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  1. @cambraca just found this.

    Kinda a shame, but I agree it's better to let it go than to force it.

    So long, #GenreOfTheWeek

  2. > The Japanese artist Nujabes, often called the "godfather of lofi hip hop", is also credited with driving lofi's growth with his contributions to the soundtrack for the popular anime Samurai Champloo. [1]

    🔊 #NowPlaying Samurai Champloo OST by Nujabes

    youtube.com/watch?v=LC7-opq4Gi

    1: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lofi_hip

    #GenreOfTheWeek #LoFi

  3. It's been close to 50 weeks of #GenreOfTheWeek awesomeness, and I'm extremely grateful for all who have been involved in it. However, it's become more and more difficult for me to maintain the project so I've been thinking about stopping.

    If anyone is interested in picking it up, I can commit to keeping the archive up-to-date (at info.musicians.today/genre-of-). Is anyone interested? I think it's OK to let it die, too; all good things eventually do.

  4. #GenreOfTheWeek #LoFi #TheApplesInStereo

    The band is largely a product of lead vocalist/guitarist/producer Robert Schneider, who writes the majority of the band's music and lyrics.

    Their sound draws comparisons to the psychedelic rock of The Beatles & The Beach Boys during the 1960s, as well as to bands such as Electric Light Orchestra & Pavement, and also draws from #LoFi, garage rock, new wave, R&B, bubblegum pop, power pop, punk, electro-pop & experimental music.

    music.youtube.com/watch?v=sjGM

  5. #GenreOfTheWeek #LoFi #TheApplesInStereo

    The band is largely a product of lead vocalist/guitarist/producer Robert Schneider, who writes the majority of the band's music and lyrics.

    Their sound draws comparisons to the psychedelic rock of The Beatles & The Beach Boys during the 1960s, as well as to bands such as Electric Light Orchestra & Pavement, and also draws from #LoFi, garage rock, new wave, R&B, bubblegum pop, power pop, punk, electro-pop & experimental music.

    music.youtube.com/watch?v=sjGM

  6. #GenreOfTheWeek #LoFi #TheApplesInStereo

    The band is largely a product of lead vocalist/guitarist/producer Robert Schneider, who writes the majority of the band's music and lyrics.

    Their sound draws comparisons to the psychedelic rock of The Beatles & The Beach Boys during the 1960s, as well as to bands such as Electric Light Orchestra & Pavement, and also draws from #LoFi, garage rock, new wave, R&B, bubblegum pop, power pop, punk, electro-pop & experimental music.

    music.youtube.com/watch?v=sjGM

  7. #GenreOfTheWeek #LoFi

    The Elephant 6 Recording Company is a loosely defined musical collective from the United States. Notable bands associated include:
    the Apples in Stereo
    Beulah
    Circulatory System
    Elf Power
    the Minders
    Neutral Milk Hotel
    of Montreal
    the Olivia Tremor Control.

    Bands in Elephant 6 explore many different genres and share interest in psychedelic pop, particular from the Beach Boys, the Beatles, and the Zombies.

    Their music sometimes features intentionally #LoFi production.

  8. Apparently Doom Metal is the genre of the week!

    Doom is my favourite music genre by far, and I could post recommendations all day.

    However, I'll show some restraint and recommend just one of my favourites: Cirith Ungol by Reverend Bizarre.

    youtu.be/lFCIITJcXGk?si=3zuqbO

    It's a haunting song about the Ringbearer's journey to Mordor.

  9. @evan very nice, thx for sharing. I'm really liking the chill mood on this one (also, great transition at around 0:58).

    🎧 soundcloud.com/zzkrecords/04-c

    If I'm lucky I'll be in Mendoza, Argentina at the end of January. Looking forward to all the alfajores.

    #GenreOfTheWeek #Cumbia

  10. 🔊 #NowPlaying "Children's Story" (see what I did there?) by Slick Rick, from 1988, which is NOT "like 12 years ago" anymore.

    youtu.be/HjNTu8jdukA

    #GenreOfTheWeek is #UKRap a.k.a. #BritishHipHop a.k.a. #BritHop

  11. Here's one of my wife's favorites with a really catchy melody. Between the two we built quite a large Spotify playlist which made the subscription cost more than worth it for many years.

    youtu.be/JenkQGAqkig

    #GenreOfTheWeek #ChildrenSongs

  12. Can't end the week without posting this annoying, annoying track. Makes you wanna punch yourself in the face, but is somehow also hilarious and never gets old. I am sorry. 😆

    🔊 #NowPlaying "El Pollito Pío" 🐣

    youtu.be/dhsy6epaJGs

    #GenreOfTheWeek #ChildrenSongs

  13. Here's one from Ecuador, with a distinctly Andean vibe. I played this a fair number of times as my girls grew.

    🔊 #NowPlaying "El Caballito Azul" (The Little Blue Horse) by Alex Alvear & Mariela Condo

    youtu.be/GRfLsUdSqzU

    #GenreOfTheWeek #ChildrenSongs

  14. Going way back down memory lane... As a kid in Chile, I used to watch this TV show character, "Pin Pón". I'm learning now (Wikipedia) that the actor who created him in '68 was exiled in '74, lived in Ecuador (!) where he did a version of the show for a local station, then moved to Cuba, and finally returned to Chile in '90 after democracy was restored. He continued the show in the iteration I'm familiar with.

    youtube.com/watch?v=HcAElk7JFy

    Latin dictatorships, man.

    #GenreOfTheWeek #ChildrenSongs

  15. Another classic kid's song, but with a punk twist.

    Love this version. Short and sweet.

    NOFX - Champs Elysees

    youtu.be/fHAaYbygl0c

    #GenreOfTheWeek #ChildrenSongs

  16. This is from my own childhood.

    A whole bunch animals get together to play a symphony under the ocean. There's lots of instrument noises and fun, but a deaf whale smashes the whole thing.

    Luckily the animals are ready to get back to their music very quickly.
    🐙🐳🐬🐢🦀

    Piero - Sinfonía Inconclusa en La Mar

    youtu.be/izSmG8R8oVk

    #GenreOfTheWeek #ChildrenSongs

  17. 🔊 #NowPlaying "La cuncuna amarilla" ("the yellow caterpillar" in Chilean Spanish) by Mazapán

    youtu.be/_c3_D89RsH4

    My mom used to sing this to me, endlessly, whenever I was sick as a child, and I did the same with my girls. Good song.

    #GenreOfTheWeek is #ChildrenSongs

  18. New to me but already in love with it.

    Merja Soria - Nuku nuku (Ancient Finnish Lullaby)

    youtu.be/hFCixLn9qRw

    #GenreOfTheWeek #ChildrenSongs

  19. From 'Stay Awake' - vintage Disney songs made by other people. 'Baby Mine' by Bonnie Raitt, was originally in the film 'Dumbo.' 🐘
    #GenreOfTheWeek
    #ChildrenSongs
    music.youtube.com/watch?v=XeHO

  20. Here's one from the Little One's mum. Also in Japanese.

    Quite a gentle, sweet song about rain and a little bear in a mountain.

    あめふりくまのこ

    Satoko Yamano - Amefuri Kumanoko

    youtu.be/bMhqoCTAank

    #GenreOfTheWeek #ChildrenSongs

  21. #GenreOfTheWeek

    #VenaCava is a live performance album released in 1993 by #AvantGardeMusic #ExperimentalMusic artist #DiamandaGalas

    She attracted attention particularly for her voice – a soprano #Sfogato – and written accounts that describe her work as original and thought-provoking refer to her as "CAPABLE OF THE MOST UNNERVING VOCAL TERROR" 📢 listen @ 2:40 !

    Here's an excerpt I think is just fantastic. It includes #AmazingGrace and #InHeavenThereIsNoBeer

    Enjoy!
    youtube.com/watch?v=msJI9hL2Ds

  22. #genreoftheweek #ThroatSinging

    youtu.be/vC9Qh709gas

    This isn’t throat-singing as such but throat-singers do #PolyphonicSinging #OvertoneSinging

    One of my students once confessed that one of the only things he remembered from a psychoacoustics class I ran was me singing overtones but this video is a different level entirely.

  23. @romanalanwrites @cambraca I hope we don't skip the fact that disco is a dance genre. Too often, the physicality of dancing gets left out of the analysis and enjoyment of the music.
    For instance the 12" cut of I feel love, by Donna summer is inherently tied to the act of dancing, in a club, to this incredible track.
    Imagine sweating it out on the dancefloor for 8 minutes. It's ecstasy, in a song
    youtu.be/63RbqaQPXgU
    #disco #DonnaSummer #moroder #genreOfTheWeek

  24. @romanalanwrites @cambraca I hope we don't skip the fact that disco is a dance genre. Too often, the physicality of dancing gets left out of the analysis and enjoyment of the music.
    For instance the 12" cut of I feel love, by Donna summer is inherently tied to the act of dancing, in a club, to this incredible track.
    Imagine sweating it out on the dancefloor for 8 minutes. It's ecstasy, in a song
    youtu.be/63RbqaQPXgU
    #disco #DonnaSummer #moroder #genreOfTheWeek

  25. @romanalanwrites @cambraca I hope we don't skip the fact that disco is a dance genre. Too often, the physicality of dancing gets left out of the analysis and enjoyment of the music.
    For instance the 12" cut of I feel love, by Donna summer is inherently tied to the act of dancing, in a club, to this incredible track.
    Imagine sweating it out on the dancefloor for 8 minutes. It's ecstasy, in a song
    youtu.be/63RbqaQPXgU
    #disco #DonnaSummer #moroder #genreOfTheWeek

  26. @romanalanwrites @cambraca I hope we don't skip the fact that disco is a dance genre. Too often, the physicality of dancing gets left out of the analysis and enjoyment of the music.
    For instance the 12" cut of I feel love, by Donna summer is inherently tied to the act of dancing, in a club, to this incredible track.
    Imagine sweating it out on the dancefloor for 8 minutes. It's ecstasy, in a song
    youtu.be/63RbqaQPXgU
    #disco #DonnaSummer #moroder #genreOfTheWeek

  27. @romanalanwrites @cambraca I hope we don't skip the fact that disco is a dance genre. Too often, the physicality of dancing gets left out of the analysis and enjoyment of the music.
    For instance the 12" cut of I feel love, by Donna summer is inherently tied to the act of dancing, in a club, to this incredible track.
    Imagine sweating it out on the dancefloor for 8 minutes. It's ecstasy, in a song
    youtu.be/63RbqaQPXgU
    #disco #DonnaSummer #moroder #genreOfTheWeek

  28. And you can't have a #BigBand #GenreOfTheWeek without some #CountBasie either. Here's a laid-back blues that could be a trio or quartet recording for the first couple minutes, just delicious walking bass, and #Basie's restrained piano, swinging effortlessly with a plink here and there in just the right places. But you know it's coming... the riffs start sneaking in, and by 2:30 or so, you've got the full-on ton-of-bricks blast that nobody did better than the Basie band.

    song.link/i/1442831749

  29. as a Gen Z, i definitely missed out growing up in the 80s and 90s and experiencing, #synthwave music

    thanks to the artists today that are still making synthwave, there is a lot in this genre to look forward to

    in honor of #GenreOfTheWeek, here's one of my favorite synthwave artists, #OllieWride

    youtube.com/watch?v=x3F6E4tu3o

  30. as a Gen Z, i definitely missed out growing up in the 80s and 90s and experiencing, #synthwave music

    thanks to the artists today that are still making synthwave, there is a lot in this genre to look forward to

    in honor of #GenreOfTheWeek, here's one of my favorite synthwave artists, #OllieWride

    youtube.com/watch?v=x3F6E4tu3o

  31. as a Gen Z, i definitely missed out growing up in the 80s and 90s and experiencing, #synthwave music

    thanks to the artists today that are still making synthwave, there is a lot in this genre to look forward to

    in honor of #GenreOfTheWeek, here's one of my favorite synthwave artists, #OllieWride

    youtube.com/watch?v=x3F6E4tu3o

  32. as a Gen Z, i definitely missed out growing up in the 80s and 90s and experiencing, #synthwave music

    thanks to the artists today that are still making synthwave, there is a lot in this genre to look forward to

    in honor of #GenreOfTheWeek, here's one of my favorite synthwave artists, #OllieWride

    youtube.com/watch?v=x3F6E4tu3o

  33. as a Gen Z, i definitely missed out growing up in the 80s and 90s and experiencing, #synthwave music

    thanks to the artists today that are still making synthwave, there is a lot in this genre to look forward to

    in honor of #GenreOfTheWeek, here's one of my favorite synthwave artists, #OllieWride

    youtube.com/watch?v=x3F6E4tu3o

  34. #GenreOfTheWeek

    You knew it would happen sooner or later... three of my favorites (#Cowboy, #Yodeling, #Polka) combined into one post...
    Here it is!

    #KennyRoberts - "The Yodel Polka"

    There's something new, something hot, something you haven't heard a lot.
    When oh it's something you will like
    It's the #Yodel Polka

    You don't need a #Saxophone, a #Clarinet, or #SlideTrombone
    Just clear your throat for a nice good tone
    And sing the Yodel Polka

    You're welcome!

    music.youtube.com/watch?v=1j6_

  35. According to Wikipedia (though there's a "citation needed" on this part), this is the first postwar recording to use the term "klezmer" to refer to the music.

    🔊 #NowPlaying "Thalassa" (1977) by The Klezmorim.

    youtu.be/xZM_x3EfRFU

    To me, it sounds very, very similar to something I shared during #RomaniMusic week: youtu.be/-YO68M79B5o. Does anyone know how the two are related?

    #GenreOfTheWeek is #Klezmer

    *edit* see: mstdn.ca/@dancarkner/110328519

  36. #GenreOfTheWeek #BritishFolkRock

    #SteeleyeSpan are a British folk rock band formed in 1969 in England by #FairportConvention bass player #AshleyHutchings and established London folk club duo #TimHart and #MaddyPrior. The band were part of the 1970s British folk revival, and were commercially successful in that period, with four Top 40 albums and two hit singles: "Gaudete" and "All Around My Hat".

    #SteeleyeSpan - "Gaudete"

    youtube.com/watch?v=EDc2FD-vy8

  37. 🔊 #NowPlaying "Crazy Yodel" (c. 1935!) by Harry Torrani a.k.a. Harry Hopkinson, a.k.a. Austin Layton 🤷.

    youtu.be/wSXlmdAl8S0

    To some, the world's greatest yodeler.

    #GenreOfTheWeek is #Yodeling

  38. "The vocal folds can vibrate in four different mechanisms.

    M0: ‘creak’ or ‘vocal fry’

    M1: women: ‘chest’ register; men: normal voice

    M2: women: ‘head’ register; men: ‘falsetto’ register

    M3: ‘whistle’ or ‘flageolet’ register

    There is usually a pitch and intensity range over which singers can use either M1 or M2, and trained singers are good at disguising the transition. Sometimes, as in yodeling, the transition is a feature."

    (from: phys.unsw.edu.au/jw/voice.html)

    #GenreOfTheWeek is #Yodeling

  39. Re: pop singers, Wikipedia says this song has yodeling (I guess around 2:15 🤨), "combined with heavy use of auto-tune".

    🔊 #NowPlaying "Cannibal" by Kesha

    youtu.be/48wHhW_dTMo

    Definitely not what I had in mind when I added #Yodeling to the #GenreOfTheWeek poll.

  40. #GenreOfTheWeek
    #Yodeling 🏔️

    AND, not exactly musical....
    Tarzan Yell (and Jane too) - a fine technical example of yodeling.

    youtube.com/watch?v=y_kvB3_0mr

  41. #GenreOfTheWeek
    #Yodeling 🏔️
    Hows-about-a-pop-singer...

    #Jewel (Kilcher) is an American singer-songwriter, actress, and author. She has received four Grammy Award nominations and, as of 2021, has sold over 30 million albums worldwide.

    She grew up singing and yodeling as a duo with her father.

    From her debut studio album Pieces of You, came the hits "Who Will Save Your Soul" & "You Were Meant for Me"

    youtube.com/watch?v=HqNe5Ugs0Q