Examples of electronic dance music, 1990s to present.

1. MUSC 1800: Popular Music
EDM
Dr. Matthew C. Saunders
Lakeland Community College
C-1078

2. Events: 2001-2012
• Economy
• Politics
• Foreign affairs

3. Developments in Music, 2000 to
present
• Music freed from
physical constraints
• Reality television
• Relevance of music
“industry” in decline
• New Internationalism

4. Techno
• Emerging from the club
scene
– Drug of choice: MDMA
(“ecstacy”)
– Raves
• Often completely
electronic
• International appeal
• Prodigy: “Firestarter,” 1996
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5. Electronic Dance Music
• Almost every current pop hit owes something to
these styles, derived from “house” and “techno”
of the 1990s
• The Amen Break
• Trance: mid-1990s
– B.B.E., “Seven Days and One Week,” 1996
• Drum’n’bass/Jungle: mid-1990s
– Adam F, “Circles,” 1995
• Dubstep: late-1990s
– Shackleton, “Naked,” 2006