Microgenres and other devotions to precision.

[afterstasis]

The internet has brought the microgenre to most music fans' radar at this point, whether they're making snarks about how Opeth is the first blackened avant-death metal band or sifting through the latest chillwave on their favorite blogs.
I think most regulars here agree that smart use of these descriptors can be a blessing in finding new music, honing in on fairly specific styles and sounds. It's certainly easier to sample your punk buddy's favorite d-beat records rather than plunge into his entire collection to find something that sounds like Final Conflict.

In addition to microgenres, I think this thread could also serve as a haven for less formal collections of artists who exercise rigid focus, such as drum-guitar garage rock duos, groups exploring genre themes exclusively acappella, or power electronics artists consistently addressing specific serial killers in both their audio and visual output.

I would like this thread to become a place to go for these specialized recommendations, guides, lists, and discussions.
Help me get this going, y'all. I'd like this to go further than my krautrock and no wave threads.

[afterstasis]

This is very much a work in progress. I'll start with canon examples.


Paisley Underground
The Dream Syndicate - That's What You Always Say

Freakbeat
The Creation - Making Time

Krautrock
Can - Halleluwah

Canterbury Scene
Caravan - Golf Girl

Zeuhl
Magma - Da Zeuhl wortz Mekanïk

RIO
Present - Ersatz

Cowpunk
Country Teasers - It Is My Duty

Zolo
Cardiacs - In A City Lining

Slowcore
Low - Days Of...

No Wave
Teenage Jesus and The Jerks - I Woke Up Dreaming

Chillwave
Neon Indian - Mind, Drips

Coldwave
Trisomie 21 - The Last Song

Witch House
Salem - Asia

D-Beat
Discharge - Drunk With Power

Powerviolence
Dropdead - I Will Stand

NWOBHM
Angel Witch - Angel Witch

Drone Doom Metal
Nadja - Clinodactyl

Goregrind
Dead Infection - Airplane Catastrophe

War Metal
Revenge - Destiny Mastery

Dark Jazz
Bohren & der Club of Gore - Still am Tresen

Chamber Jazz
Tin Hat Trio - Invisible Mobile

Post-Bop
Charles Mingus - Better Git It in Your Soul

Glitch Pop
DAT Politics - Fake Friend

Microhouse
Gui Boratto - Terminal

Breakcore
The Flashbulb - Lawn Wake IX
Venetian Snares - Frictional Nevada
Hypnoskull - Operation Tough Guy

Electroclash
The Faint - Glass Danse

Spacesynth
Laser Dance - Future Generation

Illbient
Techno Animal - We Can Build You

Musique Concrète
Tod Dockstader - Water Music: Part Three

Ritual Ambient
Zoät-Aon - MaUrMa

EAI
Martin Siewert & Martin Brandlmayr - Is This Love?

Lowercase
Taku Sugimoto - A Narrow Path

Harsh Noise Wall
The Cherry Point - Untitled

Power Noise
Esplendor Geométrico - El Acero del Partido (Excerpt)

Ambient Dub
Echospace - Aequinoxium

Math Rock
Don Caballero - June is Finally Here

Mathcore
Botch - John Woo

Deathgrind
Assück - In Absence

Funeral Doom Metal
Skepticism - The Rising Of The Flames
Evoken - Into the Autumn Shade

Viking Metal
Bathory - Baptised In Fire And Ice

Digital Dancehall
Wayne Smith - Under Me Sleng Teng

Rocksteady
The Paragons - On The Beach

2 Tone
The Beat - Big Shot

Outlaw Country
Kris Kristofferson - Just the Other Side of Nowhere

Twee Pop
Beat Happening - Tiger Trap

Indeterminacy
John Cage - Indeterminacy, Part 1

G-Funk
Dr Dre - Nuthin But A G Thang

New York Hardcore
Gorilla Biscuts- High Hopes

Trip-Hop
Portishead - Roads

Folk Metal
Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja

Microtonal
Giacinto Scelsi - Khoom

Serialism
Anton Webern - String Trio, op.20

Medieval Choral Music
Giovanni Pierluigi de Palestrina - Assumpta est Maria, motet for 6 voices

Modern Choral Music
Alfred Schnittke - Choir Concerto 2 - I, an Expert in Human Passions

Djent
Periphery - Buttersnips
TesseracT - Eden

Symphonic Black Metal
Bal-Sagoth - As The Vortex Illumines The Crystalline Walls Of Kor Avul Thaa

Black 'n' Roll
Kvelertak - Blodtørst

Bongo Flava
Professor Jay - Una

Calypso
Lord Kitchener - Picadilly Folk

Crack Rock Steady
Choking Victim - Suicide (A Better Way)

Crossover Thrash
D.R.I. - Couch Slouch

Jazz Hop
Digable Planets - What Cool Breezes Do

Psychobilly
The Cramps - The Mad Daddy

Ska-Jazz
Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra - The Pretender

Thrashcore
Thrashington D.C. - Banned in B.M.O.

Tishoumaren
Tinariwen - Adimini

Dark Psytrance
Xenomorph - Nuclear Winter

Melodic Hardcore
Leatherface - I Want the Moon

Synth Punk
The Screamers - Peer Pressure

Shidaiqu
周璇 [Zhou Xuan]: "花樣的年華 [Age of Bloom]"

Ambient Techno
Gas - Untitled #4

Free Folk
Charalambides - Joy Shapes

American Primitivism
John Fahey - Thus Krishna on the Battlefield

Experimental Big Band
Charlie Haden - War Orphans

Chicago Blues
Magic Sam - I Don't Want No Woman

Delta Blues
Son House - Empire State Express

Flamenco
Paco de Lucía - Solera (Bulerías por soleá)

Te Pūoro Māori
Ana Hato & Deane Waretini - Pokarekare

Memphis Rap
Lil Yo - Creepin

Martial Industrial
Wappenbund - Marche Funebre

Death Industrial
Genocide Organ - Klaus Barbie

Exotica
Yme Sumac - Dance of the Moon Festival (Choladas)

Space Age Pop
Joe Meek - I Hear a New World

Sophisti-Pop
The Lotus Eaters - The First Picture of You

Sunshine Pop
The Millennium - It's You

Highlife
Sweet Talks - Kyekye Pe Aware


SMAP contribution
Rocket2Russia contribution
GameMaster439 contribution
darkwinterbeast8 contribution
LegendofRock3021 contribution


I need help with omissions, particularly in styles I don't like.

[ClaptonsWig]

You need to get Gowi in here, if anybody is willing to help out with micro genres, its him.

[afterstasis]

Okay, 1st update done. Next I'll go into classical and folk music, for sure.

I would like to get a color-code system going to separate canon material from personal favorites, but that will come at a later date if this thread does indeed become a useful tool in the first place.

[GrandPappySMAP]

Uh I'll try and help with a few ideas, this is a pretty great idea

New York Hardcore

Gorilla Biscuts- High Hopes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65YbvdwBwXw

Trip-Hop

Portishead- Roads
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQYsGWh_vpE

Folk Metal

Moonsorrow- Kivenkantaja
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FP_yFIvQgo

House

Justice- D.A.N.C.E.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCnBrrnOefs

[killer_roach]

The "Zolo" example you cited also has been referred to as "pronk" (a portmanteau whose construction should be pretty obvious once you listen to the song).

[GrandPappySMAP]

I thought Zolo and Pronk were two names for the same genre?

[killer_roach]

I thought Zolo and Pronk were two names for the same genre?

Might be, although I've only heard Pronk used before. (Then again, it's pretty obvious that I approach the genre decidedly from one side of it and not the other.)

[afterstasis]

SMAP, in my next update I'll add those with the exception of House, which is way too large to be a microgenre. I reckon I'll also throw in viking metal with the folk metal, since that's one strain I can occasionally dig.

As for pronk vs zolo, there's not a big difference and anyone invested in saying otherwise is being a bit of a stickler, but I reckon zolo's a bit more flavored by new wave than punk and regularly focused on absurdist humor and less "meat and potatoes" instrumentation.
I had personally never heard of either until the internet came along, though I'm thankful since "art punk" just isn't a satisfying descriptor for stuff like this.

[Rocket2Russia]

So I'm not entirely sure how we're supposed to be contributing, but perhaps these?

Microtonal
Giacinto Scelsi - Khoom

Serialism
Anton Webern - String Trio, op.20