Heavy Metal Hip-Hop Invasion
Just for fun, I wrote a little program that takes the set of genres and mixes them up to give us a whole new set of imaginary genres. Some of my favorite imaginary genres are:
- Acid Rockabilly
- British Hip Pop
- Blackened Broken Metal
- British Stoner Rap
- Coast Rock
- Depressive political rock
- Dirty Neo-Prog
- Emo Metal
- German uplifting death-grind
- Gothic country grrrl
- Hardcore chick trance
- Indie anarcho pop
- Industrial old northern house
- Liquid Psychedelia
- New symphonic hip-hop
- Organic Metal
- Progressive teen Hardcore
- Suicidal Swedish viking rock
- Traditional ambient deutschpunk
- Twee Afrobeat
Okay, I thought this would be easier than it is. But I think I have a fair stab at four of them:
* British Stoner Rap
- the Streets
* Gothic country grrrl
- Tarnation
* Hardcore chick trance
- Lesbians on Ecstasy
* Twee Afrobeat
- Vampire Weekend
I grant Tarnation is a bit slow for grrl, and that twee afrobeat is, well, maybe a cheap shot. But it is fun to try to figure out who these genres can fit... I think the closest is Lesbians on Ecstasy as "hardcore chick trance" -- and man, does that suggest an awesome Remix Opportunity...
Posted by stephen on June 13, 2008 at 10:00 PM EDT #
British stoner rap?
Not imaginary:
http://musicbrainz.org/artist/6f607087-9c46-4bb2-a884-e4efc764554c.html
Best track to exemplify this genre:
http://musicbrainz.org/track/addae2f7-35aa-4227-9597-89ebf7b77b9f.html
:-)
Posted by Mayhem on June 14, 2008 at 04:19 AM EDT #
I imagine new symphonic hip hop would sound a bit like that mashup of The Verve's 'bittersweet symphony' and Jay-Z's vocals for 'dirt off your shoulder' ( http://youtube.com/watch?v=KmU70VfUYDA ).
What do you think?
Posted by bartandlife on June 15, 2008 at 09:11 PM EDT #