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Drum and bass
Drum and bass (commonly abbreviated to D&B;, DnB, dnb, d'n'b, drum n bass, drum & bass, dNb, deebee, D+B, d+b, DNB, d and b, D and B), is a type of electronic dance music which emerged in the mid 1990s. The genre is characterized by fast breakbeats (typically between 160–190 bpm, occasional...
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Funk
Funk is an American music genre that originated in the late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, soul jazz and R&B; into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic...
Jazz
Jazz is a musical form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions.
From its early development until the present, jazz...
Reggae
Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the...
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Ragga
Raggamuffin music, usually abbreviated as ragga, is a sub-genre of dancehall music or reggae, in which the instrumentation primarily consists of electronic music. Sampling often serves a prominent role in raggamuffin music as well.
Wayne Smith's ...
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Samba
Samba ( pronunciation (help·info)) is a Brazilian dance and musical genre originating in African and European roots. It is recognized around the world as a symbol of Brazil and the Brazilian Carnival. Considered one of the most popular Brazilian...
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Techno
Techno is a form of electronic dance music (EDM) that emerged in Detroit, Michigan, USA during the mid to late 1980s. The first recorded use of the word techno, in reference to a genre of music, was in 1988. Many styles of techno now exist, but...
Breakbeat hardcore
Breakbeat hardcore (Rave music) is a derivate of acid house that combines 4-to-the-floor rhythms with breakbeats, and is associated with UK Rave scene.
The scene revolved around the M25 motorway (London's orbital motorway), and its audience was...
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Ambient music
Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality.
It can be reasonably argued that ambient music has roots that...
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Breakbeat
Breakbeat (sometimes breakbeats or breaks) is a term used to describe a collection of sub-genres of electronic music, usually characterized by the use of a non-straightened 4/4 drum pattern (as opposed to the steady beat of house or trance). These...
Dub
Dub is either an instrumental subgenre of reggae music, or a separate genre of music that involves revisions of existing songs. The dub sound consists predominantly of instrumental remixes of existing recordings and is achieved by significantly...
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Dancehall
Dancehall is a genre of Jamaican popular music that developed in the late 1970s, initially as a more sparse and less political and religious variant of reggae than the roots style that had dominated much of the 1970s.
In the mid-1980s, digital...
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Oldschool jungle
Oldschool Jungle is the name given to a style of electronic music that incorporates influences from genres including breakbeat hardcore, techno, and reggae/dub/dancehall. There is significant debate as to whether Jungle is a separate genre from Drum...
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Hip Hop
Hip hop as a cultural movement incorporates B-boying (breakdancing), graffiti writing, DJing and MCeeing. It originates in the African American, Afro-Caribbean and Latino American communities of New York City (with the South Bronx as the center) in...
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Electronic dance music
Electronic dance music is electronic music that is produced primarily for the purposes of use within a nightclub setting, or in an environment that is centered upon dance-based entertainment. The music is largely created for use by disc jockeys and...
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- Me Myself & Rye... An Introduction To The Russian Futurists ,
- A State of Trance 2007 ,
- Zoomer
