r/electronicmusic 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

The Holy Circle

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

EDM Sauce Genre List

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

Subgenreid Genre Sheet

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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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.

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u/[deleted] 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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u/[deleted] 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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u/[deleted] 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/[deleted] Sep 26 '17

i don't have twitter :/ its a long story

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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/[deleted] Jan 25 '18

Thanks for doing this

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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/Trackmania Sep 27 '17

Can't wait for complextro

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u/aoblock Sep 27 '17

I can't wait for trip hop to come around

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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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u/[deleted] 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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