Time for Indo-Prog/Raga Rock subgenre to go?

*** spits lemon tea with honey over old valve monitor ***

Noooooo, no more work, I want my readhead and to be like you !!!!

Never too late - send that email right away, will you, and count me in (redheads can make ME great again...eventually)

dr wu23 wrote: Uh....this is off topic  but if we can't reach [email protected] happens if something happens to the board or it glitches or crashes or ...? Is that the end then...? ?

I always email Max when any of his sites crash, he's always pretty quick to fix those kind of things.

^That would indeed be one way to get rid of the Indo-raga category, but obviously not the preferred method 

^ That wasn't the only post I made;-)

Guldbamsen wrote: Just to be clear: I was being facetious with my earlier post. I don't want to see the Canterbury sub go because it is a good "sticker" for the music found underneath...just like the acts featured under Indo/Raga is tbh. Sure we could probably file most of those artists under prog folk, Kraut, psych or in the odd case avant, but my point was actually that if you look into the different subs a little closer, you'll fairly quickly be able to pick them apart. They're imperfect boxes put there to better locate the music we dig. That is all really. Hell every band found in Canterbury can either be moved to fusion, psych or avant. The Indo/Raga sub is only a soar thumb to an otherwise imperfect system. Album tagging has always been the way forth with perhaps fewer "big" subs like fx Psike, Zart, Symph and Modern. Underneath you'd get various stickers with all the small scenes and endemic sounds. Again there is no one on this board other than M@X who can do anything about it...and we can't reach him, so there you go. Great ideas often crave keys to the cockpit.

siLLy puPPy wrote: Persoanally i'm not for getting rid of any categories here. I'm on the side of creating even more. I was a biology major so i have a thang for nomenclature  In reality i really love creating categories for nuances and there are an extraordinary amount within the huge umbrella term "progressive rock."  Tags i would see helpful on this site would be firstly the splitting of post and math rock. At least for tagging. Andalusian prog is considered by many to be valid. Brutal prog is en vogue as of late reserved for the most unrelenting avant-proggers out there. Maybe even prog pop for some of the crossover acts. Classical progressive for artists who utilize extreme classical features.  In a perfect world i would love a way to address the contuing fusion effect of the styles. For examples Krautrock should also have Kraut-fusion for bands like Embryo that seem equally Kraut-rock and jazz-fusion. Bands that utilize avant-prog and jazz-fusion could be avant-jazz-fusion or something. Yes, i'm aware of all these ideas going nowhere but since Drew started us down this rabbithole, i may as well share my proggy doggy dreams

Persoanally i'm not for getting rid of any categories here. I'm on the side of creating even more. I was a biology major so i have a thang for nomenclature 

Edited by siLLy puPPy - February 08 2018 at 14:54

Guldbamsen wrote: But yeah for the 10000th time: TALK TO THE SITE OWNER IF YOU WANT SOMETHING MAJOR DONE TO THE SITE! You want half stars? Go talk to the site owner. You want individual album tagging? Go talk to the site owner. You want a green frontpage? Go talk to the site owner.

I sent a private message to M@X.

+1 for 'World Fusion', though such a tag may be harder to properly justify as part of a prog site. Still, a number of artists under Indo/Raga (like Abstract Truth or Satwa) are already not really inspired by Indian music but just by local folk in general.

If this is our rationale, then we'd better scrap Canterbury too. The one difference between the two? More people are into Canterbury, which in turn means that there are more people trying to shoohorn newer bands into a genre that really ceased to exist a couple of decades back. Sure I can spot a lot of modern acts that play in the Canterbury vein....but they are not part of the Canterbury scene. Look up the genre. It was and is a very small scene that somehow got a lot of scattered fans worldwide....which also means more people to keep the fire going...or at the very least convince everybody that Canterbury isn't really a scene as much as it is a sound. Hah! That is some risky historic backpedalling right there...to account for the whims of the fans.
Indo prog raga rock is and was never that popular....so it sadly doesn't get the same nonsensical yet heartwarming treatment.
I like it = keep it!
I don't really understand it = scrap it!

But yeah for the 10000th time: TALK TO THE SITE OWNER IF YOU WANT SOMETHING MAJOR DONE TO THE SITE!
You want half stars? Go talk to the site owner.
You want individual album tagging? Go talk to the site owner.
You want a green frontpage? Go talk to the site owner.

You want a kiss? Go treat your missus right.