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Electronic dance music (EDM) and rave culture

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The Chemical Brothers

The Chemical Brothers are Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons, an English big beat electronic duo formed in Manchester, whose ten studio albums (1995-2023), six Grammys, and massive live visuals made them a major dance music crossover act.

The Church Nightclub

The Church Nightclub, also known as The Church Denver, is a Denver nightclub housed in a former Episcopal church and operating as an electronic music venue since 1996.

The Concourse Project

The Concourse Project is a warehouse electronic dance music venue on Burleson Road in Southeast Austin, Texas, opened in 2021 and ranked among DJ Mag's Top 100 Clubs worldwide.

The Crystal Method

The Crystal Method is an American big beat/electronica act formed in Las Vegas in 1993 by Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland; platinum debut Vegas (1997), Grammy-nominated albums, and, since Jordan's 2017 retirement, a solo project by Kirkland.

The DJ Producer

The DJ Producer, born Luke McMillan, is a British hardcore techno DJ and producer who has been a fixture of the UK underground rave scene since the early 1990s.

The Floozies

The Floozies are an American electro-funk duo of brothers Matt Hill (guitar, talk box) and Mark Hill (drums) from Lawrence, Kansas, formed in 2008 and known for festival appearances at Bonnaroo, Electric Forest, and Red Rocks.

The Flying Dutch

The Flying Dutch is a one-day electronic dance music festival in the Netherlands, created by John Ewbank, whose DJs flew by helicopter between three cities.

The Gaslamp Killer

The Gaslamp Killer is the stage name of William Bensussen, an American DJ from San Diego who co-founded the Low End Theory club night in Los Angeles.

The Glitch Mob

The Glitch Mob is an American electronic music trio from Los Angeles, formed by Ooah, Boreta, and edIT, known for heavy bass music and custom live performance hardware.

The Governors Ball Music Festival 2018

The Governors Ball Music Festival 2018 was the eighth annual edition of New York City's three-day music festival, held June 1–3, 2018 on Randall's Island Park and headlined by Eminem, Jack White, and Travis Scott.

The Guvernment

The Guvernment, also known as the Guvernment Entertainment Complex, was a multi-room nightclub on Toronto's waterfront, open from 1996 to 2015 and long ranked among North America's largest clubs.

The Heatwave (group)

The Heatwave is a UK dancehall and bashment production crew founded in 2003, known for carnival-style live sets, its Hot Wuk club nights, and its Showtime events.

The KLF

The KLF (Kopyright Liberation Front, also The JAMs, The Timelords) were Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty's British acid house and ambient house duo, 1987–1992, on KLF Communications, famous for the ABBA sample affair, Chill Out, the 1992 Brits protest, and burning £1m.

The Knocks

The Knocks are an electronic music duo from New York City made up of Ben Ruttner and James Patterson, known for disco- and house-inflected dance music.

The Mauskovic Dance Band

The Mauskovic Dance Band is an Amsterdam-based Dutch collective blending cumbia, Afro-Caribbean rhythms, psych-rock, and space disco, founded by producer Nic Mauskovic, who released two albums on Soundway and Bongo Joe.

The Music Institute (music)

The Music Institute was a Black-owned after-hours club at 1315 Broadway in Detroit, open 1988 to 1989, that became the home venue of Detroit techno.

The Orb

The Orb: English electronic group founded in London in 1988 by Alex Paterson and Jimmy Cauty, pioneers of ambient house. Known for 'Little Fluffy Clouds', the UK No 1 album U.F.Orb (1992), and collaborations with David Gilmour and Lee "Scratch" Perry.

The Outside Agency (group)

The Outside Agency (TOA) is a Dutch industrial hardcore and crossbreed duo from Goes, Netherlands, formed by Eye-D and DJ Hidden, with a first release in 1996.

The Partysquad

The Partysquad is a Dutch DJ and production duo from Amsterdam, formed in 1998 by Jerry Leembruggen (DJ Jerry) and Ruben Fernhout (MC Ruben), known for Dutch Top 40 hits.

The Prodigy

The Prodigy, English electronic band formed 5 October 1990 in Braintree, Essex, by Liam Howlett. Albums Experience, Music for the Jilted Generation, The Fat of the Land; hits Firestarter, Breathe; frontman Keith Flint died 2019; over 25 million albums sold.

The Qontinent

The Qontinent was an outdoor hardstyle and hardcore festival held each summer from 2008 to 2024 at Puyenbroeck in Wachtebeke, Belgium, run by Q-dance and Bass Events.

The Resistance (musician)

The Resistance is an anonymous, masked American dubstep and riddim collective with a Star Wars-coded aesthetic, whose 2025 EP EVIL EMPIRE topped Beatport's dubstep charts.

The Rocketman (musician)

The Rocketman is an anonymous Dutch DJ and producer working in techno, 90s rave, and trance, active since 2019 and known for the 2024 breakout single "The Nighttrain".

The Sickest Squad

The Sickest Squad are an Italian Frenchcore and hardcore duo of Samuele Gozzo and Jacopo Stevanato, active since 2000 and known for their self-branded Sickcore style.

The Standard, High Line (music)

The Standard, High Line is a New York hotel whose top-floor club, Le Bain, opened in 2010 and became a fixture of the city's electronic music nightlife.

The Straikerz

The Straikerz are a rawstyle duo from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2015 by Xavi Fontanet and Guillem Gomariz, known for viral tracks like "Incoming" and appearances at Defqon.1.

The Sultan Room

The Sultan Room is a live music venue and nightclub at 234 Starr Street in Bushwick, Brooklyn, opened in 2019 as part of the revived Turk's Inn supper club complex.

The Warehouse Project

The Warehouse Project is a seasonal electronic music event series in Manchester, England, founded in 2006, which runs from September to New Year's Day at the 10,000-capacity Depot Mayfield.

Themba

Themba, formerly known as Euphonik, is a South African DJ and producer born in Mpumalanga in 1983 who fuses house and techno with South African vocalists and languages.

Thomas Bangalter

Thomas Bangalter (born 1975, Paris) is a French musician, DJ, and composer, co-founder of Daft Punk (1993–2021), creator of the Roulé label and Stardust's "Music Sounds Better With You", and later a composer of orchestral ballet scores including Mythologies.