eat light:

check it out: ishkur's guide to electronic music. i first looked at this a couple of years ago, as i was trying to make sense of electronic music nomenclature. this morning, glaucon said something about wanting to wiki electronic music to help him figure out various aspects of the nomenclature, and it reminded me of this site. it was a bitch to find it again (i didn't remember the name "ishkur"), so i'm posting the link here. i think i'm going to add it to my links column too, just for ease of access.

anyway, the guide takes the form of a tree showing relationships between and among various sets and subsets of electronic music genres. it's amazingly comprehensive--a tangled network of nomenclatures and relationships. you click on the name of whatever type of music you want to know about, and information comes up in a little window while a representative sample of that type plays in the background. that's true for most of the types, anyway--i haven't by any means investigated them all. by way of example, the "goth" bit plays a sisters of mercy song. you might not agree with the particular sample chosen to represent a type of music, but you have to admit...whoever put this site together put an astounding degree of thought and work into it.