Your Favourite Electronic Music Genre

[Creativemind]

Keep voting peeps!

[chimp_spanner]

Apparently me and one other guy likes future garage! Make yourself known

[josb]

Berliner Schule!

[Djstarski]

we forgot Electro funk

[K.Markov]

Ah! Bambaataa, yes

[Djstarski]

Ah! Bambaataa, yes

So you have rub shoulders with Bambaataa . Thats great . One of the pioneers of Hip hop .

[K.Markov]

Ah! Bambaataa, yes

So you have rub shoulders with Bambaataa . Thats great . One of the pioneers of Hip hop .

yes, we had a great time, great person

[Djstarski]

Here is another Electro funk classic .

[Karim]

To think these tracks were made without a computer / daw in sight. All hardware. Maybe some mid 90's tracks might have used Cubase perhaps with an Atari ST or Amiga 500 computer but not sure.

You're wrong there. Cubase has been around since 1989 and was widely used, especially on the Atari ST with the built-in midi ports. That's also why Amiga lost the pro-musician's market, because everybody went apeshit when they saw the midi ports right in the case of the computer.

Synths like the Yamaha DX7 or DX10, Roland SH-101, Roland W30 Workstation (Prodigy famously used for their debut tracks), Casio CZ-101, Korg M1 for the classic rave piano and maybe the Polysix or Mono/Poly perhaps. A lot of chart hits used the Yamaha TX81Z Sampler for it's presets such as the Lately Bass (Gat Décor - Do You Want It Right Now / Whigfield - Saturday Night / Haddaway - What Is Love?) and then the TR-707/727/808/909 drum machines and the 303 Bassline Generator, Akai MPC perhaps and not sure about effects or what have you.

A Roland W-30 is basically a DAW.

Just for the records I own Atari St and at the same time (1989 or so) an Amiga 2000 with Music-x and regularly connected via midi with my M1 and a pair of Akai S950. Amiga had still more than a sequencer to make some Music via midi.
But Cubase wins for some market laws

[HepCat]

Don't recognise half these genres lol. I didn't vote Chillstep - thick granny socks? Running for the bus on a frosty morning? As for Trap - l aint falling for that.


Btw: The late 80s and early 90s represents something of a chicane in terms of genres. I would have said:

Old Skool Freestyle / Electro (1980-1987?)
Old Skool House (? to ?)
Acid House (1986-1989)
Hip House (1988-1990)
Old Skool Garage (1991-1994?)
Belgian New Beat (? to 1990)
Old Skool 1988-1990 (techno, rave)
Old Skool 1991-1992/93 (techno, rave, hardcore)
Jungle-Tekno (1992-1993)
[Darkside (1993-1994/95)]
Jungle
Drum n Bass
Hard House (1994-1998)
Hard House (1999-present)
Happy Hardcore / Gabber (?-?)
UK Garage (1998? to present?)
Acid Techno (1993-1997)

Of course there's a lot of question marks in the above list so l can see how nobody's ever going to be satisfied. Just a bit sad seeing "Hardcore" lumped in with "Happy Hardcore", and "Breakbeat" no longer an Old Skool thing. And eh, what, no Aciiiiieeeed House?

Just for the records I own Atari St and at the same time (1989 or so) an Amiga 2000 with Music-x ... Amiga had still more than a sequencer to make some Music via midi.
But Cubase wins for some market laws

I think Cubase / Notator refused to make an Amiga version, and the Atari had inbuilt MIDI ports, so they won all the school contracts. I'll never use Cubase, not even the free version, because of this. That effectively finished the Amiga + the silly legal infighting about copyright / patents that blighted the Amiga.

[Creativemind]

Yeah but you only get 20 poll choices so had to narrow it down and lump some together. If I could have had 40 then I would've put the 10 or so genres of house in there separate like deep house, Spanish house, tech house, deep tech house, acid house, progressive house etc

You're right, happy hardcore or hardcore should be separate but I think I didn't have enough choices. Tryna remember now as I did this poll months ago.

[JerrelTheKing]

Why is there no category for Hip Hop. Also Trap is not Hip Hop. Its a sub genre the way Punk is a sub genre of Classic Rock. Close but a different culture.

[Carly(Poohbear)]

This is a brilliant site for genre, zoom in, hoover your mouse above genre to see the links more clearly or click for more info etc.


http://www.musicmap.info/#