ilkae wrote:

"Want a vision of electronic music's future? Imagine crap trance riffs and recycled one note basslines stomping on a human face, for ever."

http://thequietus.com/articles/09188-em … onic-music

That's when you delve into genres like garage or IDM which is still pretty underground and pure. There will always be niches of good music, like this place for example.

Downstate wrote:

EDM is basically the term for generic shit electro house kind brostep shit aint it ?

cos if its actually decent electronic (dance) music it would be classiified as what it actually is, ie - techno, tech house, breakbeat, dubstep etc etc

basically if its uninspired shit they play on the radio (and paris hilton has probably got on her playlist) then it can be classified as EDM to let us know that its utter rubbish

TRUTHS

It is used as a more generic term for electronic music, without counting things like ambient, because that isn't dance music. If you get into elctronic music, you may see it is a common term.

@Frostbyte: I think Skrillex's albums have got exceedingly worse. The first two are fine in my book, although I haven't listened to them in a while.
@4mat: Yeah! Acid!

I'll rattle off some genres:

Techno,
house,
Jamaican Dancehall,
IDM,
Dubstep,
Dnb,
Disco,
Trance,
Industrial,
Hip-hop,
Pop,
etc.
I could go deeper into sub-genres and fusion-genres as well.
Also, to all you people talking about acoustic dance music, wouldn't things like waltz music count?