The validity of its categorizations is debatable at best, but as a sampler it can't be beat to get a taste of music styles, and the tutorial is interesting.
www.ishkur.com/music/
I once showed this to a real musician and he said he found it to be pretty boring.
again Holmes raved in the air.
I mean, appreciation levels through the roof at the amount of work that was supposeldy put into it, but it's just too very OONTZ OONTZ TEKNO WRÄTH IBIZA HARDRAVE 4 LYF PLUR PLUR HAKKÛH to lay claim to being a guide to electronic music. It's a handy guide to clubby mainstream oontz, with a few timid glances at the vast genre that electronic music actually is. And it's useful when you feel the need to pass time with a virtual loveparade.
I think it's only a problem when the posts become everything but English.
age for it being hosted by www.digitallyimported.com
hugs his premium 160k streaming account
"a real musician" doesn't really mean anything. They could be a non-electronic musician and not find it interesting, or they could be a closed-minded one genre pony and not find it interesting, either way, they don't have their minds open to the wide plethorae of electronic music. As a "real" musician, the first time I found this guide I found it quite interesting myself. I totally love some genres of electronic music while hate others, and I'm also glad to see a guide written by someone with similar opinions as mine as far as what to expect out of electronica. (Namely: Something interesting, and also things to watch out for and things to avoid)
Ishkur's guide is mostly a guide to the terms that fans and critics use to describe the music. They're hundreds of categories and it's not obvious what they mean. Ishkur's just giving useful information about what the styles sound like and how they're related, along with his own opinions.
I'm a "real" musician too (classically trained in piano, taught myself to play guitar) and I find Ishkur's guide to be pretty useful. I never would've gotten into psytrance otherwise. As with anything else, if you're only getting your information from one source, then you probably don't have the whole story. But that doesn't make that one source useless.
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DQN, go to spam list, do not pass go, do not collect $200.
Not that anyone cares, but he's begun making a new version of the guide.
http://www.ishkur.com/community/comments.php?thread_id=2071
I think the hardcore section is full of shit... Ok, it's his opinion, but this is the only electronic music guide on the www. There is no such thing as american hardcore lol. I don't see it as a separate genre. There's a darkcore track in the terror section... I could go on forever, but let's just say that he doesn't take it seriously while there's a big scene out there. I don't see noise as a genre of hardcore either. It should be given its own category, because there are lots of subgenres.
Multiple subgenres of... noise?
>>11
Make your own hardcore guide.
I agree with everything you said. It's a pretty useful guide, for people who are interested in taking the plunge into electronic music. But his Hardcore section is bullshit, he should have asked someone else to write it because he's obviously full of contempt for the whole scene. Also, it can very much be argued that what he calls "Power Electronics" (but really means noise in general), was partly developed out of Musique Concrete (i.e. it has nothing to do with Hardcore electronic music.
Whatever faults it may have, without it I would never have been exposed to the wonders of Italo.
Running In The 90s is there.
WOW.
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Forgot to add, I guess someone doesn't like Epic House.
I want a vocoder now.
>>17
I can understand spinning Italo at a club, or any social gathering, but can you really listen to this stuff at home, or on your ipod while going to school. It's just so ridiculously dated.
>>20
Yes. Yes I can. It's just that awesome.
This is pretty random, but I wouldn't mind if the next Grand Theft Auto game has an Italo radio station. "Go Go Yellow Screen" would make darn great drive-by music. And San Andreas had a pretty good House station with a lot of the classics.
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I, personally don't see why not. "Beyond The Future" has served me well on many Hydra runs in San Andreas.
>>22
Speaking of GTA, San Andreas turned me on to New Jack Swing. I had heard and liked some of the songs before, but I had no idea it was a whole genre to itself.
I agree, Dutch Trance killed Trance.
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