[a fool in paradise]

Virtually all of it is described as a mashup of existing genres.

Nothing but a virtual Tower of Babel. No two people speaking the same language anymore.

And it isn't a "movement" unless other people pick it up or you at least establish yourself in the public.

A bunch of nobodies and the Guardian pimping for hipsted cred clicks.

[dead]

Every note a genre, every band a pioneer.

[WXRGina]

They don’t make music anymore (broad generalization, I know, but maybe you know what I mean). We’re stuck listening to the music of the 1920s through 1970s, mostly. Then there’s classical music, real music.

[Sergio]

home viewing bookmark

[dead]

Most of the ten links where different flavors of techno.

But #3 "Reencuentro musical" was fun - disco tejano.

And I love lots of world music, but #9 Valentin Clastrier was ghastly. Cheese grater accordion music!

[caver]

Did Yoko Ono get her own genre?

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Hrm...I see.

[Brother Cracker]

11. Surfinbird

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Gc4QTqslN4

[Fresh Wind]

I prefer Chopin. Does that mean I’m not hip?

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

There are only two genres. I like or I don’t.

[EveningStar]

ping

[februus]

As a teenager I started making electronic music in the mid seventies.
I stumbled on the concept of looped and found material that I could
record on an Acai reel to reel. I bought a dozen Grundig Dicktaphones
from a school swap, and built an elaborate plywood deck with an assemblage
of recorders and spliced tape (and coke bottles to act as guides for the
tape, so that one long spliced piece of tape could route through multiple
recorders during playback - you could measure beats and the amount of delay
for your loops this way), along with four mics, a rackmounted echoplex and
an eight-channel PA. Using the Dicktaphone’s ability to step and repeat
(essentially a “sample”)and a shortwave radio to get foreign speech and
static I made some of the first loop-based electronica. I also purchased
a EMS Synthi - the great analog/digital hybrid synth (used by
British bands like Syd’s Pink Floyd and Bowie and Brian Eno) - which was
capable of accepting hi-level inputs to bend and treat guitars and vocals
and provide beats. Eventually all of this was replaced by samplers, and
some of my friends went on to create Sonic Foundry which made both software
and sample packages for the home computer user (they have since sold that
part of their biz to Sony Digital which still operates out of my hometown).
I still make electronic music - promoted by websites like soundcloud - usually
dubstep or 8bar or future garage. I know how these hybrid styles accumulate -
but even if you don’t think you listen to it - it is played all the time -
on commercials, at sporting events - my son’s HS football team uses dubstep
anthems for pre-game warmups since the steady 140 BPM gets the adrenals
flowing.

Anyway - this was a really fun article to read and thank you for posting it.

[Joe Brower]

Ping.

[Billthedrill]

Some interesting stuff in there but entire genres containing two bands? Uh, no. I blame Rolling Stone. Because to somebody there, there's a deep and abiding intellectual difference between Trance and House, between Black, Dark, Doom, and Gothic metal. Right.

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[RansomOttawa]

So it's not enough to just say you sound different from someone else anymore—you actually have to invent a new label for whatever it is you do. Yeesh.

[machman]

I like both kinds of music....country AND western...

[TrueKnightGalahad]

BFL