Difference between different music styles

Rave/House/Techno Music: Techno/Trance/Dance, electronic music genres, dj hixxy

GENRE AVERAGE BPM MOOD OF TRACK KEY POINTS EXAMPLES

Ambient 75 - 90 Mellow, relaxed No drums. Sweeping synths. Easy listening CDs
Big beat 100 - 120 Funky, danceable Prominent beat, many samples Fatboy Slim
Breakbeat 125 - 145 Funky Pseudo-random, very chopped up The Avalanches, Run DMC
Club/dance/euro 130 - 145 Happy, danceable "Club/chart music". Female voc Alice Deejay, ATB
Drum & bass 170 - 190 Dark, hypnotic Focus on bass, pounding beat ]EIB[, Decoder, Dieselboy
Gabba/gabber 200 + Manic Blisteringly fast Terrorcore
(UK) Garage 130 - 145 Grungey, underground Bass-centric, MC/rapping So Solid Crew
Happy hardcore 180 - 200 VERY uplifting High pitched vocals, piano Bang!, DJ Brisk
Hardcore 170 - 200 Hypnotic, uplifting Overpowering keyboards Scott Brown, DJ Hixxy
Hardhouse 140 - 150 Hypnotic Repetitive, trance-inducing Lisa Lashes, Yomanda
Hi-NRG 145 - 160 Hypnotic, uplifting Instantly uplifting, powerful Naoki, DJ Ham
IDM 120 - 180 Can be anything Very creative, experimental Aphex Twin, Squarepusher
House 125 - 140 Funky, mellow Laidback, very vocal LMC, most 1990s 'dance'
Techno 100 - 120 Hypnotic Very minimal. Beat and synth Kraftwerk, Fuzkitz
Trance 130 - 145 Danceable, uplifting Laidback, simple female vocals Paul van Dyk, Robert Miles

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