Originally Posted by Schranz bass

I think we can all achieve a better understanding of our preferences in music if we recalibrate the way we identify it.

Styles of music are labeled as genres. These fixed labels illustrate particular sounds, timbres, or intensities of music, and fail to identify the unique, musical essences.

. essence:basic, unique, and invariable nature of a thing
or idea, or its significant individual feature or features.

In other words, labels just identify sounds: thunder; jazz, techno, ambiance; laugh, dance, &cetera. These tell us the only the function, which lacks any degree of nuance or variation--essence.

Classification of sub-genres follows the same criterion that creates a vague, superficial perception of disparate musical styles. I think this aesthetic smattering or, blurry misperception, diminishes our ability to appraise and accept a wide variety of 'genres'.

I think if we deepen our appreciation of musical essence--or rather, our aesthetic intuition--we will cultivate a more customary array of artists.
Indeed, a revamped prevalence of aethetes, synesthetes, virtus, virtuosos would, hopefully, decrease this 'fast food' concept--smattering--of art which seems to be transmogrifying our (once) innate, artistic sense into social identification. I.E. "I like that genre because it expressesme"


It is so easy and makes so much sense to assign more nuances to sub-genres.

[*]Do you like techno? What is techno? This necessitates more apparent essences.

Several nuances come to mind: hard, tribal, acid, clanking, schranz,ambient, deep, funky, grimy. These constitute sub-genres. Each sub-genre is a discrete, combinatorial essence of techno. Any one of these sub-genres can be combined with each other to describe a particular essence.

-techno: hard/tribal techno; deep/grimey/acid techno; funky/tribal techno; deep/ambient techno; and so on

This method of categorisation can be applied to all genres. This will also make it much easier for people to discover new music. allmusic.com has done this very thing. You can search for music according to moods and themes. You can even search by instruments

Steps are already being made to broaden our aesthetic views. I listed some techno styles.

Rock: psychedelic/progressive; space rock; seductive rock; dream rock; jangle rock; goth rock....

Each sub-genre gives us an idea of the essence we can expect.



Originally Posted by scottsy View Post:
...I guess dance music really isn't my focus these days, I'm more into other genres, I guess[/CENTER]

-Which genre is 'dance' music? One can dance to Iggy Pop, Tricky, drum and bass, hip-hop, reggae, jungle, et cetera.
-You are more into other essences than electronic: techno.....and sub-genre. Or, just describe essences you do not like.

Originally Posted by CanwllCorfe

...I don't think you're alone. Dance genres are probably the most unpopular kind of music on here

The people who do love them are sort of a small niche [/CENTER]


-all dance genres?
-Genres with which essence?


quotation by Blazon Gabra;998091]

...the rules are so different than with rock music

-Not so much different rules as different essences

...we're after DJ's or labels

-Half correct. Electronica dance fanatics seek out DJs or labels which play certain essences. Fans of all genres do the same.
-Music styles cannot be compared to different styles because they capture a different essence.
-I guess you could make comparisons to the effects of these essences on people, or the type of people who like certain sounds.

we[...]approach nostalgia differently[...]don't cover it, remix it!

:-)

-That's right. DJs remix or, recapture the essence of a song, or capture the essence to apply it in a techno/DnB style.