Your favourite musical genre mashups

[Daystar Clarion]

Okay we all like music and we all have our favourite genres and sub-genres and sub-sub-genres etc etc etc.

What is your favourite (if any) genre mashup?

I have a holy trinity of awesomeness when it comes to music.

Rock/metal

Orchestral

Electronic

All of these genres sound awesome together.

These are just a few of my personal favourites.

Spoiler: Rock/orchestral

Spoiler: Rock/electronic

Spoiler: Electronic/orchestral

I like all of these genres separately, but if someone can get them together, and get them together really well, it just hits all the right buttons in my head when it comes to music.

So, what are your favourite mashups?

 

[Sevre]

If you like your violins to wub then look no further than this soulshaking performance by Nero and the BBC Philharmonic:



Also I always enjoyed this rendition of Cruel Angel's Thesis, which I suppose qualifies as J-pop:

 

[ChupathingyX]

Progressive metal and opera.


I love that album.

 

[Total LOLige]

Well Ian Brown has a indie rock/house music thing going on, everything Ian Brown is awesome he's the chuck norris of music.
Behold!

Spoiler

 

[Hazy992]

I love me some ska punk. Seriously it's the happiest genre on Earth

Spoiler: Ska punk goodness

Spoiler: I love Hadouken's mix of grime, indie and electronic

EDIT: Forgot about Hocus Pocus. French hip-hop mixed with jazz and funk. Works really well

Spoiler: Très bien!

In fact hip-hop can work well with pretty much anything if done right.

 

[z121231211]

As much as I hate dubstep, dubstep mixed with hard house (or dubstep with a "I can go four to the floor or breakbeat whenever I want!" attitude) is pretty awesome. So is drumstep.

Spoiler

Drumstep: Sadly I have no examples of Dubstep/Hard House.

 

[Jazoni89]

I love Trip-Gaze, and I wish there was more of it. Shame it's as obscure as it comes.

To a genre layman, that's a fusion of Trip-Hop, and Shoegaze by the way.

A great example is this fantastic song.

Spoiler

 

[Bebop]

Pirate metal, like Alestorm

 

[Helmholtz Watson]

Spoiler: I think this would be techno opera

and when I think about it

Spoiler: whatever the hell this is

Yeah that's all I can think of right know.

 

[Nouw]

I also love electronic orchestral and symphonic metal. Particularly Rhapsody of Fire for the latter. High Epic Fantasy stories with Orchestras, Choirs and a metal band? Awesome.

 

[repeating integers]

Industrial steampunk hip-hop opera.

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[Fieldy409_v1legacy]

Electroswing is something I just discovered

Love that song. Btw not a brony(Not that theres anything wrong with that ), I discovered electroswing because some guy on youtube uploaded a song of the genre that Im subbed to.

 

[wintercoat]

Spoiler: I think this would be techno opera

and when I think about it

Spoiler: whatever the hell this is

Yeah that's all I can think of right know.

Cowboy Bebop is Big Band Swing...or maybe Big Band Jazz...depends on who you ask.

Samurai Champloo is pure oldskool Hip-Hop.

 

[TheFunPolice]

Funk Metal, yes, I know, it sounds absolutely ridiculous..But! Lots of RHCP songs fall under funk metal

Have a listen!



Seriously...man..It's just beautiful

 

[Daystar Clarion]

There's some good stuff in here.

I wonder why this stuff isn't more popular?

 

[the Dept of Science]

Cowboy Bebop is Big Band Swing...or maybe Big Band Jazz...depends on who you ask.

In the big band era, there wasn't a clear distinction between jazz and swing. It was only when bebop got introduced that the two diverged. Swing is meant to be danceable, has lyrics and is generally taken to be a bit more "poppy". Bebop is more progressive and focused on instrumental skill.

The Cowboy Bebop theme is closest to the sound of Charles Mingus, who is categorised as post-bop or hard bop.


My suggestion is post-punk/funk/dub:

 

[Ordinaryundone]

Rock/Polka. Can't post videos at work, but check out Kaizer's Orchestra.

 

[unoleian]

Whatever this is.

 

[bobmus]

Linkin Park showed their talents with this rap/Arabic mix on their latest album. Worth listening to even if you're not a fan of their older work.<youtube=dltPKw9vSto>

How about some Ska mixed with Pop/Punk? The massively under-celebrated Saving Aimee!
Ignore the fact that they look like 17 year-old douches...
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