Hm, but first you had to define: what is "our" music? Some of the music
discussed here falls into categories that already exists that fit well, e.g.
Hip Hop or Bossa Nova.
Of course, it's only my personal view, but let me illustrate my opion with
an example. There's quite a large record store here in town that sells a lot
of interesting music. However, "my" music was scattered over the categories
"Trip Hop", "Hip Hop", "Dance", "Techno" and so on. When looking for a
particular release I either had to ask the staff (that often wasn't
available) or had to go through at least some of the categories. It seems
they became annoyed of this system themselves and threw everything together
and named it "club music". Although the term is far from perfect (some of
the music isn't club campatible at all) I know that whenever I don't find a
release within this category it isn't available at the store. On the other
hand, because this one category contains such a broad selection of music
styles I sometimes stumble across artists when I visit the store that I
never would have discovered.
See, I don't totally reject the use of genre names. When reading reviews
they are quite helpful sometimes to get a basic idea of the sound. But
especially in a music store I would be happy not to have yet another
category I have to go though when shopping.
Just my 2p,
Jürgen
I think you're missing the point -- I'm not talking about a sub-genre that
would cause music to be miscategorized time after time. I'd like to see the
complete opposite, so that you could actually go to a record store and find
your type of music where you would expect to find it -- not under "rock" or
"pop", but not under "techno" either. I'¨m not looking for another segment
of a segment, but rather one that would encompass all of the types of music
that gets discussed on this forum.
Markus
>I totally agree. Alhtough genre names help you finding music it sometimes
narrows your view. I found myself buying albums only because they were hyped
as nu-jazz or downbeat and was kind of dissappointed. On the other hand, I
would have missed some albums only because they were categorized as rock,
techno or whatsoever. This list is a great source of information without
that narrowing view. Let's keep it this way.
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