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[canton]

If you're not sure what other people call your music, check out Ishkur's Guide To Electronic Music: it actually has samples you can listen to!

Ishkur's Guide

And yes, I know that this poll is missing your particular genre, but it simply wasn't possible to include 'GARAGE HANDBAG TRANCE STEP" and "MINIMAL (west-side) DETROIT TEK-HOP', so please just pick what fits best. :)

[SirDarwen]

Wow...thanks for this great link!!! ;)

Now several more stuff are clear to me,regarding music genres. :D

[BlameHofmann]

That Electronica guide was really interesting, especially the stuff about the history of synths and stuff.

Thanks for sharing this!

[illicit]

yeah that is pretty dope. i like how under absract hip hop it had blockhead, thats my shit. def jux what!

[sajevangelo]

silly to suggest electronic music started in 1982.
kraftwerk saw huge commercial success as early as 1974
with autobahn.
and there were plenty of guys like steve reich and terry riley, cluster, eno who'd been
"electronic pioneers" easily ten years before mr ishkur's sense of history would indicate.

other than that....
a highly informative site.

[botkiller]

I've been in a lot of email arguments with Ishkur :P suffice to say we agreed to disagree.

I would say that I produce progressive (and you can call that prog. house if you want I guess, though I don't really make house), as underworld is a huge influence on me and I've always considered their sound that of progressive house/techno.

Meh. It's electronic music :)

[hang0ver]

I try to mash together a mix of Country, Rock & Hip-Hop. God knows what heading that comes under, but it sure aint Folk!

Don't matter what kind of music you listen to/produce, as long as it takes you to another place...

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[Delta]

Interesting information... thanks
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[darkenedsoul]

God, it's all dance/house/techno at that site. Nothing interests me less except perhaps HipHop/TripHop/BreakBeat stuff which a) isn't my style and b) doesn't interest me in the least. Coming from the extreme metal scene I only get into ambient/dark ambient/martial style of electronic music as well as my own projects in those style(s). Maybe I'm getting old....lol, but only as old as I feel! Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream were acts to do the electronic stuff waaaaaaaay back in the 70's-80's. I lost interest in TD when they sort of went into *happy* mode with their music. To me their best was mid to late 70's to early 80's. Much darker stuff back then.

[normalkills]

i cant vote, i want to pick most of them and some not on there lol. im too much of a scitzo.

nice site yah found C, the dude who made it sounds like a chode sometimes, but i like the fact u can listen to samples of each, so i'll give him props for that lol.
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[fuji]

thats quite an interesting link, BUT, i listen to dark trance and it doesnt sound like the stuff ishkar has under dark trance, that stuff just sounds like over-produced house music to me........saying that, im loathe to believe the info on genres that i 'dont' know, because of this misinformation.......

maybe ishkar should get info from people involved before putting these things together



wicked site canton...thanks..
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[bicahenda]

Well, from now on i can call myself something. Abstract Hip Hop

True, most of our music cannot be catalogged under a specific tab, but the point is not to oppress music, but rather to guide people when they don't have references.

When something new arrives, it must be compared to what knowledge we have and only then can it arise to new places... To me cataloging my music is as good as that, so that when i post something about my music it doesn't go like: " It's a kind of a beat with a mood of my own, and has a recurrent use of phonetic metaphors that i hope will bring you to the point of being overwhelmed with..."

I can feel that, but most of you won't, because we all do music for ourselves, and we wish to share it with the world (otherwise we wouldn't be posting it here!) but the feelings are our own. The only possibility is that someone will understand it, or make something new with it!

Either way i have no problems with people labelling me. Their label doesn´t make my music better or worse, nor my labelling either... so... in a nutshell... I do Abstract Hip Hop

Peace and a "kizomba" for all
bicahenda
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[mundo4tee]

my main style is drum and bass ,but im tempted to mix it up a bit so if they had a style called stir fry ,,that would be it

[logic_user99]

I'm trying to 're-find' my sound & style - I've really lost the way in the last couple of years.

Kinda going for some Air-ish light ambient, with MASSIVE powerful chord progressions. A bit of acid-y jazz in there, too...just for the live arena tho.

[Monti Rock]

[Vector]

i make X-Rated New Age. its a psychedelic blend of chillout, worldbeat, dub, ambient, and trip hop

[sharkyanderson]

I mostly make noise "music" or by ishkar's definition: power electronics and noisecore...


I've recently started to dabble into other genres, like speedcore, gabber, jungle, IDM, glitch, etc...

[iBeat]

Thanks for the Ishkur link... Philip Tagg also has some decent things to say about a typology for music. http://www.tagg.org/

Although non of the above makes it easy. We try to make all kinds of music - and always muck the categorisation up.
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[Aerotake]

I used to keep pushing myself to write breakbeat, uptempo tunes, but have recently come to terms with the fact that my scene is, undeniably, chill music.

[Quantum]

I make Jump/(French) Tek/Hardtechno..

prolly none of you will know it :D
it's a new style in Belgium/Holland/France..

if you wanna know what's like: check my myspace ( http://www.myspace.com/quantumdjs )

[njslipmat]

I produce good old kick drum, bass driven house, with vocals.

[kr4y]

i make mostly make techno-dnb these days

(for more info see http://www.techno-dnb.com )
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[jimbodw07]

I make ATMOSPHERIC DRUM&BASS
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[VisitorOf22]

hmm...
i guess whatever you need to do, in my oppinion, is never NEVER restrict your cmo (creative musical output) to only 1 genre/style because:

1) whatever crap you made in 'genre A' could be found great in 'genre B', while you say 'i make only genre A, so this work is crap'
2) you were born with freedom of choice; so dont go imprisoning a free creative mind by cutting off its main drive, being: making choices (!)
3) music in general is reaching a crescendo; nothing new to come up with, so find a whole new playground in an other style/genre.
4) there is no fifth reason thusfar.
5) don't follow the herd. 'nuff said.

Greetz, V22

ps: Two words: Keep Backups ;P
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Greetz, Visitor of 22 ;)

[bobthemage]

Hi folks I am new here!!

My name is Bob. I am mainly a singer and choir/worship leader. I often have the problem that several members of the choir or the band are absent. But I have to do the woship. Therefore I began to produce some worship songs track by track with all instruments and sung voices (sung by me and my wife (god bless her)) and with this I can replace any absent member of the "Lobpreis-Gruppe" (Yessir i am German!) running a sequencer. So I obtain the full sound...
That's why I am looking for good samples...

Gods blessing and have a nice Day

Bob