nowonmai said:
The problem with breaking it down by genre is that people are going to be going "it's not house, it's progressive tech-house" and there's gonna have to be 50 thousand micro genres to fit everything in.
Unless the breakdown is simple, it's not gonna work.
I propose the following breakdown:
House (including progressive, disco, hard etc)
Techno (including trance, gabba, electro etc)
Breaks (including Hip-hop, DnB)
Non-electronic (everything that is primarily 'traditional' instruments)
why would you include trance with techno?
the genres should be some thing like this:
house
techno
trance
breaks
downtempo
jungle
hip-hop
non-edm
there are too many sub-genres in techno and trance
to throw them together... same with breaks and
hip hop and downtempo... same with breaks and
jungle...
that's manageable... 8 catagories...
and it allows for room to breathe
with all the sub-genres.... but techno,
trance, jungle, and breaks are far too
involved to have them grouped together.
and as far as the sub sub sub sub genres...?
basically, rule of thumb should be "it goes in
the catagory of the last label in the list"
so if someone says "hey, this isn't house, this
is micro-tech-break-progressive house...." then
you just call it house since it's the last in the
list...
if they say "it's not trance, it's tech-trance..."
it stays in trance, b-c of the last indicator...
so forth and so on.
