Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music explained
Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music is an interactive online guide to electronic music created by Kenneth John Taylor, aka Ishkur.[1] The website consists of 153 subgenres and 818 sound files. Genres include little-known ones like terrorcore and chemical breakbeat, and more popular genres like house or techno, diagrammed in a flowchart style.[1]
History
The guide was originally posted in 1999 as a Flash website and continually updated until 2001.[2]
On December 11, 2016, Ishkur announced on Twitter that a new version of the guide would be released in 2017.[3] Due to delays, Version 3.0 of the guide was instead released on August 20, 2019.[4] [5] Unlike the first two versions of the guide, the updated version no longer uses Adobe Flash.[6]
Reception
CMJ New Music Monthly praised the website for its "...ease of navigation, pithy genre descriptions, and fairly accurate audio accompaniment..."[1] Oliver Hurley of The Guardian referred to the site as an "epic online endeavour", but pointed that several of the genres were made up by Ishkur, such as "Buttrock Goa".[7]
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Notes and References
- News: Comer. M. Tye. CMJ New Music Monthly. Words Get in the Way. April 2001. CMJ Network, Inc.. 89.
- News: Cameron. John. This Guide to Electronic Music Genres from 2001 is a Blast from the Past. January 12, 2018. Magnetic Magazine. August 11, 2016. en-us.
- News: Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music Plans To Revamp Itself In 2017. January 12, 2018. EDM Sauce. July 18, 2017.
- Web site: 2020-08-21. The cult classic online guide to electronic music has (finally) been given an update. 21 August 2019. DJ Mag.
- Web site: 2020-08-21. Ishkur's guide to electronic music has finally been updated. The Line of Best Fit.
- News: Baker . Brian . Ishkur Quietly Releases His Fully-Updated Guide to Electronic Music, 3.0 . January 28, 2020 . EDM.com . August 20, 2019 . en.
- News: Hurley. Oliver. Friday Review: Little Things We Like: Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music. The Guardian. June 11, 2004. 31. The epic online endeavour visually maps 153 (sub-)sub-genres, from those that you've actually heard of (disco, rave, garage) to ones that the eponymous Ishkur has almost certainly made up. (Buttrock Goa, anyone?)...there is a total of (presumably not entirely legal) 818 sound files..
