A broad group of electronic-based music styles intended for listening rather than strictly for dancing. In North America, the mainstream music industry adopted and to some extent manufactured electronica as an umbrella term encompassing such styles as techno.
By the early 2010s, however, the industry abandoned electronica in favor of electronic dance music (EDM), a term with roots in academia and an increasing association with outdoor music festivals and relatively mainstream, post-rave electro house and dubstep music. It now includes danceable grooves, as well as music for headphones and chill-out areas.
In the UK, electronica is associated with non-dance-oriented music, including relatively experimental styles of downtempo electronic music. It partly overlaps what is known chiefly outside the UK as intelligent dance music (IDM). Currently, electronica is linked by a penchant for overtly electronic production. 1968– .
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