Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music
It's difficult to describe this: kind of a timeline or map of electronica along with commentary and about three hours of sample loops that demonstrate the genres and sub-genres (and sub-sub-genres, etc.)
Educational and fun to read, occasionally irritating...be prepared to see your fave music put down (OmniStrata: don't look at Epic House
).Sample quote:
Hmmm...I used to like that song.Ishkur wrote:If there is anyone who is responsible for the complete and thorough pussification of Trance, making it offensively lame to the point where not only newbie ravers but also their soccer moms could enjoy it, it's Robert Miles. "Children" has the exclusive accolade as being the #1 rave recruitment song of all time. It's also probably responsible for the embarrassing onslaught of banal, melody-driven trance that dominated the last half of the 90s. Hell, I remember Anne Savage playing this...song at my very first rave. This isn't trance; this is like that crappy background music on the TV listings channel....
The site is probably only good for broadband users. If you're on dialup, give it a try, but don't expect much.
then you should try something different.