Friday 24 May 2013

Music Genres



Who listens to Everything but the Girl? Music for social workers, teachers, probation officers and other disappointed minor functionaries of the state.  (Anon)

acid punk
acid rock
acid skiffle
all the -cores: hardcore, grindcore, etc
ambient lounge/chill
apocalyptic folk-pop (@VictorianLondon)
atmospheric gothic metal

Balkan
bangin' bootie
breakhop
chillwave

dark ambient
darkwave
deep space house
deep vocal house
doo-wop
doom metal
dream pop
drivetime

electro soul
electro swing

electro swing blues Balkan Gypsy circus funk and soul influenced bass music

electroclash synthcore
ethereal gothic

ethereal, neoclassical, Gothic, shamanic/tribal, art rock style

Frenchcore
funeral doom
Funkadelic
Funkstep

geek pop
ghetto funk
ghost trance
glitch hop

Gothic choral (incomprehensible words, minor key, rhythm, drumming, repetition, plainsong)

gypsy baroque (As mentioned in his autobiographies, Telemann's encounters with Eastern European gypsy music influenced his own compositions… However, there are two other factors that lead to the assumption that Bach was well acquainted with the gypsy music of his time…)

gypsy swing
haughty melodic (“small rock or medium rock”, apparently)
highlife
hypnagogic/hauntology

instrumental post-rock
jagga
jangle pop (like the Monkees)
loverock

melodic techno
Midtempo
mild/dark ambient drift
minimal Detroit techno

nameless hotel lobby jazz supergroup (James Inverne)
nu swing

post-rock
prog rock

Progressive trance is a sub-genre in trance music, contains elements of house, techno, and ambient genres. (Soundcloud)

psy glitch
psych rock
psych trance

quiet storm

Reform style camp/folk/rock music (Sidney Minty) (A style of Jewish religious music otherwise known as the hootenanny school.)

ridiculous werewolf-based thrash-banjo Estonian lycra metal (@Hackneymarshman)

sci-gaze
sci-pop
scifi house (Legowelt)
shoegaze music
sista rock
smooth house
smooth soul

songs about circuses Puppet on a String, For the Benefit of Mr Kite, Death of a Clown (it was a 60s thing)

space jazz
space rock
space-polka
speed garage
surf rock
swing house

toozie garage
Toytown rave?
trailer music (for trailers? or for ppl who live in trailers?)
trashbilly
tribecore

vapourwave
whomp
witch house
wobble
wonkadelic
world bass
zombie lounge

2 comments:

  1. Just helping you out with the ks - I went to a fabulous party with a klezmer band, playing klezmer music, highly entertaining. And I've never forgotten reading a music review in a mag when I was a teenager and they described something (I THINK it might have been The Incredible String Band) as 'music to commit suicide by' - I was shocked, it seemed an outrageous thing to say: in those days reviews were much more staid and usually polite.

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  2. I wonder if there's a klezmer mash-up genre? ;-)

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