Electronic Music is one of the most popular genres among young people, created with the help of electronic musical instruments and special technologies. Even though for the first time such instruments appeared in the beginning of the XXth century, the style itself settled down in the second half of that century. Today this genre consists of many style varieties. You can check it yourself on our web-portal musicfans.space, where you can buy good electronic music or download music of any genre for free.
The most famous and popular instrument of this genre is electric guitar, but many other instruments are also used: Hammond organ, telharmonium. Clean electronic music is made from the sounds of synthesizer, theremin and computer.
This genre emerged in the 1960s thanks to works of Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Popol Vuh and others. These artists generated their ideas on the basis of krautrock and Psychedelic rock, which was supposed to cause some surrealistic images in people’s imagination.
In the late sixties the first synthesizer Mini Moog was created. It immediately turned the electronic music lovers on. Even electronic guitars took a back seat. In most cases music in the seventies was created with keyboard synthesizer instruments.
In the end of the 80s there were three trends in Electronic Dance Music:
1. Background music without any steady rhythm and structured melody. It was called “ambient”. The founder of this style is Brian Eno, although many artists played this music earlier.
2. Electronic and instrumental-oriented. It is focused on the instruments, in other words, this style was created as a result of synthesizer pieces, which, in most cases, were dedicated to some space theme.
3. Focus on singing. This type differs from the other ones in clear sounds, rhythm and the presence of vocal accompaniment. The most popular group of this genre is Depeche Mode.
Lately, drum-machines started to appear, and live-music was gradually disappearing. In the 21st century original electronic music almost didn’t exist. It is supplemented with many other genres, which sometime makes it difficult even to list. Today such music in most cases is created on computers or with the help of remaking old compositions by adding something new to them. Combination of many genres can be found in the music of System 7, Delerium, Synaesthesia.