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Re:Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music by fatpixel on Monday February 22, 2021 @01:11AM (#26221388)
There's at least one track I wrote used as an example of a genre in this guide.

Full disclosure: I have the privilege of knowing Ishkur personally

Re:Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music by ilia_lotov on Monday February 22, 2021 @03:22AM (#26222095)
That's cool! Curious to listen - please share :)
Re:Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music by fatpixel on Monday February 22, 2021 @01:15AM (#26221406)
Definitely two tracks. =)
Re:Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music by FiatLuxDave on Monday February 22, 2021 @11:48AM (#26226645)
I've enjoyed Ishkur's Guide since the old version. Checking out music genres I hadn't experienced, seeing the history, it's all great. But the best part is his descriptions of the genres. This is one of my favorites:

Funk music started out in the 1970s as something black guys would occasionally perform while wearing capes, jamming on synthesizers and laying out long, noodly basslines while singing about spaceships and elves. It is the coolest music ever.

This contrasts with Progressive Rock which also started out in the 1970s as something white guys would occasionally perform while wearing capes, jamming on synthesizers and laying out long, noodly basslines while singing about spaceships and elves. It is the dorkiest music ever.

Re:Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music by bckr on Sunday February 21, 2021 @12:11PM (#26215161)
I remember this from around 2010. Helped me go from liking trance and "techno" (what we called house music in high school) to having a broader appreciation of the untz and untz-adjacent. Glad to see it has been updated.
Re:Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music by jestar_jokin on Sunday February 21, 2021 @07:11PM (#26218760)
I remember it from 2001...! It was very helpful in exposing me to genres I would never have otherwise known about from my semi-rural upbringing.
Re:Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music by bckr on Monday March 01, 2021 @12:32PM (#26305409)
Ah yes, I was raised in a small town where exposure to such things was limited, but it was also when house music was overtaking rock as the sound of pop... Now I'm having this sensation as though the depths of the world have been smeared across the surface of society... When it's safe again I'll burrow once more.
Re:Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music by sidpatil on Sunday February 21, 2021 @02:02PM (#26216112)
Re:Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music by evlon_gasbu on Sunday February 21, 2021 @01:18PM (#26215703)
Wow