List of electronic music artists and DJs
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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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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
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- 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)
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- 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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- 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
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- 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]]
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- 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
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See also
See also: List of electronic music artists and DJs, 2 Unlimited, 4 Hero, 4 Strings, 808 State, AK1200, Acen
