TheProdigy

Simple question: What genre would you define these two songs as?

http://soundcloud.com/akira-kiteshi/aki ... e-iron-man
http://soundcloud.com/akira-kiteshi/aki ... ody-hammer

dubstep

i dont think defining genre is important anytime though...

Electro-House...it can't be dubstep because the beat pattern's not right. In dubstep, you have a snare on the third beat, these tracks have snares on the 2nd and 4th. There's a sub-genre of Electro-House called Fidget-house that sounds a lot like these tracks but the bpm of what you posted is a little slower so that's why I think some people would define it as dubstep. I'm gonna go with Electro-House, even with the slower bpm.

Majin wrote:


Genre's have gone too far now, this is just silly. It's gotten to a point of sub-genre's where almost each band has their own sub-genre, in some cases it's certain songs that a band has that have their own sub-genre's.
Am I the only person finding this ridiculous?

Martinstatic wrote:

no you're not the only one, I find it ridiculous also, but mainly cause I can't tell the difference so I play the "sour grapes" card
PS: can anyone tell me the difference between Jungle and DnB?

stingy303 wrote:


Jungle is like the first generation of DnB but i find most jungle more reggified

It's human nature to want to classify things. I find it pretty annoying myself but I think that if you label the genre of a track, it gives people an idea of what they're about to listen too. It also helps DJs pick songs that fit well together for their sets without to much of a hassle.

Majin wrote:

Right, genre's are created so people can classify things, to stop people who don't like heavy metal accidentally buying a heavy metal album.
But when sub-genre's of sub genre's of sub-genre's are in place, it over steps the line of convenience and begins to become inconvenient again.
In the future (or the present for all I know), music we have listened to in the past that has defined genre's or has been known as a genre for years, will soon be labeled as a sub-genre of something.
No longer is there such a thing as a rock record, and soon all records that we have come to know as rock records in the past will be known as some other hybrid genre. It's ridiculous.
I think I shall get bits of paper that say 'ROCK', 'POP', 'HIP-HOP', 'METAL', etc and sellotape them to cd's in the shop.