Why are there sp many genres?

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Cheers. I actually linked the wrong article - I meant to link this one
[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principles_of_grouping"]Principles of grouping - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

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And what about the poor guy stuggling to get 100 plays on his soundcloud ?
As weird as it might seem, there ARE some people not doing music for the money.

True. Completely irrelevant to the point at hand, but still true.

The thing is that if your guy decides to call his tunes "insert-micro-genre-that's-blowing-up-right-now" in order to get more plays - then that's marketing.

[DJ ATX]

Narrowmindedness ?
People are trying to make it through, and that's not by doing the exact same thing as another guy that they will succeed.
Creativity is what it's all about, and if it is as easy as changing bpm or just one little thing, why don't we see you schedueled on every club, rocking 1 billion people each night ?
Ideas, and being the first that has them, that's what's important.

Do you really love music or that's just a way to earn money like another to you ? Reading your post, i'm really wondering.

Really!?!?!
[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moombahton"]Moombahton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

Moombahton is a sub-genre of electronic dance music that was created by American DJ and producer Dave Nada[2] (aka Dave Villegas) at a high school homecoming "skipping party" for his younger cousin in Washington, D.C., in the fall of 2009.[3] The specific event that stimulated Nada's development of the Moombahton genre was his slowing the Afrojack remix of the Silvio Ecomo & DJ Chuckie song "Moombah" to 108 beats per minute, a tempo near that of the reggaeton. The name of the sub-genre itself comes from the portmanteau of "moombah" and "reggaeton."

Let's also take the various house sub genres, with producer adding either a down tempo or up tempo or certain basslines calling it prog house, chicago house, etc.

It's all in the name of the mighty dollar pal.

Sure there is the creativity aspect of it, but the only reason a sub genre is created or even how people catch on to it is cause one "artist" was pretty good at marketing it. After people catch on, other producer/artist copy it and the genre is born.

A genre is only born due to the fact that it catches on, makes money and other artist/producers jump on it. Otherwise its just called a REMIX

It's all about what can be marketed. In that light, I could always use getting booked at another club for more money. If you can make that happen, I would be very appreciative.

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But some people are experimenting variation in the "usual" stuff we hear because it sounds good to them. Ok that can be assimilated to marketing at the end, but it's (for some people) not the first purpose of the variation.

And, so that it's clear, i'm defending sub-genres, but with it's limitations. I refuse that we call all EDM "techno music" (i'm exagerating), and I think sub genres help people regroup themselves over the same tastes, and it creates benchmarks (not sure if it's the appropriate word) for the artists/audience.
But exagerating over the sub genre creation, i agree with previous posts, is ridiculous. For example adding a small amount of delay on the snares of the electro track i did today won't make it "december electro".
Nothings black or white, it's all about grey dudes

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Because then this guy can make his awesome guide:

http://techno.org/electronic-music-guide/