Dance Music and Electronic Dance Music, EDM if you prefer, from a historical, progressive and ‘now’ point of view?

The History

There are early examples of electronic dancing music going back as far as the 1960’s which includes Jamaican dub music. Along with The Yellow Magic Orchestra in the late 1970’s and the disco music of Giorgio Moroder also in the 1970’s.

EDM or electronic dance music also called club music, dance and dance music is a broad range of percussive electronic music genres. Disc jockeys or DJ’s as they are now called made or created seamless selections of tracks largely for nightclubs. Usually called a mix the skill was to play live with segueing from one recording to another.

During the 1980@s and early 90’s raves, club culture and festivals appeared. EDM was born and the Dance Music, Electronic Dance Music industry hasn’t looked back since.

Dance Music – Electronic Dance Music in Europe

Moving into the mid to late 1990’s EDM acquired mainstream popularity in Europe. Dance Culture and the acceptance of it was not universal with mainstream media staying hostile. Unfortunately, The Music and Electronic dance music brought with a drug culture and governments at all levels tried to stop the spread of rave culture.

However, during the early 2010’s the term “electronic dance music” and the initialism “EDM” along with “dance music” was accepted by the music industry with the music press trying to rebrand rave culture.

Today a specific EDM brand is more of an umbrella term for multiple genres, and sub-genres including trance, dubstep, house, techno, and drum and bass to name a few. You can find more on the History of Electronic Dance Music by visiting HERE

Dance Music – Electronic Dance Music

Our radio station was established in 2008 and has provided a mix of music genres through the last decade, not only to Phuket listeners but also via online, mobile apps and a number of specialist radio portals such as Tune In and Streema.

In 2010 following the implementation of our BBC Broadcaster agreement we were given the opportunity to represent some of the biggest International EDM and dance producers in the World.

We welcomed such names as Armin van Buuren, Carl Cox, Judge Jules, Paul Oakenfold, and have subsequently rolled out shows from Mark Brown, Adam Beyer, John Digweed with others wanting to join our schedule.

Transitions

with John Digweed
Tuesday Night
22:00 til 00:00

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The Global Warm Up

with Judge Jules
Wednesday Night
22:00 til 00:00

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A State of Trance

with Armin Van Buuren
Thursday Night
22:00 til 00:00

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Planet Perfecto

with Paul Oakenfold
Friday Night
22:00 til 23:00

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Nicky Romero

Protocol Radio
Friday Night
22:00 til 23:00

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Drumcode

with Adam Bayer
Saturday Night
23:00 til 00:00

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Global Warm Up

with Judge Jules
Saturday Night
00:00 til 02:00

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In The Mood

with Nicole Moudaber
Sunday Morning
02:00 til 03:00

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As you can see, this is a stellar line of top names.

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What is dance music

Posted on 1st April 2021

By Jenny Kaewwongsa

What is Dance Music, also known as Electronic Dance Music (EDM). A great question to get us started. It is a genre of electronic music that emerged in the early…