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Bunnyboy · Post by **Bunnyboy** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 12:07 am

The catergories of music:

Good music

Bad music

(subject to subjectivity)

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 12:40 am

It seems strange to me to try and classify music according to the energy that powers it. It's rather like asking what types of wind powered music are there? - surely any category of music is amenable to electronic composition just as much as acoustic, voice etc. So the answer is think of a category, any category - jazz, classical, rock, pop, modern classical and so on - and it will be there.

declassified · Post by **declassified** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 12:47 am

Bunnyboy wrote:The catergories of music:

Good music

Bad music

(subject to subjectivity)

Exactly my point of view.

Everything else ends up in an endless discussion or in an endless classification without real borders between sub-genres.

Warmonger · Post by **Warmonger** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 12:54 am

Armadillo wrote:House
Trance
Breakbeat
Drum n bass
Ambient
Techno
IDM

Yup, that's the best way to break down the genres without too many ambiguous categories but enough to cover what is traditionally considered electronic. DnB and Breakbeat could possibly be put into a single category though.

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 1:01 am

Warmonger wrote:
Armadillo wrote:House
Trance
Breakbeat
Drum n bass
Ambient
Techno
IDM
Yup, that's the best way to break down the genres without too many ambiguous categories but enough to cover what is traditionally considered electronic. DnB and Breakbeat could possibly be put into a single category though.

It doesn't cover much at all - any music can be electronic - electronic music started in the modern classical realm and early experimenters were in jazz too (e.g Paul Bley and Annete Peacock) - these days you have pop artists using electronic instruments and music in all categories can be electronic potentially (even traditional classical like Wendy Carlos). Electronic just means it's made using electronic instruments and/or compositional methods - you can make any type of music using such tools just as you could with acoustic instruments or vocalists.

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 1:02 am

Bunnyboy · Post by **Bunnyboy** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 1:18 am

Come on guys!!

Stop thinking about music and start listening to it

Warmonger · Post by **Warmonger** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 1:23 am

Yes, any type of music can make use of electronic instruments, but electronic as a genre implies a certain set of styles.

Britney Spears' songs use a large amount of electronic instruments, but it's still considered pop. Meanwhile, a band like London Elektricity performs live DnB with an electric bass, piano, singer, acoustic drummer, and someone playing a synthesizer. Doesn't sound all that electronic to me based on the instruments, but there's no doubt about their style of music.

Warmonger · Post by **Warmonger** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 1:24 am

Bunnyboy wrote:Come on guys!!

Stop thinking about music and start listening to it

Why?

Vegetarian · Post by **Vegetarian** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 1:34 am

aMUSEd wrote:It seems strange to me to try and classify music according to the energy that powers it. It's rather like asking what types of wind powered music are there? - surely any category of music is amenable to electronic composition just as much as acoustic, voice etc. So the answer is think of a category, any category - jazz, classical, rock, pop, modern classical and so on - and it will be there.

You're absolutely right, but often the music which features electronic elements can be classified under EDM-centric genres, for instance a lot of US R&B sounds like deep house to me.
Similarly not all EDM is just electronic. Once again house music usually has some sort of "real" instrumentation or vocals in it, and even stuff like jungle and drum 'n bass often has stuff played by "real" instruments again.
However, I wouldn't put The Killers or Blur under any EDM genres just because they use synthesizers. They're rock musicians and their music fits very snugly into the genre definitions of rock music.
So it's not a question of "are they using synths, therefor they're electronic", it's "are they orientated towards music defined by dance- or electronic-style music, therefor they're electronic".

Bunnyboy · Post by **Bunnyboy** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 1:39 am

Warmonger wrote:
Bunnyboy wrote:Come on guys!!

Stop thinking about music and start listening to it
Why?

Oh, no reason

waveriderarts · Post by **waveriderarts** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 1:43 am

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Classifying electronic music