Today the popularity of modern electronic dance music is enormous and if you head out to town on a Friday or Saturday night then you’re almost guaranteed to hear this music being played in at least one popular nightclub. The music is created with the intention of being played in clubs and the widespread popularity and proliferation of clubs has led to an increase in the number of people listening to dance music.
To people who are unfamiliar with the genre then it may seem very confusing at first, especially as there many different sub genres of dance music and electronica, some of which may seem utterly indistinguishable to the casual listener. However, for fans of the genre then these variations are quite different from one another and people who enjoy a certain variant will tend to frequent venues that specialise in this particular type of dance music.
The mainstream dance music that enjoys massive popularity today has its roots in various underground musical movements and this underground element is still prevalent today. There are thousands of underground acts creating various forms of electronic music that may be directly or indirectly linked to dance music. This can be attributed to the widespread proliferation of computers. Nearly everyone has a computer in their home today and anyone who has a computer can easily try their hand at making electronic music, which accounts for the high volume of people creating this type of music. Of course, whether their attempts match up to the classics of the genre is entirely debatable.