I Took an Impossible Genre Quiz 

So proud of Fantano for having a punk genre named after him

The takeaway is that Austen is really good at making up genes

I know it wound up being one of the fake genres, but Bristol Sound was likely referring to trip-hop

I love this because Bristol Sound actually is a common term used to describe a lot of that portishead style trip hop from the 90s lmao.

It was funny seeing Phunk there knowing that *Phonk* is an existing genre

Can we take a moment to appreciate the excellent work made by Austen in both genre research and coming up with genre names? Every question was really challenging and fun.

That last one is genuinely unfair because while Sadcore isn't on RYM, it _does_ have a page (or at least some mentions) on Wikipedia

"Sadcore" is a reference to Scott Pilgrim vs the World. There's a section for it in one of the scenes in the record store.

Don’t know how much you read the comments but Balinese Gamelan is some of the most hypnotic, complex, and rich music in the world. The intricately arranged beats, played by hand by huge ensembles is astonishing to see live. Anyone really into techno/IDM, Björk and Radiohead, and/or American Minimalism like Reich, Glass, Adams, Riley, Eastman etc is going to have a huge appreciation for gamelan. There are some killer vids on RU-vid of some amazing gamelan orchestras.

I knew Kawaii Future Bass was real because it was on my friend's spotify wrapped last year, along with "brostep" and "indie game soundtrack." I think it was purely just him listening to indie game music that caused Kawaii future bass to be on that list. None of us know what it is

I am SHOCKED he didn’t know about the kawaii future bass one knowing how popular it was on RU-vid at one point

Egg punk is super identifiable. Has that mid tempo KICK SNARE KICK SNARE + distorted vocals

Now we know Austen should be making music in these new genres she created

Kawaii Future Bass has to be what got me into making music in the first place. Artists like Hyper Potions, Snail's House, yunomi, and Shawn Wasabi are huge inspirations to me.

I love how some of these genre terms actually are real but just not recognized by RYM, like sadcore or Bristol sound (an early term for trip hop music)

Music Fantano won't listen to: - Sleepy Music - Nervous Music

Well I'm delighted to learn you're genderfluid but i never thought I would find out like this

fun fact Gamelan hails from the island of Java (not too far from Timor) and is super relaxing to play and listen to!

Gamelan music is incredible btw, if you’re a drummer or percussionist check it out their sense of rhythm is otherworldly

Seeing the joy in Anthony’s eyes as he discovers more music to hate is beautiful 🥹

Nice to see that RYM genre inventions are getting famous now.

I was an admin on RYM many years ago. Mainly to cover SE Asia related stuff. And the daily argument regarding "is this a genre? WTF is this" were a highlight of my time on the admin board back then lol 😂

YESSSS! Egg punk is such an underrated "genre" and any of Mark Winter's (Gordon Spicer Band, The Coneheads, D.L.I.M.C) stuff is amazing!

Sadcore is absolutely a thing. I remember people using it interchangeably with slowcore

I was convinced Bristol Sound was real and applied to the Massive Attack, Portishead, Tricky era of trip hop

Egg punk is by far my preferred flavor of punk. It’s been in somewhere in my Spotify wrapped for the past 2 years

Austen read my mind with the Distantcry tag at 6:22 lol

As an EDM-head, I am proud to say I know Kawaii Future Bass is a real genre. Hello Snail House.

Gregorians absolutely pale in comparison to the Baltics chanties. Unadulterated bliss.

3:13 nice to see Wormlust get shouted out. "The Feral Wisdom" is a must-listen for any black metal fan imo.

i never got into Snail's House, but i knew Kawaii Future Bass was real because a lot of early Panda Eyes and half of Geoxor's music is often compared to or inspired by that scene.

isn't that "Bristol Sound" refer to what became known as Trip-Hop in the 90's? before trip-hop was trip hop...

Only one I knew was Kawaii Future Bass because it actually has quite a following, It's definitely not the most obscure on here.

Can’t believe you didn’t pick up on Kawaii Future Bass! Such a dope subgenre!

egg punk is definitely the kind of thing rym nerds made up to categorize the unique style of sound from that time period

Sadcore actually *is* a genre, albeit a contentious one. It's sort of an offshoot from Slowcore Music, but most bands in the scene dislike the name and disagree with the label itself (as is also the case with artists inside the Slowcore scene). It's simply Slowcore Music but even more depressing, and heavily overlaps with the former. Arab Strap is probably your best example (particularly their album "Elephant Shoe"), although they're commonly placed under the Slowcore label too. And if you haven't heard of Slowcore before, then I HIGHLY recommend you check it out. Codeine, Low, Red House Painters, Cat Power and Arab Strap are all great artists, *ESPECIALLY* Codeine.

I always thought it was spelled "Austin" I feel like such a fake fan now

Shouts out to Gamelan music, very cool music from Indonesia and surrounding countries

Only reason I knew Egg Punk must've been the real one is I saw Oh Sees and they had a dude named EGG IDIOT as their opening act, he ran around in a paper maché egg costume playing crappy midi punk songs on his computer and shouting into the mic. It was actually very entertaining.

conducted improv is absolutely a thing my alternative high school had a weird little experimental improv group and we were made well aware of this stuff. On one end you've got like, John Zorns structured improv which is pretty close to how a looser jazz band works but with weird little twists to throw the players off, like conducting, but also like a card based system that dictates ordering and other stuff like that and, and then the other end is like, basically a john cage-esque experiment in chance-based composition, but in real time, with everyone trying to link their totally unstructured playing to the gestures and queues of a conductor, who in the most ambiguated sense might actually be a dancer or even a poet. ITs hard to quantify where that style ends, especially as its not really a genre in itself, moreso an approach to composition that can be applied to anything from noise and industrial to jazz, or progressive rock.

Melon, I really enjoy these videos where you goof around and have fun like this and I think lots of us would enjoy if you made them more

That Pisse album in the Egg Punk genre is awesome

i can't believe Anthony doesn't know what gamelan is!!!

Anthony Fantano not knowing Gamelan music was the most shocking thing in this video, honestly. Fun fact, my university offered a course on performing Javanese Gamelan music and it was incredible. One of the best classes I ever enrolled in.

Anthony you reviewed a Future Bass Album in the past called “ Glass Swords “ and you weren’t able to point out that future bass was a real genre. (T^T)

You gotttaaaaa check out Tyshawn Sorey, he studied at Wesleyan with Anthony Braxton and on top of being a great drummer his large ensemble guided improvisations are sensational. Those two, and Wadada Leo Smith are my favorite free improv composers, they make gorgeous graphic scores that players decipher and use to inform their improv session. Sometimes the scores tell you something approximate about duration or note choices but sometimes they’re just for you to interpret emotionally. And then often the bandleader literally guides the improv telling people when to play and dynamics and stuff like that. It’s really fun to watch and play in.

Bristol sound is real but it's just a synonym for trip-hop basically (Portishead, Massive Attack, early Bjork, Tricky, etc) Speaking of which, it's about time for a Mezzanine classic review melon ;)

I Have Known About Egg Punk Longer Than Anthony Fantano

Damn dude catch up on your Egg Punk. Gee Tee! One of the best bands right now!

Can't believe Anthony didn't know the Bristol Sound is trip hop

It's crazy how RYM has all these weird-named genres but won't accept Dissonant Black Metal 😭

this was the most entertaining fantano content in a long time.

You don’t deserve the title “Internet’s Busiest Music Nerd”

Daaaaaaamn my cousin showed me egg punk like a year ago and I was shocked you needed to guess it, I’m pretty sure sooper snooper is that

Ugh, how do your videos stay so consistently entertaining?? Love ya, Melon!!

You should do one where you have to guess based on how it sounds

Definitely need another video like this, this is a fantastic idea! Milk it!

The albums that flew by him talking about black psych were Feral Wisdom by Wormlust and Mestarin kynsi by Oranssi Pazuzu

Anthony’s been listening to too much sleepy music that he didn’t know nervous music was a thing

This is the most happy anthony has been in a video in a while

Kawaii Future Bass is actually fire

I've been playing in a collective performing conducted improv. There are at least two internationally recognised sign systems for conducting of free improv bands. So, the genre is legit :)

As an ambient noise wall enthusiast, I thank you for acknowledging the existence of our genre, Mr. Melon

This is addictive. I need a lot more of this content dude

I first heard Floor Baba through Fantano, that dude is good. Gamewave is such a bright, punchy album. It feels like if the composer for Kibry and the Crystal Shards for Nintendo 64 did a ton of drugs and wrote an album.

Just in case you need recommends for Kawaii Future Bass: fusq, Snail's House/ujico, YUC'e, Yunomi, dark cat, Moe Shop, HoneyComeBear, MYLK, Trifect, cute girls doing cute things, Kirara Magic, tea team (Setka, Viuk, Love Club), KUWAGO There's alot of overlap with future funk, electro, denpa-kei, shibuya-kei, happy hardcore, etc but you'll find your way from those starters

I'd be nervous if i was making music too

This kinda stuff, the tier lists and other fun variety stuff is my fav fantano content ever. Love any time a new thing like this drops

Spillane would be the Zorn album that comes to mind for comducted improv - outstanding album for any free jazz fan

lmao im familiar with all the conducted improv albums in the top but still guessed bristol sound

Sadcore is definitely a thing. Look up Red House Painters, American Music Club, and Cat Power.

This is one of the most fun music related fresh content I've seen in a long time. :D

As someone who listens to kawaii future bass seeing it in this quiz made me question how silly and goofy the genres I listen to are.

I made a comment on egg punk in the snooper review. Egg punk is basically devo hardcore in modern day. Check out DLIMC and coneheads. Pretty cool stuff

We need more videos of anthony doing these,this was super fun to watch.

ONE PUNCH MAN T-SHIRT?! Fantano stocks have just gone up exponentially

Conducted Improv is also something that Zappa did on albums like Weezels Ripped My Flesh, that's why I know it existed(2/5)

The powerplant record is unbelievably good

Thought for sure sadcore was a legit genre…Low, Red House Painters, Codeine….

Loving the new merch you're rocking. You look so good on that shirt.

John Zorn's Electric Masada goes off! Some plenty of conducted improv there

Patisserie kamome is such a good album goddamn

Great idea for a video, RYM genres are something else lol

I feel like I spend way to much time on RYM, because I got all five questions right

I dig it. Do another one!! I live right next to Bristol and I thought Bristol Sound could be a thing. It should be a thing!

6:33 DISTANTCRY ON THE BEAT

I never considered egg punk a genre. I saw it the first time in that meme where contemporary punk bands are placed on a spectrum that goes from "chain punk" to "egg punk" and it made perfect sense. Oh, it had Dawn of Humans and HOAX in the middle, labeled as "egg punk for chain punks" and "chain punk for egg punks" respectively.

Nice job with the genres, Austen!

The biggest surprise here is learning that Fantano has never listened to Snail's House. I feel like everybody I know irl is into his music.

I’m more surprised that a lot of these genres don’t exist, than how weird the ones are that do exist.

This is Weebcore erasure and I will stand for it, good job guys

My favorite part of this video is when Anthony kept shouting“CONDUCTED IMPROV, WE HAVE A PROBLEM” for 10 minutes 11 seconds.

At this point it feels like a fever dream that you reviewed a kyarypamyupamyu album

Never thought i would see kawaii future bass in a fantano vid, but here we are

It's so relaxing and fun to watch your videos while playing Minecraft

When you’ve heard The Death of Pablo question 2 becomes trivially easy.

I honestly thought that the correct answer for the first one was gonna be D., because "Bristol Sound" was actually a term used to refer to trip-hop before the popular term was coined.

I liked this melon. Do more quizzes pls

Conducted improvisation makes total sense but it’s a bit difficult to explain. John Zorn’s “Cobra” & the works of Butch Morris and Tyshawn Sorey would fall under that umbrella.

Zorn’s “Cobra” comes to mind as Conducted improv. Very interesting album