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Help find a genre for this music ?

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Hello,

Here's one I just made. I am stuck when it comes to find a genre for this. Rock ? Progressive rock ? Can you suggest something ?

Comments welcomed !

https://soundcloud.com/nominal6/buta

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Call it what I named one of my songs -- Urban Carnivore Mating Music.

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There's a little touch of Air (nice!)
Air's sound is often referred to as electronica and their music has also been characterized as downtempo, and space rock. They were influenced by psychedelic and progressive rock pioneers Pink Floyd
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Thanks for the comments.

'Urban Carnivore Mating Music' : He he, there are pros and cons with coming up with something so exclusive. It's colourful for one thing, but then people will not have a quick reference. Could be western. Or ska. Whatever. In case of a 'whatever' people could simply not bother going further. Of course, only interesting people should listen to this music :mrgreen: but, in a general sense, I wouldn't mind giving hints, if possible, to what the music is just by the genre.

'Air' : Cool. I mean, did not know about this band, am listening to some, nice. Makes me think a bit about Thievery Corporation from Washington DC, as in:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCjIaFcCwl0

What I do is a bit more upbeat though, more yang.

'Ambient' : not sure. There are many styles of ambients, most are far off the original no-rhythm style. It seems as asoon as one incorporates 'washes of sound-noise' it can be call ambient something. I would maybe go for a variation of ambient, but for me everything says that's not ambient, too much rhythm.

Someone in LAU came up with 'synth rock' which does reflect the fact that there are synths in there. But it's certainly not synthwave.

From the way some of these tunes are built, the acoustic guitar plays a role, event though it might not be forefront that much in the end, it is still there.

Hmmm... how about 'organic synth rock'. Organic is trendy, Gaia and all that. Or shorter: 'o-synth rock' or even 'o-synth' ?
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jonetsu wrote:'Air' : Cool. I mean, did not know about this band, am listening to some, nice
They were associated with the "french touch" trend during the end of the nineties even if their music wasn't (and still isn't) heavily filtered house because they are french. Imho, there is a lot to learn in the mixing/mastering department by simply carefully listening to their tracks. I don't know if it's available outside France and Germany but you can see a nice live session here. And yeah, I'm a big fan :D
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barbouze wrote:it's available outside France and Germany but you can see a nice live session here
It's also on youtube at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBf5TnWCuuM
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I think this can be described as some kind of electronica. This is definitely not rock. Maybe it's close to kraut rock, but still not — groove section doesn't fit any rock-based genre.
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I didn't want to create another thread for the same question. How would yall classify my current project: "Another Day?"
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Jeax wrote: Thu Dec 23, 2021 2:52 pm I didn't want to create another thread for the same question. How would yall classify my current project: "Another Day?"
Synth Pop
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Although I do find it easiest to categorize anything with synth pop unless in is obviously in a different genre like trance.

It is easy enough to write music which doesn't really fit into any mainstream genre. I mean as a songwriter you just make something up. Worry about genre later.
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People get too hung up on genres - they mean nothing! It's the music that matters, and this is good - no matter that everything would classify it differently :lol:
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folderol wrote: Fri Dec 24, 2021 3:13 pm People get too hung up on genres
TygerTung wrote: Thu Dec 23, 2021 8:15 pm Worry about genre later.
In general, yall are right about during the production process. However, genre can matter a lot when adding metadata for distribution and social sites.
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I know what you mean, but once you've made the song, sometimes it can be baffling to identify the genre.
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Baffling, sure. But that's a different conversation. Identifying a track's genre is important when it comes time for distribution and marketing.
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