Why Defining Your Genre Matters
In this day and age, we all want to be classified as unique: we all want to sound like nothing and nobody else, something that nobody has ever heard before. Unfortunately, that is proving to be increasingly more difficult. While we can easily place our music into a specific category, with Beatport recently releasing the Afro House and the Melodic and Leftfield House & Techno categories, there now exist more genres of electronic music than ever before.
Many may argue that music is music and shouldn’t be categorized or defined into one genre but then the same argument poses true to all electronic music being classified as EDM. Although EDM may stand for Electronic Dance Music, we all know that the acronym EDM no longer defines all Electronic Dance Music. If one was to walk into a record store and ask for EDM and then the clerk handed them an Acid House record, they would most likely not be satisfied with that selection.
