Electronic Music ....and like, discussing it... MAN!

Original Sin · Post by **Original Sin** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 12:42 am

Yeah, the remixes of old castlevania tunes are still cool though.

AtomX · Post by **AtomX** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 2:34 am

Chris Clark? Anyone?..

Or maybe Autechre?.. Squarepusher?..

Gatekeeper · Post by **Gatekeeper** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 8:21 am

Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music (click the link)

This should help clear up some of the distinctions between genres and subgenres. Having said that, I find that the more I like a particular type of music, the more this guy likes to put it down. See what he says about Trance -> Eurotrance -> Dream Trance or House -> 90s Europop -> Happy House for example.

sam · Post by **sam** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 10:03 am

i went and checked out that guide to electronic music...jesus christ, that guy really has a thing against trance...every entry is negative along the lines of "THIS GENRE IS SHIT"

Grubb · Post by **Grubb** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 10:33 am

Gatekeeper wrote:Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music (click the link)

This should help clear up some of the distinctions between genres and subgenres. Having said that, I find that the more I like a particular type of music, the more this guy likes to put it down. See what he says about Trance -> Eurotrance -> Dream Trance or House -> 90s Europop -> Happy House for example.

I've seen that guide before.

It's prett good until you start getting down to the tiny pseudogroups that only exhist because there's maybe 4 people who would consider it different from a parent genre. And yeah, the guy could use to be a lot less oppinionated. The guide would be a lot better if he just wrote what the genre was about, without adding his personal oppinions about the stuff.

On the opposite side, some of the sections have really nice music samples, and he does talk a fair amount about most of the genres.

Overall, I give it a B+

LikeableRodent · Post by **LikeableRodent** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 10:39 am

Ishkur regarding Happy House wrote:The official music genre of Dance Dance Revolution, this is by far the most syrupy, saccharine music known to mankind. I bet they play this kind of stuff to calm lunatics at insane asylums locked in padded rooms with pink walls. Bubblegum pop so childish, with lyrics so inane and non-sensical that you can't possibly take it seriously, so it's best that you don't. Just keep nodding politely, and step away carefully, with slow, controlled movements. Or the Japanese schoolgirls might sic their giant robots on you.

I love it.

SoDeepPolaris · Post by **SoDeepPolaris** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 2:03 pm

Ishkur's guide is awesome.
The only trance he hates on is the typical breakdown and speedup stuff that has become the main staple. It's a deserved hate.

Fluffyumpkins · Post by **Fluffyumpkins** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 3:45 pm

I used to be pretty into trance, but lately my taste has shifted to house and DnB.

For house: DJ Dan, Bad Boy Bill, Richard Humpty Vision

For DnB: High Contrast, Concord Dawn, Distorted Minds, Total Science, D.kay, Adam F, Goldie.

I'm also a huge fan of Ishkur's Guide. The intensive sample list is very useful when I decide to go looking for music I like.

ShammerS · Post by **ShammerS** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 12:05 am

Daft Punk.

Best techno in the world, hands down, love them.

New album comes out early next month.

AtomX · Post by **AtomX** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 1:06 am

shammers wrote:Daft Punk.

Best techno in the world, hands down, love them.

New album comes out early next month.

New album = ... disappointing :\

It's not bad, but it's just no Discovery..

ShammerS · Post by **ShammerS** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 12:43 pm

It's not out yet. The files being circulated are fake, or so say the 'official reps' from D.P..

At least, for the love of God, I hope so.

chocobojoe · Post by **chocobojoe** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 1:50 pm

Gatekeeper wrote:Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music (click the link)

Or if you don't want to have to view that in the webpage you can right click this link: http://www.di.fm/edmguide/music.swf and do a "save target as" and have the file right on your desktop, or whatever.

BeatmaniacIIDX · Post by **BeatmaniacIIDX** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 8:11 pm

Paul Van Dyke
DJ Doboy
ATB (The DJ "In The Mix" has best stuff)
Farrago
Binary Finary
Armin Van Buuren
Chicane

radon · Post by **radon** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 8:55 pm

i listen to a lot of happy hardcore, gabber, and jungle, and lesser of trance, and a little hard house

a lot of misconceptions about happy hardcore still exist. The more upfront stuff is A LOT better than most of the old skool stuff that people hear, if you want to check some out any of the Bonkers series by DJ's hixxy, sharkey, and scott brown are amazing.

Gabber is one of the greatest things ever created but a lot of people never get to hear it, its kinda like really fast pissed off happy hardcore, or really fast hardhouse, the nightmare in rotterdam cd's are great so are the hardcore for the headstrong cd's by omar santana, but his stuff is too slow for me

Jungle i listen too includes A LOT of DJ Dara, and Marcus Visionary and DJ Tranzit, who are both from Toronto and often play at Hullabaloo (Anabolic frolic's promoting company that throws raves, he's been doing it for 8 years, the last one is on july 9th)

As for trance i've kind of lost faith in it, but the stuff from around 2000 to 2002 i really like, like any Vincent de Moor, Dj Micro, Dj Tiesto's magik series, Armin Van Buuren also some older paul van dyk. A lot of the new stuff has gotten a lot more progressive styled, which i dont like a whole lot (like Tiesto's newest artist cd and the newest dj micro)

....but i dj happy hardcore because it's just that damn good, lol

mexican ninja · Post by **mexican ninja** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 10:28 pm

AtomX wrote:
shammers wrote:Daft Punk.

Best techno in the world, hands down, love them.

New album comes out early next month.
New album = ... disappointing :\

It's not bad, but it's just no Discovery..

But is it a Homework? Cause, I loved Homework about 1000X more than Discovery. And Alive 1997 was also about 100X better.