Pump Up The Volume: It's House Music

Not seen this video yet, contrary to house music EDM is not a genre. House music evolve from the disco era.
EDM was the term giving to electronic music produce for club that includes disco, house, techno and so on.
EDM now = house, techno, dupstep, trance and all those genres and sub genres and “anything somebody call music now a day” LOL.

backtothefront, post: 37474, member: 1433 wrote: Not quite correct, the reason ‘EDM’ did not appear in the above video is because it is relatively new term for Dance Music. It came about roughly 3 or 4 years ago when Dance Music eventually went mainstream in the US.

Personally I can’t stand the term and for me it represents the following genres, which coincide with the genres that ‘went big’ in the US: Electro House, Dubstep (sorry I mean, Brostep – far removed from the origins of Dubstep) and mainstream, TOP40 Dance Music.

Sorry my friend but Electronic Dance Music term have been used here in the USA since the 80’s

Shuga*Foot, post: 37480, member: 2922 wrote: I understand what Atom is saying. However in the 80’s I wasn’t going to EDM parties. I was going to house parties. There wasn’t EDM DJs but house DJs. I do realize that as house and techno moved out of the underground in the 90’s and so on, large music stores would categorize house music in with other “electronic” genres including acid jazz, down tempo, and chillout. But when I went to my fav dance record stores they knew he differences between house and dub-step. The use of the word EDM in mainstream dialogue is relatively new considering how long house music and all of its sub-genres have been around. I agree with BacktotheFront. EDM is more used now to include Top 40 dance artists in with electro house and it gives House and Techno DJs and producers better exposure on the top 40 scene. Me, it’s house music plain and simple.

Totally agree with you Shuga, my thoughts exactly. On this side of the atlantic, it’s very much the same, in the late 80’s and 90’s it was House/Acid House/Techno/Rave/Electronica/Dance Music and derivatives of. I’m probably just splitting hairs but ‘EDM’ as an acronym, first time I heard of it was only a few years ago and coincided with the mainstream acceptance of dance music in the US – I suspect because partly it’s a tidy way to cover several genres for a new audience. I view ‘EDM’ as a catch all genre for mainstream dance music (Top40/Electro-House/Dubstep/Trap) which is popular in the US.

Again, absolutely agree! Think you and me Shuga are from the same mindset! 🙂 None of my DJing peers use or refer to ‘EDM’ at all, and as you suggest, I think this is more to do with the underground scene. At the risk of sounding dismissive, if I was to use the term ‘EDM’ within the scenes I’m involved in and on my radio shows – It would not be taking seriously at all. But each to their own 🙂