Can someone help me break down subgenres of Dance?

[allow that]

Okay, I've noticed that usually all the Dance songs I like are similar in style... and the ones I don't like are similar in style. But I'm no expert so I don't even know where the sub-genre lines split everything up. Jared, or someone else, can you help me out here?

These are 4 kinds of Dance music I noticed:

Type 1 Examples: I like all these songs
Lasgo "Alone"
Dj Encore "I See Right Through To You"
Lucas Prata "Let's Get It On"
Aquagen "Hard To Say I'm Sorry"
Dance Nation "Sunshine"
Ian Van Dahl "Will I"
BT "Somnabulist"
(all these songs sound kind of "guido" to me LOL)

Type 2 Examples: I like all these songs but not all songs in this "style"
Stardust "Music Sounds Better With You"
Deepest Blue - "Deepest Blue"
Modjo - "Lady"

Type 3 Examples: Don't like these, but better than Type 4
Widelife: "I Don't Want You"
Amuka "Appreciate Me"
Andrea Brown "Trippin'"

Type 4 Examples: HATE these
Madison Avenue "Don't Call Me Baby"
Junior Senior "Move Your Feet"
Bucketheads "These Sounds Fall Into My Mind"
Milky "Just the Way You Are"

I'm leaving out Trance, like Dirty Vegas.
Also I'm leaving out Pop-dance like "No One's Gonna Change You" by Reina.

The reason I'm so curious is because if people ask me if I like Dance music, and I reply "some kinds of it" I don't know how to describe the kind I like LOL.

[Deleted]

I call one trance-ish house. I say that about three too.

Two, I definitely call house... as well as four.. though I call four nu-disco.

LOL So obviously I have no clue.

[allow that]

The said:

I call one trance-ish house. I say that about three too.

Two, I definitely call house... as well as four.. though I call four nu-disco.

LOL So obviously I have no clue.

LOl to me 1 sounds nothing like the rest but obviosuly as the topic creater I also have no clue.

I HATE disco so that could be why I hate 4.

[lsutigerfan]

It's hard to classify these songs, but I'll try my best...

Type 1 - with the exception of "Somnambulist", I'd classify this as eurotrance. Trance melodies fused with the catchiness (is that a word?) of 90's eurodance. Somanmbulist, at least to me, sounds a little more trance/breakbeat.

Type 2 - hmm...definitely fits into house, just not sure what type. I've heard some of these songs classified as club-house.

Type 3 - Vocal house.

Type 4 - I have no clue. Milky seems to fit into club-house. The others could be considered disco-house, but I'm not sure The many styles of dance are so fused together that sometimes it's impossible to give them a label.

[Sean]

It's hard to classify them all.

I'd call type 1 commerical trance.

There's a whole lot of other types of trance out there, less commercial stuff which I just call trance and then there's ambient trance like Chicane and ATB (although ATB does a bunch of different styles, some of it is ambient). Stuff like Lasgo and Ian Van Dahl definitely has trance elements but I don't think of it as true trance. I think it's all open to interpretation though. There's also what I call 'eeuuuhhh trance'! Something that has a decent tune and some hard parts with some long soft trancey types that make you feel all eeuuggg inside your head, kinda euphoric! Which reminds me... if you like trance, go download "Embrace" by Agnelli & Nelson, one of the best trance tunes ever IMO.

I see your type 2 and 4 in the same way... funky house. Or as I'd say to my friends 'downstairs ARQ music' LOL... as the club we normally go to has 2 floors and downstaris plays that sort of stuff and upstairs is trance and hard house.

Your type 3 I'm not sure about, I only know 1 of those songs which is Andrea Brown and I'd call that annoying/horrific dance LOL

There's also hard house music which I can't think of any examples right now as it's not my fave but I listen to it sometimes when I'm out.

Then there's the 'diva anthems' style house or 'hands in the air' house which is all the Whitney Houston, Deborah Cox, Reina style music. Normally a pop song remixed.

There's also Euro-cheese dance like Scooter... and HI NRG which is awful.

[Leafstorm]

I gotta say that this is a good topic because I always have difficulty classifying dance songs. Maybe people should define each genre first before classifying the songs... So basically, what's the difference among these genres: House, Trance, Tribal, Jungle, Techno, Clue, Clue-House, Euro-Techno, Euro-House, Fusion and Electronic?

[Devil Marlena Nylund]

Someone provide examples of each of the genres. Song examples and maybe explain how they sound! ;)

House
Trance
Tribal
Jungle
Techno
Club
Club-House
Euro-Techno
Euro-House
Fusion
Electronic

(I borrowed leafstorm's lisT! lol!)

[osbumlets]

I've found this page very helpful in helping clarify the differences in all music genres, dance included:

www.audiogalaxy.com/list/glossary.php?

It was even more helpful back when all artists were listed, not just the ones that are now featured on there. Look under the electronica category and click any of the subgenres that interest you. It gives a description, lists artists & songs that fall under that genre, and also where genres overlap.

For example, under "house"
House music grew out of Disco. It is easily identifiable by its insistent, pulsing four/four beat, on top of which all sorts of music and sounds are added, all with one purpose in mind: to make you dance. House has managed to go mainstream from time to time (with artists like Madonna and Soul II Soul) while still maintaining a core, underground audience of DJs and fans.