A complete list of electronic dance music genres

Written By TBYN Team

As our article ‘What is EDM>’ explains, EDM is not a genre, but a combined term for all electronically produced music. Electronic dance music (EDM) consists of almost 200 different (sub-)genres. And, thanks to the experimental nature of many EDM producers, that number is still rising. This article offers a complete overview of all known electronic dance music (EDM) genres - in alphabetical order.

Ambient

  • Ambient dub

  • Industrial ambient

  • Dark ambient

Breakbeat

  • Acid breaks

  • Big beat

  • Jersey club

Disco

Downtempo

  • Acid jazz

  • Chill-out

  • Psybient

  • Trip hop

Drum and bass

  • Darkstep

  • Drill and bass

  • Drumstep

  • Funkstep

  • Hardstep

  • Jazzstep

Electro music

Electroacoustic music

Electronic rock

  • Alternative dance

    • Indietronica

  • Coldwave

  • Dance-punk

  • Dark wave

  • New rave

  • Nu-gaze

  • Space rock

  • Synthpop

  • Synthpunk

Electronica

  • Berlin School

  • Chillwave

    • Vaporwave

  • Dubtronica

  • Folktronica

Hardcore

  • 4-beat

  • Breakbeat hardcore

  • Bouncy techno

  • Breakcore

  • Digital hardcore

  • Darkcore

  • Early Hardcore

  • Gabber

  • Happy hardcore

  • Mákina

    • Melbourne bounce

  • Speedcore

  • Terrorcore

  • Trancecore

  • UK hardcore

  • Uptempo hardcore

Hardstyle

  • Dubstyle

  • Early Hardstyle

  • Euphoric hardstyle

  • Jumpstyle

  • Lento violento

  • Rawstyle

  • Tekstyle

Hi-NRG

House music

  • Acid house

  • Ambient house

  • Balearic beat

  • Chicago house

  • Deep house

  • Diva house/Handbag house

  • Dream house

  • Electro house

    • Big room

    • Complextro

    • Dutch house

    • Fidget house

    • Moombahton

      • Moombahcore

  • Euro house

  • French house

  • Funky house

  • Garage house

  • Ghetto house

    • Ghettotech

  • Glitch house

  • Hardbag

  • Hard house

  • Hip house

  • Italo house

  • Jazz house

  • Kwaito

  • Latin house

  • Microhouse/Minimal house

  • New beat

  • Nu-disco

  • Outsider house

  • Progressive house

  • Swing house

  • Tech house

  • Tribal house

  • Tropical house

  • Witch house/Drag

Industrial music

  • Aggrotech

  • Cybergrind

  • Electro-industrial

  • Dark electro

  • Electronic body music

  • Futurepop

  • Industrial metal

  • Industrial rock

  • Japanoise

  • Neue Deutsche Härte

  • Power electronics

    • Death industrial

  • Power noise

IDM

  • Glitch

  • Wonky

Jungle

  • Darkcore jungle

  • Raggacore

  • Ragga-jungle

Post-disco

  • Boogie

  • Electropop

  • Dance-pop

  • Dance-rock

Techno

  • Acid techno

  • Detroit techno

  • Dub techno

  • Free tekno

  • Hardtechno

  • Minimal techno

  • Nortec

  • Schranz

  • Tecno brega

  • Techdombe

Trance music

  • Acid trance

  • Dream trance

  • Goa trance

  • Hard trance

  • Ibiza trance

  • Nitzhonot

  • Psychedelic trance

    • Dark psytrance

    • Full on

    • Psybreaks

    • Suomisaundi

    • Psybient

  • Progressive trance

  • Tech trance

  • Uplifting trance

  • Vocal trance

  • Melodic trance

  • Classic trance

  • Epic trance

UK garage

  • 2-step garage

    • Dubstep

      • Brostep

      • Purple sound

  • Breakstep

  • Future garage

  • Grime

    • Grindie

  • Speed garage

    • Bassline/4×4 garage

  • UK funky

Video game music

  • Chiptune

    • Bitpop

    • Game Boy music

  • Nintendocore

  • Skweee

TBYN Team
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