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Nice, but having such rigidly defined genres means you're going to miss out on the best of electronic music today, which is increasingly abandoning the genre cl

Nice, but having such rigidly defined genres means you're going to miss out on the best of electronic music today, which is increasingly abandoning the genre classifications which have straightjacketed the music in the past. For example, where on earth does this fit? http://soundcloud.com/bleeky/r-s-d http://soundcloud.com/bleeky/r-s-d or this? http://soundcloud.com/raffertie/ergo-we-are-human-1 http://soundcloud.com/raffertie/ergo-we-are-human-1 Sure, you can shoehorn them into house or techno, but that doesn't really do it justice. And having a 'misc' genre like 'electronica' is cheating. Electronica is a word invented and used by music journalists as a substitute for a proper understanding of the culture. And don't even think about including IDM or you will lose all credibility ;) Otherwise, great work!

alexkiwi 15y ago
Ping me off HN so we can talk more about this, would love to get more feedback on finding amazing music off the beaten path. 01@helloworld.im or the email in my HN profile.
- stephank 15y ago
  Slightly related, the genre list page was also terribly laggy to scroll for me. And this is on Chrome on a new series iMac.
  - alexkiwi 15y ago
    We debugged it FOR AN HOUR today, not sure if it's the JS or CSS. + Respect for anyone that figures out why it's lagging.
    - stephank 15y ago
      It's the background. In Chrome or Safari, open up the inspector and disable it. Smooth as ever. Specifically, it's the `background-attachment: fixed` that's killing performance here.
llambda 15y ago
Off topic I know, but those are excellent tracks... Maybe somewhere else you could give further recommendations?
- edna_piranha 15y ago
  The first one is by Instra:mental - he has created some podcasts with dBridge (who used to be in a Drum&Bass group called 'Bad Company'). Unfortunately, those podcasts don't appear to be linked from the original site anymore, but here are the track listings for all of the Club Autonomic layers http://clubautonomic.wordpress.com/ http://clubautonomic.wordpress.com/ But, if you go to their official soundcloud account http://soundcloud.com/club-autonomic-com http://soundcloud.com/club-autonomic-com , you can see at the very bottom that there are the first two layers. Hope that helps!
markkat 15y ago
I submitted this yesterday to no fanfare, but it might be useful/relevant: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2746421 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2746421
bane 15y ago
I wouldn't even dare ask where various genres of tracked music (demo style, epic, silly, etc.) or video game music (NES, SNES, RPG, etc.) or the new scene trying to make dance music on old videogame hardware... could manage to fit. Which reminds me, I'm off to Nectarine. http://www.scenemusic.net/demovibes/ http://www.scenemusic.net/demovibes/
radley 15y ago
IDM

alexkiwi 15y ago

Ping me off HN so we can talk more about this, would love to get more feedback on finding amazing music off the beaten path. 01@helloworld.im or the email in my HN profile.

stephank 15y ago
Slightly related, the genre list page was also terribly laggy to scroll for me. And this is on Chrome on a new series iMac.
- alexkiwi 15y ago
  We debugged it FOR AN HOUR today, not sure if it's the JS or CSS. + Respect for anyone that figures out why it's lagging.
  - stephank 15y ago
    It's the background. In Chrome or Safari, open up the inspector and disable it. Smooth as ever. Specifically, it's the `background-attachment: fixed` that's killing performance here.

llambda 15y ago

Off topic I know, but those are excellent tracks... Maybe somewhere else you could give further recommendations?

edna_piranha 15y ago
The first one is by Instra:mental - he has created some podcasts with dBridge (who used to be in a Drum&Bass group called 'Bad Company'). Unfortunately, those podcasts don't appear to be linked from the original site anymore, but here are the track listings for all of the Club Autonomic layers http://clubautonomic.wordpress.com/ http://clubautonomic.wordpress.com/ But, if you go to their official soundcloud account http://soundcloud.com/club-autonomic-com http://soundcloud.com/club-autonomic-com , you can see at the very bottom that there are the first two layers. Hope that helps!

markkat 15y ago

I submitted this yesterday to no fanfare, but it might be useful/relevant: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2746421 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2746421

bane 15y ago

I wouldn't even dare ask where various genres of tracked music (demo style, epic, silly, etc.) or video game music (NES, SNES, RPG, etc.) or the new scene trying to make dance music on old videogame hardware... could manage to fit. Which reminds me, I'm off to Nectarine. http://www.scenemusic.net/demovibes/ http://www.scenemusic.net/demovibes/

radley 15y ago

IDM