When you’re busy creating music no one’s ever heard before, life can get a little hectic. Such is the life of Flux Pavilion (aka Joshua Steele) a dubstep DJ/producer who has played and worked ...

Taking a brief pause from his hectic schedule — Pretolesi turned in a whopping 294 mixes last year — the affable dance-music lifer explained how he helped construct the sound of modern EDM.

Modern EDM? I’m an overall music fan. I love dance music, live for dubstep and hip-hop, but will spin everything in between. I am all about that BASS MUSIC!

They are devoted to electronic dance music, and peruse set lists and line ups as if they are the holy grail of techno. In any ravers closet you can find neon tank tops, tight shorts, and legwarmers.

From there, electronic music has branched out into house, trap and subgenres like tropical house and dubstep, concurrent with the rise of what we now know as modern EDM.

Electronic Dance Music™ Before EDM was EDM, it was just electronic dance music, and before even then it was trance, techno, disco, jungle, DnB, breaks, house — multitudes of music, and of peoples.

And electronic dance music did flirt with the U.S. mainstream in the unsettled late '90s, ... EDM is still only a small part of modern music, of course.

Listen to Lady Antebellum veer from their country roots on "Something Better," an EDM track with DJ Audien.

Swedish DJ Avicii, who passed away yesterday at 28, didn’t invent electronic dance music — he was part of a crew of millennials who turned underground house music into mainstream Top 40 a few ...

Nashville's current EDM moment. Electro and heavy bass music has a core fanbase in the rural to suburban American South. Couple that with coastal-dwelling Americans who are now familiar with disco ...

So, let’s look at five genres that changed how modern music sounds. ... or EDM, this type of music puts an accent on rhythm and repetition and on so called synthetic sounds.