I don't understand electronic music. It has too many subgenres

OK?

Yeah, I mean rock is easy
hard rock - rock but harder
soft rock - rock but soft
prog rock - rock but longer and with trumpets and shit

But what the fuck does 'garage' mean? Or fucking 'jungle' or 'house', then electro-house and french house and future garage and holy shit I don't know what's what anymore

>>71688114
Rock has more.

Contemporary electronic music has 7.

Techno
House
Breaks
Trance
UKGarage
Downtempo
Ambient

not that hard desku

untz untz untz

I don't understand Pokemon, there's too many types!

File: 1481983484750.jpg (607KB, 1222x5689px) Image search: [Google]

607KB, 1222x5689px

>>71688175
>implying

>>71688264
Where's the Zolo tho?

left is normie af too

>>71688209
I have no idea what Breaks or UKGarage are

File: 1488972057769.png (1MB, 681x1600px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 681x1600px

>>71688400
Have you ever heard of wikipedia?

>Breakbeat is a genre of electronic or dance-oriented music which utilizes breakbeats, often sampled from earlier recordings in funk, jazz, and R&B, for the main rhythm. Breakbeats have been used in styles such as hip hop, jungle, drum and bass, hardcore, UK garage (including 2-step, breakstep and dubstep), and even pop and rock.

>>71688175
House is 128 bpm. There are many different forms of house. Electro house is house except with skrillex edm shit. French house is house except with disco shit and sampling.
Jungle is 180bpm with fast drums traditionally sampled from hip-hop and breakbeat. There are many differnet forms of jungle just like there are many forms of house.
Garage is 140 bpm. There are also many forms of garage

Most if not all electronic music is catagorized by the tempo, and then split into further catagorys based on whatever makes it sound different from other versions of music at that tempo. This was useful for mixing purposes for djs and for giving people an idea of what kind of msuic would be played where and when. Problem is, creating new genres became a bit of a meme and now we have things catagorized way too far. Also, we have fucked up situations where genres such as brostep, drumstep, complextro, and glitch-hop all sound completely the same, but are differing in tempo so technically seperate genres because thats how electronic music has always been catagorized and because everyone wants to invent the next big meme.

>>71688519
Is there a proper name for Skrillex and his stans? Calling it dubstep makes no sense it doesn't sound like Burial or anything like that

http://techno.org/electronic-music-guide/

>>71688519
These 7 are all major genres, not just different because of BPM
>>71688209

>>71688550
Brostep

File: 1464782870753.png (3MB, 1417x1954px) Image search: [Google]

3MB, 1417x1954px

>>71688456

I don't understand rock. It has too many subgenres

>>71688614
>>71688264

>>71688209
You forgot hip hop

>>71688550
Not really. Dubstep is technically anything at 140bpm in half time.
Some people call it brostep, some midrange cack, whatever cack means. I just call it brostep, but obviously its got that negative connotation. There's nothing else to really call it though. I think that brostep is pretty much going to be the most official name we get, unfortunately. At least the term seems to be losing the stigma, so it's becoming less of a derogatory name. I certainly have a soft spot for the stuff. It just doesn't feel right calling it dubstep. Brostep and dubstep have fallen out of style too, so I don't see anyone coming up with a good name any time soon

>>71688300
Zolo is a fictional genre coined by a no-name blogger.

>>71688209
This is pretty arguable. You right though. It's deffinately expanded past just BPM. Ambient is a subgenre of Downtempo though. UK Garage is a subgenre of Garage as a whole. You also forgot Hip-Hop, Jungle and Hardcore. Where IDM falls is debatable as well.

>>71688566
Whoops. This is true
>>71688789

>>71688789
Jungle is breaks and ambient started plenty before downtempo

>>71688114
>Change the bpm of a track
>call it a new genre
defend this bleepfags

>>71688846
Whoops. Fucked up again.

This guy is correct. My memory is spotty I guess.

>>71688897
>strum a different speed
>call it a new genre

Reggae, thrash and post-rock are literally the same thing.

File: what.gif (30KB, 200x194px) Image search: [Google]

30KB, 200x194px

>>71688956
>Reggae, thrash and post-rock are literally the same thing.