List of electronic music artists and DJs
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A list of notable artists in different genres of contemporary electronic music. (For electronic artists and composers in a more "classical" or art music tradition, see electronic art music).
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A
- Acen
- Adam F.
- Air
- AK1200 (drum and bass, USA)
- Altern-8 (Acid house, UK)
- Alkemia (trance, ITALY)
- Eddie Amador
- Amber
- Amon Tobin (techno)
- Aphex Twin (early ambient, intelligent dance music, UK)
- Armand Van Helden (trance)
- Armin Van Buuren (trance)
- Art of Noise (proto techno, UK)
- Art of Trance (trance)
- Astral Projection (trance)
- Assemblage 23
- Atari Teenage Riot (digital hardcore, Germany)
- ATB
- Aquasky (drum and bass and breakbeats, UK)
- Autechre (IDM, UK)
- Avalanches (cut-up electronica, Australia)
B
- Baby D (House, UK)
- Bad Boy Bill (various forms of house, USA)
- Bad Company (drum & bass, UK)
- Afrika Bambaataa
- Banco de Gaia (world music-inflected electronica, trance)
- Thomas Bangalter (member of Daft Punk)
- Basement Jaxx (pop-slanted house, UK)
- Olav Basoski
- Beastie (Collaborative effort by Bedrock Records, including Sasha and John Digweed. Progressive house.)
- Ashley Beedle, member of X-Press 2
- Benny Benassi
- Bini & Martini
- Alexandre Bischof (Ambient, Brazil / Germany)
- Björk (Björk is one of the most influential artists of the past decade. While she is impossible to categorize in one genre of music, her electronic art rock transmogrifies itself into what could be described as progressive ambient.)
- Blame (drum and bass, UK)
- Boards of Canada (IDM, electronic folk)
- Boy George
- Bruce Haack 1960s precursor to electronic music.
- BT
- Bugz in the Attic (Brokenbeat)
C
- Cabaret Voltaire (genre-crossing pioneers: early industrial, post-punk, evolving into techno with house influences, UK)
- Albert Cabrera
- Capitol J (drum and bass, Canada)
- Cappella, a project by producer Gianfranco Bortolotti
- Captain Jack
- Carl Cox (Techno, house music, & trance music, UK)
- Ron Carroll
- Cause 4 Concern (drum and bass, UK)
- The Chemical Brothers (breaks, big beat, funky breaks, breakbeat)
- Christ.(electronica), (ambient)
- Joe Claussell
- Coldcut (breaks, electronica, UK)
- M.J. Cole, responsible for popularizing two-step and UKG
- Concord Dawn (drum and bass, NZ)
- Cultural Amnesia (post-punk, vocal electronica, UK)
- The Crystal Method
- Cylob
D
- Daft Punk (French house, leaders in the late 90s Filter/disco sound)
- Darude
- Death in Vegas
- Etienne De Crecy, famous for his Super Discount compilation
- Decoder (drum and bass, UK)
- Deep Blue (drum and bass, UK)
- De Phazz (electronic bossa nova and Latin rhythms)
- Depeche Mode (goth pop, UK)
- Dieselboy (One of the biggest names in drum and bass, USA)
- Dillinja (drum and bass, UK)
- John Digweed (progressive house, many collaborations with Sasha)
- Dirty Vegas (techno rock crossover, UK)
- DJ Bobo
- DJ Dara (drum and bass, USA)
- DJ Dreazz (drum and bass, Netherlands)
- DJ Encore
- DJ Hype, (drum and bass, UK)
- DJ leslie, (industrial)
- DJ Pierre
- DJ Rap, (drum and bass and breakbeats, UK)
- DJ Shadow (breakbeat)
- DJ Spen & Karizma, also known for their Jasper Street Co. project
- DJ Tiësto, (trance)
- DJ Tonka, one of the first house-DJs in Germany
- Boris Dlugosch, frequent collaborations with Mousse T
- Thomas Dolby (electro-pop)
- Dom and Roland (drum and bass, UK)
- Rob Dougan
- Dreamlin
- Dune
- Dust Brothers (breaks, big beat)
E
- E-Smoove
- Todd Edwards, responsible for popularizing two-step/UKG
- Einstürzende Neubauten (avant-garde punk, industrial)
- Electrovoya (Trance, UK)
- Darren Emerson (techno, formerly 1/3 of Underworld)
- Alec Empire
- Enigma
- Brian Eno (ambient pioneer (also together with David Byrne of Talking Heads collaborated on an early sampling album My Life in the Bush of Ghosts).
- Jocelyn Enriquez
- Erasure (pop)
- EZ-Rollers (drum and bass, UK)
F
- Faithless
- Fatboy Slim aka Norman Cook (Breaks, big beat, house)
- Felix Da Housecat (house)
- Ferry Corsten
- Fluke
- Frankie Bones (techno, USA. Responsible for essentially starting the rave scene in North America. Came up with the word "Rave". Came up with PLUR.)
- Freaky Flow (drum and bass, Canada)
- Freestylers
- Freq Nasty (breakbeats, UK)
- Front 242
- Frontline Assembly aka Delerium aka Intermix aka Rhys Fulber and Bill Leeb...
- Funk Function (Lucien Foort)
- Funker Vogt
G
- Ganja Kru, (drum and bass), conglomeration of DJ Hype, DJ Zinc and Peshay.
- Laurent Garnier (French DJ and techno artist)
- Johan Gielen
- Donald Glaude (house, techno, USA)
- Goldie (drum and bass (a major progenitor of the genre), breakbeat, acid jazz, UK)
- Goldfrapp (leftfield pop, UK)
- Kenny Dope Gonzalez, one half of MAW
- Gridlok (drum and bass, USA)
- Groove Armada (beats, UK)
- Grooverider (drum and bass, UK)
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- Richie Hawtin aka Plastikman (Minimalist, techno)
- Hardfloor
- Hardknox
- Higher Intelligence Agency
- Hive (drum and bass, USA)
- Hocico (Mexican electronic music, EBM, Industrial)
- Hybrid (British progressive house, electronica outfit)
I
- Ice Minus (drum and bass, UK)
- IIO
- Ken Ikeda ambient
- Illlogic (drum and bass, UK)
- Illskillz (drum and bass, UK)
- Infected Mushroom (psychedelic tranc and Goa, Isereal)
- Itch-E and Scratch-E (Australian techno and trance duo)
- Ken Ishii
J
- JDS (Breakbeats, UK)
- Jean Michel Jarre (ambient)
- Jake Smith (Breakbeats. UK)
- Jaydee
- Jay Jay Johansen
- John B (drum and bass, UK)
- Joy Electic - (minimalist, Casio-ish)
- Jungle Brothers (Jungle, Two-step, Tech-step, Breaks)
- Junkie XL (Better known since 2000 as "JXL" - had a massive chart hit with his Elvis-remix)
- Juno Reactor (psychedelic trance)
- Judge Jules (trance, hard house)
K
- Keaton (drum and bass, UK)
- kemal (drum annd bass, UK. He is 1/2 of Konflict. Most production is recorded under Kemal and Rob Data,
- Keoki (Progressive trance)
- François Kevorkian
- Kid 606 (IDM)
- Kitaro ambient
- Sander Kleinenberg (Dutch progressive house wizkid)
- KLF - pioneers in the field of flagrant sampling
- Klone (drum and bass, UK)
- Frankie Knuckles (Pioneered house music. Spun at a club called "The Warehouse", for which the genre was named.)
- Kraftwerk (pre-techno early electronica, experimental, one of the most-sampled artists ever)
- Krafty Kuts (Breakbeats, UK)
- Kristine W.
- Kruder & Dorfmeister
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- La Bouche
- Lange
- Paul Lansky
- Laraaji
- Lasgo
- Bill Laswell (ambient, electronica, electronic-influenced world music)
- Leftfield
- Les Rythmes Digitales
- LFO (acid house) psedonym under which Andy Wetherall released some of his best work.
- Oliver Lieb (techno, trance)
- Line Noise (melodic Electro/IDM [1] (http://www.lacedmilk.com/mp3s.htm))
- Lo Fidelity Allstars
- Lords of Acid
- LTJ Bukem (Much of his work is described as "ambient music drum and bass")
M
- Meteo Murphy (Montreal Techno, Canada)
- M.I.K.E. (trance electro techno edged)
- Timo Maas (progressive house, tech-house)
- Mangabros (aleatoric cut-up electronica/text)
- Massive Attack (trip hop pioneers)
- Masters At Work, or simply "MAW"
- Merzbow (avant-garde/noise)
- Robert Miles
- Jeff Mills (Detroit techno pioneer)
- Moby (crossover techno)
- Modjo
- Monkey Mafia (a John Carter project, techo with ragga tinges)
- David Morales
- Morgenstern
- Mousse T, frequent collaborations with Boris Dlugosch
- Moving Fusion (drum and bass, UK)
N
- New Order (indie crossover)
O
- Paul Oakenfold (trance, early pioneer of the UK clubscene)
- Omni Trio (drum and bass, UK)
- Optical (drum and bass, UK. Mostly collaberates with Ed Rush).
- The Orb (trance, ambient, one of the earliest big names in the movement)
- Orbital (electronia)
- Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
P
- Jochem Paap aka Speedy J (Atmospheric)
- Jose Padilla, former DJ of Cafe del Mar, responsible for popularizing downtempo in the early 90's
- Mike Paradinas
- Pet Shop Boys
- Gilles Peterson
- Larry Pignagnoli, Italian producer who puts Frank Farian to shame in the "fronting" department
- Plaid (IDM, UK)
- Ian Pooley, DJ Tonka's partner in their early years
- Pochonbo Electronic Ensemble, from North Korea
- Portishead (trip hop)
- Pills
- Praga Khan
- The Prodigy (breaks, big beat)
- Propellerheads (breaks, big beat)
Q
- DJ Q-Bert (Scratch artist, three time world champion turntablist)
- QFX
- Q Project (drum and bass, UK. He is 1/2 of Total Science).
- Q-TEX
R
- Ram Trilogy (drum and bass, UK. The group is made up of Andy C, Shimon, and Ant Miles).
- Radiohead (mixture of electronic and rock, have been compared to a mix of Aphex Twin and Pink Floyd)
- Real McCoy, aka The Berman Brothers
- The Residents (avant-garde, experimental electronic music)
- Bogdan Raczynski (IDM and drum and bass)
- Richard X
- Robbie Rivera, tribal house
- Roni Size, (drum and bass), winner of the Mercury Music Prize in 1997
- Sandy Rivera, deep house
- Steve Roach
- Robert Rich
- Rollo (member of Faithless)
- Röyksopp
- RTI electronica [[2] (http://www.rti8.com)]
S
- Sasha (Progressive house, trance, many collaborations with John Digweed.)
- Scooter (Happy Harcore)
- Klaus Schulze (ambient)
- Dave Seaman
- Severed Heads (Australian industrial, experimental synthesizer pioneers)
- Murat Ses
- Bob Sinclar, like Daft Punk, one of the proponents of the late 90's "French touch" house scene
- Luke Slater
- Snap!
- Sneaker Pimps (Mostly trip hop)
- Sonique (Female DJ who likes to sing live over records she plays)
- Soulphonic Soundsystem (Brokenbeat, Nu Jazz, Downtempo)
- Sozo (Christian electronica
- Speedy J
- Squarepusher (IDM and drum and bass, rather experimental)
- Sun Electric (techno, trance, ambient, IDM)
- The Synthetic Dream Foundation
T
- Tangerine Dream
- Taucher
- Technical Itch (drum and bass, UK)
- Technotronic
- Télépopmusik
- Telex
- Danny Tenaglia
- Todd Terry
- Throbbing Gristle (industrial pioneers)
- Isao Tomita
- Trance Dance Factory ([[3] (http://www.soundclick.com/trancedancefactory)] Eno influenced trance music)
- Tricky
- Truby Trio
- T-Trider
U
- Underground Sound Of Lisbon (Rui Da Silva and DJ Vibe)
- Underwolves
- Underworld
- Universal Project (drum and bass, UK)
- Usual Suspects (drum and bass, UK)
V
- Ian Van Dahl
- Paul Van Dyk (trance)
- Armand Van Helden, early experimentalist in the mixing of hip-hop and house
- Vangelis
- Edgard Varèse
- Sven Väth
- Little Louie Vega, one half of MAW
- Luke Vibert
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- Nick Warren
- Way Out West
- Widelife
- Yellow Magic Orchestra aka YMO (Pre-techno electronica, melodic)
- Zed Bias
- Mike Hitman Wilson
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