ELECTRONIC  

Subcategories

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  CHILL OUT

  Chillout means more than a musical genre, a musical context that includes artist music inspired by styles such as ambient, trance, and new age. Often classified as a downtimer and environment subgenre

  the chill-out was born thanks to the environment house, style that emerged during the last eighties in London. Born as a music for chill-out rooms attended after rave parties by those who wanted to recover from "excesses" of various kinds and developed during the second half of the nineties in Ibiza (Spain)

  Repetitive, melodic and introspective music that can be played both with real and electronic musical instruments, and with slow pace (not exceeding 120 bpm), the chillout features reminiscent, refined and exhilarating sounds

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  DOWNTEMPO / BEAT

  The Downtempo is a kind of electronic music similar to environmental music, but usually characterized by the presence of ego rhythms. Battery time and riffs can vary from piece to piece. The rhythm can be calm or simple. However, sometimes the beat becomes more complicated and important than staying in the background, but in these cases, they are generally less accentuated than in other kinds of electronic music such as the House.

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  DUB

  Dub is a genre of music  that grew out of reggae in the 1960s, and is commonly considered a subgenre,though it has developed to extend beyond the scope of reggae. Music in this genre consists predominantly of instrumental remixes of existing recordings and is achieved by significantly manipulating and reshaping the recordings, usually by removing the vocals from an existing music piece, and emphasizing the drum and bass parts. Other techniques include dynamically adding extensiveecho, reverb, panoramic delay, and occasional dubbing of vocal or instrumental snippets from the original version or other works. It was an early form of popular electronic music.

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  LOUNGE

  The Music Lounge is a musical genre that is attributable to the popular tradition of eclectic listening, which originated in the 1950s and 1960s. Such a genre often has the intention of evoking in the listeners the feeling of being in a quiet place such as jungle, paradise islands or other spaces, using quiet themes.

  Lounge does not indicate a well-defined genre. However, this is always jazz, R'n'B, soul and, with the revolution of electronics, other genres such as acid jazz and ambient have also taken over, bringing with it many contaminations and communions; From the point of view of sounds, so few are the unique features, if not perhaps the absence of aggression and the softness of the rhythms, designed to form a soundtrack that allows the listener to do something else.

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  ELECTRONIC

  Electronic music means all that music produced or modified through the use of electronic instruments

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  AMBIENT

  With the term "Musica d'Ambiente" or "Ambient", it is a musical genre where the tone and atmosphere can take on more importance of the rhythm and structure values ​​as they are traditionally conceived in the musical environment. Ambient music is said to be quality "atmosphere", "visual" or "discretion".

  It is generally identifiable as a genre of music characterized by ample atmospheric and natural sounds.

  The ambient music evolved at the beginning of the twentieth century, but with the years they discovered the "dreaming" non-linear elements of the "ambient" applied to some forms of electronic rhythmic music presented by that in "chillout" and rave other dance events, but always with the main function of music to capture the mood of the listener, and to make it go out of their conscience.

  The ambient music has often been used in many movies and TV shows and their contributions are great in creating atmospheres or special sound landscapes. Sometimes it can be an alternative to background music and provides more expressive freedom to the musician.