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Hello friends this is shiva edm music producer, sound designer, dolby mixing engineer, What Is Electronic Dance Music?

Electronic Dance Music, while the abbreviated EDM term came much later, is essentially any form of music that is both produced electronically with digital (computers) and analogue equipment, and is designed to be danced to.

Simple.

You can tell because it normally contains instruments and sounds like synthesizers, drum machines, processed samples and recordings, and normally has an inherent ‘electronic nature’ to the sound of it.

It sounds precise, full and loud.

You have complete control over the sound of the music.

Especially compared to acoustic genres, which often require a massive amount of audio engineering trickery to get them to sound as clear as an electronic record.

In electronic music, you aren’t limited to a ‘live’ recording situation, so you have complete creative control over every second of a song.

You can place a kick drum exactly on the beat at whatever tempo you want. Synth not ‘fizzy’ enough? You can add something on top. Vocal sample sucks? Just replace it with one of the thousands in your sample library.

As a result, EDM tunes sound inherently bigger and cleaner because there is more control in the process, from the initial idea to the final product.
Dance vs. Electronic

However, it’s worth noting that some people define electronic and dance music as separate genres, because not all electronic music is necessarily made for the clubs.

But anyway, I don’t want to confuse you anymore.

All that aside – it’s exactly these characteristics that define EDM as one of the big umbrella genres, like rock, jazz or hip-hop.

Even Spotify has a Dance/Electronic category.

And as we’ll get into, you really don’t need much to make this kind of music. Well, at least not as much as everyone makes out.

But what you will need is to dedicate yourself to the craft and to mastering it, which takes time.

It’s not as simple as ‘pressing a button’ and music is made.

But first, let’s look at how we got here
A Brief History of Electronic Music

It has its roots in a form of music known as Musique Concrete – a french term for musical collage.

In this form of music, samples of recorded sounds were arranged into a musical piece on primative technology (groundbreaking at the time).

Eventually, early synthesizers were created and these were starting to be used in this form of music.
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