Timeline of electronic music genres

Okay kiddo, so the story of electronic music starts a long long time ago, back when your grandparents were still young. Back then, people made music using instruments like the guitar, drums, and piano. But some clever people got the idea to use machines to make music instead!

The first electronic music was made using something called a synthesizer, which is a machine that can create all sorts of sounds. This started happening way back in the 1950s and 60s, but most of the music made with synthesizers was just experimental and not very popular.

Then, in the 1970s, a type of music called disco became super popular. Disco music was made using lots of electronic instruments like keyboards and drum machines, but it still had a lot of traditional instruments too.

In the 1980s, people started making more and more music using just machines and computers. This led to the rise of a lot of different electronic music genres, like techno, house, and trance.

Techno music was really popular in places like Detroit and Germany, and it had a really fast beat that people loved to dance to. House music came out of Chicago and had a more melodic sound, with lots of vocal samples and funky basslines. Meanwhile, trance music was a bit more and dreamy and hypnotic, with long build-ups and big drops.

As time went on, even more types of electronic music were invented, like drum and bass, dubstep, and EDM (which stands for electronic dance music). Each of these genres has its own unique sound and style, but they all share a love of machines and computers and making people dance.

And that's the story of the timeline of electronic music genres, from the first synthesizers to the dancefloor bangers of today!