Research: Electronic Dance Music

Electronic Dance Music

Research/History

• The origin of this large genre is mixed but it was around the mid 70's and 80's
• It became popular in Europe first in the club scene then eventually made its way to America

Electronic Dance Music (EDM) is made up of a huge amount of sub-genres; the largest and most popular is House which in itself has many sub-genres.

There are various instruments used in Electronic Dance Music these include:

• Synthesizers
• Samplers
• Vocals
• Keyboard
• Piano
• Drum

And More...

The way most EDM is made is by the use of Digital Audio Workstations which are computer software and you can get a wide amount of different programs which can help make a specific type of EDM

Examples of these would be:

• FL Studio
• Ableton Live
• Logic Pro
• Cubase
• Reason

And others but these are the most widely used by well known Producers such as:

• Martin Garrix
• David Guetta
• Calvin Harris
• Don Diablo
• Blonde

Etc...

Overall Electronic Dance Music is a very varied genre in music and in the charts now you can hear many examples of it