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| a practical guide to electronic music |
Posted 2010-05-18 19:43:01 by
Jim Crawford
| <Chris> | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v26eXtuatCE |
| <Jim> | they're in the military, they have to be legal, right? |
| <Jim> | what do you call this kind of music? melodic trance or something? this isn't the first time i've heard one of these songs end on a toneless drum hit. it's completely governed by music theory all the rest of the way through, not a single interesting chord or progression, but they can't remember to hit the tonic at the end. |
| <Chris> | isn't it house? |
| <Chris> | is trance house but with those supersaw lead/pads? |
| <Jim> | yeah, i guess! |
| <Jim> | louis says if it has gates on everything and four on the flour -- uhh, he said "floor" but i'm keeping it -- 909 and cheesy drop-out-build-up dynamics, it's trance :) |
| <Danny> | hm, yeah, i don't think trance is allowed to be in a major key |
| <Jim> | is it happy hardcore? :) |
| <Danny> | i don't know, man |
| <Danny> | it's not hardcore enough for happy hardcore |
| <Jim> | happy casualcore |
| <Jim> | gated pads in a major key over a house beat is definitely a style i've heard a lot* |
| <Danny> | no search results for 'electronic music genre flowchart'. this seems like a conspicuous hole in the internet |
| <Jim> | there was totally one of those |
| <Danny> | yeah? |
| <Jim> | http://techno.org/electronic-music-guide/ |
| <Jim> | it has a wikipedia page :D http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishkur%27s_Guide_to_Electronic_Music |
| <Danny> | hah |
| <Danny> | i think what i need is more of a cataloging algorithm that works per song, with questions like "does it go 'boom-tss-boom-tss'" and "is it >150bpm" |
| <Jim> | that would be incredible :) |
| <Jim> | you could base it on one of those binary tree "20 questions" solvers you can find in 1980s books of basic listings you can type in |
| <Jim> | fuck, you could totally do it from a celebrities in prison* node! |
| <Elena> | oh man! |
| <Elena> | that would be the most hilarious set of nodes |
| <Elena> | "ugh, there's this song stuck in your head, but you're not sure what genre it is" |
| <Elena> | and then the next 20 nodes are questions about the song |
| <Jim> | that would be awesome :) |
| <Elena> | i think the most amazing would be if at the end of every branch of the tree, it would be all "Oh, of course! It's $Song by $Artist!" with a different song that fits the description each time |
| <Elena> | i would get to noding, except i don't know anything about categorizing songs, and i need to go to the bank |
| <Jim> | word |
| <Jim> | i'll foist it off on one of my friends |
| <Elena> | sweet |
| <Jim> | i'll paste the past few lines of this chat to each of them, except changing "one of my friends" to their name |
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