While we typically treat music as divisible into distinct genres, there are always musicians working to bridge stylistic gaps, combining disparate musical styles in search of a fresh sound. Following are a few of the more…amusing…recent genre-fusions. You can make your own decisions about their quality.
Celtic Punk
If you’re into punk, you probably already know about Flogging Molly and the Dropkick Murphys. If it was just one group, it could be viewed as a strange experiment, but there are two successful groups, which gives this credibility as an actual genre.
Dance Opera
A lot of New Age/Nu Ambient music incorporates classical elements – that’s established practice. Operatica, however, takes things a few steps further, mashing actual opera arias (and other classical vocal fare) into straight-ahead electronica. If you’ve seen The Fifth Element, you’ve already been exposed.
Lounged (yes, that’s a verb)
Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine perform Lounge-style covers of songs that just weren’t intended to be covered that way, including Papa Roach’s Last Resort, Coldplay’s Yellow, Madonna’s Material Girl, the Beastie Boys’ Brass Monkey, Depeche Mode’s Personal Jesus, and that all-time classic, Ice-Ice Baby.
you are so welcome for the celtic punk…i know, i know…i wasn’t the only or the first, but i did add them to your hard drive’s pool, so…end transmission
Comment by becca — October 31, 2006 @ 9:47 pm