What is Electronic Music?

Contemporary electronic music includes many different styles or musical genres, such as:

Ambient - Ambient dub, Ambient house, Chillout, Dark ambient, Dronology, Illbient, Lowercase, New Age, Psybient, Sub Dub

Breakbeat/Breaks - Anthem breaks, Baltimore breaks, Big beat, Breakcore, Broken beat, Chemical breaks, Cut & paste, Downbeat, Florida breaks, Nu skool breaks, Progressive breaks, Raggacore

Disco - Eurodance, Euro disco, Italo disco, Spacesynth, Synthpop

Downtempo/IDM - Acid jazz, Balearic Beat, Bitpop, BrainDance, Chiptune, Minimal Electronica, Glitch, Nu jazz, Trip Hop (aka The Bristol Sound), Turntablism, NU-Gaze

Electronic art music - Berlin School, Electroacoustic

Electro - Dirty Electronic, Electro Backbeat, Electro bass, Electroclash, Electro funk, Electropop, Eurodance, Indietronica, Miami bass, Rocktronica (genre)

UK garage (aka UKG) - Speed garage, 2-step garage, Breakstep (aka Breakbeat garage), Dubstep, Grime (aka Sublow/8bar/Eskibeat), 4x4 garage, Bassline house

source: wikipedia