Listen and vote here!
Score each track on a scale from 1 (no good and isn't of the genre) to 5 (good and represents the genre). Voting will be open through the night of Sunday the 10th.
This round's dreamed-up genre was Progressive Electro-Noir:
The Feel: Makes the listener feel unsettled but also want to dance. Like an ear drug you’re taking for the first time that seems like it’s going to be a bad trip but ends up being an incredible ride.
Structure and Characteristics: It features a gradually spiralling progression of chords and arpeggios that get thicker and darker in texture as the song goes on, until an eventual climax is reached and a hypnotic raw lead is introduced, which is played by a core synth sound (sawtooth, square or triangle) which can have any number of effects on it, as long as evidence of the saw/square/triangle sound is maintained. Don’t be afraid of chord/lead repetition, however make sure the texture is changing in any way; filter cutoffs, delays, reverbs, chorus etc.
Tempo: 120-150. Instrumentation: Synths and samples necessary. Vocals can be incorporated but never the lead/dominant. Drum samples comprised from drum machines, almost robotic but also ever growing. The introduction of the saw/square/triangle sound is CRUCIAL after the gradual build up to it.
Submitted October 16, 2017 at 08:18PM by mark-henry https://www.reddit.com/r/edmproduction/comments/76uhay/submissions_are_in_for_fictitious_genre/?utm_source=ifttt