Electronic music styles in 2021

Here we offer you an exhaustive list of electronic music genres and styles, all of them originating from the use of electronic musical instruments or advanced musical technology, consisting of specialized software and hardware. If you are only looking for such a list, you can skip to the second part of the post - but we advise you to read our brief introduction to understand the diversity in electronic music styles.

The division between electronic music and electroacoustic music lies mainly in the fact that the sounds of both have this different nature: some come from the sole use of electronics, while others are due to electromechanical means, respectively.

Think of instruments such as Thaddeus Cahill's telharmonium, Hammond organs and electric guitars. All three provide good examples of systems that generate sound through a concept of electromechanics. For their part, the wave purity of a thing like Theremin, the most basic case of a synthesizer, and other similar systems born in computers, give us other examples of purely electronic sound generation, or based on virtual models of it.

Experimentation, transgression, and miscegenation

Allá en el instante de su iniciativa original, la canción electrónica ha sido vinculada casi en única con los reductos artísticos de canción cultivada, propios de laboratorios. Empero hubo que aguardar hasta finales de la década de 1960 del pasado siglo, para asistir al origen de escenas globales asequibles: los sintetizadores comerciales baratos, como Moog Minimoog, lograron que la canción generada por medio de sistemas electrónicos fuese cada vez más conocido en las escenas famosas del rock y el pop.

La pluralidad de las escenas generadas por este trabajo de la tecnología musical electrónica, siguió cauces tan especializados como infractores, aun cuando no exentos de mestizajes y experimentaciones.