This document discusses electronic dance music and its history and popularity. It provides details on various electronic music genres like techno, drum and bass, and minimal. It also discusses the rise of electronic music festivals in countries like Spain. Two film summaries are also included, one about a comedy film called "Its All Gone Pete Tong" about a legendary DJ battling hearing loss, and another called "Berlin Calling" about a club DJ struggling with drug addiction.

2. Is a kind of electronic dance music directly
influenced by the use of drum
machine and funk sampling.
There are heavy electronic sounds, usually
without vocals.
Electronic sound was only part of the
instrumentation rather than basis of the whole
song.

3.  Following the decline of disco music in the late
1970s, various funk artists began experimenting
with talk boxes and the use of heavier, more
distinctive beats
 Electronica includes a wide range of
contemporary electronic music designed for a wide
range of uses, including foreground listening, some
forms of dancing, and background music for other
activities. Unlike electronic dance music, which is
sub-genre in the category, all examples of electronica
are not necessarily made for dancing.
 Genres such as techno, drum and bass, and minimal
are among those encompassed by the umbrella
term, entering the American mainstream from
"alternative" or “underground” venues during the late
1990s.

4.  Nowadays, there are lots of DJ all over the
world.
 In Spain there has grown very much the
number of people who listens to this kind of
music.
 Here, there exist many festivals and
derivative of electronic music.
For example: Monegros – Aragón
Aquasella – Asturias
Klubbers - Madrid.

6.  Its All Gone Pete Tong is a comedy following the tragic life
of legendary Frankie Wilde. The story takes us through
Frankie's life from one of the best DJ's alive, through
subsequent battle with a hearing disorder, culminating in
his mysterious disappearance from the scene. A genius in
his own right, he clawed his way to the top of the DJ
ranks, now living the opulent life of a superstar, he resides
in his trophy villa in Ibiza with his trophy wife. This is
when tragedy hits. Due to a hearing disorder he is rapidly
going deaf with only one functioning ear to complete the
new Ibiza season. How is he doing behind the decks?
Horrible. How is he doing in the studio where he produces
his remixes? Frankie dives into a low period, struggling
with deafness in utter depression. After a year of locking
himself away he emerges on the other side with a fresh
attitude towards his affliction. He accepts his deafness and
learns to function without sound.

8. A club DJ begins to fall prey to the nightlife that's a major part of
his career in this drama from Germany. Paul Kalkbrenner has risen
from spinning records in tiny dance clubs to becoming one of the
leading lights in European electronica
His work as a producer has earned him a lucrative deal with a
major label, who will pack any hall where he appears, Rita, his
manager
But he also has a taste for the club drugs that surround him, and
dealer friend keeps him supplied with cocaine and pharmaceuticals.
In time he appetites catch up with him and he ends up in
rehab, but his recovery is an ineffectual .
It's not until he reps inform him that the record company is
rejecting the material he's cut for his latest album that the DJ
begins to realize his future lies in staying clean and sober.
Berlin Calling star Paul Kalkbrenner is in real life a popular club DJ.