These styles, produced initially using specialized sound chips in PCs such as the Commodore 64, Commodore Amiga, and Atari ST among others, grew primarily out of the demoscene.

A video that came with the sample kit “Richard Devine – The Electronic Music Manuscript” that I purchased. In the segment he demonstrates some very interesting techniques on how he and Josh Kay captured the sounds for the collection as well as showing off his vast array of equipment. Note the ever lovely Elektron Machinedrum in there….. I do not own copyright to this video, but I have uploaded it to generate interest in Richard Devine’s samples and for Richard Devine fans. Although there are no hard and fast boundaries, broadly speaking we can identify the experimental and classical styles: electronic art music, musique concrète, acousmatic music from approximately 1945 to the present; the industrial music and synth pop styles of the 1980s; styles that are primarily intended for dance such as italo disco, techno, house, trance, electro, breakbeat, drum and bass aka jungle, electronic jazz aka Nujazz and styles that are intended more as experimental styles or for home listening such as electronica, glitch, Breakcore and trip hop.