Electronic Genres/Sub-genres
So I am finally going to sit down and organize my library as finding tracks while im mixing is getting difficult. What genres and sub genres do you organize your electronic music into? Obviously the basics, house, dubstep, trance, dnb, trip hop… but what other sub genres help you narrow down your track types?
Any other organizing techniques would be appreciated!
Much love
I use trainspotter v2 and get all my tag info loaded from beatport so I pretty much use the beatport tags (house, electro house, deep house, techno, tech house, indie dance/nu disco, etc).
Their system isn’t perfect but 95% of the time it is good enough unless you need to tag crap like moombahcore
Just whipped this up the other day, back to basics, but may be of some guidence 
Wow thanks that is exactly the information i needed. Man I love you guys on this forum, I would have given up mixing along time ago if it wasnt for yall. Hopefully one day i will be of use to a noob like myself 
Can trainspotter be used to fine tune the tags in itunes?
I wouldn’t bother getting into all sub genres and stuff.
Good music is good music.
I just label them with what the sound like to me tbh … there is no way you can come up with a one size fits all set of rules, as everyone’s ears are different.
Thats what ive figured out. Im just going through track by track and tagging it in all kinds of ways it might help me remember later on. Really painstaking process but it will be worth it
just use tainspotter then you get the label, release #, key, cover art, etc, the problem with doing it manually is the pain in the ass and keeping things consistent
Does trainspotter change the tags in itunes too?
I’ve been more or less doing what zaniac’s post described for a while, minus the smart playlists. As for sub-genres though, I do use those in conjunction with regular playlists.
Firstly, I store my tracks in monthly folders inside of an EDM folder. IE - 1101 (2011, January), 1102 (2011, February), etc. This keeps them in order by year and month. From there, I have genre playlists. Sometimes I’ll have a song in several playlists. If it’s a tribal track that has latin flavor to it and it’s deep, it goes in all three of these lists. Then to keep it some what in order, the main “feel” of the track gets put in the comment area. If it mainly fits into a tribal genre, tribal is the first keyword. Then I keep going with that naming convention.
+1 sobi
Im slowly introducing something similar to my workflow. eg, words or key words in the comments after the key. such as female vocals, wonky, rolling, punchy just to name a few. Just words I can relate to & associate with the tracks. (this is the hardest area trying to keep it consistent but)