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If you haven't seen it, Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music [1] is an interesting source of how different electronic music genres evolved and are influenced. It contains example samples of many tracks and I've found whole sub-generes of electronic music that I never knew existed.

[1] http://techno.org/electronic-music-guide/ (warning: autoplaying sound)

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ishkur contends the whole thing was a pisstake and not to be taken seriously. i count as evidence of that the fact i am included in the list as a result of responding to a thread of his at the right time. you can get a sense of his generally snide/sarcastic tone all over his site. luckily almost all real internet discourse about the guts of electronic music are sheathed in many conflicting layers of indirect subcultural references. check hyperreal.org for details =)

I'm inclined to agree. Also considering the quality of info and relevance of associated audio samples. Also, meatsock? As in the dude from the c8 forums and slsk breakcore chat back in the day? Odd to catch you here. It's rob/robad/etc from sickmode etc :)

I came to say the same... I take Ishkur's attitude much like I would Yahtzee Croshaw of the escapist...

A lot of snide attitude done in character.

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