Useful video, but yeah, some important genres are missing.

And I really like the sample used for drum'n'bass.

http://techno.org/electronic-music-guide/

Hopefully this helps, it helped me out a lot to learn to distinguish the differences between genres and sub genres.

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Originally posted by StanVoid I see TA's having heated discussions about these genres and accusing one another of calling minimal electro, or calling electro minimal.

People get electro confused with minimal? It seems like people usually get electro confused with "buzzy synth house."

I can get confused between the more sparse end of electrohouse and minimal. The way I see it is minimal is more percussive, but I suck at putting things in genre boxes.

you can go on beatport and click the "genres" button.
gives 3 examples under each category.

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Originally posted by StanVoid I'm watching this now, but i'm not sure how accurate this really is: http://youtube.com/watch?v=WJnL5tGqJWs At least the first track he plays is supposed to be "techno" but i always thought techno is harder, faster? Anyway, take a look, see if you agree with this dude. I'd say this is more up to date than Ishkur's guide, albeit not as detailed.

Decent video. I'll use it to educate minds of the young.

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Originally posted by Jono404 I can get confused between the more sparse end of electrohouse and minimal. The way I see it is minimal is more percussive, but I suck at putting things in genre boxes.

"Electro" house and minimal have absolutely nothing in common except they're both EDM.

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Originally posted by Jono404 There was an even worse one I saw, by some girl who makes videos of trance 'mixes' which are just minute long snippets of 1999/2000 cheese trance tunes mashed together. It made some ridiculous claim about how techno 'could sound like drum n bass' or something, ummmm yeah except it doesn't have 170bpm breakbeats.

That has to be the most retarded thing i've heard...

of all genres... TECHNO?

AND DNB WTF?

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Originally posted by Gauss "Electro" house and minimal have absolutely nothing in common except they're both EDM.

What about someone like say, Marc Houle where would you put him genre wise? Or Booka Shade? I really need to sort my genre knowledge out when it comes to electo, tech and minimal i don't know whats what. I just try and find what's good and what isn't.

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Originally posted by Darkarbiter That has to be the most retarded thing i've heard... of all genres... TECHNO? AND DNB WTF?

Oh the retardation goes much much further than that.

Exhibit A:

http://www.xxlmag.com/online/?p=7503

Am I the only one who thinks they chose some really, really shitty tracks as an example of each genre?

If someone linked me that to try and educate me, it'd probably just turn me off EDM forever.