The "The 'recommend me some techno or dance' thread disappoints me" thread disappoints me.
Every time a person or group of people invents something, others have to make up something to call it.
That's fine, I guess. Gotta be able to distinguish new from old. Keep in mind, though, that hardly any musician has ever invented a name for a genre.
Then you get all these pretentious purists demanding authenticity when clinging to arbitrary genre classifications invented by journalists, academics and other non-musicians and moreover imitating them ad nauseum rather than searching for innovation, and it turns it into the least authentic thing it could possibly be. And when someone legitimately does come up with something new, it gets crammed into the pre-existing framework more often than it gets recognized for being an innovation. People create non-existent family trees of music, but I can always tell when these people are not musicians. Music is a synthesis of a variety of influences. You listen to the new album by so-and-so, and go "THIS IS SUM GRAET GOA GABBA TRANCE TECHNO EURO RIGHT HERE!!" when the guy who recorded it was interested in Miles Davis, Telemann, and Korean Nongak when he wrote it.
The entire concept of "electronic music" is ridiculously dated and misused. Most music today is recorded using electric instruments, run through electric amps and effects, recorded electronically, edited and processed electronically. When the fact that electronics were used to make sounds was still novel, perhaps it was a fitting title. But in the context of current music, the idea that electronics would NOT be used to make sounds is novel.
Electronic dance music.
80% of it is boring mathematic imitation of what has come before, 15% of it is catchy and/or creative enough that people outside of the "scene" want to even listen to it, and 5% of it is actually innovative and new. But it's been around for, like, 30 years, and already has more genre and subgenre classifications than a millenium's worth of classical music.
Big fucking whoop that everyone doesn't know them.