Alternative dance

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  Trip hop

  Trip-hop is a music genre also known as the Bristol sound. The trip-hop description was applied to the musical trend in the mid-1990s of downtempo electronic music that grew out of England's hip hop and house scenes. It is often rejected as a term by those artists to whom it is applied. It has also...
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  House music

  House is a style of electronic dance music that originated in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was initially popularized in mid-1980s discothèques catering to the African-American and Latino American, French and gay communities, first in Chicago, then in New York City, New Jersey, Detroit and Miami. It...
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  Acid house

  Acid house is a sub-genre of house music that emphasizes a repetitive, hypnotic and trance-like style, often with samples or spoken lines rather than sung lyrics. Acid house's core electronic squelch sounds were developed by mid-1980s DJs from Chicago who experimented with the Roland TB-303...

• Euro disco

  Euro Disco (also Eurodisco or Euro-disco, or "80s European dance") is a term that was first used during the 1970s to describe a variety of non UK-based European disco pop music. Euro-disco songs, like other related genres such as Euro-pop and Euro-dance are usually lightweight, slickly produced,...

• Hardcore techno

  Hardcore is a style of electronic music that originated in the early-to-mid-1990s in multiple locations including the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Belgium and the UK. The style is typified by a fast tempo, and the rhythmic use of distorted and atonal industrial-like beats and samples. Hardcore is...

• Rave music

  Rave music consists of forms of electronic dance music that are associated with the rave scene. Most often, the term is used to describe high in energy music, including some forms of trance music, that features samples, loops and synthesizers. Less intense forms of rave music include ambient music,...

• Big beat

  Big beat is a term employed since the mid 1990s by the British music press to describe much of the music by artists such as The Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim, The Crystal Method, Propellerheads and The Prodigy, typically driven by heavy breakbeats and synthesizer-generated loops and patterns in...

• Dance-punk

  Dance-punk (also known as disco-punk, punk-funk and indie-dance) is a music genre that emerged in the late 1970s, and is closely associated with the post-punk and no wave movements. Many groups in the post-punk era adopted a more rhythmic tempo, conducive to dancing. These bands were influenced by...

• Electropunk

  Electropunk is an umbrella term that describes the combination of electronic music with the attitude of punk. Popular and important artists of the early electropunk period were Suicide from the USA, DAF and Liaisons Dangereuses from Germany, and Portion Control from the UK. The term has tended to...

• Synthpunk

  Synthpunk (also known as electropunk) is a music genre combining elements of electronic rock and punk rock. The term invented by Damian Ramsey in 1999 as an attempt to retroactively identify a small sub-genre of punk music from 1977–1984 that involved musicians playing synthesizers in place of...