I’m a fan of electronic music and many of its sub-genres, but it’s always been sort of hard trying to explain others the differences between each genre, its influences and origins, how they are associated and how they sound. Now imagine how can I show these sort of things to someone not familiarized with electronic music at all.

While I was surfing for something totally unrelated to it, I found a nice guide in Flash that explains it all, has music samples and maps of major genres showing its derivatives. This is the Ishkur’s Guide To Electronic Music. It even has an introduction tutorial explaining many of the basics.

It may not be perfect, but the sole fact that it “illustrates” you is enough for me. If you want to know even more about an specific sub-genre, Wikipedia is your friend.