This list is taken from Wikipedia, meaning it can be right or wrong.


* Ambient
o Ambient dub
o Ambient Goa
o Chillout
o Dark ambient
o Dronology
o Illbient
o Lowercase
o Psybient
o Sub Dub


* Breakbeat/Breaks
o Baltimore breaks
o Big beat
o Breakcore
o Broken beat
o Cut & paste
o Florida breaks
o Grime
o Hardcore Breaks
o Nu skool breaks
o Progressive breaks
o Raggacore


* Downtempo/IDM
o Acid jazz
o Balearic Beat
o Bitpop
o Chiptune
o Minimal Electronica/Glitch
o Nu jazz
o Trip Hop (aka The Bristol Sound)
o Turntablism


* Electro
o Electro bass
o Electroclash
o Electropop
o Italo disco
o Euro disco
o Eurodance
o Miami bass
o Synthpop


* Hardcore
o 4-beat
o Bouncy techno
o Breakbeat hardcore
o Digital hardcore
o Gabber
o Happy hardcore
o Hardcore Breaks
o New beat
o Nu style gabber
o Speedcore
o Terrorcore


* House
o 2Step
o Acid house
o Chicago house
o Deep house
o Dream house
o Euro-house
o French house
o Freestyle house
o Funky house
o Garage
o Ghetto house
o Hard house
o Hi-NRG
o Hip house
o Tribal
o Italodance/house
o Minimal house/Microhouse
o Pumpin' house
o Progressive house
o Tribal house
o Spacesynth
o Tech house


* Industrial
o Aggrotech
o Electronic body music
o Futurepop
o Industrial techno
o Noise music
o Power noise


* Jungle/Drum & Bass
o Clownstep
o Darkcore
o Darkstep
o Drill n bass
o Drumfunk
o Hardstep
o Jump-Up
o Liquid funk
o Neurofunk
o Ragga
o Techstep
o Trance and bass


* Techno
o Acid techno
o Detroit techno/U.S. techno
o Electroclash
o Freetekno
o Ghettotech
o Minimal techno/Glitch techno
o Nortec
o Rave music
o Schranz
o U.K. techno/Euro techno
o Yorkshire Bleeps and Bass


* Trance
o Acid trance
o Dark trance
o Goa trance
o Nu-NRG
o Hard trance
o Hardcore trance
o Minimalist Psy trance
o Progressive trance
o Psychedelic trance
o Vocal trance
o Uplifting trance
o Hardstyle
o Euro-Trance
o Classic trance

Have you seen allmusicguide list? I trust them more

http://allmusic.com/cg/am...l=73:11605

jesus....who cares? how much more can we divide music?

if someone said to me that the Red Stripes rock was different from Alice In Chains rock, i'd say who cares! it's rock.

I suppose Prince funk is different from Parliament funk.
[Edited 3/18/07 12:49pm]

There are WAY more sounds going on outside of those Industry definitions. The shady ass record business just hasn't found a way to make a proper dollar off of 'em.

Personally, I would say those industry marketing words haven't been updated since sometime in the 1990s.

What Mara said.

TonyVanDam said:

Perhaps just missing Electro-Industrial, Coldwave, Martial Industrial, Dark/Ambient Industrial and Technoid.
[Edited 3/18/07 19:55pm]

spacedolphin said:

"Aggrotech" is not a genre of music, "Future Pop" is just part of "Electronic Body Music" and there is no such thing as "Industrial techno". It's lacking all the proper industrial subgenres and substituting them with techno and rock genres. Nice going.

Power Electronics
Death Industrial
Dark Ambient
Martial
Neofolk
Noise
Rhythmic Noise (and derivatives)

Electro Industrial is a another substitute term for EBM. Coldwave is just gothic rock music and Technoid is a genre definition nobody uses. It's mainly IDM anyway.

And this is where it really gets stupid.

To be honest, you could file "breakcore" under several of these maingroupings. But if you're coupling up "Acid Jazz" with "Glitch" and calling it all IDM whilst missing most of the IDM subgenres Wikipedia has done yet another world record of fucking up genre definitions for people.

I'm not even going to try to touch the d'n'b entry.

so what about blip hop?

lofimofo said:

to make your gitch hop

CinisterCee said:

So that you can Glitch Hop.

Or Dark Hop.

novabrkr said:

"Aggrotech" is a sub-genre. I agree Futurepop is basically EBM.

But Elektro-Ind is distinct from EBM. Harder and deeper sampling whereas EBM is a cleaner sound. Groups such as FLA, Leather Strip, VAC etc are hardly EBM.

Coldwave = gothic rock? It's more Industrial Metal. Wouldn't say Technoid is mainly IDM; probably leans more toward Rhythmic Noise.