>>7323
>Oh, the chaos of musical genres.
It´s an absolute mess to label everything. This past week, I watched a video about the origins of IDM during the 90s and that person, despite his knowledge and passion towards the genre, he didn´t know what theory of saying what could be defined as IDM and where it exactly comes from, which theory from music journalists turns out to be actually valid in the end. He gave up at trying to be so precise trying to explain it because there was such a huge burst in electronic music in such a short amount of time that there was not enough time to digest everything that was going on during that effervescent period in Europe for electronic music.

So even experts, journalists and dedicated people tend to discuss and find a lot of obstacles trying to define a line. Even for many people when it comes to most known genres, people use indifferently the label hip-hop and rap. You bet that this task moves into a chaotic territory like...all the time, basically?

>Unless they themselves stick to some hyper-specificity, say the genre has a really specific goal or defining trait, otherwise I agree, at least for electronic
or a movement, yeah (for example: krautrock, vaporwave..). What I meant with that phrase is that the elitism of sticking with one genre alone...I don´t use the these labels in that way but more like as a description in order to resort to an universally agreed word so I can certainly give an idea/point of reference to the reader of what it sounds without listening to it.

>Maybe in the /mu/ world but I'd say it's pretty normal to stick with what ya know and not reach out too much once you've reached a critical mass of stuff to listen to with a defined taste.
well, there has always been that elitism of defining users as plebs, contrarians and patricians; normally those who would reach the most underground circles would qualify as patricians. The problem is that many albums that /mu/ discussed quite a bit at the time have become popular in other music sites/circles and said material has gained a broader audience over the years (becoming very well known among dedicated music fans). So, most obscure stuff comes from either Bandcamp, Soundcloud and/or artists who haven´t surpassed a certain barrier of popularity for truly underground music. That´s where exploring artists becomes like an investment for trying them out, that´s my sin. I simply stick with the already discussed and known stuff (on music sites such as Rateyourmusic) because I can tell if those records are worth checking out and then, explore more if I want. I wouldn´t get to know anything of what I listen to without the internet though.

In my defense, I will say that in 2020, I finally checked out more post-rock (Sigur Ros, Talk Talk), a couple of Daniel Johnston records and especially, entering into the world of ambient music (and I thought that it would be boring, I couldn´t be proven to be so wrong).

Don´t think that I was a fan of electronic music until 3 or 4 years ago though. Nowadays, despite not listening to it all that much as my main preference, I have turned around my views and respect it much more than I did in the past. I didn´t realize what that huge world could offer because I thought that it would be boiled down to dubstep and noisy stuff (grinding the ears) but when one grows up, you realize that said world holds a much more fascinating spirit than my first contact towards that world.

Anyway, let´s end a little bit my blogposting here (even though I could continue if you wanted)