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Hello all. I'm wondering if any of you could enlighten me. I'm a fan of all forms of electronic music from Merzbow (ouch) to Paul Van Dyk. And thanks to this list, I'm finding out about a lot more artists. (Thanks!) Now, for my question. When talking to peeps about electronic music, the inevitable subject of genres comes up--classifying the music. Although I find genres restricting, I think it still helps to have a knowledge of the many and varied that there are. So, basically, I have trouble distinguishing between all the genres, whether they be dnb, house, jungle, trance, techno, idm, etc. etc. I listen to something and say 'now this is ------". But I'm never sure if I have the genre right. So I'm wondering if there are any websites or anything that would be useful in clarifying the different genres of electronic music. I hope I made my point. Thanks for your help. And forgive my ignorance. -chris. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

On Friday, September 12, 2003, at 04:58 PM, Chris Smith wrote:

quoted 20 lines Hello all. I'm wondering if any of you could

> Hello all. I'm wondering if any of you could > enlighten me. I'm a fan of all forms of electronic > music from Merzbow (ouch) to Paul Van Dyk. And thanks > to this list, I'm finding out about a lot more > artists. (Thanks!) > Now, for my question. When talking to peeps about > electronic music, the inevitable subject of genres > comes up--classifying the music. Although I find > genres restricting, I think it still helps to have a > knowledge of the many and varied that there are. So, > basically, I have trouble distinguishing between all > the genres, whether they be dnb, house, jungle, > trance, techno, idm, etc. etc. I listen to something > and say 'now this is ------". But I'm never sure if I > have the genre right. So I'm wondering if there are > any websites or anything that would be useful in > clarifying the different genres of electronic music. > I hope I made my point. Thanks for your help. And > forgive my ignorance. > -chris.

One problem is that this can be kind of subjective. Sometimes it goes to the level of a religious war. If you ever want to start a flame war on a rave list, just ask what the difference between jungle and drum&bass is. I was going to suggest Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music at http://ishkur.com/features/music but it seems like he's working on a revised version and took down the original. But I guess you can watch it and wait for the update. The old one was pretty good...though then again a lot of people thought it was crap, and it certainly wasn't objective. I think the best way to learn these sorts of things is to just listen to a lot of different stuff and pay attention to what people say about it. -- Tim Moore --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org