I’ve always been interested in the possibilities of electronic music, but not interested enough to filter through all the lame, cheesy stuff out there. Now and then I stumble across a good starting point, like David Byrne’s blip-hop compilation (thanks, Justin!). Now the very cool J-Walk blog has led me to Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music, which has lots of audio clips and allows me to navigate straight to the arcane sub-sub-genres that I want to hear. Like “Noisecore”:

Noisecore is not music insomuch as it is anti-music. It is a recreation of the sounds in our modern technological society through an abrasive form. In this instance, then, what is commonly considered noise is not. . . . Noisecore as a genre is definitely not something we are looking for, and you are much better off simply disregarding it entirely and taking everything I just said as a huge collossal waste of time.

Or “Glitch”:

If the naysayers have been complaining a lot that electronic music just sounds like a cd skipping over and over again, you can now show them this genre as verifiable proof that YES–indeed, that is what the music is doing. clicks, cuts, scratchy, sped-up samples, and everything but the kitchen sink. This is sound collage music, put together with all the skill and ingenuity of a 5 year old finger painting. And Glitchcore rules for that stupid fact alone.

Looks like I have many, many more CDs to buy . . .