Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music

Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music is an online guide to electronic music created by Kenneth John Taylor, aka Ishkur.[1] The site consists of 153 subgenres and 818 sound files.[2] Genres include edgy like terrorcore and chemical breakbeat to 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.[3]

On December 11, 2016, Ishkur announced on Twitter that a new version of the guide would be released in 2017.[4] Due to delays, Version 3.0 of the guide was instead released on August 20, 2019. Unlike the first two versions of the guide, the updated version no longer uses Adobe Flash.[5]

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".[2]

See also

References
  1. Comer, M. Tye (April 2001). "Words Get in the Way". CMJ New Music Monthly. CMJ Network, Inc. p. 89.
  2. Hurley, Oliver (June 11, 2004). "Friday Review: Little Things We Like: Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music". The Guardian. p. 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.
  3. Cameron, John (August 11, 2016). "This Guide to Electronic Music Genres from 2001 is a Blast from the Past". Magnetic Magazine. Retrieved January 12, 2018.
  4. "Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music Plans To Revamp Itself In 2017". EDM Sauce. July 18, 2017. Retrieved January 12, 2018.
  5. Baker, Brian (August 20, 2019). "Ishkur Quietly Releases His Fully-Updated Guide to Electronic Music, 3.0". EDM.com. Retrieved January 28, 2020.
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