Classifying Music

[Turiel]

Right, I'm on a mission to split all my music into categories. I've got the list down below planned so far, and am looking for some comments or suggestions. The categories are based on the type of sets I'd play more than anything else, I realise I could break things down into 'progressive trance' or 'funky house' and such but it'd make searching for music too difficult with too many categories. Basically, I want to be able to say 'Ok, I'm going to play commercial r&b for the next half hour' and only have 1 directory to look in. You may be a bit confused by the seperation of oldies and party. Party are basically songs which are GUARANTEED to fill the floor, as opposed to other oldies which may or may not work.

Chart
- Pop (eg Kylie)
- Rock (eg Busted)
- Slow (eg Westlife)
R&B/HipHop
- Commercial (eg Justin)
- Noncommercial (eg Fatman Scoop)
House
- Commercial (eg Room 5, Starlight)
- Noncommercial (eg Layo & Bushwacka, Shakedown)
- Classics (eg. Sub Sub, Lil Louis)
Trance
- Schwerr (eg.Total Eclipse of the Heart)
- Normal (eg. Narcotic Thrust)
- Classics (eg. Atlantic Ocean)
Oldies
- 60s (eg. Beatles)
- 70s (eg. Chic - Le Freak)
- 80s (eg. Soft Cell - Tainted Love)
- 90s (eg. Scatman)
Party
- 60s (eg. Build Me Up Buttercup)
- 70s (eg. I Will Survive)
- 80s (eg. Locomotion)
- 90s (eg. S Club - Reach)

Would you do it differently? Did I overlook anything?

[KJ]

lol @ "Schwerr" as a genre

Apart from maybe merging House with Trance I think you have it pretty much covered

KJ

[LisaLavish]

house and trance are completely different!!!

[KJ]

True enough, Im just thinkin from a commercial DJ's standpoint when "dance" is only really split into 2 catagories - "commercial" and "underground"

My gigs might be a bit more mainstream so this is just my take on it. There's loads and loads of genres within "dance" but when Im jocking my main concern is keeping the floor full, so "underground" never really gets a look in ("dance" in general isnt that big anymore but I think we've covered RnB's overkill elsewhere ;))

Maybe a "warm up" category for early bar gigs Turiel?

KJ

[Turiel]

Actually, in the two gigs I've to play dance music at, I'm not allowed go anywhere trance. DJ Sammy etc is out of the question. Its all commercial and funky house. In fact, I don't have any gigs atm where I can play any sort of trance, commercial or not, so it makes sense to seperate them!

Warmup is a good category and no doubt I'll have a playlist for it but my warmup selection depends on the venues, so maybe not a file directory for it.

[LisaLavish]

Originally posted by Turiel
DJ Sammy etc is out of the question. Its all commercial


are u tryin 2 state that dj sammy is not commercial?!!!!

[Macers]

Scooter in the schweer section anywho

[Turiel]

You didnt read my sentence properly. I said commercial and funky house. House being the operative word. DJ Sammy is commercial trance.

[Elaine]

Hey turiel. I wouldnt classify busted as rock?

[DeargDoom]

I dunno - I just play tunes that punters like. Classification sucks.

[Turiel]

Elaine, in terms of playing a set, you'd have to put busted in with the likes of pink just like a pill, britney I love rock & roll, etc which are all pop but they're rock pop. You can't play kylie->busted->room5. It just isnt right :)

Dearg... its to aid me in finding tunes. Ok, so you're always going to KNOW what your main tunes are. The stuff you play every week. But everything in between, you pick by flicking through your CDs and pulling out whatever seems right. The reason I've started the whole thread is cause im trying the laptop DJing route, and thus can't flick through CDs, I have to search through directories. So having the music classified into set genres is much easier than having 10,000 songs in one directory!