Electronic dance music (EDM), also known as dance music, club music, or simply dance, is a broad
range of percussive electronic music genres made largely for nightclubs, raves and festivals. It is
generally produced for playback by disc jockeys who create seamless selections of tracks, called a mix
by segueing from one recording to another. EDM producers also perform their music live in a concert
or festival setting in what is sometimes called a live PA. In Europe, EDM is more commonly called
'dance music', or simply 'dance'.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, following the emergence of raving, pirate radios and an upsurge of
interest in club culture, EDM achieved widespread mainstream popularity in Europe. In the United
States at that time, acceptance of dance culture was not universal; although both electro and Chicago
house music were influential both in Europe and the United States, mainstream media outlets and the
record industry remained openly hostile to it. There was also a perceived association between EDM and
drug culture, which led governments at state and city level to enact laws and policies intended to
halt the spread of rave culture.
Subsequently, in the new millennium, the popularity of EDM increased globally, largely in Australia
and the United States. By the early 2010s, the term "electronic dance music" and the initialism "EDM"
was being pushed by the American music industry and music press in an effort to rebrand American rave
culture.[4] Despite the industry's attempt to create a specific EDM brand, the initialism remains in
use as an umbrella term for multiple genres, including house, techno, trance, drum and bass, tropical
house, and dubstep, as well as their respective subgenres.
Date: January 2017
Client: Threads
Category: Illustration
Deep/Future House
Acoutstic with mild vocals, house music to the core. .
Future house is a house music genre that emerged in the 2010s United Kingdom, described as a fusion
of deep house, UK garage and incorporating other elements and techniques of other EDM
genres.