eclectic tastes

A : rap/hip-hop, salsa, tango, soul, funk, electro, trip-hop, gothic, world, lounge, electronic music, rock’n’roll/rockabilly, ska/reggae, country/southern, indus, pop, punk, hardcore, metal, folk, blues, classical, jazz, rock

B : salsa, tango, soul, funk, electro, trip-hop, gothic, world, lounge, electronic music, rock’n’roll/rockabilly, ska/reggae, country/southern, indus, pop, punk, hardcore, metal, folk, blues, classical, jazz, rock

C : tango, soul, funk, electro, trip-hop, gothic, world, lounge, electronic music, rock’n’roll/rockabilly, ska/reggae, country/southern, indus, pop, punk, hardcore, metal, folk, blues, classical, jazz, rock

D : soul, funk, electro, trip-hop, gothic, world, lounge, electronic music, rock’n’roll/rockabilly, ska/reggae, country/southern, indus, pop, punk, hardcore, metal, folk, blues, classical, jazz, rock

E : funk, electro, trip-hop, gothic, world, lounge, electronic music, rock’n’roll/rockabilly, ska/reggae, country/southern, indus, pop, punk, hardcore, metal, folk, blues, classical, jazz, rock

F : electro, trip-hop, gothic, world, lounge, electronic music, rock’n’roll/rockabilly, ska/reggae, country/southern, indus, pop, punk, hardcore, metal, folk, blues, classical, jazz, rock

G : trip-hop, gothic, world, lounge, electronic music, rock’n’roll/rockabilly, ska/reggae, country/southern, indus, pop, punk, hardcore, metal, folk, blues, classical, jazz, rock

H : gothic, world, lounge, electronic music, rock’n’roll/rockabilly, ska/reggae, country/southern, indus, pop, punk, hardcore, metal, folk, blues, classical, jazz, rock

I : world, lounge, electronic music, rock’n’roll/rockabilly, ska/reggae, country/southern, indus, pop, punk, hardcore, metal, folk, blues, classical, jazz, rock

J : lounge, electronic music, rock’n’roll/rockabilly, ska/reggae, country/southern, indus, pop, punk, hardcore, metal, folk, blues, classical, jazz, rock

K : electronic music, rock’n’roll/rockabilly, ska/reggae, country/southern, indus, pop, punk, hardcore, metal, folk, blues, classical, jazz, rock

L : rock’n’roll/rockabilly, ska/reggae, country/southern, indus, pop, punk, hardcore, metal, folk, blues, classical, jazz, rock

M : ska/reggae, country/southern, indus, pop, punk, hardcore, metal, folk, blues, classical, jazz, rock

N : country/southern, indus, pop, punk, hardcore, metal, folk, blues, classical, jazz, rock

O : indus, pop, punk, hardcore, metal, folk, blues, classical, jazz, rock

P : pop, punk, hardcore, metal, folk, blues, classical, jazz, rock

Q : punk, hardcore, metal, folk, blues, classical, jazz, rock

R : hardcore, metal, folk, blues, classical, jazz, rock

S : metal, folk, blues, classical, jazz, rock

T : folk, blues, classical, jazz, rock

U : blues, classical, jazz, rock

V : classical, jazz, rock

W : jazz, rock

X : rock

Y : other combination (precise)

Some precisions regarding the musical genres mentioned :

Folk refers to artists like Bob Dylan, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Leonard Cohen, Joan Baez but also Fairport Convention, Dando Shaft, i.e. british folk scene of the end of the sixties/beginning of the seventies…

Jazz includes ragtime, swing, vocal jazz, be-bop, hard-bop, post-bop, latin jazz, gypsy jazz, free-jazz, jazz-rock

Pop includes new wave, baroque pop, electro-pop

World includes artists as diverse as Fela Kuti, Mahmoud Ahmed, Reinette l’Oranaise, Misia, Nusrat fateh Ali Khan, Anouar Brahem, Rabih Abou Khalil, Gabi Lunca, Taraf de Haïdouks…

Metal includes heavy metal, glam metal, gothic metal, symphonic metal, power/prog-metal, post-metal, thrash metal, death metal, doom metal, black metal, grindcore, post-metal

Rock includes soft rock, psychedelic rock, alternative rock, post-rock, grunge, math-rock and prog-rock

Punk includes crust, post-punk, psychobilly, no wave, horror punk, irish punk…

Gothic includes batcave, cold wave, dark wave, gothic rock, death rock, dark folk (artists as diverse as elend, christian death, cure, furyo, death in june, sol invictus).

Lounge refers to easy listening singers like Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin as well as space age pop artists like Martin Denny, Henry Mancini, Esquivel, Combustible Edison

Indus can include the pioneers like throbbing gristle or cabaret voltaire as well as indus-metal like Nine Inch Nails and Ministry

Electronic music refers to bands/artists like Jean-Michel Jarre, Tangerine Dream, Ash Ra Tempel, Gert Emmens, Steve Roach, Bionight, Vangelis…

Electro refers to artists like kraftwerk, aphex twin, RJD2, squarepusher, The Orb…

Country/southern includes country-rock, americana, southern rock, gothic country, and alternative country (artists as diverse as Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Jay Munly, Carter Family, NROTPS, Pure prairie league, Charlie Daniels Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Blackfoot, Hyacinth House…)

Ska includes the skatalites, early toots and the maytals, bands signed on the 2-tone label : the selecter, the beat, the specials, madness. Reggae refers to Bob Marley, Steel pulse and the likes.

Trip-hop includes bands like Morcheeba, Portishead, Massive Attack

Hardcore includes bands like biohazard, sick of it all, agnostic front, black flag, candiria, converge…Also mathcore bands like an albatross, the locust, dillinger escape plan, iwrestledabearonce, rolo tomassi and jazzcore bands like naked city and painkiller.