# Help me out with modern music genres

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-out-with-modern-music-genres/464907>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 23, 2008, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-out-with-modern-music-genres/464907 "2008-09-23T23:46:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2008, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-out-with-modern-music-genres/464907/1 "2008-09-23T23:46:28Z")

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Can someone point me to some definitive examples of some of the splintered-off modern music genres? I’m sure I’ve heard them all and enjoy many of them, but damned if I know what should be called what. I’m talking things like house, deep house, acid house, techno, jungle, breakbeat, and that sort of thing. Thanks in advance!

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**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2008, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-out-with-modern-music-genres/464907/2 "2008-09-23T23:51:28Z")

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Take a look at [Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music](http://techno.org/electronic-music-guide/).

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**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-out-with-modern-music-genres/464907/3 "2008-09-24T00:30:06Z")

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That’s freakin perfect. Family tree, samples, and everything.

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**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-out-with-modern-music-genres/464907/4 "2008-09-24T04:18:05Z")

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What? No love for [heavy](http://downlode.org/Creative/Metal_Family_Tree/metal_family_tree.txt) [metal?](http://downlode.org/Creative/Metal_Family_Tree/rolling_stone_metal_tree.jpg) I am shocked and saddened. ☹

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**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2008, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-out-with-modern-music-genres/464907/5 "2008-09-25T08:06:31Z")

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Any love for punk?

CMC +fnord!