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| BreakBeat |
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A genre consisting of rhythms that make intensive use of syncopation and polyrhythm, which are prominent in all music of African origin. |
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| Classical - Orchestra |
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Music produced in, or rooted in the traditions of, Western art, ecclesiastical and concert music, encompassing a broad period from roughly 1000 to the present day. |
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| Classical - Instrument Player |
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Music played by a solo musician using a classical instrument. |
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| Experimental |
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Any music that challenges the commonly accepted notions of what music is. Some experimental music is an extension of traditional music, adding unconventional instruments, modifications to instruments, noises, and other novelties. |
The Dirty Martinis
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| Glam |
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A genre that is characterized by narcotic ballads, and raunchy, high-energy influenced rock n'roll styling. |
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| Gothic |
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An alternate form of rock where guitars often serve as an ambient rather than melodic instrument, drumming tends to be dance oriented and the vocals are often somewhat haunting or distant. |
All Systems Halt
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| Grindcore |
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Ultra-punk music that took the open riffs of hardcore bands and sped them up with metal influences in rhythm and vocals, creating a roaring flood of negative and fractured emotion. |
The Anatomy
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| Grunge |
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Grunge music is generally characterized by distorted guitar, strong riffs, and heavy drumming. Grunge involves slower tempos and dissonant harmonies that are generally not found in punk. |
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| Hardcore - Happy |
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Grafts the high speeds of Garage on to bubblegum pop records; it's very fast, very bouncy and extremely high-energy. |
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| Hip-Hop |
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A genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical instrumentals; where several forms of rap have emerged. |
DJ Rock TEE
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Diatribe
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| House - Hard |
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A subgenre of house music that is played with a harder, louder, faster style of dance music. |
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| House - Progressive |
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A subgenre of house music that has an open mind to incorporate new elements to the genre. |
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| Industrial |
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Loose term for a number of different styles of electronic and experimental music; also characterized as sounding machine-like. |
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| Jungle |
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A form of Drum 'n' Bass and Reggae, that uses Ragga vocals and multiple Raggae and old school Drum 'n' Bass elements. |
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| Lounge |
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Generally, performed by a singer and one or two other musicians. The performers play or cover songs composed by others, especially pop standards. |
Christina Medina
DJ JROSE
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| Mariachi |
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Music originally from Mexico usually consisting of at least two violins, two trumpets, one Spanish guitar, one vihuela (a high-pitched, five-string guitar) and one guitarr� (a small-scaled acoustic bass), but sometimes featuring more than twenty musicians. |
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| Drum and Bass |
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This genre is characterized by fast tempo broken beat drum with heavy, often intricate basslines. |
Latino Tanks
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| New Age |
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A style of modern music characterized by a relaxing or dreamy texture derived from quiet harmonies and drones, often incorporating synthesizers and acoustic and ethnic instrumentation. |
Tha Basix
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| New Wave |
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New Wave is most commonly associated with a movement in Western popular music. It is marketed as a more commercial or chart-friendly version of punk. |
Lower Town Trio
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| Pop - Rock |
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Pop rock songs are identified by their simple song structure, catchy melodies, and repetition of musical passages, and by their use of electric guitar and drums -based instrumentation and a somewhat aggressive attitude. |
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Modern Chemists
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| Powerpop |
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This music is characterized by strong melodies, crisp vocal harmonies, economical arrangements and prominent guitar riffs. Instrumental solos are kept to a minimum, and blues elements are largely downplayed. |
FIVEOHfirst
Aurora Rising
The Crash Moderns
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| Progressive |
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Progressive music is the name given to a certain approach to musical composition that has been applied to several different music genres. It has subgenres that have evolved from their root genre by innovating, either through incorporating instruments from other genres or using new techniques within the framework provided by the instrumentation of the root genre to make a new or crossover style. |
AUDIOBON
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Ian Narcisi
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| R&B |
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This identifies the style of music that combined the 12 bar blues format and boogie-woogie with a back beat, which later became a fundamental element of rock and roll. It also has a slick, electronic record production style, drum machine-backed rhythms, and a smooth, lush style of vocal arrangement. |
S.O (Simply Official)
Detagoh
Jessica Lee
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| Screamo |
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A musical genre which evolved from emo, post-hardcore, more specifically hardcore emo in the early 1990s characterized by screaming vocals, harmonized guitars, and fast-paced riffs. |
FIVEOHfirst
Ahimsa Sunrise
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| Ska |
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Jamaica-originated music that combines elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues. It's characterized by a walking bassline, a scratchlike tempo, accented guitar or piano rhythms on the offbeat; and in some cases, jazz-like horn riffs. |
Kool Aid Kids
The Advisory
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| Southern Rock |
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A subgenre of rock music that developed in the South of the United States from Rock and Roll and Blues, with a slight influence from Country and folk, and is focused generally on electric guitar and vocals. |
Mad-Sweet Pangs
Verona Red
Stampead
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| Surf |
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The instrumental is generally dance music of medium to fast tempo, with electric guitars dominating the sound.. This genre is associated with the surf culture that has three main subgenres: Instrumental, Surf pop, and Surf rock. |
Made of Hemp
Danger Is My Middle Name
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| Techno |
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Features an abundance of percussive, synthetic sounds, studio effects used as principal instrumentation, and, usually, a regular, 4/4 beat usually in the 130/hyphy 140 bpm range. Some Techno compositions have strong melodies and baselines. |
DALABEL
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| Trance |
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A style of electronic dance music that developed in the 1990s. Trance music is generally characterized by a tempo of between 130-160 bpm, featuring repeating melodic synthesizer phrases, and a musical form that builds up and down throughout a track, often crescendoing or featuring a breakdown. |
Sterling Angel
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| Trip Hop |
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Trip Hop is downtempo electronic music that grew out of England's hip hop and house scenes, often characterised by a reliance on breakbeats and sample-heavy, often moody sound. |
Boom Alert
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WRATH OF SEVEN
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