Overview genre characteristics (Techno, Dub, House, ….)

[captain lysergicacid]

Hi,

I was wondering, do you know any overview chart / handbook / etc. of the main characteristics of the diverse music genres?

E.g. (I just improvised these)

Techno: 120 – 150 bpm, dominant kick drum and bass
Dub: Reggea chords, keys are usually on the 2, “dub sirene”
House: 100 – 130 bpm, characteristic “house stabs”
Downtempo: 70 – 110 bpm
Psytrance: 120 – 190 bpm

[BertKoor]

You might find Ishkur's Guide to EDM interesting:
https://music.ishkur.com

There might be other similar sites with EDM taxonomy.

[DJ Warmonger]

You might find Ishkur's Guide to EDM interesting:
https://music.ishkur.com

Please no. This guide was outdated 15 years ago ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Let it die.

There is no even future house (which name was coined in 2013 as a joke) or psychill.

[BertKoor]

This guide was outdated 15 years ago ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Let it die.

The author doesn't agree with you.

Version 3.0 of the guide was instead released on August 20, 2019.

[recursive one]

Techno: 120 – 150 bpm, dominant kick drum and bass because the producers are not aware of that music may contain something else. Then somebody introduces the characteristic "house stabs" to them and they start making house at 100 – 130 bpm;

Psytrance: 120 – 190 bpm, 95% of the production time is spent on making that amazing kick and bass and therefore 95% of the track consists of the kick and the bass;

Downtempo: 70 – 110 bpm, made by guys who wanted to produce psytrance but can't pull off that amazing psytrance kick and bass;

Dub: Reggea chords, keys are usually on the 2, “dub sirene”, made by guys who wanted to produce downtempo but are too stoned to pull off anything but reggea chords and dub sirene;

Other genres: some irrelevant stuff nobody cares about.

[SHall1000]

What’s a “sirene”?

[recursive one]

What’s a “sirene”?

A sound which is used in reggea

Some say it reminds them on reggae siren.

[SHall1000]

Ahhhh …a siren.

[captain lysergicacid]

Thanks a lot for the replies!

For anyone interested, 2 useful links I also found in the mean time:

https://www.freebernmusic.com/genres-explained
https://www.londonsoundacademy.com/blog ... sic-genres

[captain lysergicacid]

Techno: 120 – 150 bpm, dominant kick drum and bass because the producers are not aware of that music may contain something else. Then somebody introduces the characteristic "house stabs" to them and they start making house at 100 – 130 bpm;

Psytrance: 120 – 190 bpm, 95% of the production time is spent on making that amazing kick and bass and therefore 95% of the track consists of the kick and the bass;

Downtempo: 70 – 110 bpm, made by guys who wanted to produce psytrance but can't pull off that amazing psytrance kick and bass;

Dub: Reggea chords, keys are usually on the 2, “dub sirene”, made by guys who wanted to produce downtempo but are too stoned to pull off anything but reggea chords and dub sirene;

Other genres: some irrelevant stuff nobody cares about.

Thanks for that i pissed myself laughing hahaha

[Winstontaneous]

Psytrance: 120 – 190 bpm, 50% of the production time is spent on making that amazing kick and bass and therefore 50% of the track consists of the kick and the bass; the other 50% on "stupid filter tricks"

ftfy j/k

[recursive one]

Psytrance: 120 – 190 bpm, 50% of the production time is spent on making that amazing kick and bass and therefore 50% of the track consists of the kick and the bass; the other 50% on "stupid filter tricks"

ftfy j/k

There are subgenres which rely on stupid filter tricks, subgenres relying on moronic FM noises and subgenres relying on speech sampels talking about enlightment, expanding consciousness, divine moments of truth and other effects of toxic substances.

We are going too deep here, the OP asked about broad genre classification.

[DJ Warmonger]

subgenres relying on speech sampels talking about enlightment, expanding consciousness, divine moments of truth and other effects of toxic substances.

Half of tracks contain recordings of Alan Watts, you will know when you hear him.

But yeah, psytrance has a number of distinct styles which vary in BPM. I can tell apart psychill (downtempo vibes), progressive psytrance (130-136), full-on (138-144), goa, forest psytrance (150+).
Also psytech got popular in recent years, but that originated from tech-trance, not psy. Thus tempo is classically 138-140 BPM.