Rise of Electronic Music

Electronic music was born in the discos and nightclubsApart from electro music genres like trance, techno,
nationwide in the early eighties. Today, this genre ofhouse and breakbeat which are primarily intended for
music, also known as Electronic Dance Music or EDMdancing. Some genres of electronic music like IDM and
is a music largely created by disk jockeys with atrip hop are more associated with listening rather
purpose of creating environment for dance-basedthan body movements. Trance, which is also one of
entertainment.the forms of electronic genre of music, is a
EDM soon became one of the most popular musiccombination of techno, house and industrial music.
genres all around the world and some of the formsThe name is undoubtedly linked to perceive the ability
of electronic music are Breakbeat, Dance-punk,of music to induce an altered state of consciousness.
Eurodance, Freestyle, House, Techno and Trance.With the growth of computers and music
Though the roots of electronic music are based intechnologies, and reduction in the cost of music
the disco music which was very popular in the 1970sequipments, a number of upcoming artists and disk
it was only in 1990s, that this type music was widelyjockeys have emerged, showcasing their talent and
accepted and it became one of the contemporarytaking electronic music to the next level. Also, with
music styles in following years. Electronic music isthe advent of hard disk recording system, it is
generally created by means of electronic equipmentspossible for any computer user to become a
and instruments like synthesizers, drum machines andmusician, hence we see a rising trend of bedroom
sequencers and it mimics the unique sounds of thebands where often only single player is the band
traditional acoustic instrumentation.himself.