Contemporary electronic music includes many varieties and ranges from experimental art music to popular forms such as electronic dance music. In the 1980s, electronic music became more dominant in popular music, with a greater reliance on synthesizers, and the adoption of programmable drum machines such as the Roland TR-808 and bass synthesizers such as the TB-303.Įlectronically produced music became prevalent in the popular domain by the 1990s, because of the advent of affordable music technology. In the 1970s, electronic music began having a significant influence on popular music, with the adoption of polyphonic synthesizers, electronic drums, drum machines, and turntables, through the emergence of genres such as disco, krautrock, new wave, synth-pop, hip hop and EDM. In the early 1970s, the monophonic Minimoog synthesizer and Japanese drum machines helped popularize synthesized electronic music. In the 1960s, live electronics were pioneered in America and Europe, Japanese electronic musical instruments began having an impact on the music industry, and Jamaican dub music emerged as a form of popular electronic music. Devices such as the theremin, synthesizer, and computer can produce electronic sounds. Pure electronic instruments do not have vibrating strings, hammers, or other sound-producing mechanisms. From John Peel Presents Top Gear (LP, 1969, BBC).Įlectronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments and circuitry-based music technology.
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