August 23, 2004
Jazzstep, techstep, darkstep...all explained here . Ishkur says that his Guide to Electronic Music "could be used as a credited resource or a musical primer" but quickly goes on to say that it's not recommended as he "made most of it up!"
In reality it's a really great site. You choose one of the base musical genres and it spreads out into a "musical tree" of sub genres. Each of the sub genres has a written explanation and MP3 examples to listen to. I didn't realise I liked my drum & bass to be atmospheric, jazzstep, techstep and darkstep...I just thought I liked my drum & bass! On a more serious note it is a great resource, the MP3 clips have opened my eyes (should that be ears?) to many artists that I hadn't heard before...I feel a CD want list coming on!
Double post.
I only know that because I got caught out dee peeing the same link. Great site, mind!
Damn, sorry for the double :-(
Ishkur is a self-opinionated idiot that thinks he knows everything about dance music. This is far from a definitive guide, with several sub-genres missing and more than one or two completely made up.
Much as I dislike UK hard house, I feel he loses all credibility by labelling it Stupid House.
This is more a polemic on dance music rather than a serious guide, and though it's nicely designed, there are far too many negative things about this guys style of writing for me to take it too seriously.
i heard orbital is breaking up. that sucks. they have a new album, though, eh?
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