Electronic
Electronic music is any music made mainly with electronic instruments and technology, such as synthesizers, drum machines, samplers and computers.
As a genre heading it covers everything from quiet ambient pieces to club styles like house, techno and drum and bass. Its roots go back to tape and studio experiments in the 1940s and 1950s and to the first commercial synthesizers in the 1960s. In the 1980s mass-produced digital synthesizers and programmable drum machines brought it to the front of pop music. What ties it together is how the sound is made, not a shared tempo or mood.
Artists it is known for: Kraftwerk, Aphex Twin, Daft Punk.
- Family
- Electronic & Dance
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A broad heading
- Also called
- electronic music
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 13%
About 11,000 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have electronic among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Electronic artists
ADÉLA
Daft Punk
Skrillex
Porter Robinson
NEFFEX
Fcukers
Boards of Canada
Alok
The Chemical Brothers
Livingston
The electronic artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.