Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music • Hacker News Board

Re: Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music

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Post by have_faith » Tue, Aug 20, 2019, 9:57 AM UTC

wyclif wrote: post #8

The Brostep entry alone is worth visiting the site to read.

Some of the writing is funny, some is distracting from its purpose. The Dubstep entry for instance spends most of its time bashing brostep and skrillex which is a shame as it glosses over the first few years of interesting music before it devolved.

Re: Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music

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Post by RantyDave » Tue, Aug 20, 2019, 10:31 AM UTC

Whoa, great upgrade.

Re: Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music

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Post by proverbialbunny » Tue, Aug 20, 2019, 10:35 AM UTC

Pretty neat, but it's missing some important genres. eg, lounge music is quite possibly the first popular electronic music genre from the 40s and 50s, yet it's not mentioned.

Also, I'm surprised by the lack of newer genres.

Re: Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music

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Post by pgt » Tue, Aug 20, 2019, 10:40 AM UTC

This Electro Tech Tree is greatly welcomed only 5 days after I lamented the lack of electronic music on the Psytrance Guide[^1] :).

Where is progressive melodic techno, though? E.g. Atlas (Adriatique Remix) by Romboy & Bodzin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq4NSDcbmsI

I wish the text was searchable using my in-browser search.

- [^1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20695334

Re: Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music

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Post by haunter » Tue, Aug 20, 2019, 10:43 AM UTC

wyclif wrote: post #8

The Brostep entry alone is worth visiting the site to read.

Not really. Bashing someone because they like a style of music is one of the lowest of low. inb4 it's just a banter

Re: Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music

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Post by EdwardDiego » Tue, Aug 20, 2019, 10:45 AM UTC

> Cybergoths: What happens when you take the stock Rivethead look and add Steampunk, mecha anime, and The Predator.

Love it!

Re: Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music

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Post by hajhatten » Tue, Aug 20, 2019, 10:46 AM UTC

wyclif wrote: post #8

The Brostep entry alone is worth visiting the site to read.

Same for McProg

Re: Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music

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Post by duncanawoods » Tue, Aug 20, 2019, 10:51 AM UTC

DanAtC wrote: post #2

Wow. 20 years in the making. Be sure to check out his 15-hour, 3.5 decade-spanning mix https://mobile.twitter.com/Ishkur23/status/11632947429494456...

A 2GB mp3 - woah!

Actual link for easier save-as: http://ishkur.com/mixes/Ishkur_-_The_Longplay.mp3

Re: Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music

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Post by hajhatten » Tue, Aug 20, 2019, 11:14 AM UTC

proverbialbunny wrote: post #23

Pretty neat, but it's missing some important genres. eg, lounge music is quite possibly the first popular electronic music genre from the 40s and 50s, yet it's not mentioned. Also, I'm surprised by the lack of newer genres.

Missing Future Funk aswell

Re: Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music

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Post by noelwelsh » Tue, Aug 20, 2019, 11:21 AM UTC

Does the author actually like any music? So far every description I've read tells me that the music is either pretentious or a sell-out. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Although this looks like a lot of work, a more positive guide would be vastly more useful. Help me find the best of a genre, rather than telling me it all devolved in trash. My metric so far is that if it's labelled pretentious I'll probably like it.