Tentative Andy
I'm in the Meal Deal
Contrary to what you might expect, this isn't one of those 'why are there so many silly names about these days, it confuses everything, why can't we just call it music, maaan?' type of rants. The names are mostly fine I reckon, it's the objective existence of such a plethora of actual musical styles that is doing my head in. It feels truly impossible to even come close to keeping up. So it's more like a variant of that other old chestnut, the 'too much music nowadays' rant (add your own auto-reference to consumer culture, the postmodern era yadda yadda). But I reckon not hearing/not knowing about/not understanding an entire genre is a more galling loss than just missing out on specific artists or records, it genuinely bothers me that there are or could be whole types of sounds, whole scenes, maybe even entire cultural movements that I'm unfamiliar with. I hope/expect others feel at a similar loss?
Current, or at least recent, genres that are off my radar:
Broken beat
Breaks (which is at least somewhat different to nu-skool breaks, right?)
Screwed n Chopped
Baltimore bass, ghettotech and juke (which are quite possibly not even that similar to each other - I just don't know!)
Desi
Reggaeton
+ I've been partially getting to grips with the whole minimal techno/minimal/microhouse thing, but still reckon a lot of it escapes me, not just as in that there's lots of music that I haven't yet heard, but also in that I don't feel that I've made proper sense of what slots into which hole, who influenced who, how the whole thing slots together etc yet.
And older ones:
EBM
New beat
On U Sound and digidub
Steppers
Italo-piano house
Italo disco
Miami bass
Electro (fairly glaring, possibly unforgivable ovesight, this one)
And no doubt there are others the will later occur to me. There's interesting little inflections to it beyond just general ignorance - for instance, there's genres which I understand the contours of in theory but have heard relatively little of the actual music within them (main example- US garage), or genres where I don't fully yet know or understand the stylistic, historical or cultural definitions thereof, but reckon I've heard a fair ammount of the sounds just from being out and about (main example - electro-house).
There's probably a more significant discussion to be had about what the whole thing means, beyond me just posting lists, hopefully this will emerge!
Current, or at least recent, genres that are off my radar:
Broken beat
Breaks (which is at least somewhat different to nu-skool breaks, right?)
Screwed n Chopped
Baltimore bass, ghettotech and juke (which are quite possibly not even that similar to each other - I just don't know!)
Desi
Reggaeton
+ I've been partially getting to grips with the whole minimal techno/minimal/microhouse thing, but still reckon a lot of it escapes me, not just as in that there's lots of music that I haven't yet heard, but also in that I don't feel that I've made proper sense of what slots into which hole, who influenced who, how the whole thing slots together etc yet.
And older ones:
EBM
New beat
On U Sound and digidub
Steppers
Italo-piano house
Italo disco
Miami bass
Electro (fairly glaring, possibly unforgivable ovesight, this one)
And no doubt there are others the will later occur to me. There's interesting little inflections to it beyond just general ignorance - for instance, there's genres which I understand the contours of in theory but have heard relatively little of the actual music within them (main example- US garage), or genres where I don't fully yet know or understand the stylistic, historical or cultural definitions thereof, but reckon I've heard a fair ammount of the sounds just from being out and about (main example - electro-house).
There's probably a more significant discussion to be had about what the whole thing means, beyond me just posting lists, hopefully this will emerge!