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Acid skiffle.

Musichall trance.

Free-improv jungle.

Retro-futurism.

You get the idea.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Thursday, 1 May 2003 09:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Retro-Futurism exists. Or at least, that's what Saloon say they are making.

― kate, Thursday, 1 May 2003 09:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

Magical-realism.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 1 May 2003 09:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

and that's what the bjork lady reckons she does

― j0e (j0e), Thursday, 1 May 2003 09:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

hip-be-bop

― j0e (j0e), Thursday, 1 May 2003 09:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

Or this one; my fave evah Amazon review;

1 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

avant hardcore, 12 November, 2000
Reviewer: alper mazman (alpermazman@hotmail.com) from istanbul, turkey
i think this is little differ from the other fugazi albums. its not only hardcore. you wait the song finish but it still going on you wait the refrain but it never come again i think its something different i called it avant hardcore i think you realy like it.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 1 May 2003 09:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

Kraut-Hop. My old band in NYC reckonned we were the only people in the world doing it, but then Blur tried to nick it from us! Oh no!

― kate, Thursday, 1 May 2003 09:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm confident that acid skiffle doesn't exist. However, it should.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Thursday, 1 May 2003 09:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Rock Island Line" = gangsta skiffle

― dave q, Thursday, 1 May 2003 09:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Cumberland Gap" = Skiffle Punk

Although I don't know, I would bet ANY money someone has used this comparison before.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Thursday, 1 May 2003 09:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

people used to say that the Strapping Fieldhands were acid-skiffle.

― scott seward, Thursday, 1 May 2003 11:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

Handbag-rock

Napkin-rock

Old-skool baroque

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Thursday, 1 May 2003 12:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

''Free-improv jungle.''

I have wondered abt this. but i don't know how you make drum n' base/jungle so i don't quite know how this might work.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 1 May 2003 12:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

Dumb and Bass
Tard Rock
Syphillis skiffle
Hip hump

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Thursday, 1 May 2003 12:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

Free improv jungle exists, look at Jo Jo Mayer's Nerve. At the most obvious level, possibly even the couple of Derek Baily meets beats albums that he made? (I have not heard them because I am frightened)

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 1 May 2003 14:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

bubblegum gothic
schmooze-core
hip-hopera

― autovac (autovac), Thursday, 1 May 2003 15:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

Isn't Stereolab "retro-futurist"?

"hip-be-bop"...The Roots + Lionel Hampton from the Red Hot & Rio(?)* album

* not sure if it was that one, but I know it was one of the Red Hot & _____ albums

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 1 May 2003 15:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

''At the most obvious level, possibly even the couple of Derek Baily meets beats albums that he made?''

I was gonna mention those but i was thinking about two jungle type ppl say improvising together.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 1 May 2003 15:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

Warmcore
micropunk
Coffee-Table Gabba
Doom House

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 1 May 2003 16:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

didn't destiny's child and mos def or someone do carmen,a hip hopera?

― robin (robin), Thursday, 1 May 2003 17:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

savant-garde

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 1 May 2003 19:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

Post-Everything Music

― Andrzej B. (Andrzej B.), Friday, 2 May 2003 03:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

Mcropunk! I can hear it in my mind's ear.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Friday, 2 May 2003 04:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

But I'm struggling a little to imagine the smooth, sophisticated sounds of coffee table gabba.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Friday, 2 May 2003 04:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

Bubblegum goth = Strawberry Switchblade?

Something similar here, by the way.

― OleM (OleM), Friday, 2 May 2003 05:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

I've based my whole career on this. Hence my examples already exist.

Vaudeville concrete.
Spooky kabuki.
Plastic folk.
Analog baroque.
Sci-fi melodrama.
Acid porno variete.
Techno chanson.
Bible sampler.
Comedy miserablism.

― Momus (Momus), Friday, 2 May 2003 08:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

Micropunk -- that's Half Japanese, right?

― Momus (Momus), Friday, 2 May 2003 08:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

feeble house.

electric bungalow.

― nebbesh (nebbesh), Friday, 2 May 2003 12:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

Feeble house? What a fucking brilliant idea! I'm going to... oh shit, I already have.

― Momus (Momus), Friday, 2 May 2003 14:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

four months pass...

Rujak swing.

(It will be Indonesian.)

(Actually "It Will Be Indonesian" would be a good song title too.)

(Why the fuck are they listening to Fugazi in Istanbul?)

― Al Andalous (Al Andalous), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 00:24 (twenty years ago) link

Bubblegum gothic: the Gothic Archies.

hip-hopera: "On and On" by the Fat Boys.

Find these-

pirate prog
sweatmetal
honky ska
shoegazer polka
pornabilly
gregorian grindcore

― sucka (sucka), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 04:09 (twenty years ago) link

math mariachi?

― sucka (sucka), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 04:22 (twenty years ago) link

pornabilly: chinga chavin, tanya tucker

― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 04:57 (twenty years ago) link

shoegraving! floaty goth drone: needs to exist.

― cis (cis), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 05:39 (twenty years ago) link

you've not heard of Projekt Records then?

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 05:43 (twenty years ago) link

There are no words to describe the depth of my ignorance.

...but do they *call* it shoegrave?

― cis (cis), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 05:50 (twenty years ago) link

And, more importantly, is it any cop?

― cis (cis), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 05:51 (twenty years ago) link

i dunno what they call it actually. to me it's just floaty goth

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 05:54 (twenty years ago) link

hip-hopera

Don't you remember that awful project group Rapsody? They released a whole album of rap versions of opera songs, featuring LL Cool J, Warren G. etc.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 05:54 (twenty years ago) link

Come to think of it, maybe they weren't that awful after all. I remember actually liking the LL Cool J version of "Dear Mallika"...

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 05:57 (twenty years ago) link

12 Step

― j. random person (svizz), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 12:49 (twenty years ago) link

12 step could arguably be some of the Big Brovaz triplet-rythm stuff. I'd like to see 7 Step. Dance to that one, ya fukkas.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 13:03 (twenty years ago) link

Psychedelic hip-hop

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 18:29 (twenty years ago) link

de la soul?

― robin (robin), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 18:31 (twenty years ago) link

Where are the sitars, nursery-rhyme-like choruses, weird lyrics about marshmallow pigs flying through tangerine skies, guitars recorded backwards and mellotrons in the music of De La Soul?

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 18:37 (twenty years ago) link

"pirate prog" this could be truly life-changing

electroclash post rock

― Felcher (Felcher), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 18:38 (twenty years ago) link

Thrash Clicks
Speed Drone
Garage Strings
Biker Synth

― christoff (christoff), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 19:31 (twenty years ago) link

Psychedelic hip-hop

PM Dawn

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 30 September 2003 19:37 (twenty years ago) link

surely shoegraving = Lycia

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 30 September 2003 19:38 (twenty years ago) link

(especially their more ambient stuff like "The Morning Breaks So Cold And Gray")

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 30 September 2003 19:39 (twenty years ago) link

nuts & bolts
(genre name comprising two verbs, both in 3rd person singular;
unsuspecting exponents: all artists who've ever covered tchaikovsky's 'nutcracker', plus einstürzende neubauten)

tram & bus
(a genre originally supposed to, like, 'really transport'. eventually enjoyed its biggest success as music for commercials)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 21:08 (twenty years ago) link

Skink Rock

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 21:17 (twenty years ago) link

I'm waiting for some hardcore queer gangsta rap. Who's got the balls?

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 21:22 (twenty years ago) link

geir try three foot high and rising...

― robin (robin), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 23:31 (twenty years ago) link

Progressive Twee
Queer Dancehall
Cow Goth
Mod Crust
Lounge Thrash

A band that may or may not exist: The Polyphonic Killing Spree

― Ben Dot, Tuesday, 30 September 2003 23:50 (twenty years ago) link

ambient hardcore
post bootybass
rhythm and grunge

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 23:57 (twenty years ago) link

I'm waiting for some hardcore queer gangsta rap. Who's got the balls?

Years ago in DC I saw a flyer from someone who was trying to put together an act like that. I don't think it ever made it to the playing out stage.

In the meantime:

math funk
symphonic nu metal
smooth free jazz

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 00:36 (twenty years ago) link

symphonic nu metal

Linkin Ros

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 00:41 (twenty years ago) link

Techno Antiquarianism

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 00:48 (twenty years ago) link

gangsta twee
ironic emo

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 00:51 (twenty years ago) link

no-fi

― Al Andalous, Wednesday, 1 October 2003 01:43 (twenty years ago) link

Afro-slavic. It's been done, actually, a project of the producer Thierry Van Roy (whose work with Abdelli is pretty good).

― Al Andalous, Wednesday, 1 October 2003 01:57 (twenty years ago) link

Country techno music - Farmhouse!

― Sasha (sgh), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 03:52 (twenty years ago) link

gangsta twee = are weapons

― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 03:52 (twenty years ago) link

Front Porch Maximalism
Eno-Core
Krush-Groove

― camazotz, Wednesday, 1 October 2003 04:14 (twenty years ago) link

Cow Goth: Fields of the Nephilim. Well, spaghetti western goth anyways.

Garage Strings: Apocalyptica, a cello quartet that only covers Metallica songs. I couldn't listen to that one-trick pony for more than a minute, but a half a star to them for actually doing it I guess.

Biker Synth: Suicide had audience riots- they were retro-futuristic robot elvis music- I think elvis, I think 50's rockers and Marlon Brando in the Wild One- so they might be kind of near the ballpark.

Queer rap exists, but does it have to be Gangsta?

More to find:

Fagtime
Symphonic Oi
Footfetish folk

― sucka (sucka), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 21:35 (twenty years ago) link

Cow Goth = 16 Horsepower. Possibly Myssouri as well.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 1 October 2003 23:06 (twenty years ago) link

Someone else besides me here who knows about Myssouri! I'm astounded.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 October 2003 03:04 (twenty years ago) link

Rubacore.

(From an eraser for carbon/pencil and typewriter/ink, in pencil form, that I just found in my desk.)

― Al Andalous, Wednesday, 8 October 2003 15:48 (twenty years ago) link

E se mi date un sguardo rubacore

― Al Andalous, Wednesday, 8 October 2003 17:31 (twenty years ago) link

Psychedelic hip-hop.

A great deal of my solo material has been referred to multiple times as "psychedelic pop rap", that's not too far away from this.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 18:12 (twenty years ago) link

one month passes...

Country techno music- Wot about Rednex?

― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 12:53 (twenty years ago) link

one month passes...

TRANCE-POLKA???????? OHHHHHH YEAAAAAAAAA

― wallace carothers' repentence, Saturday, 3 January 2004 02:44 (twenty years ago) link

four months pass...

Musichall Dancehall (a sort of '30s version of Ragga)
Panpipe Doom
Kitchen
Bathcore

― dog latin (dog latin), Sunday, 16 May 2004 21:55 (twenty years ago) link

stoner reggae...oh wait, never mind.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 16 May 2004 21:58 (twenty years ago) link

Heavy Silicone

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Sunday, 16 May 2004 22:12 (twenty years ago) link

Thrashgrass
Polkacore
Drum 'n' Harp
Twee Shanties
Chillout Thrash
A Capella Grindcore
Grindfolk
Metalgum

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Monday, 17 May 2004 02:08 (twenty years ago) link

Chamber Hop

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Monday, 17 May 2004 02:09 (twenty years ago) link

I like the idea of Chamberhop and I'm sure there are already some Chamberhop tunes but I can't think of any right now.

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 17 May 2004 08:05 (twenty years ago) link

Field recordings of karaoke to Boredoms

― 24 hours with the King of Snake. (SNAKE!) (ex machina), Monday, 17 May 2004 08:10 (twenty years ago) link

one year passes...

Polkagrind
Humppacore
Thrashpunk
Wavegrind
Pagancore or Pagangrind
Acoustic Grindcore

― NorkNork, Wednesday, 10 May 2006 18:45 (eighteen years ago) link

pretty much all those are real, even if they don't necessarily go by those names

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 18:52 (eighteen years ago) link

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Musical genre's that may or may not exist - but probably not.