A VIP guide to some of the top EDM music festivals in the world including SXM, EDC Las Vegas, Electric Forest, Futur Festival ...

and long-standing core artists in the dance/electronic genre, with an emphasis on electronic-based production, ranked by streaming activity by online music sources tracked by Luminate, radio ...

With the emergence of dubstep — sometimes falsely referred to as "fast drum and bass" — other EDM genres have taken a side seat. The tried-and-true plate-traders at Recon don't subscribe to this.

Founded in the 1970s, German band Kraftwerk are widely considered to be pioneers of electronic music. They were among the first to popularise the genre, developing a distinctive "robot pop" style.