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South Africa4316 Posts
On August 24 2008 13:01 anotak wrote:
i also think that "electronic" is a too vague category
that's like lumping every song that has singing into a category
you can't seriously consider Venetian Snares's "Pressure Torture" and Biosphere's "Poa Alpina" in the same category
See, that's the fun thing about it being my blog, I can in fact put anything together if I wanted to. Lumping IDM, psytrance, and d&b together is just as bad as putting sludge, melodeath, and nsbm together, or putting garage rock, indie folk, and electronic indie together. But see, that's what I'm planning to do. Because in all honesty, you can lump them all together just fine, they usually share the same basic ideologies, and musically only those who are really into the genres really care about the difference between their subgenres.
And as I said earlier, I used Isthkur's a lot when I started listening to electronic music to just give me a basic idea of what was going on, but after you reach a certain point in any genre I think you pretty much stop caring about the subgenres in any case. Or maybe that's just me. The point of genres for me, is to give a frame of reference for music, not to lock it into a specific set of traits. And I often feel that the frame of reference "metal" or "electronic" is more than enough to appreciate the music in.
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South Africa4316 Posts
Oh, and just to continue with what I said above, if you look at my use of genres then you'll see that I'm willing to use genres quite liberally. So, I have Sigur Ros in post-rock for instance, but I also have Don Caballero under post-rock. Neither of those bands are technically post-rock, but they are similar enough to the genre to be put under post-rock.
On August 24 2008 08:59 JohnColtrane wrote:
what, no jazz or blues??
im just kidding, this blog looks like alot of fun, im especially interested in the classical area even though im a classical noob
Haha, I have a fair amount of jazz, but try as I like I've never been able to get into it. Strangely, this is not because I don't think it can be appreciate if you understand it, but exactly the opposite. Just like with western classical music, there's too much understanding that's required to appreciate it properly, and I just haven't spent the time to get into it yet. Blues is on my list of genres to try next though.
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Aotearoa39261 Posts
oh man you are missing out on jazz.. but then again i know my music haha
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Not a reggae fan? Oh well, looking especially forward to the electronic section. Hope you do a bit of differentiation, i.e. House, Trance and the other 'mainstream' sections.
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On August 24 2008 01:36 Plexa wrote:this is quite possibly the worst blog ever created by anyone at tl.net!!! + Show Spoiler +holy fucking shit this blog has me excited  ! can't wit to read them!!
Same here. Just read the post-rock post. I'm now subscribed to your blog. =D
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On August 24 2008 18:04 Daigomi wrote:Show nested quote +On August 24 2008 13:01 anotak wrote:
i also think that "electronic" is a too vague category
that's like lumping every song that has singing into a category
you can't seriously consider Venetian Snares's "Pressure Torture" and Biosphere's "Poa Alpina" in the same category See, that's the fun thing about it being my blog, I can in fact put anything together if I wanted to. Lumping IDM, psytrance, and d&b together is just as bad as putting sludge, melodeath, and nsbm together, or putting garage rock, indie folk, and electronic indie together. But see, that's what I'm planning to do. Because in all honesty, you can lump them all together just fine, they usually share the same basic ideologies, and musically only those who are really into the genres really care about the difference between their subgenres.
but but but but
Pressure Torture vs. Poa Alpina
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On August 24 2008 13:03 yubee wrote:Show nested quote +On August 24 2008 06:57 anotak wrote:
ew Ishkur's Guide is a pile of trash, not a good representation at all of any of the genres and some are either made up and others of significance aren't even mentioned pile of trash? who made you queen of electronic music
i did~!!$!$!1
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