Let's invent a genre

way to be fun

victorian house
frat house
chattel house
icelandic turf house
white house
-ing bubble, house
house m.d. house
beach... house

i-dunno-wave - music that makes you wonder why someone bothered to make it, as it contains no ideas, no technical skill, and is generally uninteresting, unchallenging and not danceable

― sarahel, Monday, December 22, 2008 3:55 PM (1 year ago)

i think this actually exists now

Progressive Chillrape

Nu Wop

Lol-fi.

Electroacousticlash.

Browave

new timey

Rad Jazz

Neo-Prole (Plan B?)

Chillout Metal.

Lo-NRG

Rap + Electro: Rapelectro

Memepunk

Whale Trance

Christian Twerk

Arr n Bae / pirate soul

Bradrock.

Balearic Zolo

Dankwave

EDMDMA, pronounced "edamame" somehow

Nopera, like no wave opera, where the music is linked to a narrative but is still mostly atonal droning

Crankwave

Prankwave (really asinine music where recordings of prank calls, scolding old people, etc are laid on top of rudimentary dance beats)

Not really heard Scanner but is that a vague description?

Idk the band Scanner. Wikipedia says they are a power metal band in Germany formed in the 80s.

Frankwave: music that tells it like it is

Wrankfave: dadaist reaction to frankwave

scanner/robin rimbaud is more srs business than the exciting new genre of prankwave

A good way of putting it with the scanner stuff is mapping the city … it's like mapping the movements of people during different periods of the day. It's fairly predictable [during the day]…. Then in the evening, that's where the riot happens. That's when it gets really exciting because all hell gets let loose. The phone rates go down and people have the most surreal conversations. I've always been interested in the spaces in these conversations … It amazed me with these mobile phones, which are much more expensive than standard phones—you get these enormous gaps happening. They're the points that really interest me. What's happening in there.

old jack swing

Yacht Hop

Adult-contemporary hip hop recognizable for their excessive use of smooth saxophone sounds. Aimed at rich black people in their 50's cruising the harbor and snorting cocaine on their yachts.

Teleporter music (also known as nu-musak, teletransporter music): Teleporter music refers to a type of easy listening, often instrumental music popularized in 2085. Commonly played through speakers of machines that allow teletransportation. The genre is influenced by 'Elevator music' and it differs in its use of color and weather as part of an audiovisual experience to fit the mood of the song being played at the moment.

Minestep (not to be confused with Mimestep. Also known as Blindstep, Cavestep and Megaleatoric music): Minestep is a term that describes a series of unclassifiable avant garde style of music. The genre consists in musicians playing in completely dark places, with non-electronic instruments that are previously unknown or mostly unknown to them.

Pioneers in the genre favored playing this style of music in mines and caves giving the genre its name. Extreme forms of the genre include activities such as band members using earplugs through the performance and exchanging instruments between several band members in the middle of a track. While the musicians themselves cannot use any form of Night Vision Devices, audience members are often provided night googles.

Mimestep: influenced by John Cage's 4'33" and the Air Guitar world championships. Mimestep features musicians playing and dancing to imaginary sounds in their imaginary instruments.

Their neighbors love them.

Barrelhouse Minimalism

relational vaporwave

ok, i will be silly

barberslop (which in turn inspired barberslap, barbershop quartet accompanied solely by slap bass)
squonk (a genre consisting solely of note-for-note covers of the 1976 genesis song "squonk", widely considered to have been started by cleopatra's double cd collection "Squonk: a 40th Anniversary Tribute")
conscious oi
nosocomial beat
shooby scat
necroduet
baroquefort
ecocore
electronica praecox
queergrass
klusterpunk
post-popcorn
atmospheric black schlager
doxxpop
sweet qin music
8field
art crunk
edmonton
psychodisco
vegan ambient
aleatoric serialism
mean jazz
mixolydian crust
occult sunshine pop
tin pan soul

Wescore intensely hard rocking guitar based music with tendencies toward octaving and Mongomery like playing but more intense, like. I thought of early John Mclaughlin as this in my lat teens. When I picked up the Lifetime polydor compilation and stuff.

& is Tin Pan Soul pretty much an existing thing but not compiled as such. Probably enough songs covered by Otis etc that had origins in the NYC music writing factory of that era to stick at least a couple of decent cds out of

Smooth Jams

Kenny G but with bitchin light show and interminable soloing.

Rap + Electro: Rapelectro

I see a potential issue with this one

doompop - pop musicians singing infectious melodies over slow, monotonous riffs

stevolende: yeah, some of these genres already exist but haven't been named as such yet (which happens all the time with genres anyway- i don't think "space disco" was considered an actual genre until around the 2000s).

FRBRcore

Mutterpunk (or Stutterpunk)

https://www.beatport.com/release/ambient-grunge/1850720

lmao

Bradrock

Booty Skiffle

Acid Tweemo

Cock Hop

Nu-Stepcore