Quite a few styles that start with ‘experimental’ in the E musical genres listing. Funnily enough that’s what I like to call tunes I make that aren’t quite right yet too - experimental - works every time. Another favourite of mine is elevator music - very soothing when you’re trapped between floors.
Early – umbrella term for any music made from the prehistoric era until the advent of baroque music
East Coast blues – umbrella term for any blues music made by inhabitants of the American East Coast, usually used to refer to the New York or Piedmont scenes
East Coast hip hop – any hip hop produced by inhabitants of New York
Easy listening – pop style aimed at older listeners
Electric blues – style of blues played with electric instruments, most notably the electric guitar
Electric folk – associated with the folk revival of the 1960s, electric folk was a style of folk in which modern, often electric instruments, were substituted for classic folk instruments
Electro – early form of EDM which made its sounds intentionally robotic and computer-like, usually to channel a theme of transhumanism
Electro backbeat – any EDM which utilizes a 4/4 drum pattern
Electro-industrial – a style of post-industrial which used heavily produced and layered synths
Electro swing – fusion of EDM and swing-jazz
Electroclash – fusion of 1980s synthpop and 1990s techno
Electronic body music – EDM-informed style of post-industrial
Electronic dance – EDM; a fusion of electronic and dance music
Electronic music – music that utilizes electronic instruments, such as the synthesizer, Theremin, and computer
Electronic rock – fusion of electronic and rock music
Electronica – popular music that includes electronic instruments
Electronicore – fusion of electronic and post-hardcore/metalcore music
Electropop – fusion of electronic and pop music
Electropunk – fusion of electronic and punk music
Elevator music – comfortable and soothing music designed for and played in shopping malls, usually elevators therein, to create a sense of ambience and comfort
Emo – heavily emotional and pessimistic style of post-hardcore punk
Emo pop – fusion of emo and pop punk
Enka – a popular, modern adaptation of traditional Japanese music
Epic – modern classical-like music derived from a wide array of genres, primarily trailer music.
Eremwu eu – work songs of the female bakers of the Garifuna people of west Africa
Ethereal wave – atmospheric subgenre of dark wave
Eurobeat – antecedent to Italo disco
Eurodance – European dance music and evolution of Euro disco that adapted elements of house and hi-NRG
Euro disco – European disco music, which incorporated elements of pop rock and synthpop
Euro house – European house music, usually a house-based form of Eurodance or Euro disco
Europop – European pop music
Eurotrance – European trance music, usually a fusion of Eurodance with uplifting trance and/or hard trance.
Exotica – fusion of many popular international genres from the 1950s marketed at Americans, who were attracted to the exotic label
Experimental – any music that breaches contemporary standards of music
Experimental hip hop – fusion of experimental and hip hop music
Experimental pop – fusion of experimental and pop music
Experimental rock – fusion of experimental and rock music
Extreme metal – umbrella term for aggressive, non-commercial forms of heavy metal
