If anything, it's not detailed enough. For a long time I was listening almost exclusively to technical death metal, while for example I don't line brutal death metal at all. These subgenres of death metal (and band self-identification) are very different, and yet here they are all lumped into just "death metal", as far as I can see.
I'm not sure about the quality of other sections.
Even none of the things that are coming back to being popular curiosities like microtonality (Sevish...), chromaticism (Jacob Collier...), etc? What a shame.
You can search by artist but even extremely popular acts in their genre won’t be present - Shania Twain, Adele and Charli XCX produce no results.
Musicmap: Genealogy and History of Popular Music Genres - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18887141 - Jan 2019 (11 comments)
Musicmap - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11827808 - June 2016 (41 comments)
The introduction section is pretty clear that the goal isn't to catalogue every single genre and subgenre.
Some of my favorite genres of music (hyperpop, deconstructed club, utopian virtual) return zero results.
There is an entire population of "music fans" that listen to the lyrics first, categorize by the philosophic content, and have "playlists" that don't sound like a genre to most people, but are in fact all philosophically similar. The songs don't sound at all alike, but speak to the same issues from the same perspectives.
I would love if someone made such a service. Too busy personally to do it myself.
Django had immense influence in most 20th century guitar players, directly and indirectly. Many of the biggest Jazz guitarists had tracks or even albums dedicated to him.
At least Ishkur had fun with their descriptions :)
BUT, as others have observed, this vis doesn't make an attempt at comprehensiveness.
One glance at "World Music" categorization is enough to drive home that conclusion. Which is not to say that fault (for lack of better word) is entirely with the visualization, but with the poor ontology itself.
I'd LOVE to see a more comprehensive visualization where WORLD MUSIC has equal weight, with (selfishly) a decent ontology of Hindustani classical music.
EDIT: This is a great effort. Super complicated multi-variable. Very hard to find any way to display.
But the left-right categorization, seems arbitrary. I'm curious if it is just arbitrary, since you have to start somewhere. I looked around and didn't find much help on the overall scheme.
EDIT:
I think the overall columns are a best guess based on this
"The Definition of Genre
The history of Popular Music hardly qualifies as an exact science. It is a retrospective analysis of events that focuses on the underlying forces or common symptoms in the overwhelming production of music records, ignoring nuances and side-effects to grasp a comprehensible structure. This is because (popular) music is far from a static phenomenon: it is a constantly evolving, transforming, giant organism. Almost never has a music genre suddenly emerged as a shocking revolution without any trace or evolution in the past. All of them have naturally evolved, mutated, merged, or become (theoretically) extinct. Only the past can be examined of this natural, organic network."
Same is happening in the bicycle world. Now your road bike that you also take on dirt roads should be called a gravel bike, but then we need to make distinctions with gravel racing bikes, gravel bikepacking bikes, adventure bikes and they will soon make the distinction between rigid, hardtail and fully suspended gravel bikes regular or flat-bar gravel bike, the same way they split MTB to cross country, downcountry, trail, all-mountain, enduro, dh, freeride, fatbike and whatever I am missing. This is ridiculous. The irony is an aero road bike designed for pure speed on the road today can accept wider tires (up to 32mm wide) than what was considered fit enough for riding dirt roads 20 years ago (25-28mm), so they should be also called gravel bike in a way. Just call them bikes FFS.
By naming things, we unlock all sorts of superpowers for studying, remixing, remembering, sharing knowledge, and creating derived stuff.
However! I confess I was sharing your sentiment... In my case I think it is a reaction to how we are constantly bombarded by algorithmically chosen content these days. There’s something beautiful about organic discovery, even if it means you won't be exposed to EVERYTHING that you MAY ever enjoy.
Likewise, my bike is regional -- it's thrown together from what I've found in my neighbors' trash. Most non-sportive riders use the bike categories to narrow down their choices in search of a bike that's comfortable, practical, and at least moderately stylish. In the early years of mass produced "mountain bikes," most MTB's were purchased for use on pavement. People liked them because they looked like they'd be sturdy and comfortable. It helped that MTB's were also most people's first introduction to indexed shifting and aluminum wheels.
At some point it just descends into fashion.
I remember a quote I read that said there are really only two genres; things you like, and things you don't.
Genres in music aren't just about splitting hairs—they're about expression, identity, and connection. Just like how "gravel bikepacking bike" tells you what experience someone is after, music genres help people find the sound they're seeking. Yeah, sometimes labels do get excessive, but they help us share and understand each other better.
Can we not add such weird patterns to websites please? I won't go as far as saying that this is user hostile but it does leave a bad taste! It is better to blank the page than redirect me to another website I never wanted to visit.
id love to read whatever youre reading, but its not even rendering/available, presumably because of adblocking breaking the site.
I doubt anyone is forced to allow access per the GDPR.
> Jazz is music performed by an ensemble of players, each (very) specialized and proficient in their respective instrument.
So wait, a duet with Cecil Taylor and Eric Dolphy, the latter of which also plays the flute and many more wind instruments is...
> Besides aggressive, low-frequency riffs (which are sometimes fittingly described as “shredding”),
That's definitely not what "shredding" means. An example of "shredding": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG1qLxCGLMA
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