Electronic music history is difficult to read as text. Fifty years of genre splits, cross-pollinations, and regional mutations do not compress well into paragraphs. These tools are the alternative: interactive visualizations that let you trace how the music actually moved, which scenes influenced which, and where the lines between genres are genuinely blurry.
Two tools are live. More are in progress.
Dance Music Tree
56 genre nodes tracing 50 years of electronic music history, from Detroit techno and Chicago house through to the Seoul underground and beyond. Each node connects to the scenes, movements, and cities that produced it. The full lineage, mapped.
UK Electronic Tree
A dedicated map of British electronic music from the late 1980s to the present: acid house, rave, jungle, drum and bass, UK garage, grime, dubstep, UK bass and the lines connecting them. The UK invented more genre names than anywhere else. Here is where they all came from.