Wednesday, October 01, 2003

Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music. Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music [via Hossein] is simply great. It features representative samples from loads of different subgenres, and provides colorful descriptions for each. This from the Acid Jazz definition:

This kind of music is best meant for late-night coffee houses and alternative culture eateries where the waitresses are all short-haired lesbians, the coffee comes in tall glasses, and there's a small smokey stage where a crowd of intellectuals wearing dark-brimmed glasses are listening to some guy in a turtle neck reciting crappy poetry like a bunch of pretentious post-ginsbergian beatnicks. Ooh yeah! Gotsta love that post-modern poetry.

I also got to learn about the origin of the ubiquitous Amen break, about the difference between the TR-808 and 909 ("The 909 is ALL about the handclaps."), and I discovered a genre I didn't - and maybe shouldn't - know about: Glitchcore, also known as CD Skipping. My only complaint is that I can't deeplink, as this is a Flash monolith. Still, a wonderful resource.

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