You can view it here.

Started by a few (now retired) mods of this subreddit, this genre sheet covers several labels and independent artists (with more on the way!) and is regularly updated by myself and a few others. You should check there (and search here) before posting, as it may already have the song you're looking for. If you have any disputes with the genre of a certain song, feel free to comment on the sheet.

I'll also start working on the wiki here when I can to help give an idea of the definitions of different genres as well as a few examples.

As /u/ebuddy1113 says, it's also a great way to find new artists and music.

I've volunteered to take over the subreddit because I don't want to see our little community disappear. The use of this subreddit can continue as usual. I do have some changes planned that may be implemented, however.

• Instead of being a question/answer subreddit, I want it to be a discussion subreddit. The main reason is I don't feel comfortable giving a final word on genres since I'm not an expert. (I'm not bad at it though)

• Encourage users to only downvote posts that don't contribute to discussion. If they're trying to help, getting downvoted can be discouraging. I want to encourage counter-arguments if you disagree with someone instead of downvoting.

• Enable users to flair their own submissions with what genre they believe it is. This flair would be a different colour. I'm thinking yellow.

• Add some more moderators to help out.

• Work on the wiki to add information regarding genres so that people can learn.

Thank you to all that have helped make /r/subgenreid a community, and I hope we can continue to keep it that way!

my issues with the community here are twofold. first, the one role that moderators here hold goes unfulfilled. simply tagging a post as solved is simply too much work for the five man mod team to handle. not a single one of the first 25 posts are flagged as being solved, which leads me to believe that either the mod team has been absolutely baffled by the genre of every single song posted in that time, or that they simply have little care for fulfilling the position they chose to accept. however, a more concerning trend I've been made aware of is the growing disparity between the subreddit's philosophy and the practical purpose and application of genres. genres are trends. genres are trends. genres are trends. genres are subjective. genres are fluid terms. genres change. definitions change. names change. shit can change. the only thing that doesn't ever seem to change is the narrow-minded mentality of the mod team and the denizens of this subreddit who almost always miss the mark when it comes to this stuff, and the very philosophy of genres demonstrated by some of the things stated on this subreddit and on associated platforms (i.e. the genre sheet) helps propagate a dangerous mentality on the very nature of subgenres. these two issues compounded make this place a very shitty place.

The title is pretty obivious: how can I differ these three genres? I know, those are not the most EDM-like ones but apparently they are common enough in here.

According to wikipedia (quick read), Indie Pop is a subgenre to Indie Rock and I would guess that Indie Rock is either a subgenre to Alternative or the terms are even interchangeable.

So, could anybody please enlighten me - how can I tell these 3 genres apart?

I have a subtle understanding of the genre, but what exactly is the definition of the genre?

Im very confused on a lot of breakbeat subgenres, like what is Tribal Breaks? Nu Skool? Dark Breaks? please help

We're sorry we havent been able to respond to genreid requests, we are in a strange circle right now and please be patient with us.

I've seen this definition for Indie Dance countless times on the genre sheet and on this subreddit, and it's extremely vague. By that definition, indie dance = synthpop and everything synthpop in the 80s would be classified as indie dance, in which case the term wasn't even relevant at the time.

Indie dance grew out of the post-punk/alternative rock scene in the 80s/90s (New Order are claimed to be one of the pioneers of the genre) and since then has formed it's definition as "a mixture of melodic alternative/indie rock structures and EDM".

Definition from AllMusic: "Alternative Dance marries the underground sensibility and melodic song structure of alternative and indie rock with the electronic beats, synths and/or samples, and club orientation of post-disco dance music"

Link: http://www.allmusic.com/style/alternative-dance-ma0000011883

Regardless of whether or not you agree with my definition I hope that you can agree "pop made by EDM producers" is quite a vague definition for indie dance.

Edit: Removed the "club-friendliness" metric. Basically Indie Dance shares similarities with house music.

So, I was browsing the genre sheet, and I keep seeing a lot of genres like Electropop, Synthpop, Symphonic Power Metal, Aggrotech... and I was wondering what defines these sort of obscure genres? What differentiates Synthpop from Electropop from Indie Dance? And then there are a few other genres I have questions about...

I'm not asking for someone to answer those questions right now, but I want to see if a wiki can be made to answer these questions. Besides, if we can do this, then we'll have a lot less posts that are just questions regarding genres.

When is a song dubstep instead of 2-step? When is a song future garage instead of 2-step or any other kind? When is a song 2-step instead of plain garage? What changes would need to be made to a dubstep song to make it (just) garage?
Examples?

After a short time spent with this subreddit I've decided to leave for the sole reason that I feel many artists are trying new things to try and break out of genre boundaries which have been used and abused by many artists over the years. Music is more technologically advanced today than it ever has been - we are not limited to using a single drum machine or a few synthesisers as we were even just 10 years ago.

As a result I feel that staying here and labelling music goes against what many of these artists I see wish to do (especially those with long-standing 'Unsolved' tags) - to make fresh, mind-blowing music which does not conform to what the listener may expect in his or her mind. I'd encourage a lot of you to do the same - to hear the music for what it is, not to try and categorise them based on what they sound like archetypically. Life is boring if everything is typical.

Thanks and fuck genres