01.What is Trip-Hop?

Trip-Hop is a type of British/European dance music. Its name comes from "Trip＋Hip Hop"=Trip-Hop" because it originated from Bristol, England, so it was first called "Bristol Hip-Hop". Because of Hip-Hop (in fact, a lot of music is based on Hip-Hop... If you don't know what Hip-Hop is, go look at hip-hop people. Most of them use Hip-Hop. -Hop music to dance to.) The rhythm slows down (sometimes very slow), and some psychedelic flavor is added, such as a very gloomy, fat Bass, slight but psychedelic synthetic sound effects, or samples from some records, sometimes Maybe even the noise of the record will be "deliberately" sampled. The so-called "trip" refers to the psychedelic, dense drug "journey", so trip-hop is a kind of slow psychedelic, jazz-like, and confused. , Break beat music with a bit of Hip Hop rhythm. Although it belongs to the dance music category, its psychedelic and confusing characteristics have made it far away from the clear rhythm characteristics of ordinary dance music.

Representative figures of foreign Trip-Hop: The recognized iron triangle in Trip-Hop: Portishead, Tricky, Massive Attack. Mandalay Moloko Coldcut

02. What is World Music?

World Music is a term from a Western perspective, meaning non-British, American and Western folk/pop music. It usually refers to traditional music in developing or backward areas, such as Africa and South Asia. Music, in some regions such as Latin America, is so popular that it becomes a genre of its own. What everyone calls World Music today usually refers to improved traditional regional music that is mixed with Western music.

Africa’s King Sunny Ade, Eastern Europe’s Don Byron, China’s Zhu Zheqin, Pakistan’s Nusrat Fatehali Kahn, etc. are World Music musicians that are relatively familiar to Western music fans.

03.What is New Age?

New Age is a kind of quiet, comfortable and leisure music. Pure music works account for a larger proportion and singing works account for less. NEW AGE can be purely acoustic (that is, played with traditional self-sounding instruments), or it can be very electronic. The focus is to create a calm atmosphere of nature or a sense of the vastness of the universe, cleansing the listener's mind and making people feel calm.

New Age is often related to music therapy. A lot of New Age music is said to be able to cure diseases, and a lot of it is related to meditation. This has a lot to do with New Age philosophy. New Age music is usually regarded as quite middle-class music, and WINDHAM HILL is the most representative New Age record company.

New Age representative musicians include Enya, George Winston, William Ackerman, Yanni, Kitaro and so on.

04.What is Dream-Pop?

Dream-Pop is a kind of "dream" pop song. It has a blurred atmosphere, which is mostly caused by Synthesizers (electronic synthesizers). The electric guitar with ECHO effect is also an important component. The singing parts are often very 'breathy', that is, the sound of breathing is heavy, and the lyrics are often dreamlike and poetic.

Representative bands include Cocteau Twins, Lisa Germano, St.Etienne, This Mortal Coil, My Bloody Valentine, Mazzy Star and Dead Can Dance, etc.

05.What is Classical Pop?

Classical Pop refers to pop music with a classical symphony flavor. Songs that mostly use string accompaniment can be included in this category, such as "Eleanorrigby" by The Beatles. Some works by the Australian band Crowded House can also be included in this category. If we say Classical Pop, we mean classic pop songs.

06.What is Acappella?

ACAPPELLA refers to songs without instrumental accompaniment. Any song sung purely with human voice is ACAPPELLA. However, when we say ACAPPELLA today, it usually refers to the kind of singing with multiple harmonies. Even the instrumental accompaniment is composed of The human voice sings. The opposite of ACAPPELLA is INSTRUMENTAL, which is pure music. Any type of song can be sung in the form of ACAPPELLA.

The most familiar ACAPPELLA song to Hong Kong people is "SO MUCH IN LOVE", and the Hong Kong ACAPPELLA band includes Ji Shengmas and others.

07.What is Bossa Nova?

BOSSA NOVA is a kind of Brazilian music with a JAZZ flavor. In the 1950s, the composer ANTONIO CARLOS JOBIM mixed the Brazilian music rhythm with the American West Coast COOL JAZZ. It is soft, comfortable, relaxed, lazy and romantic. . The 1st, 4th, 7th, 11th, and 14th beats of every two BARs are retakes.

The pure singing voice of singer JOAO GILBERTO is an excellent partner of JOBIM music. It became very popular after being introduced to the United States in the mid-1950s. Other famous BOSSA NOVA musicians include CHARLIE BYRD, STAN GETZ and ASTRUD GILBERTO, etc. The most famous song is "THE GIRLFROM IPANEMA". OSSA NOVA was most popular in the 1960s, and has continued to have fans in the rest of the years.

08. What is Post Rock?

Post-rock is a kind of experimental and avant-garde rock music that emerged in the mid-1990s. It has a hypnotic feel and its style is taken from ambient and free-form jazz, avant garde and electronic music. Representative bands include Tortoise. They regard their music not as songs, but as constantly changing and fresh works. Most post-rock bands are anti-mainstream music and anti-indie-rock, but some are more pop, such as Stereolab, etc. .

Examples of post-rock bands include Cul De Sac, Ui, Flying Saucer Attack, The High Llamas, Mogwai, Trans Am, etc.

09.What is Britpop?

Although Britpop has the word "Pop", it is actually a type of Rock. It originated in England in the 1990s. It can be translated into Chinese as "British Rock". This is the British music scene's response to the American Grunge trend. A response, mostly in band form. However, the Britpop style is actually very broad.

For example, Oasis is a guitar rock band, Blur has a lot of Pop, and Pulp is close to glam rook and dance styles, but they are all classified as Britpop.

British Britpop representative: Oasis Blur Suede Pulp Radiohead

10. What is Dub?

Dub can be said to separate the singing and leave only the music. Reggae (reggae, also known as reggae, a kind of South American black music with a very rhythmic and special singing style). When applying Dub to

electronic music, some of the singing voices are extracted, the bass and drum sounds are emphasized, and a large number of Echo (echo) and other effects are added. This technology is often used to remix songs during live performances. For example, Massive Attack's album protection was mixed from Trip-Hop music into a Dub version by Mad Professor.

11. What is Electro?

As early as the late 1970s and early 1980s, there were no such things as House, Techno, and electronic music. Popular, only electronic music like Electro is the only one.

Electro can be said to be music that is purely produced by an electronic synthesizer (Synthesizer, which looks a bit like a Keyboard). It is usually quite soft and often uses Roland. The drum machine (Drum Machine) TR-808 is used to produce drum sounds. Germany's Kraftwerk band can be considered a representative.

The current Electro sound is brighter and more transparent than before. Later, some DJs used Electro to transform into a kind of Hip-Hop music, which was called Old School. The current Fatboy Slim also incorporates some Electro and Old School into his music.

12. What is Jungle?

Jungle is the predecessor of Drum’n’Bass. Jungle's speed is much faster than Drum'n'Bass, and the beat is more complex and powerful. It is sometimes paired with some Rap. Unlike Drum'n'Bass, which incorporates some Jazz, Soul and other elements, it sounds softer and more continuous. Rock Chameleon" David Bowie is now doing Jungle.

13. What is Drum'n'Bass?

For some people, Drum'n'Bass music may be annoying, because Drum'n'Bass is very focused on Playing tricks on the rhythm, as well as Bass performance, such as fast, complex breakbeats, and the use of various electronic drums or sampled drum sounds. Therefore Drum'n'Bass is also a type of Breakbeat, 4Hero Drum'n'Bass's famous band

14. What is Big-Beat?

"Big beat", Brit -Hop has become faster, heavier, and more rock-like. It can be said that it is a more mature style after improving Brit-Hop. You can imagine that the beat is heavy, broken, and a little fast. What does it look like. For example, The Prodigy, The Chemical Brothers, and Fat Boy Slim are the "big horns" of Big Beat

15. What is Brit-Hop?

Speed ??up the rhythm of black Hip-Hop with drums Aggravated, with some electric guitar and bass, it has the flavor of rock music, such as the style of The Chemical Brothers.

16. What is a break beat?

It is not like the house beat. Boom-Boom-Boom-Boom is so regular, but it is presented in broken beats, such as syncopated beats, such as adding small broken drums in two beats, etc. Breakbeat is just a general term, and there are many kinds of music that belong to breakbeat. , such as the following Brit-Hop, Big-Beat, and black Hip-Hop.

17. What is Psychedelic Trance?

Also known as Goa Trance, its origin. Goa is the name of a small island in India. The melody often has an Indian flavor. The characteristic of this type of Trance is that it attaches great importance to melody, subtle changes between notes, and often overlapping melodies. The high-pitched TB-303 sound appears, a bit ambient.

18. What is Trance?

Psychedelic dance music, evolved from Techno, will make you feel " It has a "trance" feeling, but still retains the rhythm of dance music. It pays great attention to the performance of Bass. Some of them will have a "hypnotic" effect when listening to them. The beat is also mainly 4/4.

19. What Is it Ambient?

It doesn’t sound very ups and downs, but it is actually constantly making changes, such as long-term sound effects, or progressive music arrangements, etc., which often create a layered sense of space, so It is called "situational music", and it often samples the sounds around us, such as human voices, car sounds, and even the melodies of other music... etc. It was created by Brian Eno in the 1970s. Very "profound" electronic music. Later, Ambient also had branches, such as Ambient House, Ambient Techno... etc. I believe everyone can understand it from the literal meaning. In fact, there are shadows of Ambient in many kinds of music, even some classical music. There is also an ambient flavor in the music.

20. What is Techno?

Technology means "high-tech dance music"! It uses computers and synthesizers to create some special sound effects. , this kind of music is often a combination of many sound effects.

The beat of Techno is also 4/4, but the speed is faster than House, and it sounds repetitive, tough, and mechanical, so some People call Techno "industrial noise", but some still focus on melody.

Techno originated in Detroit, USA, with three DJs: Derrick May, Kevin Saunderson and Juan Atkins trying to combine electronic music with black music. Detroit Techno was born. Detroit Techno is usually gentle and not as strong as ordinary Techno. It can be said to be the origin of modern Techno.

21.What is Electrophonic Music?

With the evolution of the times, musicians have more ways to make music. The so-called electronic music is to make music with electronic sounds generated by electronic synthesizers, music software, computers, etc. Electronic music It has a wide range and can often be heard in daily life. It is used in movie soundtracks, advertising soundtracks, and even some Mandarin pop songs, but electronic dance music is the most popular. Many people think that electronic music is a cold, emotionless music. In fact, electronic music can also be integrated with various elements such as Rock, Jazz and even Blues to make it full of emotion.

There are also various types of electronic music, including House, Techno, Ambient, Trance, Psychedelic Trance, Breakbeat, Brit-Hop, Big-Beat, Trip-Hop, Drum'n'Bass, Jungle , Electro, Dub, Chill Out, Minimalism.

22. What is folk song (Folk)?

Folk originally refers to the traditional songs of each nation. The ancestors of each nation have their own songs that have existed since ancient times. Most of these songs do not know the author. , and it was spread orally, from one person to ten people, and from one generation to the next, and it has been passed down to this day. However, what we call folk songs today mostly refers to folk songs from the pop era. It refers to songs that mainly use wooden guitar as accompaniment, sing in a natural and frank way, and sing out people’s simple life feelings. kind of songs. The records of American folk singer Woody Guthrie in the 1950s can be said to be the earliest folk song recordings, so they are generally regarded as the ancestors of modern folk songs (Folk). Afterwards, Pete Seeger and The Weavers continued to promote this type of music. During the Vietnam War in the 1960s, anti-war folk singers such as Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Peter, Paul And Mary, etc. became the voice of the times. Afterwards, folk music developed towards Pop, Rock and urbanization. Bob Dylan invented Folkrock, and Simon & Garfunkel developed urban Folk Pop with middle-class taste, which became popular for a while. In the 1980s, Suzanne Vega, Tracychapman and others embarked on an Urban Folk/Contemporary Folk route that had a more urban feel. Folk songs (Folk) have also developed different looks in music circles such as the United Kingdom and Hong Kong. The latest development of folk music in recent years is its combination with New Age (such as Enya) and Trip Hop (such as Beth Orton).

23. What is Chamber Pop?

Chamber Pop refers to a kind of elegant, noble and refined pop music, which has a certain sense of classical music. The term Chamber Music comes from classical music, which is called "chamber music" in Chinese. It is a small group string music style with an elegant atmosphere. Chamber Pop emerged in the 1990s as a reaction to LO-FI and Grunge at the time. It emphasized beautiful melodies, exquisite soundtracks, and clean recordings, and often used strings and wind instruments to create the musical feel of the Baroque era.

Foreign representative bands include The Divine Comedy, Rialto, Eric Matthews and Balle & Sebastian, etc.

24. What is Synth Pop?

Synth Pop? "Synth" means Synthesizer. As the name suggests, Synth Pop is "pop music produced by Sythesizers." Of course, in addition to Synthesizers, other electronic instruments such as computers and drum machines are also used. Synth Pop became popular in the early 1980s. , began to go silent in the mid-1980s, and there was a wave of craze in Hong Kong at that time. Synth Pop was characterized by a strong sense of technology, and sometimes it was quite cold. Most of the songs were "3-minutes Pop" (3-minutes Pop). Synth Pop musicians will dress up in fashion.

Synth Pop representative groups: Depeche Mode, Human League, Duran Duran, OMD, Gary Numan

26. What is Gangsta Rap?

Gangsta Rap is a type of Rap. The content of Rap is mostly related to urban crime, full of violence and lustful feelings. This is a music trend that reflects reality in the United States in the late 1980s. The rise of the tough and sharp style of rap music has become very popular in the United States, and their records have sold very well. Many Gangsta Rap musicians themselves have actually "participated" in various crimes in real life, and some have been imprisoned or even died. A truly realistic and shocking genre of music

Gangsta Rap group: Ice-T, Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, Snoop Doggy Dogg, 2 Pac, Geto Boys.

House is a dance music developed from Disco in the 1980s.

This is music played by DJs in Chicago. They mixed a record by the German electronic band Kraftwerk with the regular rhythm of electronic drums (Drum Machine) and black blues singing, and House was born. ~Generally translated as "house" dance music, it is the most basic form of electronic dance music, with a 4/4 rhythm, one drum beat per beat, and a simple melody, often with high-pitched female voices singing. After disco became popular, some DJs Change it, deliberately making disco less commercial, the bass and drums become deeper, and many times it becomes a pure musical work. Even if there is a singing part, most of it is a short sentence sung by a dancing female singer, which is often not clear. lyrics. Gradually, some people added elements such as Latin (Latin), Reggae (Reggae in the West Indies), Rap (rap) or Jazz (jazz). By the late 1980s, House broke out of the underground and became a popular music genre in Chicago and New York. and London pop chart darlings.

28.What is R&B?

The full name of R&B is Rhythm & Blues, which is generally translated as "rhythm and blues". In a broad sense, R&B can be regarded as "black pop music". It originated from black blues music and is the basis of today's western pop and rock music. Billboard magazine once defined R&B as all black music, except for Jazz and Blues. Listed as R&B, it shows how broad the scope of R&B is. Hip Hop and Rap, which have become very popular in the black music circle in recent years, both originate from R&B and retain many R&B elements.

29. Disco (Disco)

The abbreviation of discotheque, originally meaning record dance, originally refers to the music that black people dance to records in nightclubs. In the 1970s, it actually became a term for any era. A general term for new dance music. Compared with rock, it is characterized by a strong, indiscriminate, 4/4 beat that sounds like a metronome, and simple lyrics and melody. In 1977, the Australian pop music group "Bee Gees" (Bee Gees)'s film recording "Weekend Fever" set off a disco craze in the United States. Disco often synthesized sound in recording studios and made records. However, due to the monotonous rhythm and the same style, it was gradually replaced by other pop dance music with less obvious rhythm and slower speed in the early 1980s.

30. Punk

A type of rock music, or "punk rock", developed in the mid-1970s and spread throughout the United States in the early 1980s. Punk responded to the weakening resistance of rock music and appeared as a deliberate opposition to more civilized rock music. It inherits the rebellious spirit from the beginning of rock music, defying all traditions, government, religion, educational institutions, etc., but it is expressed in a more decadent way, with extreme anarchist words and deeds. Their lyrics are obscene and rude; they scream, stamp their feet, and fight on the stage; their music is closer to hard rock, with loudspeakers and strong and deep timbres. Representative bands include the Sex Pistols, The Clash, etc.

In the late 1970s, a new breed separated from punk that was more acceptable and more artistic, called "New Wave".

31. Soul

Also known as "spiritual song". In 1969, "Billboard" replaced the original title of "R&B" with "Sol". It is a kind of black pop music that is a mixture of blues, rock music and black gospel songs. It uses fewer instruments when singing. Sol's famous singers include James Brown, Ray Charles, Ons Red, Stevle Wonder, Prince, etc.

32. Reggae (Reggae)

Origined in Jamaica and introduced to the United States in the mid-1970s. It combines African and Latin American rhythms and call-and-response singing methods similar to African pop with powerful, propulsive rock and roll sounds.

33. Rap ??(Rap)

Black slang, equivalent to "talking", is produced in poor black neighborhoods in New York. It is characterized by a series of rhymed verses spoken rapidly against a background of mechanical rhythmic sounds. One source of this form is the rapid, rhyming jargon used by radio presenters in the past when introducing records. Lapper's lyrics are humorous, witty and often satirical, and were especially popular among black people in the 1980s. The most representative band is "Public Enemy". Lepp is sometimes also called "hip-hop" (hip-hop).

In fact, hip-hop has a broader meaning and refers to various elements of New York street culture at that time. In addition to Lapp, there are also: (often used by Lip) hand-held hands placed on the front and back of the record on the turntable. Moving, making a rhythmic scratching sound; the record player's (DJ's) technique of not hearing any trace of interruption when switching records and splicing the music pieces of the record; break dancing, etc.

34. Pop

A modern pop music with a strong beat. It is generally believed that pop music can be divided into a broad sense and a narrow sense. “Pop” here refers to pop music in a narrow sense, such as the famous singers Diana Ross, Lionel Richie, and Whitney Houston in the 1970s and 1980s. Many songs sung by Whitney Houston, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Prince, Janet Jackson and others.

35. Art Rock

It became popular after the 1970s, mainly in Europe, led by the British, such as the "Moody Blues" band, but in The United States also has an influence. Art rock combines rock and classical music, using electronic equipment to perform works by composers such as Liszt and Debussy. It is also called "progressive rock".