Electronic dance music

person who plays recorded music for an audience

broad genre of electronic music

A rave (from the verb: to rave) is a dance party at a warehouse, club, or other public or private venue, typically featuring performances by DJs playing electronic dance music. The style is most associated with the early 1990s dance music scene when DJs played at illegal events in musical styles dominated by electronic dance music from a wide range of sub-genres, including drum and bass, dubstep, trap, break, happy hardcore, trance, techno, hardcore, house, and alternative dance. Occasionally live musicians have been known to perform at raves, in addition to other types of performance artists

Faithless are an English dance music band that formed in 1995, with its core original members being Rollo, Sister Bliss and Maxi Jazz. During the band's initial period of success, Sister Bliss and Maxi Jazz contributed to studio recordings and toured frequently under the Faithless name, while Rollo served as a studio-only member, and has never performed live with the band. Their first album, Reverence, was released in 1996 and their most recent, Champion Sound, in 2025. They have sold millions of physical records, and their catalogue was uploaded to streaming sites in 2018. They average over f

musical instrument that produces its sounds using electronics

modern electronic musical instrument

drum machine

instrumental or percussion section during a musical composition

UK record chart

specific rhythm pattern commonly found in contemporary music

line of turntables

audio mixing console used by DJs

American electronic dance music radio chart published by Billboard

generic term for electronic dance music of various styles (primarily acid house and techno) played at raves in the 1990s

subculture

point in music score where rhythm suddenly changes

Goldie album

Nightclub open past curfew closing time

An algorave (from an algorithm and rave) is an event where people dance to music generated from algorithms, often using live coding techniques. Alex McLean of Slub and Nick Collins coined the word "algorave" in 2011, and the first event under such a name was organised in London, England. It has since become a movement, with algoraves taking place around the world.

thumb|upright=1.3|A DJ setup in a nightclub, consisting of three CDJs (top), three [[turntables for vinyl records and a DJ mixer]] A CDJ is a specialized digital music player for DJing. Originally designed to play music from compact discs, many CDJs can play digital music files stored on USB flash drives or SD cards. In typical use, at least two CDJs are plugged into a DJ mixer. CDJs have jog wheels and pitch faders that allow manipulation of the digital music similar to a vinyl record on a DJ turntable. Many have additional features that are not present on turntables, such as looping, beat an