17 May
2011
17 May
'11
6:03 p.m.
----- "Paul Davis" <paul(a)linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:41 AM, James Morris
<jwm.art.net(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
http://qntm.org/genres is fun (the rest of the website too).
He lists 827 genres of music.
Just for the record I was never sure about any of
the following:
techno, trance, goa, house, acid house, hip house, rap, hip hop,
ambient house, acid jazz, intelligent techno, intelligent dance
music,
rave, happy hardcore, darkside, drum n bass,
jungle... That's
about
all I can remember.
there are at least a dozen more terms for variants of this general
form of music. and to paraphrase something i saw a couple of weeks
ago:
"this is a musical sub-culture that has existed for less than 40
years and yet believes
it necessary to distinguish every nuance of every new pair of
releases by any two
artists with any vague connections to each other, and yet
simultaneously feels
comfortable referring to "classical" music ...."