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Posted by DJDigDug on Oct-21-2002 07:59:

Genres

In my opinion i think there are way to many these days and really divert people from actually focussing on the tracks, people listen to a tune and imidiately have to classify it rather than take it in.
I for one think genres are becoming a head ache more so than a description and every track fits into 3 genres which are really all the same genre under different names IE a song would be called melodic, uplifting where as on a vinyl site it would be Epic. IMHO trance is good nuff, maybe sub genres of hard and soft other than that its just to much of a bother ^_^ I think we should start a mass movement to abololish sub-genres who is with me??

Posted by Renegade on Oct-21-2002 11:34:

I'm with you 100% mate.

People get so anal about genres - about categorising specific pieces of music - that they often lose sight of the music itself. I think that genre descriptions can help in describing the "flavour" of a particular track, but it gets annoying when people start to use this "genre-ising" as an exact science, and go to extreme lengths to argue that a track is of one specific genre rather than another.

I'm sure that my definition of trance is different to yours. I'm sure that my definition of tek-house is different to yours. I'm sure that my definition of down-tempo-psychadelic-trancy-acid-funky-jazz music is different to yours. Neither of us are right, neither are wrong. So let's agree to disagree, use genres as a guide rather than prescription and enjoy the music. The down-tempo-psychadelic-trancy-acid-funky-jazzy music.