New Splice Report Outlines Electronic Music Production Trends Heading Into 2027

Type a few words into a sample library’s search bar and you give away more about your next track than you probably intend.Multiply that by millions of music producers, and you get a clear snapshot of what dancefloors will want next.

Splice has long served as a seedbed for those electronic music trends.The sample marketplace has released a new report after placing a year’s worth of insights under a microscope, examining how its users searched for and downloaded sounds between September 2025 and August 2026.

Electronic dance genres grew their combined share of all genre searches by roughly 3%.Searches for speed garage rose more than 160%, and queries pairing it with UK garage nearly tripled.

Bass music is turning up beside UK garage, dubstep and hyperpop with growing frequency, and Splice expects the cluster to keep expanding at a calmer pace.Meanwhile, house music is splintering.

Melodic house saw search share climb 63%, with downloads growing faster and demand spread across many releases.French house gained 38% in search share while the number of producers downloading its sounds rose more than 80%, a steady climb that Splice reads as a “real revival.” Afro-house still draws heavy searching, up over 50%, but downloads have started to flatten, which points to a potential bubble-burst.

The genre’s search volume surged by 96% in 2025 alongside a 778% explosion in downloads, per Splice and MIDiA’s ‘Sounds of 2026’ report.Elsewhere in Splice’s 2027 report, hard techno gained 27% and has held level in recent months while hard dance jumped 68% over the year, cooled off and then swelled again lately.

Splice expects hard techno to rise gradually in 2027 but cautions thats hard dance’s “rebound needs a bit more time before it’s a sure thing.” Drum & bass offers a lesson in specialization.The umbrella term lost about 6% of its search share, yet jungle rose 16% while jump-up and liquid each grew their share of downloads by m...