ITT: Meme genres that don't exist
>Zolo
ITT: Meme genres that don't exist
Owen Rivera
Jose Thompson
music doesn't exist
Michael Moore
It's a rym thing, right?
All of my favorite japanese new wave and technopop artists got tagged with "Zolo".
Ethan Nelson
Zolo is like zany synths, vocals in an expressive voice often sounding like yelping, angular rhythms, jerky drums and time signatures. They use it to describe like early Devo and XTC and a lot of the experimental new wave Jap bands.
Jose Jackson
>grunge
Xavier White
Give me recs pls
Colton Brown
I just read a bit about it, it seems the term "Zolo" was coined by a radio show host in USA in the 90s.
Besides P-Model (the guys on OP's pic) I like Uchoten, Kidorikko, Karate Bakabon, Zin-Say... basically anything that was on Nagomu Records.
Also Yapoos and anything Jun Togawa was involved with.
Evan Peterson
all genres are memes that don't objectively exist; they're useful terms invented to describe a certain subset of music
Gavin Thompson
TY based japposter
Isaac Hughes
Oingo Boingo, The Units, Palais Schaumburg
I kinda don't think Zin-Say, Karate Bakabon, Yapoos/Jun Togawa really fit there
Jack Rivera
They're labeled Zolo on rym, then again, I'm not sure what "Zolo" really is. If it's about zany synths and wacky vocals, I think it fits, but yeah they're all kinda different from each other.
By the way speaking Zin-Say, shit thrower on youtube just uploaded 2 new videos on christmas
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Angel Morgan
the only band that fits "zolo" is the cardiacs
Jonathan Ortiz
When I think zolo I think songs like this
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Noah Davis
I'd consider zin-say and so on more dadaist than really arty, like Butthole Surfers compared to Devo
Daniel Martinez
the guy who coined zolo (took the name from a zany eighties toy) considered Split Enz and Gentle Giant to be the greatest of his genre's bands
make of that what you will
David Wilson
This is like autistic Roxy Music
Mason Evans
Zin-Say is really strange, its main influences are synthpop and technopop artists like YMO, New Order and Depeche Mode, and a lot of their songs feel like synthpop, except with bizarre carnival synths and wicked witch vocals.
I think Zin-Say has a lot of eroguro nonsense influences as well.
They did a cover of Devo's Mongoloid though.
Jonathan Wilson
slapcore
>like edm but when the beat is supposed to drop there's gotta be a *slap* sample instead
purple jazz
>like jazz but everything is painted purple even the piano strings and inside the saxophone
skin metal
>Nazi metal by nazis. Nobody in the band is allowed to have body hair or wear clothes
Zachary Peterson
I could never get into the Cardiacs as a whole but this song is fucking amazing. It doesn't really fit the "zolo" sound though
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Lucas Hughes
>skin metal
They musicians also incorporate skin sounds, such as soft rubbing, slapping, and raspberry noises into the music
Brayden Phillips
lol
Hunter Clark
damn...
Jose Diaz
Tim Smith's frontman persona unnerves me. Like a brain-damaged toddler whose idea of play involves razor wire. Great song though.
Luis Torres
>arctic ambient
Lincoln Mitchell
>burning spirits
according to last.fm it's "upbeat japanese hardcore punk"
Easton Thompson
This Town Ain't Big Enough is glam rock, it's nothing like zolo. Not sure if XTC's sound would qualify, it seems to be closer to standard new wave.
Answering the threads question
>tropical house
It's just balearic beat without the punch and some pan flute and jungle animal SFX added
Eli Torres
>microhouse
It's just IDM.
>slam death metal
Just rap metal combined with memphis rap horrorcore.
>dungeon synth
Just fantasy-themed Berlin school krautrock electronica
Tyler Young
>This Town Ain't Big Enough is glam rock, it's nothing like zolo.
It's quirky as fuck and a direct predecessor to new wave.
>Not sure if XTC's sound would qualify, it seems to be closer to standard new wave.
listen to White Music and Go 2.
Kevin Turner
lo-fi hip hop
Juan Phillips
Gendersmash
Blake Turner
rock
Nicholas Parker
>>microhouse
>It's just IDM.
Microhouse is more like the house equivalent of minimal techno.
>>dungeon synth
>Just fantasy-themed Berlin school krautrock electronica
I wish. It's really just spooky ambient with cheap keyboards.
Parker Phillips
Brutal prog
Benjamin Miller
Rhythm Crunch
Landon Sanders
Romo, one of the less successful examples of British music marketing
Isaac Davis
Harsh ambient noise
Nicholas Allen
nu rave... what a piece of shit
Luke Davis
Vaporwave