FunkyHiFi
10-31-2006, 01:24 AM
"Ishkur's Guide To Electronic Music" (http://www.di.fm/edmguide/edmguide.html)
I can't imagine how much work it took to put this incredibly detailed site together. The links at the left of the page turn into branching info trees, ending with sometimes dozens of info bubbles, each with a detailed text description PLUS multiple music samples. I finally found out some very good info on a couple of of my more recent favorite genres of music - downtempo and acid jazz - came to be, and how they relate to other genres in their "family tree". And some of that house music is pretty decent, basically electronic-based funk.
To hear/read about the start of electronic music (beginning in the 1950s), click on the "Downtempo" link. There you'll see the "Electronic Pioneers" subsection.
This site decribes pretty much ALL types of music made with electronic instruments i.e. not just rave, techno, etc but music by people like Tangerine Dream, Stereolab, Bjork and Walter (now Wendy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Carlos)) Carlos' ground breaking Switched-On Bach album. I didn't know there were that many. And ever since buying Legion Of Boom by the Crystal Method, I've been interested in checking out albums by The Chemical Brothers and The Orb, so when someone posted this on another forum I quickly explored it, ending up spending more than an hour there the first visit.
I wish someone would make a similar site for rock/blues/folk/pop/etc.
I can't imagine how much work it took to put this incredibly detailed site together. The links at the left of the page turn into branching info trees, ending with sometimes dozens of info bubbles, each with a detailed text description PLUS multiple music samples. I finally found out some very good info on a couple of of my more recent favorite genres of music - downtempo and acid jazz - came to be, and how they relate to other genres in their "family tree". And some of that house music is pretty decent, basically electronic-based funk.
To hear/read about the start of electronic music (beginning in the 1950s), click on the "Downtempo" link. There you'll see the "Electronic Pioneers" subsection.
This site decribes pretty much ALL types of music made with electronic instruments i.e. not just rave, techno, etc but music by people like Tangerine Dream, Stereolab, Bjork and Walter (now Wendy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Carlos)) Carlos' ground breaking Switched-On Bach album. I didn't know there were that many. And ever since buying Legion Of Boom by the Crystal Method, I've been interested in checking out albums by The Chemical Brothers and The Orb, so when someone posted this on another forum I quickly explored it, ending up spending more than an hour there the first visit.
I wish someone would make a similar site for rock/blues/folk/pop/etc.