Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music is an irreverant and humourous take at deciphering all the cryptic all-to-exclusively-fashionable micro sub-sub-genres used to describe much contemporary music. Ishkur definitely doesn't take himself too seriously and feels no compunction to cater to or assuage the feelings of any one group or demographic. Thankfully.

At times he's hilariously forthright ... like in the description of Hard Dance. In that sub genre you have NRG and Stupid, yep, Stupid registers as a canonical genre, but you knew that already right ??

He get's props from me though for a nice attempt at the “electronic pioneers” from Musique Concrete (Pierre Schaeffer et al), Minimialism (Terry Riley, Steve Reich, etc) and composers and thinkers like Edgar Varèse, Iannis Xenakis, Morton Subotnick and Karlheinz Stockhausen.

Okay enough chit-chat, I gotta go listen to some "embarrassing [..] banal melody-driven trance"!! hehehe :)