1.trip-hop

trip-hop is a type of British/European dance music. Its name comes from "trip + hip hop" because it originated from Bristol in the UK. , so it was originally called bristol hip-hop. Due to the use of hip-hop (in fact, a lot of music is based on hip-hop. If you don’t know what hip-hop is, if you look at people who dance hip-hop, most of them use hip-hop music to dance) the rhythm changes. Slow (sometimes very slow), adding some psychedelic flavor, such as a very gloomy, fat bass, slight but psychedelic synthetic sound effects, or some record samples, sometimes even the noise of the record may be deliberately sampled The so-called trip refers to the psychedelic and dense drug "journey". Therefore, trip-hop is a kind of slow psychedelic, jazz-like, hazy 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.

(Represents: Portishead, Tricky, Massive Attack, Mandalay Moloko Coldcut, etc.)

2.world music

World music is a vocabulary from a Western perspective. It refers to non-British, American and Western folk/pop music. It usually refers to traditional music in developing or backward areas, such as music in Africa and South Asia. In some areas, such as Latin America, music can be popularized to the point of becoming its own a type. The world music that everyone talks about today usually refers to improved traditional regional music that is mixed with Western music. Africa's king sunny ade.

(Representatives: don byron, Zhu Zheqin, nusrat fatehali kahn, etc.)

3. new age

new age is a kind of tranquility, ease and leisure Music, pure music works account for a larger proportion, and singing works account for a smaller proportion. 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 feeling 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 the new age ideological trend and philosophy. New age music is usually regarded as quite middle-class music, and Windham Hill is the most representative new age record company.

(Representatives: enya, george winston, william ackerman, yanni, kitaro, etc.)

4.dream-pop

Dream-pop is a kind of "dream" "It's a pop song with a blurry atmosphere, mostly created by synthesizers (electronic synthesizers). The electric guitar with echo effect is also an important component. The singing part is often very 'breathy', that is, the breathing is heavy, and the lyrics are also... Often have a dream-like poetic color.

(Representing: cocteau twins, lisa germano, st. etienne, this mortal coil, my bloody valentine, mazzy star, dead can dance, etc.)

5.classical pop

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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 Eleanor Rigby by the Beatles. If we say classic pop, it refers to classic pop songs.

(Represents: crowded house, etc.

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6. acappella

Acappella refers to a song without instrumental accompaniment. Any song sung purely with human voice is acappella. However, when we say acappella today, it usually refers to a song with multiple harmonies. The way it is sung, even the instrumental accompaniment is sung by the human voice. The opposite of acappella is umental, which is pure music. Any type of song can be sung in acappella form.

(Representative: Ji Shengmas, etc.)

7.bossa nova

bossa nova is a Brazilian music with a jazz flavor, composed by the composer Antonio in the 1950s Carlos Jobim mixes Brazilian music rhythms with cool jazz from the West Coast of the United States. It is characterized by softness, comfort, relaxation, laziness and romance. Beats 1, 4, 7, 11, and 14 of every two bars are repeated beats. Singer joao gilberto's pure singing voice is an excellent partner for jobim music. It became very popular after being introduced to the United States in the mid-1950s.

(Representatives: Charlie Byrd, Stan Getz, Astrud Gilberto, etc.)

8. Post rock

Post-rock emerged in the mid-1990s An experimental, avant-garde rock music with a hypnotic feel, and its style is drawn from ambient, 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 there are also some that are more pop, such as stereolab wait.

(Represents: cul de sac, ui, flying saucer attack, the high llamas, mogwai, trans am, etc.)

9.britpop

britpop although There is pop, but it is actually a type of rock. It originated in England in the 1990s. It can be translated as "British rock" in Chinese. This is the British music scene's response to the American grunge trend, mainly in the form of bands. 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.

(Representatives: Oasis, Blur, Suede, Pulp, Radiohead, coldplay, etc.)

10.dub

Dub can be said to separate the singing from the music. The remaining music is reggae (reggae, also known as reggae, a kind of South American black music with a very rhythmic and special singing style). When dub is used in electronic music, part of the singing is extracted, the bass and drums are emphasized, and a large number of echo (echo) and other effects are added. This technique is often used to remix songs during live performances. For example, Massive Attack's album "Protection" was mixed by Mad Professor from trip-hop music into a dub version.

(Represents: Tortoise, High Town, etc.)

11.electro

As early as the late 1970s and early 1980s, there was no house at that time. Electronic music like techno is less popular, only electronic music like electro. 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 Roland's drum machine TR-808 is often used to produce drum sounds. Today's electro sound is much 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 in his music.

(Representative: kraftwerk, etc.)

12.jungle

Jungle is the predecessor of drum bass. The speed of jungle is much faster than drum bass, and the beat is more complex and powerful. Sometimes it is paired with some rap. Unlike drum bass, which incorporates some jazz, soul and other elements, it sounds softer. Even David Bowie, the rock chameleon, does it now. It's jungle.

(Representing: Shamen, Plastikman, MK, M-People, etc.)

13.drum bass

For some people, drum bass The music can be very boring, because drum bass focuses on playing tricks on the rhythm, as well as the performance of the bass, such as very fast, complex breakbeats, and the use of various electronic drums or sampled drums. Voice. Therefore, drum bass is also a type of breakbeat.

(Representative: 4hero, etc.)

14.big-beat

Big beat makes brit-hop faster, heavier and more rhythmic. It has a rock flavor, which can be said to be an improved version of brit-hop, making it a more mature style. You can imagine what the heavy, broken, and a bit fast beat looks like.

(Represents: the prodigy, the chemical brothers, fat boy slim, etc.)

15.brit-hop

Speed ??up the rhythm of black hip-hop The drum sound is aggravated, and combined with some electric guitar and bass, it has a rock and roll flavor, such as the style of the chemical brothers.

(Representative: Radiohead, Blur, etc.)

16.break beat

It is not as regular as the house beat boom-boom-boom-boom, but It is presented in a broken rhythm, like a syncopated beat. For example, adding a small snare drum to two beats, etc. Breakbeat is just a general term. There are many kinds of music that belong to breakbeat, such as the following brit-hop, big-beat, and black hip-hop.

(Representative: FATBOY SLIM, etc.)

17.psychedelic trance

Also known as goa trance, it originated from a small island in India. Goa is the name of this island, and the melody often has an Indian flavor. The characteristic of this type of trance is that it pays great attention to the melody, the subtle changes between the notes, and often has overlapping melodies and high-pitched tb-303 sounds. It's a bit ambient.

(Representatives: metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Anthrax, etc.)

18.trance

Psychedelic dance music, evolved from techno, listen to it for a while It makes you feel "trance-like", but still maintains the rhythm of dance music. It pays great attention to the performance of bass. Some of it will have a "hypnotic" effect when listening to it. The beat is also mainly 4/4.

(Representatives: Eddie Halliwell, Sasha, Paul Oakenfold, John Digweed, Paul Van Dyk, etc.)

19.ambient

It doesn’t sound like much, But in fact, it has been 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 responds to the sounds around life. Make samples, such as human voices, car sounds, or even melody of other music, etc.

Created by Brian Eno in the 1970s, it is a very "profound" electronic music. Later, ambient also had branches, such as ambient house, ambient techno, etc. I believe everyone can understand it literally, but it is actually used in many kinds of music. There are shadows of ambient, and even some classical music also has the flavor of ambient.

(Representatives: Brian Eno, Vidna Obmana, Pascal Gabriel, Alio Die, etc.)

20.techno

technology, which means "high-tech dance music" La! It uses computers and synthesizers to synthesize and 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 and tough. , is more mechanized, so some people call techno "industrial noise", but some still focus on melody. Techno originated in Detroit, USA. Three DJs tried to combine electronic music with black music, which resulted in detroit techno. Detroit techno is usually gentler and not as strong as ordinary techno. It can be said to be the origin of modern techno.

(Representatives: Derrick May, Juan Atkins, Kevin Sauderson, Bandulu, etc.)

21.electrophonic music

With the evolution of the times, musicians have There are 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 has a wide range and can often be heard around us in movie soundtracks and advertising soundtracks. , even used in 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 into various elements such as rock, jazz and even blues. Full of emotion. There are also many 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.

(Representatives: Karlheinz Stockhausen, Akufen Egg, Deadbeat, etc.)

22.folk

Folk songs (folk) originally refer to the traditional songs of each nation , the ancestors of every nation have their own songs that have existed since ancient times. Most of these songs do not know who the author is, and they are transmitted orally, from ten to ten, from one generation to the next to this day. . However, what we call folk songs today mostly refers to folk songs from the pop music era, which mainly use wooden guitars as accompaniment instruments, sing in a natural and frank way, and sing out people's simple life feelings. kind of songs. Later, folk songs 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, Tracy Chapman and others took the urban folk/contemporary folk route with a more urban feel. Folk songs (folk) have also developed different aspects 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).

(Representing: woody guthrie, pete seeger, the weavers, bob dylan, joan baez, peter, paul and mary, bob dylan, simon & garfunkel, etc.)

23.chamber pop

Chamber pop refers to a kind of elegant, noble and refined pop music, which has a certain feeling of classical music. The term chamber music comes from classical music, which is called "chamber music" in Chinese. It is a small group string performance with an elegant atmosphere. Chamber pop emerged in the 1990s as a reaction to the lo-fi and grunge styles of 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.

(Represents: the divine comedy, rialto, eric matthews, balle & sebastian, etc.)

24.synth pop

"synth" in synth pop , that is, 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, but fell silent in the mid-1980s. It also caused a wave of craze in Hong Kong that year. Synth pop is characterized by a strong sense of technology and can sometimes be quite cold. Most of the songs are "3-minute pop", and synth pop musicians often dress up in fashionable styles.

(Represents: depeche mode, human league, duran duran, omd, gary numan, etc.)

25.orchestra

Orchestra is an orchestra, which is divided into Four parts: 1. Strings, including violin, cello, etc., 2. Brass, 3. Woodwinds and 4. Percussion. Each instrument in the string section has multiple players (except harp), and the four groups of players are coordinated and led by one person, who is the conductor of the orchestra. Orchestra emerged in the 17th century and was clearly patterned by the 18th century with the works of Haydn and Mozart. In the 19th century, new instruments were added and the number of orchestras increased. Orchestra is the authentic version of Western classical/orthodox music. Western pop/rock music often uses some or all of the orchestra members to assist in performances.

(Representative: Antonin Dvoák, etc.)

26.gangsta rap

gangsta rap is a type of rap. The content of rap is mostly related to urban crime. Relevant, full of violence and lustful feelings, this is a musical direction that reflects reality. Gangsta rap emerged in the United States in the late 1980s. The tough and sharp style of music rap has become very popular in the United States, and its record sales are very high. Many gangsta rap musicians themselves actually "participated" in various real-life crimes, and some were imprisoned or even died as a result. It can be said that it is a genre of music that truly reflects reality and is shocking.

(Examples: ice-t, ice cube, dr. dre, snoop doggy dogg, 2 pac, geto boys, etc.)

27.house

House is 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 is the most basic form of electronic dance music, with a 4/4 rhythm, a drum sound per beat, a simple melody, and often a high-pitched female voice singing. After disco became popular, some DJs changed it and deliberately incorporated disco It has become less commercial, the bass and drums have become deeper, and many times have become pure musical works. Even if there are singing parts, they are mostly short sentences sung by dancing female singers, often without 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.

(Representative: Armand Van Helden, etc.)

28.R&B

The full name of R&B is rhythm & blues, 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 jazz and blues. It is listed as R&B, which 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, are both derived from R&B, and at the same time retain many R&B elements.

(Representatives: Ray Charles, Ruth Brown, Drifters, the Coasters, etc.)

29.disco

The abbreviation of discotheque, originally meaning record dance, originally It refers to the music that black people dance to in nightclubs according to recordings. In the 1970s, it actually became a general term for any 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. 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.

(Representative: ABBA, Bernard Edwards, Janice Marie Johnson, etc.)

30.punk

A kind of rock music developed in the mid-1970s, or " "Punk rock" (punk rock) expanded to 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 and despises all traditions, religion, educational institutions, etc., but it is expressed in a more decadent way, with extremely anist 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. At the end of the 1970s, a new breed that was more acceptable and more artistic was separated from punk, called the "new wave".

(Represents: sex pistols, the clash, etc.)

31.soul

Also known as "soul 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.

(Represents: james brown, ray charles, ons redding, stevle wonder, prince, etc.)

32.reggae

Originated in Jamaica, in the mid-1970s Introduced to the United States.

It combines African and Latin American rhythms and call-and-response singing methods similar to African pop with powerful, propulsive rock and roll sounds.

(Representative: Bob Marley, The Police World Fusion, etc.)

33.rap

Black slang, equivalent to "talking" (talking), produced From the poor black ghettos of 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. Rap lyrics are humorous, witty, and often ironic. Rap is sometimes also called hip-hop. In fact, hip-hop has a broader meaning and refers to various components of New York street culture at that time. In addition to rap, there are also: (rap often uses) moving the record on the turntable back and forth with your hands, making a certain sound. The scratching sound of the rhythm; the DJ's technique of switching records and splicing the music pieces on the record without hearing any trace of interruption; break dancing and so on.

(Represents: public enemy, eminem, etc.)

34.pop

A kind of modern pop music with a strong beat. It is generally believed that pop music can be divided into broad and narrow senses, and "pop" here refers to popular music in the narrow sense.

(Representatives: Diana Ross, Lionel Richie, Whitney Houston, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Prince.)

35. Art rock

Popular after the 1970s , mainly in Europe, led by the British, but also influential in the United States. 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".