I've always seen "EDM" as the bastardization of electronic music by the American festival scene in the late 2000s. That's not a knock on the USA as a whole (a

I've always seen "EDM" as the bastardization of electronic music by the American festival scene in the late 2000s. That's not a knock on the USA as a whole (a lot of garage/acid can be traced back to Detroit house and techno), but it is mostly an American genre.