Dubstep, Deep House, Trance, Drums and Bass…
How the heck to I learn about all these different types? I’m out there just listening to stuff, but I don’t really know what the differences are. Is there a good resource for this stuff?
‘dis be da’ answer to all ya’ questions:
http://techno.org/electronic-music-guide/
Nah but check it out. Really.
Go to Beatport or Juno download and check out the charts
Music genres can be hard to figure out. There’s nuances that you’ll pick up on over time.
Of course there’s any easy way to tell with some of them.
Drum and Bass = 174 bpm usually
Dubstep = 140 bpm usually
House = Anywhere from 123-130 depending on the variation
then there are subgenres. House has a million of them.
Here ya go - all of the genres covered in my recent mixes (except trance)
Another 3 hour set covering all sorts of stuff from Deep House thru SomethingStep, Breaks and even a little hip hop…
Enjoy 
1 Here Come The Beats Fred Everything & JT Donaldson
2 Stay (Feat Tim Fuller - Dozas LCG West Dub) Fred Everything
3 Simply Yes (Feat Alexander East - Fred Everything Remix) Shur-I-Kan
4 Good Life (Katy B & Geeneus Remake) Inner City
5 Dance Tonight (HowsePhreak Spend Yo’ Money Remix) Lucy Pearl
6 Garden - Original Mix Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs
7 Time Stamp Roska
8 Grapevine PUNK ROLLA
9 Ghost Train (Lee Mortimer Remix) Dave Spoon & DJ Zinc
10 Been A Long Time 2 Bit Thugs
11 Jumpin’ Matt Cox
12 Restless (Fake Blood Mix) Unkle
13 No You Girls (Rogue Element Remix) Franz Ferdinand
14 Kickstarts (Afrojack Remix) Example
15 Clap Your Hands (Diplo Remix) Sia
16 Devils Eyes (Michael Meds Remix) Drop the Lime
17 Dope Fiend (Tommie Sunshine & Udachi Remix) Audio Bullys
18 Superman (Streetlife DJs Rmx) Lee Mortimer & Foamo
19 Dare Rico Tubbs
20 Drop Hits (DJ Dan’s Unreleased Mix) DJ Dan & Hatiras
21 Universal Mind Control (Booty Breaks Mix) Defkline & Hammerstix Ft Common Potato Head
22 Clap Your Hands (Diplo Remix) Sia
23 Take It Slow - Seiji Remix Boozoo Bajou
24 Riot Music - The Nextmen Remix Donaeo
25 B Line Fi Blow Smith & Mighty
26 Chi Kaa Chi Koo Gella
27 Kind of familiar Sinden & Sbtrkt
28 One Bright Night (Scuba’s Broken Window Dub) Way Out West
29 Soundboy Shift SBTRKT
30 The-Dead-Weather-Cut-Like-A-Buffalo-Skreamix
31 Show-Me-Love Robert S 
32 Counterpoint (Doorly remix) Delphic
33 Joy Orbison - Hyph Mngo (Original Mix) Joy Orbison
34 Flat Beat (Tone-E Remix) Mr Oizo
35 Remember Dre (Dubstep Mix) DJ Defkline & Red Polo
36 Music Sounds Better with You (L-Vis 1990 Hyper Bass Remix) Stardust
37 Bang (Stanton Warriors Remix) Rye Rye feat M.I.A.
38 Ayo DJ D Kline & Red Polo
39 Apple Bottom - Original Mix Deekline, Sporty-O, Dustin Hulton
40 Real Smooth (Krafty Kuts Remix) Tomcraft & Tim Healey featuring DJ Assault
41 VOOM There It Is Funkanomics
42 I Got 5ive On It Funkanomics
43 Jungle Booty 7A - Stiybuds + The Kool Gang
44 All You Need Is Love Steve Velocity Bootleg
45 Strawberry Jam Forever! A. Skillz
46 Hot Dog A.Skillz
47 Pjanoo (Mooqee Edit) Eric Prydz
48 checkdacheckcapella
https://soundcloud.com/afrowhitie/in3somniac-session2
https://soundcloud.com/afrowhitie/in3somniac-session3
And
(breaks, electro, booty bass, 2step, Dnb, house, dubstep, blah blah blah:[/size][/b]
Continuum Transfunctioner - 3 Hour set
https://soundcloud.com/afrowhitie/afrowhitie-continuum-transfunctioner-part-1
https://soundcloud.com/afrowhitie/afrowhitie-continuum-transfunctioner-part-2
1 War HeavyFeet ft. Jenna G
2 I Might Be (MJ Cole Remix) Todd Edwards
3 Spirit Of The Sun (Steve Gurley Remix) Lenny Fontana
4 Chi Kaa Chi Koo Gella
5 6 Million Ways To Die- Event Mix
6 Out Of My Head - Tuff N Jam Remix Marradonna
7 Neighbourhood - Steve Gurley Vocal Mix Zed Bias
8 Woo Boost (Subskrpt Remix) Rusko
9 Bring It Back (Bounty Killer VIP Mix) 321 Vs Tim Healey & Deekline
10 Killa sound zinc ft no.lay
11 Set Me Free (Harvard Bass Remix) Drop The Lime
12 Good Vibrations Stanton Warriors
13 Superman Lee Mortimer / Foamo
14 Disco Infiltrator (Stanton Warriors Remix) LCD Soundsystem
15 Fader (Adam Freeland Mix) The Temper Trap
16 Rocker Alter Ego
17 We Are Your Friends Justice/Simian
18 Silver Screen Shower Scene Felix da Housecat
19 Hey boy hey girl RMX Doc Trashz
20 I’m a Disco Dancer Christopher Just
21 Sugar Is Sweeter Twocker vs Krafty Kuts Mix -CJ Bolland
22 I’m Not Your Toy (Jack Beats Remix) La Roux
23 This Is Sick Solid Groove
24 The Dogs - Original Mix Bassbin Twins
25 The Lock (Original Mix) Bassbin Twins
26 HipHop (VIP DUB) MPI vs Dead Prez
27 Yo Yo Get Funky Crissy Criss Remix Fast Eddie
28 Doin Time (Zeds Dead Summer Grime Remix) Sublime
29 Starry Eyed Jakwob Vs Ellie Goulding
30 Starry Eyed (PYRAMID Refix) Ellie Goulding
31 Has It Come To This (High Cont The Streets
32 Riot Music (Skream Remix) Donaeo
33 The Big Rinse (Original Mix) Macca
34 BAD BWOY - DOM ALMOND
35 Smack My Bitch Up Prodigy Twocker vs Krafty Kuts Mix
36 Renegade Cut & Run
37 Walking On A Dream Punk Rolla Vs Krafty Kuts V2 (master) Empire Of The Sun
38 Dynamite Love feat. Dynamite M Freestylers, Krafty Kuts
39 It S the Weekend Feat. Fast Eddie (Breaks Vocal Version) Andrew Friendly
40 Drop the Lime - Devil_s Eyes (Foamo Remix)
41 trickmeonce
42 Bruk Out (Foamo Remix) Major Lazer
43 Skin Out Hostage
44 Yo feat. Kristina Maria - Original Mix Bassnectar
45 Travellin’ (Elite Force Remix) [2008 re-mash] Black Twang
46 Beat Myself Up (Plump Djs Night Mix) Plump DJs
I hear that is complete crap and unreliable
Gianmarco
For Drum & Bass and a little bit of Dubstep, it’s worthwhile subscribing to the Drum & Bass Arena newsletter (breakbeat.co.uk), they even have the occasional free track
I’ve never seen that.
nah, it’s pretty ok, has loads of music examples (which is big plus). Truth is that author is biased against certain styles (see, disco or hip hop genres). but the really bad thing is, that it isn’t actual anymore. like no dubstep there and such. It fits EDM progress until like 2002 i guess..
Keep the info coming, you guys are constantly a big help, thank you.
I can help out with the dnb
pretty much anything written at around 165-170 with a break beat AND constant forward motion, it can be justified as drum n bass, although if it has heavy use of the amen break (wikipedia the amen break as it is probably the most important musical innovation of the last century next to jazz music), it can usually be considered jungle.
The main current subgenres of drum n bass are Jump-up, Neurofunk, Tech-Step, Minimal, Liquid, Drumfunk, and Drumstep. Most tracks will fit into one or more of these subgenres based on their charactaristics.
Jump-up’s main charactaristic is it’s main break or drumline. This is called the Step Break.
Neurofunk’s main charactaristic is it’s funky basslines and intricate use of synthesizers. Traditionally, a neurofunk track will have many variants of the main groove but will have little to no variants on the drum pattern. Neurofunk is arguably the most difficult genre to produce and mix. Most Neurofunk tracks have dark over and undertones
Tech step shares tones and instruments found in Techno, thus the name. Usually dark in nature and usually a sci-fi feel to the track. Neurofunk evolved from this subgenre
Minimal, like minimal house, is designed to sound, well, minimal. Blue Motion’s - Wall of Silence is a good example.
Liquid - Deep rolling basslines, cleaner sounds, and generally a brighter tone than most dnb. What can be called feelgood or intelligent drum n bass. Mixing this is about setting and maintaining a vibe rather than rocking a dance floor, in general. There are some banging Liquidfunk tracks, but not very many. Although this is primarily a lighter sound, there is also dark liquid. a good example of dark liquid is S.P.Y. out of Sao Paolo, Brazil. his tracks are generally dark but still maintain a liquid vibe.
Drumfunk is a subgenre of liquid that has heavily sequenced drums; usually on the backbeat.
IF the track is written dnb tempo AND is written with a two step groove, it is what is called Drumstep or halfstep as it is known in some parts of the world. at first, it can easily be confused with dubstep.
hope this helps
This is a really cool site with lots of information, thanx.
That is true. The author has an obvious, huge bias.
But I still think it’s kinda cool. The concept behind it and the way it’s set up is pretty cool, even if it’s not completely up to date.
It’s an entertaining read and gives at least some direction.
you know this was originally created as a complete joke, right? incredibly unreliable.
So what you’re saying is that, even if it’s not to be taken seriously, none of the information is true?
You do know that there is some legitimate information in there, right? No it’s not a “definitive source,” but then again, what is?
This subject would make a good thesis.
if it goes boom - boom - boom - boom it’s house
if it goes boom - boom - boom - boom it’s trance
if it goes boom - boom - boom - boom it’s hard house
if it goes boom - boom - boom - boom it’s hardcore
if it goes boom - boom - boom - boomboom it’s speed garage
if it goes b-boom - boom - boom -b-b-b-boom it’s breaks, or faster it’s drum and bass
if it sounds shit it’s lady gaga
you don’t need any of this info. Anybody asks what style of music you play you say “I play both kinds – drum AND bass.”
Reminds me of that scene in “This Is Spinal Tap” when Michael St. Hubbins asks Viv, the keyboard player, if he can cover the bass parts on a certain song and he replies “Yeah, I got 2 hands”
As a bass player, I got this a lot.