Beatport Genres - RANKED

Amps

jonattonyeah
Reggae / Dancehall / Dub
Why is this even on here.

Reckon it probably does enough to cover the biscuit budget for all the meetings.

Amps

Jon, how long before you run out of material? Let me know when you are taking requests!

jonattonyeah

Starting working on 2005 Essential Mixes but if you have any ideas I’m all ears! Might seem silly and pointless, but I honestly quite enjoy doing these as a mental exercise. Finding things in music that I appreciate even if the song or mix or genre objectively sucks.

@303abuser Yeah there was a ton of overlap and I’m not really sure why one is defined as (A) but the other, which sounds the same, is (B). I assume the label makes that choice. Dunno why anyone would want to fall under “Electro House” at this juncture. Maybe 15 whatever years ago (!!!) when Tiefschwarz was knocking out “Kinda New” and Mylo was doing his thing. But now? Being defined as that is like a leprosy diagnosis.

303abuser

just more evidence that i don’t understand genres in any way.

Millsy

Great post all round. Indie dance in at 2. That’s the ticket.

303abuser

jonattonyeah Yeah there was a ton of overlap and I’m not really sure why one is defined as (A) but the other, which sounds the same, is (B)

my theory is that the people labeling with these genres don’t know the history of the music well enough, so they “mis-label” stuff creating confusion and masses of sub-genres that aren’t really necessary. or it’s just marketing. i’m not really sure and i care way less about it than i did 20 years ago.

Amps

Reckon the genres are waves to be ridden, bandwagons to be jumped on etc. Wish they had some sort of meta tagging on all the tracks, so a track could be in ‘Indie Dance’ but also then be searchable by tags such as acid / 303 / energetic / laid back / vocal / moody / uplifting etc.

jonattonyeah

Amps Reckon the genres are waves to be ridden, bandwagons to be jumped on etc.

Agreed and I think it’s also an issue of visibility. Digging through Indie Dance I found quite a few breakbeat tracks. But they don’t want that tag as I doubt many people even bother looking at that genre. The line between Leftfield House, Electro, and Breaks is often also marginal at best. I guess one is “cool” whereas the other is “not.”

mono-stereo

Seen some stuff tagged “Juke / Footwork” on Beatport recently. It sounds like music for wankers.

hugopal

mono-stereo Seen some stuff tagged “Juke / Footwork” on Beatport recently. It sounds like music for wankers.

Sshhh…

Smallman1

That’s Dave’s favourite genre on Beatport.

Millsy

Lol. KPop-step is Dave’s fave.

jonattonyeah

Millsy

Ed’s is “Big Room” for sure. Shirts off.

Hursty

Didn’t realise there were so many!

Organic house lol!

vegan house next

sbando

The Horror. The Horror. Great work, glad you survived.

I would have ranked Deep House higher but it’s based on the top 10 alone.

jonattonyeah

sbando ranked Deep House higher

Yeah as a “genre” (as loose as that seems to be) it’s right up there for me personally. But the Top 10 is just so boring. The likes of Terry Lee Brown Jr., Circulation, Timewriter, Larry Heard, DJ Qu, et cetera, are nowhere to be found.

Smallman1

Wrecking ball / Peak time POWER Prog is my genre du choix.

jonattonyeah

Smallman1

Submitted.

mono-stereo

😆

LT42

lol

Along_the_Wire

Would’ve been funnier with the correct url pal!

jonattonyeah

Along_the_Wire

Dammit!