ยป More Genealogy of Electronic Music
This is a genealogical, geographical and temporal diagram of electronic music genres. It’s more up to date than Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music. Of course it isn’t linked to any samples or (not particularly helpful) commentary, so it’s better as an overview:
I’m not sure what the meaning of their transitive links are. For example, if UK Garage evolved from Jungle, and Grime evolved from UK Garage, what does it mean to directly connect Jungle and Grime? And would it perhaps not be more accurate to connect Drum & Bass to Grime?
Anyway, each of these detailed links could be dissected with great detail, but it does a good job of capturing the broad strokes. The diagram does an excellent job of using colour to help with spatially distant and overlapping links.
Since this is HTML5, the code can be stolenremixed to make other visualizations with dynamic bezier curves.
Where is Moombahton? Or are one-song genres too granular?
Jack
14 Feb 12 at 12:55 pm
Also: I like how “work songs” spontaneously generates in the space between Africa and the South US.
Jack
14 Feb 12 at 12:58 pm
This is based on the scene as it was a few years ago. UK Funky was the first thing I noticed was missing.
Jared
14 Feb 12 at 1:05 pm
[...] My joke here is that Moombahton is, at its genre-heart, the song Moombah played at a reggaeton tempo (108 BPM), and Moombahcore, as a genre, is Moombahton with distortion applied. At least, that’s my naive understanding of it all. [...]
Aside: Yet More Etymology of EM at MentalPolyphonics
16 Feb 12 at 9:16 am