What the Genre!? vs Discogs styles: a genre for the track, not the whole release

Discogs tells you what a release is filed under. What the Genre!? tells you what one track on it sounds like, and lets you argue.

Release data on What the Genre!? comes from Discogs, credited on every page. This is not a replacement for Discogs; it answers a question Discogs does not.

Discogs has two levels: a short list of broad genres, such as Electronic, and more specific styles under them, such as Deep House or Acid. The lists are set by Discogs' moderators; in 2017 researchers counted 442 styles.[1][2]

Genres and styles belong to the release. A release can carry several of each, and every track on it shares them.[1] MusicBrainz, by comparison, lets genres sit on artists, releases and single tracks.[3]

A compilation of thirty tracks gets one set of styles for all thirty. A techno album with one ambient interlude can list Ambient, and that tag then covers every track on it. A DJ mix can list every style it passes through.

If you have one track and want to know its subgenre, the release tags give you a list to choose from, not an answer.

A subgenre for each track, with the path it sits on: Electronic, then house, then the subgenre rows people vote on.

Votes with reasons. Anyone can vote without an account, and a one-line reason goes into the discussion under the track.

The history of each subgenre. The genre map dates each one and cites its sources: start with deep house, acid house or dub techno.

Cataloguing your collection, buying a pressing, checking a catalogue number: Discogs.

One track, one question, "what is this?": search for it on What the Genre!?.