It’s always consisted of a wide umbrella of subgenres, tied together by electronic production and their shared goal of getting people to move.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now, more than ever, music producers on Splice are searching like the umbrella matters much less than the styles that live underneath it. Over the past year, electronic dance genres took a bigger slice of all genre searches on Splice, growing their combined share by about 3%. But, that growth isn’t coming from the big-tent festival sound; it’s coming from specific scenes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The sounds creators on Splice reach for today often hint at where music is headed tomorrow, well before those ideas show up on streaming. It’s not an exact science, since producers borrow and reimagine sounds across genres all the time, but the bigger patterns can be worth paying attention to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With that in mind, we took a look at how producers searched for and downloaded sounds on Splice from September 2025 through August 2026, compared to the year before, to see which movements look durable enough to carry into 2027. Here’s what stood out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
New subscribers can try all of Splice\u2014including 200 monthly sample download credits, full access to all premium INSTRUMENT presets, and more\u2014for $4.99\/mo.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Speed garage’s<\/a> share of genre searches on Splice grew by more than 160% year over year, and producers are increasingly searching for it alongside UK garage<\/a>\u2014searches pairing the two nearly tripled. Bass music is following a similar path, showing up more often next to UK garage, dubstep, and hyperpop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n1. UK garage and bass are converging around speed garage<\/h2>\n\n\n\n