■Ambient
The origin of ambient as environmental music is advocated by Brian Eno. This concept was succeeded in club music, and generally the sounds of the Orb and the KLF are called ambient.
■Drum ‘n Bass
Drum ’n Bass is a successor of Jungle. It added Jungle to serious feelings, complicate programmed breakbeats, boosted bass lines and Jazz elements. LTJ Bukem and Good Looking Records developed Jungle to art music. He mentioned his music as ‘Artcore Jungle’.
■Dub (Dubwise)
Dub is a mixing technique and a musical genres derived by Reggae. Its origin is making another version of songs by realtime editing of effecters (delay, echo, flanger and phaser) and a mixing console after usual mixing. Dub is a one of roots of present remix methods.
■Electronica
The word ‘Electronica’ means listening-oriented experimental electronic music and its songs. Electronica spread underground and club scene to art scene.
■Hip Hop
Hip Hop is a musical genre and a street culture originated by young blacks grew up in the ghetto on Bronx, New York City in mid 1970s. It contains not only music but also DJ style, scratching, breaking (dance style), graffiti art and fashion, and it crazed worldwide and had major impact to the 80’s music scene.
■House
The origins of House music are Philly Soul (Philadelphia), Sal Soul, Synth Pops and experimental German Rock. They fused in DJ play of Frankie Knuckles and his followers made House music by cheap drum machines and synthesizers.
Characteristics of House are electronic sound, danceable 4 beats and feeling succeeded by Soul music and its tempo is 115 to 130. Nowadays, House music is divided by various subgenres.
■Jungle
Jungle is the genre focuses breakbeats, and the tracks are mainly constructed by reconstructing of breakbeats. Its root is UK rave scene, and fused many and various musical styles such as Reggae, Dub, Hardcore Techno, Breakbeat Hardcore, Ragga Techno, Hip-Hop and Dancehall. Then it is a specific UK original dance music. Worldwide notable artists are Goldie, 4hero and A Guy Called Gerald.
■Lounge Music
Lounge Music is a musical genre played on lounges of hotels and clubs, café. And derived by it, Nowadays, Lunge music means comfortable slow tempo music in club scenes. Such as Electronica, Downtempo, Bossa Nova, Jazz and Post Classical.
■R&B
The word R&B means popular black music in late 1940s to 1950s. It succeeded and developed excitement of powerful beats and shouts of blues vocal of jump blues. R&B possessed various styles such as solo singers to vocal groups. This genre became one of element of Rock n’ Roll, and in 60’s evolved a more sophisticated music soul.
■Reggae
Reggae is a dance music originated in in Jamaica in the 1960s. The early era of reggae was influenced by the rastafari movement (rastafarism), the original religion or faith advocates African wisdom, and promoted those messages. The success of Bon Marley popularized reggae in worldwide.
■Techno
Techno is the brother genre of House music and born in deeply influenced by Chicago House, Techno Pop and Electro Hip Hop. The differences to Chicago House are seriousness, lyricism, cybernetic feeling, minimalism and higher BPM 125 to 140. Techno yielded and spread various subgenres. But Techno comparatively has no barriers of subgenres. Subgenres of Techno are connected by the universality of Minimal Techno and Detroit Techno.
■Trance
Trance is a main musical genre of rave culture. It developed in the 1990s in Germany. Characteristics of it are repetitions of melodic arpeggios by synthesizers, atmospheric effects express large space and its tempo between 130 to 160.
■Trip Hop
Trip Hop is composed by constructions of breakbeats similar to Hip Hop. But it contains sound of House and many genres of club music, experimental and instrumental elements and so on, was the Hip Hop of own interpretation by UK. Notable artists are DJ Shadow, Massive Attack, Coldcut and Tricky.
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