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Reggae

For most people, the word “reggae” may spark the picture of dreadlocked warblers plucking out syncopated guitar beats under heavy marijuana clouds. Chill vibes, palm trees, and tropical locations may also come to mind. But how much do you really know about reggae? The history of reggae and how it became a universally accredited music genre that is listened to on record players around the world is a fascinating story. This story is built on ambition, commitment, and national pride. Building on indigenous Jamaican musical styles to address the plight of Jamaicans during the last half of the 20th century, reggae forged a new path for Jamaican music and helped bolster the nation’s image at a time when it was still exploring its newfound independence. With the inspiration of greats like Haile Selassie and the influence of musical geniuses like Bob Marley, Reggae has become a distinctive and unmistakable genre of sound. From its roots in Jamaica to international appeal, here’s how reggae...
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Dubstep

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Since music is music, there are many subgenres that have emerged over time thanks to technology, trends and fusions with other musical styles... And well, unless you were completely disconnected, it is likely that you already know what dubstep is because DJs like Skrillex, Bassnectar, Excision and Kill the Noise have made it reverberate in every corner of our beloved planet. So... well... let's get down to the most important thing in Dubstep... First, a bit of history… Dubstep is a genre that emerged in the late 90s and early 2000s in London, England. However, it was not until 2002 when the term "dubstep" began to be used as a name for this subgenre... This is one of many electronic and garage styles to come out of South London clubs supported by small independent labels….. These "experiments" used to be published on the B-side of the commercial garage white labels of those days... The story goes that the term Dubstep was coined when Ammunitions Promotions, who ...
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Disco Polo

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 Disco Polo was a regional style of disco music heavily influenced by Eurodisco, Italo Disco, and Polish folk music. Among the most popular bands and artists of this genre, there is Bayer Full, Boys or Shazza (stage name of Magdalena Pańkowska, nicknamed "The Queen of Disco Polo"), among others. Evolution and related genres In 1987 the style declined and attempts were made to adapt to other more commercial styles of the time and above all to a more Eurobeat sound or it directly became Italo House. eurobeat As Italo Disco declined in Europe, Italian and German producers adapted to the tastes of Japanese listeners, creating Eurobeat. Although the original Eurobeat sounded almost identical to Italo Disco, most modern Eurobeat sounds faster. The two best known eurobeat labels are A-Beat-C Records and Hi-NRG Attack. In Italy, in the mid-1980s, female singers emerged whose Italo Disco style gradually gave way to the emergence of a world rhythm called dance. An example of this was t...
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Afrobeats

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 Afrobeats, also known as Afro-pop or Afro-fusion, is a West African popular music that initially started in Nigeria, Ghana, and then the United Kingdom in the 2000s and 2010s. developed in the 1960s and 1970s in Africa and mixed with American jazz and funk. The name was coined by the Nigerian pioneer Fela Kuti. He is credited with laying the foundations for what would become Afrobeats today. Afrobeats is a diverse fusion of several different genres, such as British house music, hip hop, dancehall, and soca with African music (hiplife, jùjú music, and naija beats). The term Afrobeats was first coined in the United Kingdom. Another, more subtle contrast between the two genres is that while Fela Kuti used Afrobeat to discuss and criticize contemporary politics, Afrobeats typically avoids such topics, making it less politically charged. Famous artists like Drake, Justin Bieber, Ed Sheeran, Michelle Williams, French Montana, Rick Ross and Kanye West have collaborated with Afrobeats art...
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Plugg

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 Plugg is a subgenre of trap music, that stems from the production style of Zaytoven, later polished and expanded by beatmakers from Beatpluggz collective, mainly by MexikoDro, StoopidXool, PoloBoyShawty and Ka$h3x in the mid-2010s via online distribution on platform SoundCloud. Unlike mainline trap, which is defined by bombastic production and rattling hi-hat drum patterns, Pluggnb is said to be dreamy, laidback, atmospheric, spacey, airy, minimal and catchy, described as having overall lush and jazzy atmosphere, ethereal multi-instrumental harmonies and melodies, sparse, disjoint, and relaxed drum programming with few hi-hats, and thick basslines. Instead of hi-hats in mainline trap, plugg drumming mainly employs beat skips, crash cymbals and punctuated accent snares on half-beats. As described by a critic, plugg is best intended to be heard alone, «experience . . in the way it's intended: as a day-long trance in your isolated abode». Vocally, plugg ranges from instrumental beats...
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Aggrotech

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 Aggrotech is an evolution of electro-industrial, with strong influences from hardstyle/hardtrance and techno music, which appeared in the first half of the 1990s, but has been revitalized in recent years. Also called "EBM Terror", and more recently called "Hellektro", their sound is characterized by songs with rough structures, aggressive rhythms and lyrics that are militant, negative or explicit. Normally, the voice is distorted to sound hoarse, scratchy, and toneless. Artists also frequently use melodic structures with atonalities. Bands like: Aghast View, Aesthetic Perfection, Unter Null, Alien Vampires, Amduscia, Agonoize, Psyclon Nine, Die Sektor, Combichrist, Cenobita, Hocico, Virtual Embrace, Tactical Sekt, God Module, Grendel, Aslan Faction, Tamtrum, Feindflug, Dawn From Ashes, Suicide Squad, X-Fusion, Wumpscut, Panzer AG. Aggrotech, it may not sound like that to you, but it is an evolution of what we call electro-industrial, but with a clear influence of h...
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Electronic blog

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 Electronic blog Ending the month of February and what a surprise gave us today the favorite genre of many electronics with the largest festival of this genre in Mexico that is back after a 2-year pandemic break remembering that in 2020 it was the last festival to be held in this country. The surprises were not lacking on February 24, 25 and 26 Starting with the right foot on the 24th we had great dj's like Mariana No, uzelito mix, Alok, Martin Garrix and who was undoubtedly the best part of this event the acclaimed Bizarrap demonstrating that at 24 years of age he is a great producer and of course a great dj. Talking more about the genre especially this nation of disco music in 1980 and from there emerged all the branches that we now know such as edm, techno, dubstep, trap, hard style, trance, house among others Despite the already existing subgenres, most DJs have their unique style as in the case of Salvatore Ganacci and are famous for the question, what's up with Salvatore ...
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