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Electronic music.
Sound with no acoustic limits.

Electronic music is built from sound that begins as a signal - synthesizers, drum machines, samplers, and software in place of strings and skins. From the pioneering experiments of Kraftwerk and the early synthesizer studios through house, techno, ambient, and the global rise of dance music, it has expanded the very palette of what music can be made from. Equally at home in the club, the headphones, and the film score, electronic music has become one of the most influential and far-reaching forces in modern sound.

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2 days ago
The FM8 Test That Became Skrillex's Most Important Song
Skrillex's 'Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites,' released October 22, 2010, on mau5trap and Big Beat Records, began as an FM8 synthesizer test during a studio session with Dutch production trio Noisia. Recorded entirely on a laptop in his Los Angeles apartment, the nine-track EP won two Grammy Awards at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards and helped push dubstep's drop architecture into the mainstream. The title track, Track 2 on the EP, was later ranked by Vice as the best EDM song of all time.
1 weeks ago
Above & Beyond Slowed "Sun & Moon" Down by Four BPM and Built a Classic
Above & Beyond's "Sun & Moon," released March 20, 2011, runs at 134 BPM rather than trance's standard 138. That four-beat gap is the structural decision that makes the entire track work, giving Richard Bedford's vocal and the F# minor chord progression the space to carry real emotional weight.
1 weeks ago
Major Lazer Wired Dancehall Into the Festival EDM Mainframe
Major Lazer's method of routing Jamaican dancehall's rhythmic logic into electronic music — from 'Pon de Floor' through to 'Lean On' — is the structural template that tropical house, future bass, and mainstream festival EDM unknowingly runs on. Here's how Diplo and Switch built it.
2 weeks ago
Avicii produced True alone, and the dancefloor didn't know what to do with It
Released on 13 September 2013, Avicii's debut album True arrived six months after a hostile Ultra Music Festival crowd booed its first live preview. Self-produced by Tim Bergling, the ten-track record assembled Aloe Blacc, Dan Tyminski, MØ, Adam Lambert, Nile Rodgers, and Audra Mae into a genre-crossing argument that peaked at number two in the UK and number five on the Billboard 200, while its lead single "Wake Me Up" reached number four on the Billboard Hot 100.
3 weeks ago
Thirteen Years of Silence, Then a VHS Tape in Your Mailbox: Boards of Canada Are Back
Boards of Canada’s ‘Inferno’ — their first album in thirteen years — arrives May 29 via Warp Records, preceded by a cryptic VHS campaign and global listening sessions. Here’s why the 18-track return of Mike Sandison and Marcus Eoin is the ambient event of the decade.
3 weeks ago
Leeds' Prospa Are About to Make History — Theirs and CircoLoco's
Leeds duo Prospa release their debut album "Free Your Mind" on June 5 via CircoLoco Records — a milestone for both the act and the label, which is releasing its first-ever full-length. With Cloonee and Murda Beatz — making his house music debut — among the collaborators, it's the most purposeful UK dance record of the season.
3 weeks ago
Detroit's Movement Turns 20 — and It's Never Looked More Like Itself
Detroit's Movement Electronic Music Festival turns 20 this Memorial Day Weekend, with Carl Cox, Sara Landry, and Dom Dolla headlining a lineup that balances techno's founding generation — Juan Atkins, Kevin Saunderson, Carl Craig — against a new wave of debuts, all anchored at Hart Plaza on the Detroit riverfront.