Etymology

electronic body music

Today it means: A genre of aggressive danceable music originating in the 1980s and taking elements from industrial and electronic music. Full definition →

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The story

Coined in 1978 by Ralf Hütter of the German electronic band Kraftwerk.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.