Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music is an interactive online guide to
electronic music
Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music technology and software, or general-purpose electronics (such as personal computers) in its creation. It includes both music ...
created by Kenneth John Taylor, aka Ishkur.
The
website
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consists of 153 subgenres and 818 sound files.
[ Genres include little-known ones like terrorcore and chemical breakbeat, and more popular genres like ]house
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or techno
Techno is a genre of electronic dance music (EDM) which is generally produced for use in a continuous DJ set, with tempos being in the range from 120 to 150 beats per minute (bpm). The central rhythm is typically in common time ( ) and often ...
, diagrammed in a flowchart
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The flowchart shows the steps as boxes of v ...
style.[
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History
The guide was originally posted in 1999 as a Flash
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Arts, entertainment, and media
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** Flash (Jay Garrick)
** Barry Allen
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website and continually updated until 2001.
On December 11, 2016, Ishkur announced on Twitter that a new version of the guide would be released in 2017. Due to delays, Version 3.0 of the guide was instead released on August 20, 2019. Unlike the first two versions of the guide, the updated version no longer uses Adobe Flash.
Reception
''CMJ New Music Monthly'' praised the website for its "...ease of navigation, pithy genre descriptions, and fairly accurate audio accompaniment..."[ Oliver Hurley of '']The Guardian
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'' referred to the site as an "epic online endeavour", but pointed that several of the genres were made up by Ishkur, such as "Buttrock Goa".
See also
*Electronic music
Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music technology and software, or general-purpose electronics (such as personal computers) in its creation. It includes both music ...
*Electronic dance music
Electronic dance music (EDM), also referred to as dance music or club music, is a broad range of percussive electronic music genres originally made for nightclubs, raves, and List of electronic dance music festivals, festivals. It is generally ...
*List of electronic music genres
This is a list of electronic music genres, consisting of genres of electronic music, primarily created with electronic musical instruments or electronic music technology. A distinction has been made between sound produced using electromechanica ...
*Genealogy of musical genres
The genealogy of musical genres is the pattern of musical genres that have contributed to the development of new genres. Evolution in musical instruments
in technology and in culture can influence the evolution of musical genres.
Genealog ...
*Music genre
A music genre is a conventional category that identifies some pieces of music as belonging to a shared tradition or set of conventions. Genre is to be distinguished from musical form and musical style, although in practice these terms are sometim ...
*Music history
Music history, sometimes called historical musicology, is a highly diverse subfield of the broader discipline of musicology that studies music from a historical point of view. In theory, "music history" could refer to the study of the history of ...
References
External links
Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music
v3.0
Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music
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Internet properties established in 1999
Electronic music
Canadian music websites