The Different Genres of Dance

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I was thinking about something that I never fully understood. I never knew the difference between any of the dance genres. I'd really like to know what's the difference between things like Electronica, Trance, Techno, House, Dance etc. I would be grateful if someone explained.

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They all fit under Electronica and Dance. Dance is a really wide genre. It just means danceable music. Electronica is electronic dance music. House music is basically contemporary disco. Techno is completely electronic with no vocals. Trance is really synth heavy electronica music.

[कामसूत्र]

There was a thread done on this topic a few months back. The information in it was fairly helpful.

pulsemusic.proboards48.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=dance&thread=1067568151&page=1

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rebirthxperience said:

They all fit under Electronica and Dance.  Dance is a really wide genre.  It just means danceable music.  Electronica is electronic dance music.  House music is basically contemporary disco.  Techno is completely electronic with no vocals.  Trance is really synth heavy electronica music.

There are a couple other subgenres, some of which are uncommon nowadays:

• Ambient is basically electronica with little or no vocals; think "elevators".
  
• Industrial sounds a lot like what Nine Inch Nails does; basically heavy electronica (which in essence is soft rock) fused with dance, or a dance beat.
  
• "Jungle"/Drum n' Bass is mostly like Carribbean-sounding dance, sort of like "Dark Beat" from Oscar G. and Ralph Falcon released a couple years ago, or that new one from Africanism.
  

Also, I've always pictured and seen electronica as soft rock with electronic-sounding beats or music (think Moby and Frou Frou), not really as much as "electronic dance music", as Orange Clouds noted.

[POPboi]

Check out the dance dictionary at the following URL

www.eurodancehits.com/dict.html

hope that helps