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A long time ago, Ishkur made a family tree of electronic dance music genres. My DJ friends will have their own version. People will argue about the names and what is included in a genre or what belongs in in another genre.
The original Ishkir's https://music.ishkur.com/ is 3.0. You can zoom in and click the turquoise dot to play samples. Another version https://ishkur.kenxaj.cyou/
From Ishkur:
Hi there. I am Ishkur. This is version 3.0 of Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music.
There is a bit of history to this. The first two versions of the Guide were Flash monstrosities released in 2000 and 2003. They may still be online somewhere if you look hard enough. Version 2.5 was maintained and updated for two years and was abandoned in 2005.
A Flash v3 of the Guide was planned in 2006 but never got past the pre-dev stage. After three design reboots, the abandonment of Flash, and several personal, artistic and technical decisions later, the Guide you are looking at right now was pre-dev'd in 2010. The map and music categorizing was mostly finalized around 2014 (but in some instances still isn't done), programming in 2016, and content, art and functionality in 2017. Compatibility for all devices and formats as well as additional research and extras were added in 2018 and 2019.
Most of my research is offline -- magazines, books, documentaries, record collections, and personal experience. For online resources I loosely followed three laws:
1) Lord Discogs knows all, except when I know more.
2) Wikipedia knows some, but never as much as me.
3) Social media knows absolutely nothing. About anything. Never get your education from YouTube comments or Facebook memes. Your friends are morons.
This guide favors authenticity over accuracy, and it aims to entertain before it informs. It is only as accurate as it feels it needs to be. It is constantly changing and it is infinitely mutable, so the map, the music, and my self-righteous opinions are all subject to change as I discover, investigate, and incorporate new knowledge and more music. Nothing is definitive.
This is an educational resource, not a music sharing service. There are no complete songs here. All tracks are low quality sub-2 minute samples. If you want the music, do the artists a solid and buy it from them through legitimate channels.
The original Ishkir's https://music.ishkur.com/ is 3.0. You can zoom in and click the turquoise dot to play samples. Another version https://ishkur.kenxaj.cyou/
From Ishkur:
Hi there. I am Ishkur. This is version 3.0 of Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music.
There is a bit of history to this. The first two versions of the Guide were Flash monstrosities released in 2000 and 2003. They may still be online somewhere if you look hard enough. Version 2.5 was maintained and updated for two years and was abandoned in 2005.
A Flash v3 of the Guide was planned in 2006 but never got past the pre-dev stage. After three design reboots, the abandonment of Flash, and several personal, artistic and technical decisions later, the Guide you are looking at right now was pre-dev'd in 2010. The map and music categorizing was mostly finalized around 2014 (but in some instances still isn't done), programming in 2016, and content, art and functionality in 2017. Compatibility for all devices and formats as well as additional research and extras were added in 2018 and 2019.
Most of my research is offline -- magazines, books, documentaries, record collections, and personal experience. For online resources I loosely followed three laws:
1) Lord Discogs knows all, except when I know more.
2) Wikipedia knows some, but never as much as me.
3) Social media knows absolutely nothing. About anything. Never get your education from YouTube comments or Facebook memes. Your friends are morons.
This guide favors authenticity over accuracy, and it aims to entertain before it informs. It is only as accurate as it feels it needs to be. It is constantly changing and it is infinitely mutable, so the map, the music, and my self-righteous opinions are all subject to change as I discover, investigate, and incorporate new knowledge and more music. Nothing is definitive.
This is an educational resource, not a music sharing service. There are no complete songs here. All tracks are low quality sub-2 minute samples. If you want the music, do the artists a solid and buy it from them through legitimate channels.
