What genre is this?

[svett89]

I recently made a remix of Smile:



The problem is that I have no idea how different electronical genres are determined. Like... What should I call it when I submit it to different places? Is it Trance? Chiptune? I honestly have no idea.

Any help would be most appreciated.

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

Feels pretty trancey to me

by the way, I love those little computery synths you used inbetween the plucks!

[JayB]

I'd consider it as undefined Electronica or maybe IDM. For Trance it's far too minimalistic.

Besides that there are a few musical mistakes and the mixdown is rather bad.

[3xcel]

When in doubt, call it Electronica. It can pretty much be used as an umbrella term for any electronic music you can't tag a genre to.

[Venny_]

Well if you describe it as like Chiptune and Trance.. Why not Chrance?

[Nine Volt]

Well if you describe it as like Chiptune and Trance.. Why not Chrance?

Triptune

[ph00tbag]

I wouldn't personally say the track's minimalism is what makes it not trance, since trance is fundamentally minimal. That said, it's still not particularly trancey. It doesn't really have a hypnotic or driving rhythm, which is central to a trance tune.

I'd put it as somewhere in the interstices between IDM, chiptune, casiocore and anthem house. It'd probably be anthem house if the mixdown had a more clear intent to be danceable. (On that point, you probably want to sidechain the kick to the bass so that the kick punches through more, just to start with.)

[Ocular]

Triptune sounds like a cool genre name.

[Alycs]

yeah seriously just call it Triptune it will make you sound really cool

[Nine Volt]

Or you could call it nu-triptune or progressive triptune or just call it fucking electronic for christ's sake :3

[ph00tbag]

I'm only going to make progressive triptune from now on.

[Nine Volt]

You're welcome, MLR :3

[HMage]

I wouldn't personally say the track's minimalism is what makes it not trance, since trance is fundamentally minimal.

You and I have totally different definitions of trance. *sigh*

I'm tired of so many people stuffing for decades every kind of music into "trance". Be it Scooter or psy-shit or whatever "spacey with a kick" track of the month they'll find.

[ph00tbag]

You and I have totally different definitions of trance. *sigh*

I'm tired of so many people stuffing for decades every kind of music into "trance". Be it Scooter or psy-shit or whatever "spacey with a kick" track of the month they'll find.

Spacey with a kick is what Trance has always been. "Psy-shit" is typically closer to the original ethos of the genre than most of the stuff you would label trance, judging by the mix in your sig. Just listen to this track from 1990.

As I expected: Its already a thing

This isn't Triptune. This is Dark Psy. I think we may still have something.