsoft
- Vaportrap
- Vaporhop
- Protovapor
- UK Garage
- 2-Step
- 4×4
- Bassline
- Grime
- Speed Garage
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Collins Dictionary: a form of music consisting of sounds produced by oscillating electric currents either controlled from an instrument panel or keyboard or prerecorded on magnetic tape.
Tony Phan
August 24, 2016Hi You’re missing a genre in electronic and that’s Electronicore