Electronic
What Is Afro House? The Genre Guide
Afro house is South Africa's percussive, soul-deep house strain — and by the mid-2020s it is one of clubland's biggest exports.
Electronic
House, techno, bass, trance and their offshoots traced through the machines that made them: drum machines, samplers, synth presets, studio habits.
Electronic
What Is IDM? Intelligent Dance Music, Explained
IDM is the laptop-era art school of electronic music — braindance, home-listening electronica and the records that made software an instrument.
Electronic
Electronic Music BPM Cheat Sheet: Every Genre
A working tempo map of electronic music — what runs at 120, what runs at 174, and how to use BPM when you mix or browse crates.
Electronic
What Is UK Garage? The Genre Guide
UK garage is London's swinging, soulful 2-step sound — the genre that raised dubstep, grime and half of modern pop's drum language.
Electronic
What Is Gabber? Hardcore, Explained
Gabber, the Rotterdam-born hardcore strain that runs past 180 BPM, is dance music at its most physical — and it is booming again.
Electronic
What Is Trance Music? The Complete Guide
Trance is dance music's cathedral sound — long builds, melodic payoffs and 138 BPM — and it never actually went away.