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Similar to: electronica • idm • techno • ambient • house • dance • electro • minimal

Electronic music refers to music that emphasizes the use of electronic musical instruments or electronic music technology as a central aspect of the sound of the music. Historically, electronic music was considered to be any music created with the use of electronic musical instruments or electronic processing, but in modern times, that distinction has been lost because almost all recorded music today, and the majority of live music performances, depend on extensive use of electronics. Today, the term electronic music serves to differentiate music that uses electronics as its focal point or inspiration, from music that uses electronics mainly in service of creating an intended production that may have some electronic elements in the sound but does not focus upon them.

Contemporary electronic music expresses both art music forms including computer music, experimental music, musique concrète, and others; and popular music forms including multiple styles of dance music such as techno, house, trance, electro, breakbeat, drum and bass, synth pop, etc.

A distinction can be made between instruments that produce sound through electromechanical means as opposed to instruments that produce sound using electronic components.

Examples of electromechanical instruments are the telharmonium, Hammond organ , and the electric guitar, whereas examples of electronic instruments are a Theremin, synthesizer, and a computer.

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July 2008
Sunday 27 July 2008
DJ Tiësto	Palladium Ballroom Dallas, United States	6 people attending 3 shouts
August 2008
Friday 1 August 2008
Lollapalooza 2008 at Grant Park Radiohead, Bloc Party, Rage Against the Machine, Nine Inch Nails, Kanye West, Iron & Wine, Cat Power, Gnarls Barkley	Grant Park Chicago, United States	1,661 people attending 7,386 shouts Buy Tickets
Friday 8 August 2008
All Points West Music & Arts Festival at Liberty State Park Radiohead, Jack Johnson, Cat Power, Kings of Leon, Metric, Underworld, The Roots, The Go! Team	Liberty State Park Jersey City, New York, United States	953 people attending 274 shouts
Saturday 9 August 2008
Virgin Mobile Festival 2008 at Pimlico Race Course Foo Fighters, Moby, Bloc Party, Bob Dylan, Jack Johnson, Nine Inch Nails, The Offspring, Kanye West	Pimlico Race Course Baltimore, MD, Baltimore, United States	166 people attending 84 shouts
Friday 15 August 2008
Underground Sound 4 at Murphysboro Shpongle, Hallucinogen, Skazi	Murphysboro Murphysboro (Illinois), United States	31 people attending 10 shouts
Friday 22 August 2008
Outside Lands Festival 2008 at Golden Gate Park Radiohead, Beck, Jack Johnson, Broken Social Scene, Regina Spektor, Wilco, Stars, Manu Chao	Golden Gate Park San Francisco, CA, San Francisco, United States	584 people attending 151 shouts