<story><title>Console.fm - New social music site</title><url>http://console.fm</url><text>based on charts of genres... but not telling where the charts come from. linked to @500startups</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>JonnieCache</author><text>Nice, but having such rigidly defined genres means you&apos;re going to miss out on the best of electronic music today, which is increasingly abandoning the genre classifications which have straightjacketed the music in the past.&lt;p&gt;For example, where on earth does this fit?&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://soundcloud.com/bleeky/r-s-d&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://soundcloud.com/bleeky/r-s-d&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;or this?&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://soundcloud.com/raffertie/ergo-we-are-human-1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://soundcloud.com/raffertie/ergo-we-are-human-1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sure, you can shoehorn them into house or techno, but that doesn&apos;t really do it justice. And having a &apos;misc&apos; genre like &apos;electronica&apos; is cheating. Electronica is a word invented and used by music journalists as a substitute for a proper understanding of the culture. And don&apos;t even think about including IDM or you will lose all credibility ;)&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, great work!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>markkat</author><text>I submitted this yesterday to no fanfare, but it might be useful/relevant: &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2746421&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2746421&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Console.fm - New social music site</title><url>http://console.fm</url><text>based on charts of genres... but not telling where the charts come from. linked to @500startups</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>JonnieCache</author><text>Nice, but having such rigidly defined genres means you&apos;re going to miss out on the best of electronic music today, which is increasingly abandoning the genre classifications which have straightjacketed the music in the past.&lt;p&gt;For example, where on earth does this fit?&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://soundcloud.com/bleeky/r-s-d&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://soundcloud.com/bleeky/r-s-d&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;or this?&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://soundcloud.com/raffertie/ergo-we-are-human-1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://soundcloud.com/raffertie/ergo-we-are-human-1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sure, you can shoehorn them into house or techno, but that doesn&apos;t really do it justice. And having a &apos;misc&apos; genre like &apos;electronica&apos; is cheating. Electronica is a word invented and used by music journalists as a substitute for a proper understanding of the culture. And don&apos;t even think about including IDM or you will lose all credibility ;)&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, great work!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>llambda</author><text>Off topic I know, but those are excellent tracks... Maybe somewhere else you could give further recommendations?</text></comment>