History
Taylor's inspiration for the guide was a challenge from a friend, and the first edition was created in "about two weeks" and on his website by the end of October, 2000. An abridged version was in the top 20 on Newgrounds briefly. The guide has gone through several revisions and was later hosted by Digitally Imported because of bandwidth expenses on Taylor's website. It is currently at version 2.5 which was released in January 2005 and lists 180 genres and includes 112.0Mb or 5 hours, 5 minutes and 7 seconds worth of samples. Taylor is currently working on version 3.0.
In September 2005, Ishkur's Guide was listed as an example of "Hierarchical Organization and Description of Music Collections at the Artist Level" in the published report of the refereed proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, ECDL 2005, held in Vienna, Austria.
In October 2010, Taylor posted on his website that version 3.0 is still under work after a long period of time without any updates.
In January 2012, he stated he was going to start releasing mixes of what he views to be pure forms of a particular genre of electronic music in anticipation of volume 3. He started with trance.
Read more about this topic: Ishkur's Guide To Electronic Music
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