----- "Paul Davis" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:41 AM, James Morris <jwm.art.net@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > Just for the record I was never sure about any of the following: > > techno, trance, goa, house, acid house, hip house, rap, hip hop, > > ambient house, acid jazz, intelligent techno, intelligent dance > music, > > rave, happy hardcore, darkside, drum n bass, jungle... ÂThat's > about > > all I can remember. > > there are at least a dozen more terms for variants of this general > form of music. and to paraphrase something i saw a couple of weeks > ago: > > "this is a musical sub-culture that has existed for less than 40 > years and yet believes > it necessary to distinguish every nuance of every new pair of > releases by any two > artists with any vague connections to each other, and yet > simultaneously feels > comfortable referring to "classical" music ...." http://qntm.org/genres is fun (the rest of the website too). He lists 827 genres of music. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
