Electro-funk
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Electro-funk or electrofunk is an umbrella term for several genres of electronic dance music, notably:
- boogie (genre)Boogie (genre)Boogie is an electronic/funk-influenced variation of post-disco.Boogie, as one of the post-disco subgenres, lacks the four-on-the-floor beat, which is a "traditional" rhythm of disco music. Aside from the moderate influence of synthpop, boogie heavily draws from funk music...
, a post-discoPost-discoPost-disco refers to a historically significant period in popular music history beginning with the commercial death of disco music in the late 1970s and ending with the mainstream appearance of house music in late 1980s.The stripped-down musical trends followed from the DJ- and producer-driven,...
music genre from the late 1970s and precursor to electro music - electro music, a mainstream electronic dance music genre prominent in early to mid-1980s
- funktronicaFunktronicaFunktronica is an underground subgenre of electro music characterized by the use of recent digital mastering techniques in order to produce a sound similar in terms to its 1980s precursor...
, a revival subgenre of electro music from the late 2000s