Editing Electronic music (section)

==Late 1980s to 1990s==
=== Rise of dance music ===
{{Main|Electronic dance music}}
Synth-pop continued into the late 1980s, with a format that moved closer to dance music, including the work of acts such as British duos [[Pet Shop Boys]], [[Erasure (duo)|Erasure]] and [[The Communards]], achieving success along much of the 1990s.

The trend has continued to the present day with modern nightclubs worldwide regularly playing electronic dance music (EDM). Today, electronic dance music has radio stations,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.siriusxm.com/electricarea|title=Electric Area|work=SiriusXM|date=21 September 2023 }}</ref> websites,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dancingastronaut.com/|title=Dancing Astronaut – EDM, trap, techno, deep house, dubstep|work=Dancing Astronaut}}</ref> and publications like ''[[Mixmag]]'' dedicated solely to the genre. Despite the industry's attempt to create a specific EDM brand, the initialism remains in use as an umbrella term for multiple genres, including [[dance-pop]], [[House music|house]], [[techno]], [[Electro (music)|electro]], and [[Trance music|trance]], as well as their respective subgenres.<ref name="genres">{{cite journal|date=2001|title=Genres, Subgenres, Sub-Subgenres and More: Musical and Social Difference Within Electronic/Dance Music Communities|url=http://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1001&context=commstud_pubs|format=PDF|journal=Journal of Popular Music Studies|volume=13|pages=59–75|doi=10.1111/j.1533-1598.2001.tb00013.x|author=Kembrew McLeod}}</ref><ref name="burgess115">[[Richard James Burgess]] (2014), ''The History of Music Production'', [https://books.google.com/books?id=qMKiAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA115 page 115], [[Oxford University Press]]</ref><ref name="armada">[https://www.armadamusic.com/edm-electronic-dance-music EDM – Electronic Dance Music], [[Armada Music]]</ref> Moreover, the genre has found commercial and cultural significance in the United States and North America, thanks to the wildly popular [[big room house]]/EDM sound that has been incorporated into the U.S. pop music<ref>[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/11/house-music-pop-music_n_922912.html "House Music: How It Sneaked Its Way Into Mainstream Pop"] by Kia Makarechi, ''[[The Huffington Post]]'', 11 August 2011</ref> and the rise of large-scale commercial [[rave]]s such as [[Electric Daisy Carnival]], [[Tomorrowland (festival)|Tomorrowland]] and [[Ultra Music Festival]].

===Electronica===
On the other hand, a broad group of electronic-based music styles intended for listening rather than strictly for dancing became known under the "[[electronica]]" umbrella<ref>{{cite book|last=Campbell|first=Michael|date=2012|title=Popular Music in America: The Beat Goes On|publisher=[[Cengage Learning]]|edition=4th|chapter=Electronica and Rap|isbn=978-0-8400-2976-8}}</ref><ref name="bogdanov">{{cite book|author1=Vladimir Bogdanov|url=https://archive.org/details/allmusicguidetoe00vlad/page/634|title=All Music Guide to Electronica: The Definitive Guide to Electronic Music|author2=Jason Ankeny|publisher=Backbeat Books|date=2001|isbn=0-87930-628-9|edition=4th|page=634|url-access=registration}}</ref> which was also a music scene in the early 1990s in the United Kingdom.<ref name="bogdanov" /> According to a 1997 ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' article, "the union of the [[nightclub|club]] community and [[Independent record label|independent labels]]" provided the experimental and trend-setting environment in which electronica acts developed and eventually reached the mainstream, citing American labels such as [[Astralwerks]] ([[the Chemical Brothers]], [[Fatboy Slim]], [[the Future Sound of London]], [[Fluke (band)|Fluke]]), [[Moonshine Music|Moonshine]] ([[DJ Keoki]]), [[Sims Records|Sims]], [[Daft Punk]] and City of Angels ([[the Crystal Method]]) for popularizing the latest version of electronic music.{{citation needed|date=February 2022}}

===Indie electronic===
{{see also|Indie music}}
The category "indie electronic" (or "indietronica")<ref name=branco>{{cite news |last1=Branco |first1=Holly |title=Indie Music: The Complete Breakdown Of The Most Diverse and Well-Loved Genres Of Music |date=Aug 8, 2022 |url=https://www.magneticmag.com/2022/08/what-is-indie-music/ |newspaper=Magnetic Magazine |access-date=9 September 2023}}</ref> has been used to refer to a wave of groups with roots in [[independent rock]] who embraced electronic elements (such as synthesizers, samplers, drum machines, and computer programs) and influences such as early electronic composition, krautrock, synth-pop, and dance music.<ref name=indieelectronic>{{cite web |title=Indie Electronic Music Genre Overview |url=https://www.allmusic.com/style/indie-electronic-ma0000012275 |website=AllMusic |access-date=9 September 2023}}</ref> Recordings are commonly made on [[laptop]]s using [[digital audio workstation]]s.<ref name=branco/>

The first wave of indie electronic artists began in the 1990s with acts such as [[Stereolab]] (who used vintage gear) and [[Disco Inferno (band)|Disco Inferno]] (who embraced modern sampling technology), and the genre expanded in the 2000s as [[home recording]] and [[software synthesizers]] came into common use.<ref name=indieelectronic/> Other acts included [[Broadcast (band)|Broadcast]], [[Lali Puna]], [[Múm]], [[the Postal Service]], [[Skeletons (band)|Skeletons]], and [[School of Seven Bells]].<ref name=indieelectronic/> Independent labels associated with the style include [[Warp Records|Warp]], [[Morr Music]], [[Sub Pop]], and [[Ghostly International]].<ref name=indieelectronic/>