The Big Music List

[kadeshaderow]

Bram (my spouse) and I discuss music often, and usually I'm at a disadvantage as we try to discuss music she likes. However I like how she's helped me to identify the sounds in 80's and 90's music that I like so much, and distinguish it from shit that I don't. I figured I'd return the favor and compile a list of various sub-genres of Electronic music that I like and listen to, along with a song that I think represents the elements I like about that subgenre best with the assistance of Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music.

House -
New Wave (Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene Part IV)
Synthpop/American New Wave (Too many to list. New Order - Blue Monday, Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams, Information society - What's on your Mind, etc.)
Synthtron/Electroclash/Nu Synthpop/whatever (Freezepop - Bike Thief)
Hip House (Stereo MCs - Get Connected/House of Pain - Jump Around)
House Techno (C&C Music Factory - Everybody Dance Now)
Anthem House (Faithless - Insomnia)
Disco House (Junior Jack - My Feeling)
French House (Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You)
Epic House (Marco Demark - Tiny Dancer [Moto Blanco Mix] or pretty much any remix of an 80's pop song)
Vocal/Diva House (Ce Ce Peniston - Finally/Black Box - Ride on time/Operatica - Melancholy Rose)
Nu Italo Disco (O-Zone - Dragosta Din Tei)
Microhouse/Minimal House (Losoul - Synchro)

Trance -
Goth (The Sisters of Mercy - This Corrosion)
Darkwave (Clan of Xymox - Strangers)
Industrial Rock (Nine Inch Nails, KMFDM, Rob Zombie)
Electronic Body Music (Front 242 - Motion)
Electro-Industrial (In Strict Confidence - Stripped)
FuturePop (VNV Nation - Dark Angel)
Buttrock Goa/Heavy Metal Goa (Dark Soho - Combustion, Analog Pussy - Trance n Roll, pretty much every video game RPG boss track with an electric guitar ever made )
Acid Trance (Union Jack - Red Herring)
Classic Trance (Age of Love - Age of Love)
Ibiza Trance - (Chicane - Offshore)
Dream Trance (Robert Miles - Children...yes, I am ashamed)
Epic Trance (Ian Van Dahl - Castles in the Sky, Paul Van Dyk - For An Angel, Alice Deejay - Better Off Alone...yes I know it sucks)
Dutch Trance (Rank One - Airwave, Human Evolution - Project Magenta, DJ Tatana - Words, etc....jesus, I have too much of this awful shit)
Anthem Trance (Transa - Transtar/Agnelli & Nelson - El Nino)
BreakTrance (Hybrid - Finished Symphony)
Deep Trance/House Trance (Blue Amazon - And Then the Rain Falls)

Techno
Classic Techno (Cybotron - Clear)
Detroit Techno (Derrick May - Strings of Life)

I'm not big on Techno =(

Jungle -

Nothing in Jungle Electronic I really like either.

Hardcore -

Hardcore Rave (Channel X - Rave the Rhythm)

Downtempo -

Ambient (Speedy J - Fill 17)
Electronic Psychedelic (The Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows)
Ethereal (Dead Can Dance - Host of the Seraphim)
New Age (Enya - Only Time)
Worldbeat/Ethnic (Enigma - Return to Innocence/Deep Forest - Deep Forest)
Ambient Techno (Orbital - Halcyon + On + On)
Ambient Breakbeat (Rob D - Clubbed to Death)

Breakbeat -
Classic Hip-Hop
Progressive Hip-Hop (Black Eyed Peas - Empire Strikes Back)
Abstract Hip-Hop (Coldcut - Timber)
Miami Bass (Tag Team - Whoomp, There it is)
East Coast Rap (Public Enemy - Fight the Power)
Breakbeat Freestyle/Electro Dance (Shannon - Let the Music Play)
Big Beat (Prodigy - Smack My Bitch Up)
Anthem Breakbeat (Kay Cee - Escape)
Progressive Breakbeat (Digital Witchcraft - Kaylee's Blanket)
Chemical Breakbeat (Uberzone - Bots)