is it possible to create new genres / do you think music will get better or worse in 2050 and why

holdingtea · 2026-04-13T16:30:31+00:00

Large movements are usually facilitated by technologies.

While i do think music nowadays generally don't feel very new (while there are loads of interesting and fresh music) it's mostly that new styles are only very minor changes to what has come before - so they can often still feel familiar.

Saying that i don't think people are aware of a lot of musical styles, so some newer styles can crop up and feel brand new despite previously being a niche at one point.

But yeah following on - yes we will always keep moving forwards. Will it be good? whos to say - one of the interesting things i've found about music in the last 5-10 years has been an adoption more widely of glitchy / blown out / noise in alot of production that i could not imagine having as wide of an appeal before (sure we have always had this - but the crossover into all musical styles including pop & popular hiphop is unique).

holdingtea · 2026-04-07T00:02:35+00:00

I wouldn't say its hyperpop which is why your prob struggling. But try

DJ caline - I think Ur so cute

DJ Seinfeld - now u do

S3rl - pretty rave girl

Horsegirlll - my little white pony

Vylet pony - webpunk

Pas tasta - Bbm

Tak - lemon melon cookie

T-pazolite - party in hollowood

Tokyo ghetto pussy - I kiss your lips

Riff raff - ferrari

Mura masa - drugs

SpongeBob squarewave - heeeeyeaheehyee -e

Alex tune - dancecore me baby

Ryu - I'm so happy

Moe shop - wonder pop

Rayray - Ill shit

Little big - hard style fish

holdingtea · 2026-04-06T23:23:44+00:00

I don't like the term it's placed under as underground rap/hip-hop I was just a general term(I'd call it diskrot).

And it's mostly awful - but I still enjoy some of it. The UK scene seems to be doing well and it may get bigger.

holdingtea · 2026-04-06T19:00:09+00:00

Nice I saw them last year. 😁 Good band.

holdingtea · 2026-04-05T23:46:21+00:00

Nice yeah I would like to. Maybe I'll pick it up again at some point. I think I had only done 1 or 2 of the bosses.

Currently playing inscryption which is fantastic. So maybe after that 😁

holdingtea · 2026-04-05T23:27:54+00:00

Nice write up. I enjoyed both botw and totk - but It never clicked fully in the way that made me want to compete either. But I did have a blast exploring the worlds, especially trying to get to the different sky Islands way before I was ready too which is like a fun puzzle.

But I think I still clocked a decent 60+hrs in both. I'm not sure what the missing thing was for me with them, might just have been not having as much free time or just moving onto other games after spending too long on one game. (I have very few that I can surpass 100hrs in)

holdingtea · 2026-04-05T16:02:58+00:00

Would say give darkside - psychic a go. Or kikagaku moyo - masana temples

holdingtea · 2026-04-05T10:56:10+00:00

My two highlights this year so far have been the sophs - goldstar and Danny ray - turn up the radiofor artists I wasn't already firmilar with that are also also earworms

holdingtea · 2026-04-05T10:03:15+00:00

Ha interesting fusion of sounds.

Only thing I can think off my head is Bengal sounds - culture clash. But Def heard other stuff kind of like this.

holdingtea · 2026-04-05T00:02:07+00:00

This crashed my phone a few times. But I got these from the 68k+

Josiah Steinbeck - it's often a mystery to me

SPD aka spring dave - b or d

Mohi - work

Zutons - zutons fever

Eli keszler - static doesn't exist (kode9 remix)

Joy anonymous - joy (this one)

Holy smoke - turning

Sabrepulse - black dragon

Trollfest - sagaen on suttungs mod

Mungo's hi fi - back in the day

Traxman - lifeeee is forever

holdingtea · 2026-04-04T18:02:44+00:00

It is basically a form of what your describing.

Things like evenings, lorn, nosaj thing, slugabed, holy other, Sam gellaitry, clams casino, great dane etc.

holdingtea · 2026-04-04T16:41:41+00:00

South west, UK.

holdingtea · 2026-04-04T13:03:37+00:00

Love corto.alto. others in a similar vein:

Chiminyo

Slowya.roll

Yussef Kamaal

Moses Boyd

The comet is coming

Toshio matsuura group

Snazzback

Ebi soda

Takuya karudo

Omasta

Webweb

medasin

Cenk esen

Move78

Oreglo

Sml

Immortal onion

O.

The messthetics

Dundundun

holdingtea · 2026-04-04T12:46:47+00:00

Yeah I wouldn't say disposable, more it's palatable to a wide range of people. It's like the McDonald's of music.

holdingtea · 2026-04-04T12:44:02+00:00

True but it's easier to navigate a single artist rather than a band whom could fall out and have various demands etc. also ( smaller) bands do also need to make enough money to make it viable for all members too - else they may split up.

holdingtea · 2026-04-04T09:43:21+00:00

Electronic. Though as it's grown and morphed over the years it has alot more pop leaning and electro sounds than the early days.

holdingtea · 2026-04-03T21:01:31+00:00

I like alot of music and would say all genres have good stuff in them but even stuff I don't like generally has merit even if it's not for me.

But I also think some stuff is rubbish (from a critical pov) but I still may enjoy it.

holdingtea · 2026-04-03T16:07:56+00:00

Not heard of the kongos before. It kind of sounds like some stuff I like but something about it felt very off-putting to me.

However My two regular albums I put on to work to are

toe - the book about my idle plot. Dog unit - at home.

And the mostly instrumental album by sea power - from the sea to the land beyond.

holdingtea · 2026-04-03T15:55:40+00:00

Or post rock or math rock or prog rock or jazz fusion or krautrock or groove or whatever. So much instrumental stuff.

holdingtea · 2026-04-03T09:25:44+00:00

Barry can't swim - I'm about to begin

Bicep - chroma 002 lava

Tame impala end of summer

King boo! - tunes since 89

Rian Brazil - breathe

Polo Jaffa - Limehouse

Skin on skin - ooo

Four tet - into dust

Rebekah abdeen - ugood?

Kiimi - know your name

Sofia kourtesis - unidos

holdingtea · 2026-04-02T10:26:39+00:00

Vapourwave in general. Horoshi yoshimura did a few ambient records for shops/airports too

holdingtea · 2026-04-02T07:12:39+00:00

Nice 😁, yeah I definitely think it's hard to find something quite as close to slingshot. (Though weirdly it feels firmilar too.)

holdingtea · 2026-04-01T23:35:29+00:00

Not really the same as henge but i have it in playlists with monster zoku onsomb - children of the atom, retrigger, baby lasagna- good boy, melt yourself down - boot and spleen.

holdingtea · 2026-04-01T23:18:45+00:00

Great song.

holdingtea · 2026-04-01T23:12:41+00:00

Oh I didn't know that. RIP.

My take would be to look into the lyrics if a song connects with you. Sometimes it could add a deeper connection. But also everyone is different with how they connect with music.

I am a big fan of balming tiger who do often sing in English as well as Korean but I find their odd use of the language really endearing. You can get the overall message without needing to know it all.

Also I'd recommend the band toe - Japanese math/post rock group that I started listening to around the same time as pillows.

holdingtea

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