Adventurous new music genres?

[mjolnir]

Are there any NEW genres or subgenres that you're finding to be adventurous or impressive or controversial (in the good way, not the bad way!)? Anything amazing? Please share. (only ACTUAL music, please).

[enroe]

The currently popular, brand new, hip music genres among teenagers
are:

--- Deaf'n Bass,
--- Drop'n Spit,
--- Crude Hairwave,
--- Black hole trap
--- Demented Death Polka

"Demented Death Polka" in particular takes some getting used to, but
it's supposed to be the new, pubescent contrast to the old farts who
are fanatically into rock or EDM.

[mjolnir]

well, okay, but i meant actually real subgenres and genres. i assume that those aren't actually real(?)

[Michael L]

This website is a map of musical genres.
https://everynoise.com/
Click on a micro-genre and enter a new map of composers in that space, with an example piece.
Each example used to link to Spotify, but the webmaster got laid off.


My other recommendations are to:

1. get the Radio app/plugin by Credland Audio from PluginBoutique. It will connect you to what is happening in the world at this instant, and let you sample it

2. check out the Bandcamp 'Best Of" monthly compilations. Different sub-sub genres of music are in each big genre category. Each good composer is actually their own genre.

[mjolnir]

@Michael L: thanks for the links. totally legit. word.

[enroe]

Are there any NEW genres or subgenres that you're finding to be adventurous ... anything amazing?

If you take a look at the list of music genres, namely here,
you'll see:

music genres - fuzzy list 02.gif

and browse a bit:

music genres - fuzzy list 03.gif

Then you'll see:

The number of different genres is overwhelmingly diverse and almost infinite.
There's an overwhelmingly bombastic variety of musical directions and styles –
so many that it's practically impossible to keep track of them all.

So the question arises: WHAT do you want to achieve by someone telling
you what kind of music is currently popular or what kind of music teenagers
(who are usually trend-setters) are listening to today?

The popular, listened-to genre consists of all the songs that are at the top
of Spotify and that are played today by MTV and others.

--- Do you want to make music in this "trendy" style yourself?

--- What do you actually want to achieve with your music?

or:

--- Why do you make music at all?

[whyterabbyt]

"Demented Death Polka" in particular takes some getting used to

As the guy who first brought Death Polka to the attention of KVR, I find the 'demented' subgenre to be a travesty. Its literally just throwing some cliche frying pan samples over the top of classic Death Polka. You want a good modern Death Polka subgenre, you need to look into Nu Wave of Cornish Ambient Death Polka instead, that's where its at.

[eLawnMust]

Many new 'genre's' are just soundFX strung together... Total crap but they also like to make the 'genre' sound better in title by putting adjectives in front like 'Melodic' yet listening there is no melody whatsoever...

It's the day & age of powerful machines & capable software but lazy entitled desktop dabblers who don't wanna learn what music is, just produce noises & string together....

Music was better 20-25 years ago when machines weren't so powerful so morons could not just pile FX ontop of simple lullabies so actual music had to be produced... If you decipher much of what is being made today you see it's just garbage with alot of FX..

Judge your own... take all ur FX off & see how it sounds, should sound on it's own, if not then try putting effort into learning music or piss on it have AI do it all for you...

[whyterabbyt]

grrr argh get orf my lawn

[enroe]

"Demented Death Polka" in particular takes some getting used to

As the guy who first brought Death Polka to the attention of KVR, ...

Ahh yeah - congratulations!

I find the 'demented' subgenre to be a travesty. Its literally just throwing some cliche frying pan samples over the top of classic Death Polka. You want a good modern Death Polka subgenre, you need to look into Nu Wave of Cornish Ambient Death Polka instead, that's where its at.

Haha, aren't we all fans of "Death Polka"?

I, in particular, am also a fan of "Demented Death Polka" - I insist on it!
Although that's actually almost the same as the "Death Polka" itself.

[enroe]

Many new 'genre's' are just soundFX strung together... Total crap but they also like to make the 'genre' sound better in title by putting adjectives in front like 'Melodic' yet listening there is no melody whatsoever...

We also have a small boat diesel engine. When we start it up,
it immediately sounds like "Rhythmic Maritime Death Polka."
Simply brilliant!

You can call the "missing melody syndrom" just "glitchy bum
glitchy bum glitchy bum glitchy"-effect!

Oh help me! I am suffering so much from all the
"glitchy bums". Only so much:

"glitchy bum glitchy bum glitchy bum glitchy bum glitchy
bum ting ting woop glitchy bum glitchy bum glitchy bum
glitchy bum glitchy bum ting ting woop blooch" ...

More than a man can take in one evening. Each to their own,
but they really should carry a health warning!

-------- In my opinion, there are 3 reasons: --------

1. Many musicians here make EDM (= Electronic Dance Music)
or "Drum'n Bass" or "Tekkno" or "Tekkno-like" music, and the
drums are in the foreground. Modern DAWs tempt you to start
with the drums right away. So they start "their song" project with
just one drum groove or even a drum loop. That is why the drums
are very much in the foreground, and the ingenuous listener only
hears "glitchy bum glitchy bum glitchy bum glitchy".

2. Many musicians here played way too loud in their youthful
live phase and therefore suffered a massive hearing damage in
the high tones. So they have a deafness in the high notes,
and to compensate for that they turn up the highs and also the
transients exorbitantly. Then, of course, their songs sound like
"glitchy bum glitchy bum glitchy bum glitchy".

3. Even without hearing damage, the "glitchy bum glitchy bum
glitchy bum glitchy" risk is very high, because during a longer
listening and mixing session the hearing gets used to a song
and becomes dull in the upper treble: The mixer therefore hears
the treble increasingly worse, and quite intuitively he
compensates for this when mixing by increasing the treble with
each instrument. Especially with the drums this leads to the
"glitchy bum glitchy bum glitchy bum glitchy"-effect.

============================================

You see: There are important reasons why one often hears
"glitchy bum glitchy bum glitchy bum glitchy" here. But still, even
with these songs, I have noticed that there is usually a lot of
passion and creativity in all this "glitchy bum glitchy bum glitchy
bum glitchy".

Incidentally, I like to quote the German poet
"Wilhelm Busch", who said:

"Musik wird oft nicht schön gefunden,
weil sie stets mit Geräusch verbunden"

which - freely translated - means:

"Music is often not found really nice,
because it's always a kind of noise".

[cryophonik]

It's funny to me how almost every producer these days is trying to be so unique with their little niche microgenres, but what are all the GenZs (including my 18-yo son) listening to these days?

Yeah, the same 80s new wave/post-punk and 90s grunge that many of us listened to at that age.

[vurt]

i tend to find new (to me) music, by finding something i already know on youtube, then just following the rabbit so to speak, each new track that starts, scroll through the recommendations

i dont really do genres, as its hard to keep up with whats what, so i just find music i like.

[Opaque]

Melody is overrated.

[whyterabbyt]

i dont really do genres, as its hard to keep up with whats what, so i just find music i like.

that.