Re: [LAU] acid techno test

----- "Paul Davis" <paul@linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:

> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:41 AM, James Morris <jwm.art.net@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > 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 ...."

http://qntm.org/genres is fun (the rest of the website too).
He lists 827 genres of music.
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Received on Tue May 17 20:15:06 2011