Artists Edm

The Edm genre, an abbreviation of Electronic Dance Music, refers both to a musical movement and to an umbrella term used to group many styles of electronic music designed for clubs, festivals, and dancing. Even though the roots of Edm go back to disco, house, techno, and trance that emerged from the 1970s to the 1990s, the term EDM really took hold from the 2010s onward to describe the most popular and mainstream electronic scene.

Edm is therefore not a single sub-genre in the strict sense, but rather a broad family that includes or intersects styles such as Progressive House, Big Room, Electro House, Future House, Trance, Dance Pop, or certain more melodic currents of festival music. It also maintains close links with commercial dance, electronic pop, and certain Eurodance legacies.

Popularized worldwide by artists such as David Guetta, Avicii, Calvin Harris, Martin Garrix, Tiësto, Armin Van Buuren or Swedish House Mafia, Edm is often characterized by progressive build-ups, powerful drops, effective choruses, and production designed for strong live impact. Today, it remains one of the most recognizable faces of modern electronic music.