There is a pretty nifty forum www.macjams.com for people making music on Macs. It is mostly populated by GarageBand users, but DP, Logic, Cubase, Live are also represented.
People who submit songs have the choice of a bunch of categories. Unfortunately, for electronic music the categories right now are, eh, Ambient, Dance, Industrial. After bitching about this I got more or less volunteered to come up with a better list.
So I thought I'd enlist the collective wisdom of kvr.
Ok, your opinions and suggestions please. Give me half a dozen or thereabouts broad categories that cover "electronica" wihtout distorting the truth too ridiculously. I have some suggestions myself, but I thought I'd open the floor first.
V.
Classifying electronic music
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- KVRAF
- 6519 posts since 13 Mar, 2002 from UK
Ishkur's ever entertaining site is worth a look.
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- KVRAF
- 4749 posts since 15 Jul, 2001 from Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, U.K
so good you posted 2wice 
very funny site for people that desperately need to belong to a gang/group.
they all fragment into thin air/the bargain bin.
nuffink wrote:Ishkur's ever entertaining site is worth a look.
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- addled muppet weed
- 111304 posts since 26 Jan, 2003 from through the looking glass
id say mine is a hint of mauve with a sandy texture,with underlying hints of orange jelly(jello to the us citizens)washed down with a nice cup of horlicks and a green beret
hope this helps
hope this helps
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- KVRian
- 809 posts since 25 Apr, 2004 from Windsor, Ontario
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- KVRAF
- 9064 posts since 1 Aug, 2003
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- KVRAF
- 1718 posts since 3 Sep, 2003
The boundaries between the categories are so fluid that its tough to be precise.
And, if you compare it to "real" genrés they are much to narrow. (I mean rock, pop and metal covers a pretty wide range.)
Conceptually, disregarding all the establiched categories, Id say that there are these:
o Dance oriented. (Everything with a funky drummer or four by four)
o Expressive and experimental. (All the ambient, abstract, most DnB etc.)
o Pop/disco, but with synths. (Can be dance oriented usually, but with focus on being radio friendly.)
o Industrial and metal-but-with-synths.
See! Four categories instead of the 68 billion the british music press tries to establish.
And, if you compare it to "real" genrés they are much to narrow. (I mean rock, pop and metal covers a pretty wide range.)
Conceptually, disregarding all the establiched categories, Id say that there are these:
o Dance oriented. (Everything with a funky drummer or four by four)
o Expressive and experimental. (All the ambient, abstract, most DnB etc.)
o Pop/disco, but with synths. (Can be dance oriented usually, but with focus on being radio friendly.)
o Industrial and metal-but-with-synths.
See! Four categories instead of the 68 billion the british music press tries to establish.
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- KVRist
- 454 posts since 2 May, 2004 from somewhere behind my eyes
There,s basically three types;
Girlie fluffy stuff like NIN ,Ministry,Nitzer Ebb,Meat beat Manifesto, etc.
Hard-edged cone rattling stuff lke Brian Eno,Vangelis ,Tangerine Dream or FSOL
Meaningfull song orientated stuff like Scooter,Bennie Benassi and Gina G
Girlie fluffy stuff like NIN ,Ministry,Nitzer Ebb,Meat beat Manifesto, etc.
Hard-edged cone rattling stuff lke Brian Eno,Vangelis ,Tangerine Dream or FSOL
Meaningfull song orientated stuff like Scooter,Bennie Benassi and Gina G
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- KVRist
- 454 posts since 2 May, 2004 from somewhere behind my eyes
So if i own a land rover does that mean i,m dance orientated?Pukeweed wrote:
Conceptually, disregarding all the establiched categories, Id say that there are these:
o Dance oriented. (Everything with a funky drummer or four by four)
The above "words" are the ramblings of a depraved megalomaniac.Any similarity to normal communication is a hallucination on the part of the reader.Replying to this post will result in your family and posessions becoming the property of funkynuts.
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- KVRian
- 619 posts since 15 Feb, 2004 from Birmingham, UK
CC4 wrote:......
As for my suggestion (I guess hip-hop has its own category outside of electronic music):
d'n'b / breakbeat / big beat
techno / electro
house / disco
trance / euro-pop-dance
industrial
ambient
idm / electro-acoustic
(Though I do find the simple dance/non-dance division quite fun in its simple elegance...)