Breakbeat: This music is identified by its use of a 4/4 drum pattern.

Disco: Disco music was popularized in the 1970s and its style is loud vocals repeated over a rhythmic instrumentation pattern.

Techno: The most famous genre of electronic music, techno emerged in the 1980s as a dance music that has since been divided into as more than 15 sub-categories, all with different characteristics.

Ambient Music: This music is characterized by sounds that are created to evoke an image or effect when the music is heard.

House: House music is a form of dance music that is a hybrid of disco and soul music.

Progressive: Progressive music incorporates some elements of House music, but it also has a different song structure. There are no verses, only a build up, climax and end.

Trance: This music is an intense dance music based on repeated synthesized phrases and the repeated build up and falling down of the melody.

Electronica: Electronica is used both as foreground and background music, but it has some sub-genres that are now considered dance music as well.

Industrial: Defined as an aggressive form of music, modern industrial is often combined with other more traditional musical genres, like ‘industrial rock’ or ‘industrial metal.’

UK Garage: Started in the United Kingdom and a descendant of House music, UK Garage features percussive rhythms and kick drums in its distinctive sound.

Hardcore: This music is defined by the lack of a tonal center in its notes and its rapid beat patterns.

Drum and Bass: This is a version of dance music that his characterized by fast breakbeats accompanied by a heavy bass line.

Downtempo: This music is similar in calmness to ambient music, but usually is accompanied by a hypnotic beat.

Electro: This music is characterized by its use of specific synthesizers and sampling of funk beats.

Eurodance: With heavy influences from several electronic genres, today’s Eurodance music is typically a mix of trance and techno with heavy vocals included.

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