PSA

Transferred from Low Earth Orbit, originally posted 2011.02.14 19:58.

I linked to it in the previous post, but I’ve just put my music genre name generator through a round of lexical and algorithmic improvements, so I recommend a look at it. As also mentioned in the previous post, I warn you that it can be quite addictive.

In addition, if you find one genre at a time is not enough, you can get a listing of a hundred of them at a time. (Update 2018: Not working currently. Single-genre generator is still online though, and it's been revamped to work purely client-side.)

Some of my favorites since I’ve been working on it today — I’ve been obliged to load the hundred-genres page each time I tweaked it, in order to check for mess-ups, and I copied the best results into a txt file — have been

• pubstep
• roboclash thrash
• witch wonky
• gore grunge-gogo
• polka-punk proto-breaks
• hyperbilly ghettobop
• sadgamelan
• lovers thrash
• doom bop
• hypnagogic hyper-punk
• basement psychopsych
• tropical gangsta ambient
• dadcore
• trance-trance rave-trance
• classic ballroom industrial
• post-minimal paleo-ragtime anti-dancehall
• post-rave noise-polka
• conceptual K-punk
• beachwave
• arena gamelan
• album-oriented blues-blues blues concrète
• crust-funk

I’m pretty sure there are quadrillions of possible combinations, and it’s those alliterative, cognitively dissonant, and roll-off-the-tongue-in-a-special-way ones that keep me coming back.