The early disco sound

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Does anybody know how long has electronic dance music has been around? has it been around before the disco era? before Donna summer and Giorgio Moroder "i feel love"?

From what my friends mum said to me, house originally emerged into the rave scene in the 80s. it branched off into house and acid house, house acid house and techno, gabba, techno, house, acid house and continued to branch off from there.

wikipedia may offer a good idea if it,

EDM is my favourite kind of music. into things like minimal techno and deep house, progressive house,

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I have a feeling that it's been around since 1975.

Jean Jacques Perrey and Gershon Kingsley were creating interesting electronic music by the late 1960s---some of which became quite popular including "Baroque Hoedown" featured in Walt Disney's Electrical Water Pageant and Main Street Electrical Parade (early users of the Moog synthesizer). Electronic/Synthesizer music can however be traced to the early 20th century with a huge device called the Teleharmonium. This instrument was later packaged into a much smaller device and developed into the Hammond drawbar tonewheel organ in the 1930s. In a way, the Hammond drawbar tonewheel organs were/are like synthesizers in that the countless combinations of drawbar settings can yield an equally vast amount of tones.

But as for electronic dance music---I would say the 1970s disco movement would be a good guess for the beginnings of it.

http://techno.org/electronic-music-guide/

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