Styles of music that are unpopular or just hardly ever seem to get discussed on ILX

1. Indie
2. Hiphop
3. Punk/Hardcore
4. House
5. Progressive House
6. Psytrance
7. Reggae
8. Drum & Bass
9. Japanese Music
10. Black Metal
11. Jazz
12. Electro
13. Dancehall
14. French Hiphop
15. IDM
16. Techno
17. Metal
18. Hardcore/Gabber
19. Industrial
20. Trance
21. Classical
22. J-Rock
23. Ambient
24. Stoner Rock
25. Breakbeat
26. Emo
27. Gothic
28. Death Metal
29. Minimal Music
30. Oi

Least discussed on ILM? Psytrance, Gothic, Japanese music, Hardcore, French Hiphop...

Don't even think about it.

Where's the dangdut thread goddammit!

not true

Memo to self: from now, discuss wanky, imaginationless bullshit in a positive way.

ska of the Five Iron Frenzy variety, pop-punk in the wake of Blink 182, screamy emo haircut bands like Taking Back Sunday and Planes Mistaken for Stars.

This is mostly a good thing.

not true

OK, the 1991-1993 UK proto-hardcore is analyzed to death, but it's a bit like only discussing pre-1985 NYC hiphop and ignoring everything else.

hm, i think we may be talking about different kinds of hardcore here...

Lite/Easy Listening/Smooth Jazz

Yeah, there's the hardcore punk thing too...haven't paid much attention to that for years, the last HC album I bought was a Hate Squad one circa '96 when the whole thing was already well on its way down commercially/artistically. Come to think of it, what actually happened to that scene and its bands, are Sick Of It All and the like still together?

(sea shanty's included)

music hall?

BLUEGRASS.

Reggae is not much discussed as far as individual artists, only sweeping discussions of the entire genre. From my vantage point on the search function, anyway.

proper music

"folktronica" is probably the worst genre name ever

nah, it's gotta be "illbient" right?

Why the hell isn't there more filk talk on ILM, you rockists.

soca

do you ever read the rolling dancehall threads, Roxy?

Yes, but that's a small portion of reggae covered. And only one thread!

Unless Search deceives me, there has never been a serious thread on ragtime. This surprises me.

traditional jazz

So many dance styles that are largely ignored or derided. Psy-Trance, Trance in general, which are huge and relatively current genres, are like a bad smell round these parts.

We mention soca occasionally on the reggaeton/sasla thread.

Rural dance (country-funk-electro)

Is this real?? What are some examples?

Also don't get Siegbran's claim that hardcore is not discussed here. It's certainly discussed more than oi, as far as I can tell.

Not very much norteno talk. I've been meaning to explore that stuff.

choral

Why the hell isn't there more filk talk on ILM, you rockists.

If a loathing for filk (quite possibly the worst genre of all-time next to new age) makes me a rockist, then rock on, brothers!

Brass band/ Marching band/ Military band music

Oh hells no:

"Shooglenifty is one of Scotland's most unique musical exports. This six-man band is credited being the originators of 'acid-croft', a fiery and infectious blend of Celtic traditional music and dance grooves that band members decribe as "hypno-folkadelic ambient trad."

Move over, filk?

1. crapcore
5 up, 3 down
Crapcore is a music genre with a clear aggressive mode that has nearly no lyrics at all. Most often, crapcore has a fuzzy and very fast beat, the samplings have very low quality and the vocals consist solely of screams. Sometimes single words or phrases can be heard.

There is a fine line between crap-core and crap. Crapcore is less a musical genre or style and more a method of thinking, and an approach towards creating art. While crapcore music can range from simplistic accoustic tunes to avant-garde opperettas made by screaming into a hand-held tape recorder, what remains constant is a naive ability and willingness to create despite an awful environment or the neccescity to use the most rudimentry, broken-down tools. And beyond this simplistic and haggard bum's work-ethic, crapcore always has an underlying ugly-ness. The crapcore artist is simultaniously a cynical and pretentious rip-off artist and a "outsider" idiot-artist. He or she will continue to create flawed artwork no matter the situation because of a compulsion and an inability to function within the "outside world."

Many novelty or "crap" artists often confuse their work with crapcore. Crapcore music is closely related to freak-out, core-core, far-out and avant-unlistenable, in that it is likely sloppy, lo-fi, fueled by alcohol or drugs or widely considered exremely irritating, however a wide spectrum of diverse artists could also be defined by such wide deffinitions.

Some "popular" crapcore artists include "German Cars vs American Homes", "Hasil Adkins", "Pope John Paul the Third" and "Passenger of Shit".

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=crapcore

Ice metal
ज्ञानकोश: - The Indological Knowledgebase
Ice metal is kindly metal music that diferes from the other sub-genres of metal in musical style more than in lyrics and attitude. The most prominent and representative (but not only one) band among the ice metal scene would probably be the Finland band Sonata Arctica, who used ice imagery (and sometimes themes) extensively. The distinctions of this sub-genre of metal is that it uses a lot of electronical instruments taken from the 80's icy sound that began with the new romantics and synth pop scenes, which suggests ice, snow and brilliant aesthetic; and that the principal role of the score is on the keyboard, subbordinating the guitars to a second place. Some of these bands even has two or three keyboardists. Other examples are Luca Turilli, Royal Hunt, Celesty, Heavenly, Helloise, Die & Her, Drakkar, Maley, Lacrimosa, Johansson, At Vance, Crystal Eyes and Suricci Bianca.

My favorite bullshit genre is spy jungle. I've actually heard it mentioned twice now.

there's my new orleans brass band thread, but there can only be so much discussion when new records don't come out very often and nobody listens to them anyway (and that stuff is totally different from Euro/military brass bands)

chutney

Leelo

Opera
Gnawa
Greek Rebetica
Orissi Dance
Dhrupad Chant
Ragas
Mariachi
Jug Band
Old-Timey and/or Mountain Music

Skronk needs more love.. and not just the no wave acts.

I love Gnawa music. Especially this:

http://images.zlio.com/product/large/3706951.jpg

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0002VERQA.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Ohhhh. NFL Films music...

The Autumn wind is a Raider
Pillaging just for fun
He'll knock you round
And upside down
And laugh when he's conquered and won

Video Game music.

"chiptune"?

"Chiptunes/Video Game Music seconded, HARD - along with,

Fado
Greek Jazz
Western Swing
Thai Pop
Japanese Instrumental Hip Hop
Third Stream
Acoustic Fingerstyle Guitar

By the way,

Kevin John Bozelka, what would these guys be?

Hurting 2 - thanks for the recommendation of "Les Gnawa du Maroc" - that clips i heard sound great but i can't find it for less $20. I really enjoy the Randy Weston joint "The Splendid Master Gnawa Musicians of Morocco". Very Nice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn8ErcsQzVs

Los Texmaniacs w/ guest La Marisoul at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival play conjunto

Los Texmaniacs play Tex-Mex and Tejano also.

I was half-thinking yesterday of starting a S/D for the Russian post-punk / rock / folk scene alla Auktyon, 80s-90s-00s mainly but maybe it's still ongoing
Brazil beyond the classic bossa nova / MPB / samba era is my biggest regret on ILM
Deep dives in Latin music also, for example Peru (I see there's a small thread), Colombia (not about Shakira), Argentina or Mexico.

I'm probably not aware of everything that has been discussed though. You think you see a blind spot and then next to it there's a 10'000 posts thread for Umm Kulthum.

I’m constantly exposed to music that is never exposed on ilm because I live in Mexico and that’s fine with me.

Most music discussed here is uk/us centric with a bit of global awareness.