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The abbreviation EDM for Electronic Dance Music is commonly used to represent all electronic music, but this generic term covers a wide range of styles and BPMs.
BPM? The BPM or beat gives the beat frequency of the kick.
Kick? It’s the English term universally used to designate what in EDM is the equivalent of the bass drum on Dad’s drum kit.
The kick is what goes Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom a certain number of times per minute, which gives us the BPM or Beat Per Minute.
Each style of electronic music has its own characteristic BPM, which you can deviate from a little, but not too much, because it becomes complicated to mix two tracks whose BPMs are too far apart.
Here are a few EDM styles with their characteristic BPM:
House: around 126.
Techno: 120 / 140.
Progressive Trance: around 135.
Psytrance: around 145.
Drum’n’Bass: around 172.
Jungle, Tribe: between 160 and 180
(This list is by no means exhaustive.)
Originating in Chicago in the early 80s, house music has spread and diversified across the world, particularly in England, Berlin, the Nordic countries and the Balearic Islands.
The beat clocks in at around 126, often with some great vocal parts.
Although it’s generally agreed that techno originated in Detroit in the USA, it was from Berlin that the music really developed and spread.
The term ‘techno’ covers a wide variety of instrumental styles and BPMs, right through to the more brutal and fast-paced hardcore.
Tracks are instrumental, based on repetitive rhythms and effects.
We’re talking about Progressive Trance here, because there’s also Progressive House. Progressive trance can be seen as a slower derivative of psytrance.
Progressive trance is very popular in England and Eastern Europe, particularly Serbia.
The term psychedelic trance, also known as psytrance or simply psy, was created in Goa, India by hippies under the influence of LSD and other substances.
Psy became popular and widespread, particularly in South America, Asia and the whole of Europe.
The term covers a wide range of styles and BPMs (Forest, Dark, Psygressive, etc.).
Drum’n’Bass is a fast-paced music with a powerful beat and synthesizer sounds from elsewhere. It originated in and is almost exclusively produced in the UK.
Drum artists are very creative and there are some very good singers.
Born and composed in England, Jungle is in fact the Reggae / Ragga version of Drum’n’Bass.
It has the same fast, powerful beat, with the characteristic Reggae vocals on top.
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