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16 August 2006
GELSENKIRCHEN, GERMANY. Today, Dependent Records introduced a new genre of electronic music, Electronoiseterrorpop, finally increasing the number of genres (139,147) above the number of songs (139,146).

The trend toward subcategorization began in the 1970s with the split between synthpop and technopop, and picked up steam in the late 80s, as new beat splintered into hard beat, e-beat, acid beat, and wegotthebeat.

The rise of industrial dance music in the wake of Nine Inch Nails added to the fray, as independent record labels such as Reconstriction and Cleopatra, unable to compete on the quality of their music, instead competed to be first with a new genre. This led to such terms as coldwave, darkwave, synthwave, and metal-hacking industrialism.

It was the rave scene that set the bar in the mid-90s, followed by electroclash in the early 21st century--which managed to spin off genres such as synthtron and minimalwave with no artists at all.

Mark Arm of Mudhoney noted that, if only unique electronic songs are counted, the number of genres already took the lead in 1983, at which point there were already 5 genres, and all 4 current songs had been written by Kraftwerk.