The following is a list of sub-genres of electronic music. If you wish to add genres you believe are missing please add them below but please read our rules page first.
- Ambient
- Ambient Americana
- Ambient Breaks
- Ambient Drum and Bass
- Ambient Dub
- Ambient Dubstep
- Ambient Goa
- Ambient House
- Ambient Jungle
- Ambient Noise
- Ambient Pop
- Ambient Techno
- Ambient Trance
- Arctic Ambient
- Berlin School
- Clinical Ambient
- Compositional Ambient
- Dark Ambient / Ambient Industrial
- Black Ambient
- Dark Ambient Video Game Music
- Dark Jazz / Doom Jazz
- Dungeon Synth
- Comfy Synth
- Winter Synth
- Isolationism
- Martial Ambient
- Ritual Ambient
- Soundscape Ambient
- Drone / Dronology
- Dronegaze
- Warm Drone
- Experimental Ambient
- Lowercase
- Future Ambient
- New Age
- Neoclassical New Age
- Planetarium Music
- Post-Classical
- Psybient
- Space Music / Space Ambient
- Tribal Ambient
- Bass
- Basshall
- Bass House
- Bass Trap
- Brazilian Bass
- Bubblegum Bass / PC Music
- Colour Bass / Color Bass
- Downtempo Bass
- Freeform Bass
- Future Bass
- Cinematic Future Bass / Cinematic Bass
- Kawaii Bass / Kawaii Future Bass
- Future Trap
- Futurecore
- Groove Bass
- Neon
- Leftfield Bass / Experimental Bass
- Midtempo Bass / Cyberpunk Music
- Industrial Bass
- Melodic Midtempo
- Melodic Bass
- Psybass
- Space Bass
- UK Bass
- Bass / Booty Bass
- Baltimore Club / Baltimore Breaks
- Bérite Club
- Jersey Club / Brick City Club
- Bounce / New Orleans Bounce
- Crunk
- Crunkcore
- Ratchet
- Dirty South Rap / Booty Rap
- Ghetto House / Booty House
- Ghettotech
- Hyphy
- Juke / Footwork
- Miami Bass
- Techno Bass
- Car Audio Bass
- Techno Bass
- Snap Music
- Baltimore Club / Baltimore Breaks
- Breakbeat
- Acid Breaks
- Ambient Breaks
- Big Beat
- Progressive Big Beat
- Breakbeat Kota
- Breakstep / Breakbeat Garage
- Broken Beat
- Chemical Breaks
- Dark Breaks
- Electro Breaks
- Experimental Breakbeat
- Florida Breaks
- Ghetto Funk
- Hard Hop
- Hybrid Breaks
- Midtempo Breaks
- Neuro Breaks
- Nu-Funk
- Nu Skool Breaks
- Psybreaks
- Progressive Breaks / Atmospheric Breaks
- Tearout Breaks
- Tech Funk
- West Coast Breaks
- Drum and Bass and Jungle
- Ambient Drum and Bass
- Ambient Jungle
- Atmospheric Drum and Bass / Artcore
- Atmospheric Jungle
- Dancefloor Drum and Bass
- Darkstep
- Crossbreed / Crossbreed Hardcore
- Skullstep
- Deep Drum and Bass
- DreamBreak
- Drumfunk
- Drumstep
- Dubwise Drum and Bass
- Electrostep
- Experimental Drum and Bass / Experimental Jungle
- Future Jungle / Nu Jungle
- Hardstep
- Industrial Drum and Bass
- Intelligent Drum and Bass
- Jazzstep
- Jump-Up
- Clownstep
- Jungle Footwork
- Jungle Techno
- Liquid Drum and Bass / Liquid Funk
- Sambass
- Melodic Drum and Bass
- Minimal Drum and Bass
- Autonomic
- Microfunk
- Neurofunk
- Neuro Breaks
- Neurohop
- Halftime
- Neuro House
- Neurostep / Neuro Dubstep
- Neuro Trance
- Neuro Trap
- Ragga Jungle
- Rollers
- Techstep
- Technoid
- Trancestep / Trance and Bass / T&B
- Dubstep
- 200step
- Ambient Dubstep
- Brazilian Dubstep
- Briddim
- Brostep
- Carnival / Carnival Dubstep
- Chipstep
- Classic Tearout / Tearout / Tearout Dubstep
- Colour Bass / Color Bass
- Darkstep / Dark Dubstep
- Deep Dubstep
- Drumstep
- Dubcore
- Dubstep Pop
- Dubstyle
- Electrostep
- Experimental Dubstep
- Funkstep / Funky Dubstep / Dubbage
- Futurestep
- Glitchstep
- Grimestep
- Hybrid Dubstep
- Melodic Dubstep / Vocal Dubstep
- Neurostep / Neuro Dubstep
- Nightstep
- Post-Dubstep
- Proto-Dubstep
- Psystep
- Rapstep
- Riddim
- Substep
- Themed Dubstep
- UK Dubstep / Classic Dubstep
- Electro
- Detroit Electro
- Electro Breaks
- Electro Hop
- Electrostep
- European Electro
- Freestyle
- Freestyle House
- Latin Freestyle
- Neo-Electro
- Electronic Pop
- Ambient Pop
- City Pop
- Dance-Pop
- Bubblegum Dance / Happy House
- Country Dance Music / CDM
- House-Pop
- Roumanian Popcorn
- Disco-Pop
- Electro Hop
- Electronic Pop Rock
- Power Pop
- Electropop
- Experimental Pop
- Euro Pop
- Hyperpop
- Bubblegum Bass / PC Music
- Dariacore
- Digicore
- Glitchcore
- Robloxcore
- Indie Pop
- Glitch Pop
- Twee Pop
- K-Pop
- New Wave
- Britpop
- Dream Pop
- Electroclash
- Jangle Pop
- Neue Deutsche Welle
- New Romanticism
- Romo / Romantic Modernism
- Psychedelic Pop
- J-Pop
- Shibuya-Kei / Neo Shibuya-Kei
- Picopop
- Synth-Pop
- Wonky Pop
- Electronic Rock
- Brutal Prog
- Dance-Rock
- Alternative Dance / Indie Dance
- Dance-Punk
- Visual Kei
- Electronic Pop Rock
- Power Pop
- Electronic Metal
- Atomspheric Black Metal
- Atomspheric Death Metal
- Atomspheric Sludge Metal
- Black Ambient
- Depressive Black Metal
- Dissonant Black Metal
- Dissonant Death Metal
- Djent / Math Metal
- Drone Metal
- Electronicore
- Electrocore
- Cybergrind / Electrogrind
- Mathcore
- Nintendocore
- Sasscore
- Synthcore
- Trancecore
- Death Doom Metal
- Funeral Doom Metal
- Gothic Metal / Dark Metal
- Metalstep
- Metal Riddim
- Synth Metal
- Thall
- Electro Punk / Synth Punk
- Gaze
- Blackgaze
- Doomgaze
- Grunge gaze
- Nu gaze / Post-Shoegaze
- Shitgaze
- Shoegaze
- Indie Rock
- Baggy / Madchester
- New Rave
- Noise Pop
- Slacker Rock
- Industrial Rock
- Krautrock
- Noise Rock
- Post-Punk
- Post-Rock
- Progressive Rock
- Psychedelic Rock
- Rockstep
- Space Rock
- Experimental Electronic Music
- Biomusic
- Black MIDI
- Deconstructed Club / Experimental Club / Post-Club
- Electroacoustic Music
- Acousmatic Music
- Data Sonification
- Electronic Free Improvisation
- Electroacoustic Improvisation / EAI
- Field Recording
- Radio Broadcasting Recordings
- Graphical Sound
- Musique Concrète
- Sound Collage
- Epic Collage
- Micromontage / Microsound
- Tape Music
- Experimental Ambient
- Experimental Breakbeat
- Experimental Dubstep
- Experimental Drum and Bass / Experimental Jungle
- Experimental Hip Hop
- Experimental Trap
- Experimental Pop
- Experimental Techno
- Glitch
- Glitch Hop
- Chip Hop
- Colour Hop
- Melodic Glitch Hop
- Neuro Hop
- Glitch House
- Glitch Pop
- Glitchstep
- Glitch Hop
- Leftfield Bass / Experimental Bass
- Leftfield House / Experimental House
- Noise
- Ambient Noise
- Harsh Noise
- Ambient Noise Wall / ANW
- Harsh Noise Wall / HNW
- Gorenoise
- Christian Gorenoise
- Japanoise
- Metal Noise
- Black Noise
- Doom Noise
- Sludge Noise
- Warnoise
- Noisecore
- Power Electronics
- Death Industrial
- Power Noise / Rhythmic Noise
- Plunderphonics
- Reductionism
- Lowercase
- Onkyo
- Sampledelia
- Soundscape
- Spectral Music
- Speedbass
- Hardcore / Hardcore Techno
- Acidcore
- Amigacore
- Breakbeat Hardcore / Old School Rave Hardcore
- Darkside / Darkcore
- Hardcore Breaks
- Rave Breaks
- Breakcore
- Chipbreak / Breakbit
- Drillcore
- Glitchcore
- Mashcore
- Raggacore
- Ravecore
- Crossbreed / Crossbreed Hardcore
- Dancecore
- Digital Hardcore
- Doomcore
- Freeform Hardcore / Trancecore
- FiNRG
- Hexd Trance
- Gabber
- Artcore / Dutch Artcore
- Dark Gabber / Dark Hardcore
- Gabber Disco
- Gothic Hardcore
- Millenium Hardcore
- Nu-Style Gabber / Mainstream Hardcore
- Happy Gabber
- Happy Hardcore / 4-Beat
- Dutch Happy Hardcore
- German Happy Hardcore
- Hands Up
- UK Hands Up
- Makina
- UK Makina
- Japanese Makina
- Power Stomp
- Speed
- Toytown / Toytown Techno
- Hardtek
- Frenchcore
- Happytek
- Hardfloor
- Psytek
- Pumpcore
- Raggatek
- Stottercore
- Tribecore
- Industrial Hardcore
- Noisecore
- J-Core
- Lolicore
- Nu Rave
- Psycore
- Dark Psycore
- Speedbass
- Speedcore
- Atmospheric Speedcore
- Blackened Speedcore
- Extratone
- Melodic Extratone
- Flashcore
- Hypertone
- Melodic Speedcore
- Speednoise
- Splittercore
- Suizidcore
- Supertone
- Techcore
- Terrorcore
- Trappy Hardcore / Trapcore
- UK Hardcore
- Uptempo Hardcore
- Hard Dance
- Hard House
- Chicago Hard House
- LA Hard House
- Poky / Spanish Hard House
- UK Hard House
- Hardbass
- Pumpin' House
- Scouse House / Bouncy House / UK Bounce / Hard Bounce / Donk
- Hardstyle
- Early Hardstyle
- Lento-Violento / Slowstyle
- Nu-Style / Nu-Style Hardstyle
- Tekstyle / Freestyle
- Hard Trance / German Trance
- Jumpstyle
- NRG / Hard NRG / Nu NRG
- Hard House
- Hauntology
- Chillwave
- Chillsynth
- HexD
- Krushclub
- Hypnagogic Pop
- Post-Dubstep
- Synthwave / Retrowave
- Darksynth / Dark Wave
- Dreamsynth / Dream Wave
- Horror Synth
- Outrun
- Sovietwave
- Vapor
- Dreampunk
- Future Funk
- Gamewave
- Icepunk / Coldrave
- Jankwave
- Next Wave
- Nightmare Pop
- Plunderphonics
- Slime Punk
- Vaporwave
- Broken Transmission / Signalwave
- Deathdream / Dark Vaporwave
- Eccojams
- Faux-Utopian
- Future Funk
- Hardvapor
- Late Night Lo-Fi
- Mallsoft
- Ocean Grunge
- Post-Internet
- Seapunk
- Slushwave
- Utopian Virtual
- Vaporfunk
- Vapormeme
- Vapornoise
- Vaporpop
- Vaportrap
- VHS Pop
- Chillwave
- Hip Hop
- Alternative Hip Hop
- Abstract Hip Hop
- Emo Rap
- Hipster Hop / Indie Hop
- Jazz Hop
- Nerdcore
- Boom Bap
- Low Bap
- Conscious Hip Hop
- Political Hip Hop
- Cloud Rap / Trillwave
- East Coast Hip Hop
- Experimental Hip Hop / Avant-Garde Hip Hop / Left-Field Hip Hop
- Psychedelic Hip Hop
- French Hip Hop / French Rap / Rap Français
- G-Funk
- Hardcore Hip Hop
- Britcore
- Gangsta Rap
- Horrorcore / Death Rap
- Mafioso Rap
- Memphis Rap
- Dungeon Rap
- Hip House
- Hip Pop
- Industrial Hip Hop
- Kenyan Hip Hop
- Boomba
- Genge
- Lo-Fi Hip Hop / Chill Hop
- Mobb Music
- Rap Rock / Rock Hop
- Rapcore
- Rap Metal / Metal Hop
- Trap
- Dark Trap
- Drag / Witch Trap
- Drill
- UK Drill
- HexD
- Folk Trap
- Future Ghetto
- Latin Trap
- Noise Trap
- Phonk
- Atmospheric Phonk
- Brazilian Phonk
- Dark Phonk
- Drift Phonk / TikTok Phonk
- Drive Phonk
- Hard Phonk
- House Phonk
- Rare Phonk
- Trap Phonk
- Wave Phonk
- Space Trap
- Trap EDM
- Acid Trap
- Arabic Trap
- Bass Trap
- Chill Trap
- Experimental Trap
- Festival Trap
- Future Trap
- Greek Trap
- Grime Trap
- Hard Trap
- Heaven Trap
- Kawaii Trap
- Liquid Trap
- Love Trap
- Melodic Trap
- Neuro Trap
- Oriental Trap
- Progressive Trap
- Trappy Hardcore / Trapcore
- Trapstep / DubTrap
- Trapstyle
- Twerk
- Vaportrap
- Trap Metal / Industrial Hip Hop / Ragecore
- BlackTrap
- DeathTrap
- GoreTrap
- Underground Hip Hop
- West Coast Hip Hop
- Alternative Hip Hop
- House
- Acid House
- Afro House
- Amapiano
- Afro Piano
- Ambient House
- Balearic House
- Bass House
- Bassline House
- Chicago House / Classic House
- Deep House
- Euro Deep House
- US Deep House
- Detroit House
- Disco House
- Diva House
- Hardbag
- Big Room
- Big Room House
- Dark Room House
- Big Room Trance
- Big Room House
- Electro House
- Big Room House
- Dark Room House
- Blog House / Filthy Electro House
- Complextro
- Melodic Complextro
- Dutch House
- Noiadance
- Electro Bounce
- Fidget House
- French Electro
- Funky Electro House
- Hard Electro
- Industrial House
- Jungle Terror
- Melbourne Bounce
- Big Room House
- Electro Swing / Swing House
- Euro House
- Epic House
- Italo House
- French House / French Touch
- Freestyle House
- Funky House
- Future House
- Future Bounce
- Future Trance
- Slap House
- Gangsta House / G-House
- Garage House
- Ghetto House / Booty House
- Hard House
- Chicago Hard House
- LA Hard House
- Poky / Spanish Hard House
- UK Hard House
- Hardbass
- Pumpin' House
- Scouse House / Bouncy House / UK Bounce / Hard Bounce / Donk
- Hip House
- House-Pop
- Jazz House
- Jackin' House
- Latin House
- Leftfield House / Experimental House
- Microhouse
- Organic House
- Outsider House / Outsider Dance
- Lo-Fi House
- Phonk House
- Piano House
- Progressive House
- Dark Progressive House
- Deep Progressive House
- Deep Dark Progressive House
- Emotional Progressive House
- Epic House
- Festival Progressive House
- Melodic Progressive House
- Melodic House
- Deep Melodic House
- Minimal Prog
- Neo Prog
- Commercial House
- Pizzicato Prog
- Progressive Big Beat
- Rally House
- Riddim House
- Stutter House
- Speed House
- Tech House
- Tribal House
- Tropical House
- Vinahouse
- Intelligent Dance Music / IDM / Braindance
- Drill and Bass
- Flashcore
- Industrial / Post-Industrial
- Dark Wave
- Cold Wave
- Ethereal / Ethereal Wave
- Neoclassical Dark Wave
- Electro-Industrial
- Dark Electro
- Aggrotech
- Minimal Electro
- Dark Electro
- Electronic Body Music / EBM / Industrial Dance
- Future Pop
- New Beat /Modern Bew Beat
- Industrial Hardcore
- Industrial Hip Hop
- Industrial Metal
- Cyber Metal
- Neue Deutsche Härte
- Industrial Rock
- Martial Industrial
- Minimal Wave
- Minimal Synth
- Power Electronics
- Death Industrial
- Witch House / Grave Wave
- Ghost Drone
- Witch Hop
- Drag / Witch Trap
- Zombie Rave
- Dark Wave
- R&B / Rhythm and Blues
- Acid Jazz
- Boogie
- Contemporary R&B
- Alternative R&B
- Crunk&B
- Future R&B
- Hip Hop Soul
- Latin R&B
- New Jack Swing
- Plugg&B
- Raï'n'B
- R&Bass
- R&Drill
- Rhythm & Grime
- Snap&B
- Trap Soul
- UK Street Soul
- Funk
- Funkstep / Funky Drum and Bass
- Funktronica
- Funky Breaks
- Funky Disco
- Funky House
- Funky Electro House
- Future Funk
- G-Funk
- Nu-Funk
- Synth Funk / Electro Funk
- Vaporfunk
- Soul
- Electro Soul
- Hip Hop Soul / Soulful Hip Hop
- Boom Bap Soul / Soulful Boom Bap
- Moombahsoul
- Neo Soul
- Soulful House
- Reggae Fusion and Dancehall
- 2 Tone
- Dub / Dub Fusion / Dubtronica / Dub Reggae
- Ambient Dub
- Dub Poetry
- Dub Techno
- Dubwise Drum and Bass
- Psydub
- Euro Reggae
- Flex Dance Music
- Moombahton
- Moombahcore / Moombahstep
- Moombahsoul / Moombahdeep / Ambient Moombahton
- MoombahTrap
- Moombounce
- Tropical Moombahton / Tropihton
- Raggamuffin / Ragga
- Reggaeton
- Dembow
- Perreo / Sandungueo
- Reggaestep / Raggastep
- Samba Reggae
- Seggae
- Techno Ska
- Regional Electronic Music
- African Dance
- Acholitronix
- Afrobeats
- Azonto
- Coupé-Décalé
- Kidandali
- Kizomba
- Kuduro / Kuduru
- South African Dance
- Amapiano
- Gqom
- Kwaito
- Zouglou
- Caribbean Dance
- Chutney
- Rapso
- Soca
- Bashment Soca
- Batida
- Bouyon Soca
- Chutney Soca
- Groovy Soca
- Parang Soca
- Power Soca
- Ragga Soca
- Steelband Soca
- Zouk
- Latin Dance
- Brega
- Tecno Brega
- Electro Tango
- Funk Carioca
- Punta Rock
- Brega
- Merenhouse / Merenrap
- Nortec
- Rara Tech
- Trival / Tribal-Guarachero
- African Dance
- Techno
- Acid Techno
- Ambient Techno
- Berlin Techno
- Belgian Techno
- Hyper Techno
- Bangin' Techno / Pumpin' Techno
- Birmingham Sound
- Bleep Techno / Yorkshire Bleeps and Bass
- Big Room Techno
- Dark Techno
- Deep Techno
- Detroit Techno
- Dreamtech
- Dub Techno
- Dutch Techno
- Experimental Techno
- French Techno
- Glitch Techno
- Hard Techno
- Bouncy Techno
- Free Tekno / Tribetek / Tribe
- Schranz
- Industrial Techno
- Lo-Fi Techno
- Melodic Techno
- Minimal Techno
- Peak Time Techno
- Psy-Tech / Psy-Techno
- Tech House
- Tech Trance
- Techstep
- Technoid
- Tecno-brega
- Turbine
- UK Techno / Euro Techno
- Warehouse Techno
- Wonky Techno
- Trance
- 138
- Acid Trance
- Beyrouth Trance
- Big Room Trance
- Deep Trance
- Dream Trance
- Electro Trance
- Euro Trance
- Freeform Hardcore / Freeform / Trancecore
- Future Rave
- Future Trance
- Ibiza Trance / Balearic Trance
- Hands Up Trance
- Hard Trance / German Trance
- Melodic Trance / Meltrance
- Minimalist Trance
- Neotrance
- Neuro Trance
- Progressive Trance
- Psychedelic Trance / Psytrance
- Acid Psytrance
- Big Room Psytrance
- Chillgressive
- Dark Psychedelic Trance / Dark Psytrance / Darkpsy / Cyberdelic
- Dark Progressive Psytrance / Dark Progressive
- Deep Dark Progressive Psytrance / Deep Dark Progressive
- Twilight Psytrance / South-African Psytrance
- Dark Progressive Psytrance / Dark Progressive
- Forest / Deep Forest / Scandinavian Dark Psy
- Dark Forest
- Forest Prog / Progressive Forest
- Full-On / Israeli Full-On / Morning Full-On
- Groove Full-On
- Hi-Tech Full-On
- Mainstream Full-On / Pop Full-On
- Night Full-On / Dark Full-On / Twilight Full-On
- Neo Full-On
- Progressive Full-On / Full-On Prog
- Goa Trance
- Ambient Goa
- Dark Goa
- Heavy-Metal Goa
- Neo Goa
- New School Goa
- Nitzhonot / Nitzho Goa
- Progressive Goa
- Proto Goa
- Hi-Tech Psytrance
- Dark Hi-Tech / Dark Hi-Tech Psytrance
- Melodic Hi-Tech / Melodic Hi-Tech Psytrance
- Hypnotic Psy
- Melodic Psytrance
- Minimal Psy
- Morning Psytrance
- Natural Trance / Ethno Trance
- Night Psytrance
- Offbeat Psytrance
- Psybass
- Psybient
- Psybreaks
- Psychill
- Psycore
- Dark Psycore
- Psydub
- Psystep
- Progressive Psytrance / Psyprog
- Future Psyprog / Future Progressive Psytrance
- Deep Prog / Deep Progressive Psytrance
- Psy-Tech / Psy-Techno
- Psytek
- Raw Trance
- Suomisaundi / Spugedelic Trance / Suomi-Trance
- Tribal
- UK Psytrance
- Uptempo Psytrance
- Zenonesque
- Symphonic Trance
- Tech Trance
- Trancestep / Trance And Bass / T&B
- Trouse
- Uplifting Trance / Epic Trance / Anthem Trance / Euphoric Trance
- Orchestral Uplifting Trance
- Vocal Trance
- UK Garage
- 2-Step Garage
- Breakstep / Breakbeat Garage
- Dark Garage
- Grime
- 8-bar
- 8bit Grime / Chiptune Grime
- Afro-Grime
- Baile Grime
- Bass mixes
- Christian Grime / Gospel Grime
- Cyber Grime
- Darkside
- Eco-Grime
- Electro-Grime
- Emo Grime
- Eskibeat / Eski
- Gangster Grime / Gangsta Grime
- Glassy Grime
- Grime Rock / Grime Metal / Grime Punk
- Grindie / Grime-Indie
- Grime Trap
- Grimestep
- Grindie
- J Grime / Jazzy Grime
- Liquid Grime
- Mellow Grime
- Neo-Grime
- Nightcore Grime
- Peace Edits
- Post-Grime
- Rhythm & Grime / R&G
- Ruff Sound
- Sinogrime
- Sublow
- Tropical Grime
- Weightless
- Yardie Grime / Ragga Grime
- 4x4 Garage
- Bassline / Niche
- Speed Garage
- UK Funky
- Future Garage
- Wonky
- Aquacrunk
- Wonky Riddim
- 2-Step Garage
Other
- Artcore / J-Artcore
- Binaural Beats
- Circuit Bending
- Electronic Classical
- Electronic Film Score
- Folktronica
- Dark Folk
- Neofolk
- Indietronica
- Live Electronics
- Algorave
- Livetronica / Jamtronica
- Oscilloscope Music
- Progressive Electronic
- Skweee
- Worldbeat
Genres that incorporate all or a major portion of electronic music
Remix and edit genres
- Chopped and Screwed
- Nightcore / Post-Nightcore
- Froggycore
- Nightcore Grime
- Nightstep
External Links[]
This is a list of the links we've used to make this list of genres.
- Guide to Hardcore Techno
- Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music V2.5
- Ishkur's New Guide
- Wikipedia's List of electronic music genres
- RYM Box Set
- Psytrance Guide
- 30 Subgenres of Dubstep
- Profile Bass - Chilled Dubstep Subgenres
Note[]
We'd like to thank these sites, as we use them a lot for our genre pages (especially RYM).
This article incorporates text from the open-content Wikipedia online encyclopedia article List of electronic music genres.