Interactive map traces the history of electronic music

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I rather wish there had been notable groups or people instead of style points. Still not sure where Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson or Kronos Quartet fit in.

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Seriously “Another World” came out in 1997? I still think of Futurepop as the “new” stuff that gets played in goth clubs.

Although my perception is skewed a bit because some of those genres existed for a while before they got club play where I grew up. It could take a while for things to filter in.

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And because essentially the same thing exists for another genre completely, I must share:

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another site that makes an attempt to cover every genre, minigenre, and microgenre which i’ve been working my way through for the past week or so in my spare time–

http://everynoise.com/

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This is pretty impressive, high points for me are the sample for ‘Hardcore’ being my personal favorite of the genre ‘Death Threat’ and for there being an entire separate genre entry for ‘Buffalo, NY Metal’, just crazy in terms of micro-genre documentation.

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