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Bass house
Bass house is a subgenre of house music fusing four-on-the-floor grooves with distorted bass music low-end, at 124 to 128 BPM, with Jauz, AC Slater, and Tchami among its central figures.
Brostep
Brostep is the aggressive, drop-centric Americanized strand of dubstep that emerged around 2010, led by mid-range growl bass, first coined as an insult by purists, and made commercially dominant by Skrillex.
Chicago house
Chicago house is the dance-music scene that took shape in Chicago between 1977 and 1982, centered on the Warehouse club and DJ Frankie Knuckles, giving rise to global house music.
Florida breaks
Florida breaks is a regional sub-style of breakbeat that emerged in Orlando and Tampa, Florida, in the mid-1990s, built around DJ Icey and his Zone Records imprint.
Gabber Eleganza
Gabber Eleganza is an archive and art project founded by Italian artist and DJ Alberto Guerrini in 2011 to document European hardcore and gabber rave culture.
Hard trance
Hard trance is a subgenre of trance music combining melodic breakdowns with harder kick drums, developed in early-1990s Western Europe and peaking in the late 1990s.
Jungle (music genre)
Jungle is a genre of electronic dance music that emerged in London in the early 1990s from breakbeat hardcore, built on chopped-up breakbeats, heavy sub-bass, and reggae influences.
Progressive trance
Progressive trance is a slower, deeper strand of electronic dance music blending progressive house and trance, shaped in the 1990s by DJs Sasha and John Digweed.
Rawstyle
Rawstyle, also called raw hardstyle, is the darker, harder branch of hardstyle that emerged in the Netherlands around 2009, built on distorted kicks and dark atmospheres.
Riddim (dubstep)
Riddim, also known as riddim dubstep, is a dubstep subgenre built on sparse, repeating synthesized bass patterns over half-time drums, emerging in the early 2010s.
UK hardcore
UK hardcore, also called UK happy hardcore, is a euphoric British electronic dance music style, around 170 BPM, that grew out of 1990s happy hardcore.
Uplifting trance
Uplifting trance, also known as anthem trance or euphoric trance, is a melodic subgenre of trance music with a tempo of around 138 BPM, emerging in the late 1990s from hard trance and anthem house.
Uptempo hardcore
Uptempo hardcore is a fast subgenre of hardcore electronic dance music that emerged in the Netherlands in the early 2010s, defined by distorted kicks, screeching leads, and tempos past 200 BPM.