MakeTunes Musical Genres

I agree with Light 3000, great idea Matt and very useful too! This way I can directly get to the music I like and know about and submit feedback...
One more question, where do we find these categories?
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Yeah, got it Matt, I've started categorizing my tracks, but I'll do it in doses coz there are tons of tracks...
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Hey Mike - I was toying with that idea for a while, but in the end decided against it, opting instead to go for a smaller number of defined genres. I'd prefer to keep it manageable like that at this stage.

If there are genres that are missing and many people would like added, please feel free to make suggestions.

I'm a little undecided on some of them so far - such as the "Experiment" genre... that was essentially somewhere I thought the random bits and pieces of musical oddity could end up hehe.

I've already put two songs under 'Hiphop' :) Just to let you know ^.^
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ok I see your point....

Hey matt, great idea, I will sometime sort out my songs into category's. Can I Suggest, you make a category called Judged? were people can upload there songs, and maybe you can get a panel of say 3 judges, and put them in a best of sort of thing? Maketunes best tune of the month? respect to everyone on here. Matt you have a great site. lets all show some respect and make this site a better, if not the best. DJ Synchro...........

cool idea DJ Synchro but who will be the judges? they've got to like a variety of music and they've got to be kind in letting people down when thier songs arn't that good....lol....

cool matt some of my stuff would fit in that category but I've just put it under Ambient or Dark Ambient....the label I may be signed to will use my stuff for films too.....

that sounds good to me.....

Nice Idea Matt. This will save time a lot.

But I'll like to know which of the genre's do you think these two tracks would fall into. All thanks to your samples from the last two electro contests, I was able to develop a new genre which I'm eager to promote gradually called "Jazzipoptrofunk" where I try to pick key elements and instruments from the different genres encompassing all the genres that make up Jazzipoptrofunk (Jazz, Hip Hop, Electro and Funk).

Probably will fit in the experimental Genre for now till the whole world gets to recognize. lol.

http://www.maketunes.com/audio/funkbase-liquid-oxygen
http://www.maketunes.com/audio/funkbase-red-light-district

"FunkBase - Jack of all Trade,Master of Most"

Matt I also think these genres might need to be added too while still maintaining the list to a minimum: Gospel, Reggae, pop and possibly Jazz. Just a suggestion.

"FunkBase - Jack of all Trade,Master of Most"

Yup this is good feedback people. I'll take all this into consideration, and likely add several more genres.

In the meantime, don't feel you have to cram a track into an unsuitable genre, that would defeat the point. We'll get there :)

Funkbase - yes that's a tricky one, as many of us do like to create tunes which fuse all sorts of genres and styles together... not an easy one to figure out here.

Gospel... perhaps could be rephrased to include all religious-themed music? Any ideas? I'm sure there must be quite a few mainly Christian songs uploaded, so they could probably use their own genre.

RnB... should it have it's own genre, or be lumped in with hiphop?

Would* lol sorry

Yeah, Hip-Hop encompasses Rap, so its a more broad term, falling in line with Matt's idea of a minimal number of genres. Hip-Hop can be purely instrumental, or have lyrics. I listen to a lot of DJ work and instrumentalists such as RJD2, Nujabes, Krush, etc... Think about it... When you used to go to the record store, rap would be under hip-hop/rap/rnb, right? But.... RnB should not be lumped in with hip-hop on this site. I find that RnB may fall under the category of Hip-Hop sometimes, but its one of those genres that can border on Soul or Pop, so I believe it should have its own category.

Take two of these beats, and call me in the morning. Doctor's orders!

one I think you should add is House

Soz Revjoe and Matt.. I understand what you mean by people will feel let down. But i meant in a sense of Maketunes best for a playlist of a maketunes radio? Sorry I do appologise for my lack of explanation. It would be good to have a a radio on here. and the judges can pick say 30 songs. to be played. and they can make a there judgement live on the radio. And the one they feel they like best. will get a good amount of points added to there score? Im sorry I didnt expalin myself proper earlier, I was in rush to get out. And how about hard house - hard Trance and nu metal for more genres?

this is a awesome idea matt.. keeping it simple is the best way to go about i think.. Ill go back and recatogorize my tracks in a little while

Ok, so I'm thinking I need to add:

- R'n'B
- Chillout
- House
- and possibly some more traditional musical genres, I know there are quite a few piano/classical type songs... Jazz was also mentioned...?

Thoughts?

Synchro - Yeah I think for the time being I'll keep the sub-genres together (eg trance, hard trance, psytrance etc all under "Trance").

Guitar players and bands etc? What sorts of genres do you need? I have Rock and Acoustic so far... pop I guess could cover some others. Any thoughts?

Experimentla and electronic Experimental would encompase all the different type songs. Also a mature section, perhaps. My BEST recommendation would be to have a VOCAL section. All vocalized songs go there. All genres. That would sort a shit load of music. The artist would describe the flow/singing etc. Just my two cents worth. Alot of Funkbase's music would be funk or hiphop. R&B would be hiphop too, unless a VOCAL song. The vocal tracks in the vocal categories can install the genre entitlment ...kinda like a subgenre explaining it is a vocal/rock.... or whatever. My thoughts

Cool! The Chillout genre will do nicely for my "Concrete Dreams" track thanks Matt.
I think it's great that you added musical genres to the site, way to go Matt!!

Turk.

thanks matt for this set up it makes it soooo much easier to find music it's almost unbelievable......

Cool, happy to see the categories starting to fill up now... couple hundred songs sorted so far, about 7000 to go :)

If you have any doubt as to the genre, just put it in OTHER GENRE, and we can take a look at what's needed.

Ok, what are peoples thoughts on adding Rap as another Genre?

Hi everyone, Adam Purski here. Also use to be known as Element-A.

Rap and Hip-Hop are different, but just to let you know I do Rap and Hip-Hop at once. Now, what you should do Matt is that you can make TWO choosing colums. Do you know what I mean? Say like someone did R'n'B and Pop. They can basically put them two genres on the TWO colums you provided us with. Just giving you a little more support on what you can do with the 'genres'.
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"Another Genre" most places you go to when it says something like that they want you to still choose something, but that's cool it's an actual genre here at maketunes.com.....

Hmmm 2 category selection huh.... what are other peoples thoughts on that? I'll have to see if it's doable too of course, but might as well hear what people think about it.

it dont really matter if you add a rap catogory or not.. more our less what i was thinking.. i can still put rap in the audio info.. and keeping all the rap tracks all in the hiphop catagory would be more organized..
that idea purski had is pretty cool.. if we get a choice between two genres instead of one.. then I think the rap genre being added would matter a little more. but still aint important

Definitely add polka though.....lol

Keep the industrial genre in mind

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I think breakbeat would follow under House... correct me if im wrong

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theres so many genres (i looked at the ones listed on windows media player and myspace)

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so far I rule the Ambient category....lol...

Hey Matt, I was browsing through the genres and I noticed that there were absolutely no posts in the Ethnic category. In my opinion, the Ethnic genre should be excluded; it is an important genre indeed but I don't see anybody producing Ethnic tracks today... Is there and ethnic producers here?
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in the last period (especially for the guitar contest) some users uploaded metal or metal-oriented songs.
I think it's time to add this category!
I like all kinds of music, but when I discovered maketunes I didnt know if to register or not because I thought it was a site for hiphop or electronic music producers, and this is not true!
there are al lot of metal home producers out there, it's time to do something to motivate them to register, if you want this community to grow and to attract passionate people!

the guitar comp has been a great idea, now it's time to add metal to the list of the music genres!

keeping the number of categories to a minimum is important and I totally agree with you, but I must say that most musicans or producers I know started from or play metal! we're talking about one of the most popular genres in the web, the only one that has around one hundred subgeneres!

and, still talking about the list of categories, in my (humble) opinion you shouldn't think about the present (how many hip hop or ethnic or metal producers are here now) but of the future, because I see it this way:

example1:
I'm a Reggae home producer; I surf the web; I find maketunes; I see it's interesting and there's my category in the list; I register and become a member
example2:
I'm a metal producer; I surf the web; probably I will never find maketunes because there's no reference to this genre in it; and if I find it, my category isn't even in the list; I go away

and believe me, for one reggae producer there are at least 100 metal ones, that could bring some fresh air and new sounds and ideas to this site!

What Denis said!!. :)

Ok guys, thats a fair feedback. I'll add the Metal genre for you now :)

YAY! Good on ya matt :)

yeah thanx a lot matt!

THIS IS dubstep!!

http://www.maketunes.com/audio/screaming-zombie-vibdubstep

To explain, Dubstep is an off shoot of DnB. Its uses that same style bass, but has a more reggae styled drum beat. Its also a considerable amount slower than DnB. Sometimes confused with 2 step. 2 Step is more like So Solid Crew, like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRCBy8hrOIM Dubstep is like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juoRdXKO2go

Take two of these beats, and call me in the morning. Doctor's orders!

Sup peeps, Yo matt i like the way we can select the genres to listen to every tune in that genre made by all these excellent maketunes producers and artists, i do think you should add:
FUNK
BLUES
JAZZ
DUBSTEP (rare genre not many people are familiar with) i suppose it could be classed under D n B but when you listen DUBSTEP and D n B you can notice that they arent really that much the same.

also another genre came to mind TRIP-HOP (cypress hill for an example)

- Crazy Ace - **** 4 of a kind

Massive Attack and Portishead are genius's

-when God created the world, he was listening to drum and bass-

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Cypress Hill - Stash
Label: Columbia
Catalog#: 508925 2
Format: CD, EP

Country: Europe
Released: 2002
Genre: Hip Hop
Style: Gangsta, Trip Hop
Credits: Artwork By [Cover Illustration] - S.A. Studios (Mr. Cartoon, Eklips)
Mastered By - Joseph M. Palmachio
Producer - DJ Muggs (tracks: 2 to 4, 6)
Written-By - L. Muggerud* (tracks: 2 to 6) , L. Freese* (tracks: 2 to 6) , S. Reyes* (tracks: 2 to 4)

Just to back up the point i just made here's an example STYLE-GENRE pretty much the same thing
Notes: Mastered at Sony Studios, New York.
1 produced for Dogghouse Productions.
2, 3, 4, 6 produced for Soul Assassins.

- Crazy Ace - **** 4 of a kind

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Stash is an EP released by Cypress Hill in 2002 and includes various remixes of their songs.

1. Amplified - (Fredwreck remix) - 3:44
2. Illusions - (Harpsichord mix) - 3:32
3. Checkmate - (Hang 'Em High remix) - Featuring Tom Morello - 4:03
4. Latin Lingo - (Blackout mix) - 3:49
5. (Rap) Superstar - (Alchemist remix) - 4:51
6. Throw Your Set In The Air - (Slow Roll remix) - 3:23
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it has nothing to do with their style, it's a remix album, it's not part of their "tudio albums" discography.

if you take a couple of songs by U2 and make a drum n bass remix album out of them, you're not turning bono & co. into a drum n bass band.

DJ Muggs made a trip hop album, but as a solo project

by the way crazy ace! nothing personal, I'm just expressing my opinion, I dont want to offend anybody!
respect

What about a link in the Blue Bar at the top of the page for Musical Genres? I know there is a link in the notice board bit but I think it would be noticed more at the very top in that bold font with the wee triangle. It's a cool feature and one I think people just browsing the site for the first time might be interested in - it might make them hang around for a while.

Mike S

still needs more genres. ALOT more.

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