A list of notable artists in different genres of contemporary electronic music. (For electronic artists and composers in a more "classical" or art music tradition, see electronic art music)
- Aphex Twin (Well known in early ambient; known for psychologically-targeted music, some tracks intentioned to cause "bad trips" in the listener)
- Art of Trance (trance)
- Altern-8 (Acid house, UK)
- Autechre (IDM, UK)
- Baby D (House UK)
- Banco de Gaia (world music-inflected electronica, trance)
- Basement Jaxx
- Bedrock (Collaborative effort by Bedrock Records, including Sasha and John Digweed. Progressive house.)
- Bjork (Bjork is one of the most influential artists of the past decade. While she is impossible to categorize in one genre of music, her electronic art rock transmogrifies itself into what could best be described as progressive ambient.)
- BT
- The Chemical Brothers (breaks, big beat, funky breaks, breakbeat)
- Christ(electronica), (ambient)
- Coldcut (breaks, electronica)
- Daft Punk (French house - leaders in the late 90ies Filter/disco sound)
- Dieselboy (One of the biggest names in drum and bass, lots of jungle)
- Depeche Mode
- Thomas Dolby (electro-pop)
- DJ Hype, (drum and bass)
- DJ Rap, (drum and bass, Jump-Up)
- Dust Brothers (breaks, big beat)
- 808 State (techno, electronica)
- Enigma
- Brian Eno - (also together with David Byrne of Talking Heads collaborated on an early sampling album My Life in the Bush of Ghosts).
- Enya (ambient, trip hop)
- Fatboy Slim aka Norman Cook (Breaks, big beat, Happy Hardcore)
- Frankie Bones (Happy Hardcore, Funky breaks, Goa. Responsible for essentially starting the rave scene in North America. Came up with the word "Rave". Came up with PLUR.)
- Funk Function
- Fluke
- Ganja Kru, (drum and bass), conglomeration of DJ Hype, DJ Zinc and Peshay.
- Goldie (drum and bass)
- Ritchie Hawtin aka Plastikman (Minimalist, techno)
- Hardfloor
- Jean Michel Jarre (ambient)
- JoCa - http://www.jocamusic.com
- Jungle Brothers (Jungle, Two-step, Tech-step, Breaks)
- JunkieXL (Better known since 2000 as "JXL" - had a massive chart hit with his Elvis-remix)
- Keioki (Progressive trance)
- KLF - pioneers in the field of flagrant sampling
- Frankie Knuckles (Pioneered house music. Spun at a club called "The Warehouse", for which the genre was named.)
- Kraftwerk (pre-techno early electronica, experimental, one of the most-sampled artists ever)
- Lange
- Paul Lansky
- Bill Laswell (ambient, electronica, electronic-influenced world music)
- LFO (acid house) psedonym under which Andy Wetherall released some of his best work.
- Oliver Lieb (techno, trance)
- Line Noise (melodic Electro/IDM [1])
- Lo Fidelity Allstars
- Mangabros (aleatoric cut-up electronica/text)
- Moby (Does just about everything) - http://www.moby.com
- Monkey Mafia
- Paul Oakenfold (trance)
- The Orb (trance, ambient, one of the earliest big names in the movement)
- Orbital (Funky breaks, Tech Step, Happy Hardcore)
- Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
- Jochem Paap aka Speedy J (Atmospheric)
- Mike Paradinas
- Pet Shop Boys
- Plaid (IDM, UK)
- Portishead (trip hop)
- The Prodigy (breaks, big beat)
- DJ Q-Bert (Scratch artist, three time world champion turntablist)
- The Residents (avant-garde, experimental electronic music)
- Bogdan Raczynski (IDM and drum and bass)
- Luke Slater
- Klaus Schulze (ambient)
- Murat Ses
- Sneaker Pimps (Mostly trip hop)
- Squarepusher (IDM and drum and bass, rather experimental)
- Tangerine Dream
- Timo Maas (progressive house, tech-house)
- Isao Tomita
- Underworld
- Paul Van Dyk (trance)
- Vangelis
- Sven Vath
- Luke Vibert
- Yellow Magic Orchestra aka YMO (Pre-techno electronica, melodic)
- Zed Bias
- LTJ Bukem (Much of his work is described as "ambient music drum and bass")
- John Digweed (progressive house, many collaborations with Sasha)
- Darren Emerson (techno, formerly 1/3 of Underworld)
- Laurent Garnier (French DJ and techno artist)
- Goldie (drum and bass (a major progenitor of the genre), breakbeat, acid jazz)
- Grooverider
- Judge Jules (trance, hard house)
- Sander Kleinenberg (Dutch prog. house wizkid...)
- Jeff Mills (Detroit techno pioneer)
- Paul Oakenfold (Trance, early pioneer of the UK clubscene)
- Gilles Peterson
- Sasha (Progressive house, trance, many collaborations with John Digweed.)
