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Electronic Dance Music Trivia Questions

How much do you really know about Electronic Dance Music? Below are 8 true or false statements. Click each one to reveal the answer and explanation.

1.

Electronic Dance Music is an umbrella term that includes subgenres like techno, house, and dubstep.

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EDM covers a wide range of electronic music styles. Techno is a specific subgenre, not synonymous with all EDM. Other major subgenres include house, trance, and dubstep.

2.

All major Electronic Dance Music festivals are held only in the United States.

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Major EDM festivals like Tomorrowland (Belgium), Ultra Europe (Croatia), and Creamfields (UK) take place outside the U.S.

3.

Electronic Dance Music duo Daft Punk won Album of the Year at the 2014 Grammy Awards.

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Daft Punk's Random Access Memories won Album of the Year at the 2014 Grammys, making them the first EDM act to win that top award.

4.

Electronic Dance Music was first created by the German band Kraftwerk in 1974.

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While Kraftwerk were electronic music pioneers, Electronic Dance Music (EDM) as a genre has roots in disco and early electronic dance tracks, with Giorgio Moroder's 1977 production 'I Feel Love' often cited as a seminal EDM track, not Kraftwerk's 1974 work.

5.

Electronic Dance Music producer Skrillex won the Grammy for Best New Artist in 2012.

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Skrillex won three Grammys in 2012 for Best Dance/Electronica Album and Best Dance Recording, but Best New Artist went to Bon Iver.

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The Electronic Dance Music festival Tomorrowland started in 2005 in Belgium.

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Tomorrowland first took place in Boom, Belgium in 2005 with a single day and has since grown into one of the world's largest EDM festivals.

7.

Electronic Dance Music producer deadmau5 created the track 'Strobe,' which was voted the greatest electronic song of all time in a 2013 Mixmag poll.

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Mixmag's 2013 reader poll ranked deadmau5's 'Strobe' as the greatest electronic track ever, a widely cited fact in EDM history.

8.

The first Electronic Dance Music song to earn a Diamond certification in the United States was 'Party Rock Anthem' by LMFAO.

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LMFAO's 'Party Rock Anthem' reached 10× Platinum (Diamond) in 2013, making it the first EDM track to achieve that RIAA certification.

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