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  Dance & Electronic Music Videos - AOL Music
High School Musical 2 Cast, 'You Are the Music in Me'
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music.aol.com /video-hub/style/dance-electronic   (145 words)

  
  Electronic Dance Music (EDM)
Nowhere is the influence of electronic music on popular music greater than in the field of dance music.
Electronic dance music is basically all dance music produced since the early 1980s, because all of the different styles have used electronic instruments.
The development of the techno sound in Detroit and house music in Chicago in the early to late 1980s, and the later acid house movement of the late 1980s and early 1990s all fuelled the development and acceptance of electronic music into the mainstream and to introduce electronic dance music to nightclubs.
www.jahsonic.com /EDM.html   (204 words)

  
 Electronic music
Modern Electronic composition is considered to have begun in force with the development of Musique concrete and tape recorders in 1948, only to rapidly evolve with the creation of early analog synthesizers.
In the 1970s, this style was mainly popularised by Kraftwerk, who used electronics and robotics to symbolise and sometime gleefully celebrate the alienation of the modern technological world; to this day their music remains uncompromisingly electronic.
Forbidden Planet had used an electronic score in 1956 and, once electronic sounds became a more common part of popular recordings, other science fiction films such as Blade Runner and the Alien series of movies began to depend heavily for mood and ambience[?] upon the use of electronic music and electronically derived effects.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/el/Electronic_dance_music.html   (1380 words)

  
 Electronic dance music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Electronic dance music (EDM) is a broad set of percussive music genres that largely inherit from 1970s disco music and, to some extent, the experimental pop music of Kraftwerk.
Electronic dance music experienced a boom after the proliferation of personal computers in the 1980s, many music genres that made use of electronic instruments developed into contemporary styles mainly thanks to the MIDI protocol, which enabled computers, synthesizers, sound cards, samplers and drum machines to control one another and achieve the full synchronization of sounds.
Since around the mid-1980s, electronic dance music has enjoyed popularity in many nightclubs, and, as of 2006, is the predominant type of music played in discothèques as well as the rave scene.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Electronic_dance_music   (922 words)

  
 The strange triumph of electronic music - Salon
As exemplified in the work of Fatboy Slim and the Chemical Brothers, big beat was electronic music squeezed into the familiar, easily digestible song structures of rock music.
Many feel the latter city has become the epicenter of the electronic music universe because of its proximity to the mainstream music industry and because of its proliferation of clubs, massives, festivals and illegal one-off events in a multitude of electronic music sub-genres.
Part of the problem is that electronic music still faces the same old prejudices that have plagued it from the start.
dir.salon.com /story/ent/feature/2002/06/19/electronic_music/index.html   (983 words)

  
 Electronic Music, Techno Music, and Techno Dance Remixes: The History of Electronic Music
Electronic Dance Music, Techno Music, and Techno Dance Remixes
Their interest in classical music was big, but they were much more impressed by the possibilities of electronic instruments and especially the studio.
Techno Music, Electronic Music, and Techno Dance Remixes
www.soundry.com /electronic-dance-music.htm   (523 words)

  
 Electronic music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Electronic music is a term for music created using electronic devices.
Before electronic music, there was a growing desire for composers to use emerging technologies for musical purposes.
In the 1970s, the electronic style was revolutionised by the Düsseldorf band Kraftwerk, who used electronics and robotics to symbolise and sometimes gleefully celebrate the alienation of the modern technological world.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Electronic_music   (3260 words)

  
 Kraftwerk: Call Them the Beatles of Electronic Dance Music
Eight tents were filled with the cream of electronic dance music's current crop: from bands like Daft Punk and Orbital to disk jockeys like Jeff Mills and Carl Cox.
In America, electronic dance music may just be beginning to break into the mainstream, but in Europe it has long since gone pop.
So Kraftwerk was forced to build its own electronic drum pads, design synthesizers and commission the construction of a sequencer, which enabled the group to meticulously program, coordinate and repeat progressions of notes and rhythms.
partners.nytimes.com /library/music/061500dj-kraftwerk.html   (1597 words)

  
 Electronic Music
This is a recording of the famous concert of Cage's music held at New York's Town Hall in 1958, with Cage, David Tudor, and Merce Cunningham among the performers.
Imaginary Landscape No. 1 is one of the first pieces in the live electronic music category, incorporating recordings of test tones manipulated by adjusting the turntable speed (the version here was not performed live at the concert, but was recorded earlier and played on tape at the concert).
All of Henry's work is very important for anyone involved in electronic music to hear, and it's too bad that you have to spend $25 per CD to hear it, especially when works or parts of works are repeated on several discs.
www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu /staff/martinelli/electronic_music.htm   (4443 words)

  
 The ASCAP Dance & Electronic Music Series Is Bustin’ a Move!
The inaugural event in The ASCAP Dance and Electronic Music Series was held in May of this year.
More events in The ASCAP Dance and Electronic Music Series are planned for the future but in the meantime, you can catch ASCAP’s Gary Ford participating on a panel during Billboard’s Dance Music Summit in New York City at the Marriott Marquis on September 30th - October 2nd.
The ASCAP Dance and Electronic Music Series continues ASCAP’s commitment to the nurturing and development of new talent in all genres of music.
www.ascap.com /press/2002/dancelec_091702.html   (582 words)

  
 Techno,Electronic And Dance Music Variations quiz -- free game
"This is a quiz that highlights many forms of dance music and styles ranging from top 40 that we would hear on the radio to the more obscure forms of techno and electronic music.
This electronic down-tempo band uses music from around the world mixed with dance music.
Enigma was one of the first to combine electronic and new age mixed with world music.
www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=107168   (396 words)

  
 dj forums - The Worldwide DJ Community < Articles <   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
When I mention electronic dance music, the first thing that comes to many people’s minds is the constant “boom boom boom” of your average house track, or maybe the “bleeps and boops” of a techno track.
Today, electronic music has found it’s way into many aspects of our life, from common Pop, Hip-Hop, and Rock music, to radio and TV adds, movie scores, and television soundtracks, to classical scores reproduced using electronic instruments.
So, next time you hear someone say there’s nothing to electronic music other than some bleeps and boops, be sure to tell them that the majority of the music they here today is electronic, and they have a person by the name of Elisha Gray to thank for creating the first electronic musical instrument.
www.djforums.com /articles/030716_electronichistory.php   (1651 words)

  
 Electronic Music - Salon
The composer of "the first great piece of electronic music" influenced the Beatles, Miles Davis and numberless others.
Its soundtrack is a miracle: Dance music that sounds good on the stereo.
Fatboy Slim and Paul Oakenfold star on a comp for rave newbies, while the two-CD "Trance Nation America" thins the strong pulse of early-'90s dance music.
dir.salon.com /topics/electronic_music/?ti=1   (337 words)

  
 The Year in Electronic Dance Music - 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The dance track I got the most fun from this year was "Bucci Bag" -- plus I know someone who knows someone from Crash Course in Science, who apparently are suing Andrea Doria for plagiarizing their "Cardboard Lamb" song.
as ronan's post suggested,2003 wasn't the best year for dance music in dublin,my favourite club also closed at the start of the summer,and it was a different club to ronan's,(i presume)which says something about the health of dublin's dance scene....
Musical influences that seep through in his own work were, on the one hand, mid-eighties electronic dance and pop around Depeche Mode, but all-important has been Berlin's Hardwax record store, where he shares more than a few roots with the Din and Chain Reaction labels, from Detroit to dub reggae to British electronica.
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 Dance Music - Encyclopedia FunTrivia
N Trance was one of the first bands to combine electronic and rap music together.
The "MTV Music Generator" had DJ Skribble as the spokesperson and appeared in a very funny commercial as well.
Responsible for classic dance tracks such as "My Beat" and "Do You Remember House?", Josh Milan and Kevin Hedge form the duo Blaze, which have almost become a quality certificate in the house music scene.
www.funtrivia.com /en/Music/Dance-Music-6736.html   (1368 words)

  
 CD Baby: ELECTRONIC: Dance - music you will love.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
American Music Award Winner and original Village People cowboy brings back the Pop with a new album of pop classics redefined PLUS 6 bonus dance remixes by today's hottest remixers.
Infantjoy is literally a musical collaboration between James Banbury (ex of The Auteurs)and Paul Morley (ex of the ArtofNoise).
The euro pop dance sound is brought to life with four different remixes by top DJ's ranging from tribal to deep house.
cdbaby.com /style/45   (470 words)

  
 Telepopmusik Genetic World CD - Breathe French Electronic Dance Music
Genetic World lives up to the advance billing: Telepopmusik's core trio of Fabrice Dumont, Stephan Haeri, and Christophe Hetier (aka DJ Anti-Pop) combine traditional musical skills gleaned from writing songs in acclaimed indie-pop bands like Autour de Lucie (Dumont was a founding member) with a fearless taste for exploration into electronic music's shape- shifting universe.
There is a surprising amount of diversity present in Telepopmusik's latest album, ranging from electronic jazz to evolutionary hip hop to the retro Billy Holiday styled vocals of Yesterday Was A Lie.
Telepopmusik's Genetic World is more than music, it is an experience, a transcendence if you will, to a mood altering state that is both powerful and soothing, hypnotic and stimulating.
www.bigbaer.com /telepopmusik_genetic_world.htm   (860 words)

  
 African Acoustic and Electronic Dance Music From Yanju
Yanju began composing music before he was twelve years old.
His music career began at the University of Ilorin, Nigeria, where he joined the “Phaime band” as a back up singer and principal songwriter whilst studying Performing Arts.
Full of catchy tunes, where syncopated African rhythms crisscross techno beats effortlessly, "IWA" is characterized by an unusual and uncompromising melting pot of polyrhythmic sounds and Western synthesised beats, where the two musical cultures are amazingly respected and recognizable in such a way that one never dominates the other.
www.emediawire.com /releases/2004/9/emw154959.php   (448 words)

  
 Dance Music Shop - Software Services DJ Gear Distribution
A sequencer is one of the most important tools for composing, arranging and learning about music.
Purchase records and CDs by category [house music, techno music, trance, drum and bass, jungle, breaks and beats, nu skool breaks, garage, downtempo, ambient, experimental, hiphop, roots, electro, hard house, progressive house, booty house, electronic and more.] DMS is a specialist record shop catering for DJ's looking for new releases and back catalog.
Enjoy browsing our massive catalog, buy music [vinyl or CD] from the mailorder shop Okay, so now you see why virtual instruments can be a boon to any studio, even one loaded up with hardware synths and drum machines.
www.dancemusicshop.com /index.html   (1047 words)

  
 Electronic & Dance - Free Music Downloads - MP3 Downloads - Download.com Music
For the latest music videos, playlists, albums, song updates, news, gossip, and show reviews, bite into our new music blog Crossfade.
If you've been holding your breath for some real electronic music in the face of a tidal wave of do-it-yourselfers, fresh air awaits: Underworld, are back!
Halloween is creeping up, and before you know it people around the country will be making fake blood out of God-knows-what and hitting the local thrift store in search of new costumes to make "dead." If you're not scared yet, get in the mood with this trippy, freaky-good playlist.
music.download.com /2001-7983_32-0.html?   (583 words)

  
 Dance & Electronic Music at MSN Shopping
More Selma in Dancer in the Dark, and the film's somber companion piece, Selmasongs, it's not surprising that Björk's first album in four years is less emotionally wrenching.
But Vespertine isn't so much a departure from her previous work as a culmination of the musical distance she's traveled; within songs like the subtly sensual "Hidden Place" and "Undo" are traces of Debut and Post's gentle loveliness, as well as Homogenic and Selmasongs' reflective, searching moments.
While such a path may guarantee them a lucrative career in Starbucks outlets and on crossover compilations, the onset of advanced musicianship and mature songwriting often comes at the expense of artistic ability (see the steady downward fall of Groove Armada for an example).
shopping.msn.com /results/shp/?bCatId=5347   (1689 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Machine Soul: An Odyssey Into Electronic Dance Music: Music: Various Artists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The dance compilation that boasts its definitiveness, its freshness, or, God forbid, its phatness or dopeness, is, as they say, a dime a dozen.
This compilation consists of the music that the kid in the back of the school bus played on his ghetto blaster.
Anyhoo, i'd use this in my "Electronic Music 101" class, but i wouldn't base the course solely on this.
www.amazon.com /Machine-Soul-Odyssey-Electronic-Music/dp/B00004R5YZ   (1385 words)

  
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Electronic Dance Classics 3CD Set [Box] by Various Artists
Electronic Dance Classics [Box] by 808 State/Komankino/ Various Artists
Electronic Dance Essentials (March 30, 2004), Genre: Electronic More
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 Electronic-Dance Downloads - Download Electronic-Dance Music - Download Electronic-Dance MP3s
At the CMJ Music Marathon, Fugee kicks off the night, Austin prog-punk rockers unleash the hounds, and Lavelle and company get their rawk on.
Tim "Love" Lee describes the difference between his favorite albums and his own "crazy mindf*** electronic freakout."
Portions of content provided by All Music Guide ©2007 AEC One Stop Group, Inc.
www.mp3.com /electronic-dance/genre/11/summary.html?tag=subnav;elecdance&om_act=convert&om_clk=artsubnav   (360 words)

  
 Normusic: Electronic Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The vocal sample is taken from the 1933 "Old House" mystery, "Night of Terror", which had Bela Lugosi in the cast (no, that isn't him!).
A great dance song that features a rare, 1955 lp that talks about the FIRST synthesizer, the "RCA Electronic Music Synthesizer"!
A musical reprentation of driving thru a a big city late at night.
www.normvogel.com /index.html   (375 words)

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