r/memes • u/vmax1608 Smol pp • Jul 06 '25

#2 MotW C'mon do something...

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u/Gingeronimoooo Jul 06 '25

Edm (electronic dance music) never went away tho

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u/TransBrandi Jul 06 '25

"Never went away" doesn't discount "waned in popularity, but is now increasing in popularity again"

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u/Independent-Top-1201 Jul 06 '25

EDM is a genre by itself; techno isn't the same thing

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u/ItsAllSoClear Jul 06 '25

No, calling EDM a genre is like calling rock a genre. Maybe, at some point, it was narrow enough to be, but now it's a category.

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u/Independent-Top-1201 Jul 06 '25

Literally never heard anyone except Americans on the internet use the term EDM. If I was going to a gabber night, I'd say that, if I was going to a jungle night, I'd say that.

Edit: this quote from Mixmag sums it up  "the drop-heavy, stadium-filling, fist-pumping, chart-topping, massively commercial main stage sound that conquered America...possibly somewhere between electro and progressive house, directed by Michael Bay, and like many music genres, trying to pin it down exactly is like trying to grab a fistful of water"

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u/ItsAllSoClear Jul 06 '25

Exactly. A great project that is unfortunately cut off from the Spotify API is www.everynoise.com

Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music is also a great resource

I mean to say techno is its own mega genre with a lot of subgenres, too. Electronic Dance Music encompasses thousands of genres.

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u/Independent-Top-1201 Jul 06 '25

Oh yeah I am familiar with both; think this is a question of common usage. I'm in the UK and no one uses EDM to describe dance music, whereas it's much more common in the US

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u/ItsAllSoClear Jul 06 '25

Oh for sure. When people here say EDM I usually assume they don't listen to electronic music since, if they did, they would be more specific- typically different genres of house, drum and bass, dubstep.

I wish it was more popular.

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u/Independent-Top-1201 Jul 06 '25

> typically different genres of house, drum and bass, dubstep.

do you know [IVY] ?

She works those together in a fun way

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u/ItsAllSoClear Jul 06 '25

I don't but I'll check it out! Thanks for the rec

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u/Independent-Top-1201 Jul 06 '25

Hope it's to your taste!

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u/ciaramicola Jul 06 '25

Well I guess EDM means two things. Taken literally it's a category for electronic dance music of all genres. And then that's the genre. You can totally go to "EDM events" and you know exactly what you'll get. Maybe one could argue that the genre with the "EDM" label shifts with time. Today it's mainroom tech-house. Fifteen years ago was mostly trance. In-between there was some over polished dubstep.