I Love Music | Rough Guides (recommendations as compiled by various ILM posters)

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GENRES, STYLES & TRENDS

Dance Music

Dance meets Rock

Electronica

Grime (UK hip-hop/garage/electronica variant)

Heathen

Hip-Hop

Jazz

Pop (mainstream/MOR/contemporary)

Pre-rock n' roll

Rock

Caribbean

Soul (modern)

Soul (classic)

ARTISTS, ARTIST RELATED & PRODUCERS

LABELS & STUDIOS

OTHER

Where were you? Music from specific points/scenes in time

Location-based

From the USA & Canada

From the UK & Ireland

From parts of Europe

From Australasia

From Japan

From elsewhere in the world

Now you know... (sampled/borrowed/plunderphonics)

In their humble opinion...

Trivial and/or tenuous connections

Specific sounds, sonic elements and techniques

Stereotypes / More a way of life than a genre...

Hooked on a feeling: Attitudes, approaches and moods

Themes (literal)

Soundtracks for/from and general object-fixated

Circumstantial (other than time or location based)

Personalised/Relating to the author

Miscellaneous (Influences/theories/general nostalgia/critique/technical