People like to categorise, it's part of our pattern seeking brains. And, with the modern access to instruments in general and electronic music in particular there is an astounding variety of music out there to be categorised. But are there really 6000 music genres? Looking at you Spotify. Also, trying coding that! Speaking of coding genres, there is an idea floating around to have sub genres, which could be interesting. And there's the ever present problem of one person's uplifting trance being anothers progressive house. I don't think they overlap, so pretty sure someone in the conversation was wrong. What about Chill out or say lofi chillstep? Metalcore or Hardcore Punk? Jazz Fusion or Progressive Rock? Folk Punk or Americana or Alt-Country ? Why the Overlap? Cultural and Regional Influences: The naming of a genre can depend on local scenes and traditions. For example, a beat in one region might be labeled as “garage” while another might call it “breaks” based on regional club culture. Evolving Production Techniques: As technology evolves, so do production techniques. Artists experiment with new sounds that don’t always fit neatly into one genre, leading to hybrid styles that defy strict categorization. Subjective Listening Experiences: Listeners and critics bring their own experiences and biases to the table. What one person hears as an ambient chillout track might be experienced by another as a relaxed version of chillstep, making the genre labels a personal choice as much as a technical one. Doubtlessly sparking a debate, these are the genres we are starting with: Baroque Classical Contemporary Classical Opera Choral A Cappella Film & Video Game Scores Traditional Jazz (Swing, Dixieland, Bebop) Free & Avant-Garde Jazz Fusion Jazz Smooth/Contemporary Jazz Blues (Delta, Chicago, Texas, British Blues) Electric Blues Soul R&B Gospel Rock Classic Rock Hard Rock Progressive Rock Psychedelic Rock Punk Post-Punk Hardcore Punk Alternative Rock Indie Rock Grunge Emo Shoegaze Glam Rock Heavy Metal Classic Metal Thrash Metal Death Metal Black Metal Gothic Progressive Metal Metalcore/Deathcore Industrial Nu Metal Synthwave/Retrowave Glitch Chillout/Ambient/Downtempo Eurodance Turntablism/Scratching Dubstep Afro House Amapiano Breakbeat Club/Dance Deep House Drum n Bass Electro Electronica Funky House Hard House Detroit Techno House Indie Dance Melodic House & Techno Minimal Progressive House Psy-Trance Tech House Techno Trance UK Funky Acid House Balearic/Euphoric French House Garage Happy Hardcore Hard Trance Hardcore Hardstyle Italian House Oldskool Hardcore Speed Garage Tribal House African Tradtional European Tradional North American Traditional South American Traditional South Asian Middle Eastern East Asian Oceanic/Aboriginal Honky-Tonk Outlaw Country Folk Rock Cowboy Music Cajun/Zydeco/Creole Reggae Dancehall Ska Funk Disco Chiptune/8-bit Music Novelty/Parody Music New Age/Healing Music Spoken Word Holiday Music Probably will get called out by a few people into niche parts of dance music (I'm well aware of the flavours? Of psytrance and harddance (starting to seem like just add core to a word and it's a sub-genre) for example), Jazz and Metal, and look forwards to hearing from experts. All part of our musical edumacation. So for the discussion: What are your favourite genres? Based on our current options What's your favourite genre that's not even vaguely mentioned? Are there any genres with too much over lap from that initial listing?

After what seems like a lifetime of coding the new site is up. Upgraded and expanded. Starting from a clean slate, although will pull some old data where necessary, you're welcome to add. What's new? A looooot! I'll list some highlights, and go into depth in an edit of this article once I've made a few more tweaks to what makes me twitch. Firstly everything has been brought onto the latest technology, it's fast and secure. The entire site is now on a custom wiki system for adding, but this is backed up by elegant reporting of digital vandalism and locking records that are as complete as possible (with descriptions still to voting for the best one). Multiple genres for venues,events,artists that blur/cross boundaries, searchable of course. Integrated maps, allowing searches on genres within an area. Granular detail on group members for the superfans. Lyrics and links to songs. Country and City detail and pages Detailed ratings of most record types Becoming a fan Custom recursive (nested) comments A shiny new forum (this is all said with the wild assumption that you'll know what was here before, but that can be discussed later) There is already some great info that can be kept and shared across the entertainment forms. What else is still instore? Even more, (see that v0.45 is where we are right now). Have a look at the FAQ, there'll be a lot of questions answered there, and links to where you can make your (valued) input. For now it should be friends, family (framily) and friends of friends. Let's try stand by the slogan: We are Underground. Of course nature of the internet you may have stumbled upon us and then hopefully we will be friends in the end, you're still more than welcome.