In Europe and North America, nightclubs play disco-influenced dance music such as house music, techno, and other dance music styles such as electro or trance.

Pentagram playing their song Review Your Choices live at Jaxx Nightclub in Springfield, Virginia (Washington DC area) on 15 January 2010. Emphasizing spontaneity and randomness, the techniques of circuit bending have been commonly associated with noise music, though many more conventional contemporary musicians and musical groups have been known to experiment with bent instruments.