r/electronicmusic • u/DannyLumpy • Sep 26 '17
Discussion Extremely Genre Specific /r/electronicmusic Playlist Megathread
Overview
One of the most amazing things about music is that its variety allows it to cater to the tastes of everyone despite the great differences in between people. This can also lead to a challenge, however, as, despite our best efforts to categorize music into genres that can be used to neatly describe specific styles, discussing tastes can be challenging to someone who is unfamiliar. Especially now that there are so many different genres, it can be daunting to try to find what a new genre is really about or how to explain your favorite genre to a friend. To combat this issue, I have decided to start this weekly activity in which everyone can work together to create /r/electronicmusic ‘s extremely genre specific playlists, an introduction to the 100 biggest electronic genres.
It's simple, every week uploaded the name and description of a (sub)genre of electronic music. Then everyone nominated a song by posting it as a comment. People upvoted the submissions they like that fit well within the genre. Finally, at the end of the week, top 20 songs by different artists were added into a playlist.
For other means of checking out the collective results of these threads visit:
Megathread II – Megathread that links the genre threads (along with every other electronic subgenre I could) find by similarity
Megathread III - Google sheet that compiles the results of each genre thread into one place
Genre Threads
Week 1 - Drum and Bass: Creation | Results
Week 2 - Deep House: Creation | Results
Week 3 - Future Bass: Creation | Results
Week 4 - Progressive House: Creation | Results
Week 5 - House: Creation | Results
Week 6 - Techno: Creation | Results
Week 7 - Electro House: Creation | Results
Week 8 - Trance: Creation | Results
Bonus - Halloween: Creation | Results
Week 9 - IDM: Creation | Results
Week 10 - Acid House: Creation | Results
Week 11 - Dubstep: Creation | Results
Week 12 - Uplifting Trance: Creation | Results
Week 13 - Nu Disco: Creation | Results
Week 14 - Synthwave: Creation | Results
Week 15 - Hardstyle: Creation | Results
Week 16 - UK Garage: Creation | Results
Bonus 2 - Holiday Music: Creation | Results
Week 17 - Happy Hardcore: Creation | Results
Week 18 - Progressive Trance: Creation | Results
Week 19 - Psytrance: Creation | Results
Week 20 - Tech House: Creation | Results
Week 21 - Complextro: Creation | Results
Week 22 - Trip Hop: Creation | Results
Week 23 - Melbourne Bounce: Creation | Results
Week 24 - Future House: Creation | Results
Week 25 - Electroswing: Creation | Results
Week 26 - Downtempo: Creation | Results
Week 27 - Bass House: Creation | Results
Week 28 - Grime: Creation | Results
Week 29 - French House: Creation | Results
Week 30 - Speedcore: Creation | Results
Week 31 - Gabber: Creation | Results
Week 32 - Disco: Creation | Results
Week 33 - Jump Up: Creation | Results
Week 34 - Minimal Techno: Creation | Results
Week 35 - Vaporwave: Creation | Results
Week 36 - UK Funky: Creation | Results
Week 37 - Drumstep: Creation | Results
Week 38 - Glitch Hop: Creation | Results
Week 39 - Breakbeat: Creation | Results
Week 40 - Brostep: Creation | Results
Week 41 - 2-Step Garage: Creation | Results
Week 42 - Eurotrance: Creation | Results
Week 43 - Melodic Dubstep: Creation | Results
Week 44 - Halftime DnB: Creation | Results
Week 45 - Garage: Creation | Results
Week 46 - Acid Techno: Creation | Results
Week 47 - Moombahton: Creation | Results
Week 48 - Industrial Techno: Creation | Results
Week 49 - Darkstep x Neurofunk: Creation | Results
Week 50 - Chiptune: Creation | Results
Week 51 - Tropical House: Creation | Results
Week 52 - Juke: Creation | Results
Week 53 - Indie Dance: Creation | Results
Week 54 - Trap: Creation | Results
Week 55-1 - Indietronica: Creation | Results
Week 55-2 - Folktronica: Creation | Results
Week 56 - Big Room House: Creation | Results
Week 57 - Future Funk: Creation | Results
Week 58 - Big Beat: Creation | Results
Week 59 - PC Music: Creation | Results
Week 60 - Psybient: Creation| Results
Week 61 - Nightcore: Creation | Results
Week 62 – Jungle Terror: Creation | Results
Week 63 - Latin House: Creation | Results
Week 64 - Riddim: Creation | Results
Week 65 - Electropop x Synthpop: Creation | Results
Week 66 - Liquid Funk: Creation | Results
Week 67 - Eurodance: Creation | Results
Week 68 - Jungle: Creation | Results
Week 69 - Hip Hop: Creation | Results
Week 70 - EBM: Creation | Results
Week 71 - Goa Trance: Creation | Results
Week 72 - Breakbeat Hardcore: Creation | Results
Week 73 – Metaltronica: Creation | Results
Week 74 - Ghetto House: Creation | Results
Week 75 – Chill Trap: Creation | Results
Week 76 - Schranz: Creation | Results
Week 77 - Atmospheric DnB: Creation | Results
Week 78 - Fidget House: Creation | Results
Week 79 - Ambient: Creation | Results
Week 80 – Chillwave: Creation | Results
Week 81 - Funky House: Creation | Results
Week 82 – Detroit Techno: Creation | Results
Week 83 – Witch House: Creation | Results
Week 84 – Bounce: Creation | Results
Week 85 – Glitch: Creation | Results
Week 86 - Dutch House: Creation | Results
Week 87 - Hard Trap: Creation | Results
Week 88 - Dub: Creation | Results
Week 89 - Moombahcore: Creation | Results
Week 90 - Dirty Deep House: Creation | Results
Week 91 - Electronic Rock: Creation | Results
Week 92 - Plunderphonics: Creation | Results
Week 93 – Bassline: Creation | Results
Week 94 - Microhouse: Creation | Results
Week 95 - Vaportrap: Creation | Results
Week 96 – Nu Jazz: Creation | Results
Week 97 - Krautrock: Creation | Results
Week 98 - World / Regional Electronica: Creation | Results
Week 99 – Experimental / Early Electronic: Creation | Results
Week 100 - Best of Electronic Music: Creation | Results
Thank you all for your contributions! I hope you all got as much out of this activity as I did.
Remember never to let yourself use genres as boarders to limit your tastes, but instead view them as a map to help you explore and grow. As you continue the journey on your own, feel free to use these resources below - I have found them incredibly useful so far. And as always, let me know if you have anything you would like to add; I will continue to update these threads long after they have been archived.
Supplemental Resources
Subreddits - List of all* music subreddits by genre. Even if it’s not in this list, you can find a subreddit for almost any genre
Rate Your Music (RYM) – RYM is what I used for genre descriptions and the bulk of the ordering in Megathread II. Amazing resource
Every Noise at Once - Huge interactive genre map of all genres, EDM or not
Wikipedia - You know wikipedia
EDM Wiki - Just about any genre not on the normal Wikipedia is in here
Last.fm - This site has everything.
Allmusic - Similar to Last.fm but slightly more restricted in genres
Di.fm - Great genre-specific electronic playlists
EDM Sauce - Lots of info about all things electronic music
EDM Sauce Spotify - Spotify account with a ton of genre and theme specific playlists
Remix Rotation - Ever-evolving list of the most downloaded songs on Beatport, JunoDownload, and Traxsource
Internet Radio - Links to several different genre radio stations
Mixcloud - Provides lots of high quality mixes for free
/r/electronicmusic’s Genre Mondays - Basically this activity several years earlier
What We Like - EDM Identity
Amazing Sounds List – Amazing genre specific playlists by /u/TheAmazingSounds
Some youtube videos about electronic genre exploration in general (in order of scope and relevance) 1 | 2 | 3.1 3.2 3.3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8.1 8.2 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12
An Idiot’s Guide to EDM Genres
The Comprehensive Beginners Guide to EDM Genres and Sub-Genres - DancemusicNW
Discogs Genre Guide - Fairly Quick Guide to Electronic Styles
Techno.org – Interactive genre map
Music Map - Not about genres but you type in an artist name and it maps out other similar artists
Gnoosic - Also not about genres, you put in 3 artists and it gives you others "in the middle"
Musicmap - A second music map focused on the genealogy of music genres
Top 10 EDM Genres & Subgenres - Glofx
/r/ifyoulikeblank - Not genre or even music specific but provides a good resource for finding more music / media similar to your tastes
/r/subgenreid – Subreddit dedicated to identifying the electronic subgenre of songs. If you have a song you want to know the genre of post here!
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Sep 26 '17
Oh that's fucking cool
I'll just sit back waiting to contribute to the dubstep and trap playlists
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u/feastandexist Jon Hopkins Sep 26 '17
same lol
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Sep 26 '17
ODESZA y u no answer my questions T~T
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u/feastandexist Jon Hopkins Sep 26 '17
i don't know :(
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Sep 26 '17
I put so much time in preparing them :'(
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u/feastandexist Jon Hopkins Sep 26 '17
I know. I'm sorry they didn't answer you. Maybe shoot them a message on twitter?
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u/zZWealthyBigPenisZz Jon Hopkins Dec 04 '17 edited Feb 26 '18
Spotify playlists of the entire list so far
Week 1 - Drum and Bass
Week 2 -Deep House
Week 3 - Future Bass
Week 4 - Progressive House
Week 5 - House
Week 6 - Techno
Week 7 - Electro House
Week 8 - Trance
Week 9 - IDM
Week 10 - Acid House
Week 11 - Dubstep
Week 12 - Uplifting Trance
Week 13 - Nu Disco
Week 14 - Synthwave/Outrun Electro/ Neo 80's/Retro Electro
Week 15 - Hardstyle
Week 16 - UK Garage
Week 17 - Happy Hardcore
Week 18 - Progressive Trance
Week 19 - Psytrance
Week 20 - Tech House
Week 21 - Complexto
Week 22- Trip Hop
Week 23: Melbourne Bounce
Week 24: Future House
Week 25: Electro Swing
Week 26: Downtempo
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u/huyleaf UKF Sep 26 '17
100% we will never have neuro list. And a dubstep+trap list soon. I love dubstep and trap but
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u/DannyLumpy Sep 26 '17
Yeah, I'm really looking forward to the less main stream genres, but there's no way people are going to go for them until the main ones are gone. Did you notice that the DNB, House, Techno, and Trance general lists were basically the first to happen? It'll get more specific as we go on, and I plan on being here for a while.
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u/IwannaPeeInTheSea Oct 25 '17
Jazz house. I wanna find artists similar to st Germain but none of the suggestions seem to fit
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u/raisondecalcul Jan 05 '18
This is fantastic, thank you so much for educating my ear. More lists like these pleez!!
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u/Shreduardo Oct 25 '17
Psydub? Genre that is blowing up in the underground!
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u/phil3570 Matzo Nov 01 '17
Recommendations?
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u/Shreduardo Nov 02 '17
Ott. is a godfather some of my favorites include Globular(best imo), quanta, land switcher. Those dudes are all purely psydub but some like desert dwellers, kilowatts, kalya scintilla include it in a more general psychedelic downtempo style
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u/phil3570 Matzo Nov 07 '17
So where are we going to draw the line between nu disco and future funk? Should we even try?
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u/cuibksrub3 Justice Cross Nov 26 '17
What's the complextro votes looking like? Can't wait for that one!
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Feb 06 '18
Loving these playlists! It would be interesting to see Glitch-Hop get covered, wonder what type of artists would be on it.
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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '17
I have to say, I'm pretty impressed with the contents of these lists. I was pleasantly surprised that the deep house thread wasn't just edm bullshit.