What style does birtpop stand for? What are the commonalities?

Cappella refers to songs that are not accompanied by musical instruments, but all songs sung by pure voices are cappella. But today, when we talk about cappella, we usually refer to the kind of multi-voice singing. Even the instrumental accompaniment is sung by human voices. The antithesis of cappella is instrumental music, that is, pure music. Any kind of songs can be sung in the form of cappella. Hong Kong people are most familiar with cappella's song "So in Love", and the Hong Kong cappella band includes Ji Sheng Ya Shi and so on.

AMBIENT doesn't sound like much ups and downs, but it keeps changing, such as long-term sound effects or gradual music arrangement, which usually produces a sense of hierarchy, so it is called "situational music" and often samples the sounds around life, such as human voices, car sounds and even the melodies of other music ... and so on. Composed by Brian Eno in 1970s, it is a kind of "profound" electronic music. Later, Ambient also had branches, such as Ambient House, Ambient Techno ... and so on. I believe everyone can literally understand that in fact, there will be the shadow of Ambient in many kinds of music, and even some classical music has the taste of Ambient.

Environmental music is a music theory put forward by Brian Eno in 1970s. Mr. Enoch was a keyboard player in a rock band before putting forward this music theory. /kloc-one day in 0/975, he had an accident and his leg was broken. He is lying in the hospital. There is an old record player not far from his hospital bed. The record player broke down, and it rained again that day. The music that reached my ears became blurred and it was difficult to distinguish the notes. Listening in a daze, Enoch found that the music integrated with the rain became particularly special. Music seems to be around, you can feel its "atmosphere". Music doesn't seem to change much, but in fact it is constantly changing, but it is very subtle and takes a long time to hear. The vague music performance has a sense of space. Ambient's meaning of "environment" (or situation) is the representative of these characteristics. After Enoch was discharged from the hospital, he began to make music with these concepts, and also made a prototype album Ambient 1: Airport Music.

Environmental concerts make people feel invisible, a bit like "background music". Sometimes when the music is playing, you will be surprised and say, "Why is it over? "Long-term subtle changes are the most obvious characteristics of Ambient, and the deep sense of space and layering is created by Ambient. Sometimes it's not surprising that ambient music lasts more than ten minutes. Because it is environmental music, samples of various sounds around the body often appear in environmental music. It is not uncommon to sample human voices and other music. Ambient is more likely to hear the sound of airplanes, telephones, water, music mixed with noise on the radio ... Any sound you want may appear.

But was the concept of environment first thought by Brian Eno? That was not the case. John Cage, a musician who was active in 1950s and 1960s, had a great influence on modern music and experimental music. He had this concept for a long time, but he didn't call it environmental music. John Cage's famous work 4 feet 33 inches shows this concept. John Cage asked his senior pianist David Tudor to "play" this piece of music. He asked David Tudor to bring a clock to the stage, then sat in front of the piano and stared at the clock, but he didn't play anything until 4 minutes and 33 seconds later. Such a move naturally aroused the audience's anxiety, and the audience began to make a lot of messy voices, including whispering and fidgeting. John Cage hopes that everyone can feel the feeling of "being in the world" and all kinds of voices in the environment. This move is a pioneering work in the music industry.

Environmental pop music combines two different musical styles: quiet and cheerful. Environmental pop music has a different style from ordinary traditional pop music. It is the structure and background atmosphere of electronic music that reflects the silence of the outside world and an atmosphere of meditation. Environmental pop music is a typical representative music without harsh notes, which makes the intoxicating rhythm of German rock greatly influenced by environmental pop music and even has hypnotic effect. In essence, it is a musical extension of dream pop after awakening in the shoemaker's movement. Although most of them still use original musical instruments, they interpret music by absorbing electronic music, including sample works.

Alternative Dance Alternative Dance combines the alternative and independent rock style of underground melody music structure with electronic music structure, synthesizer sampling and post-disco dance. In recent years, when many popular alternative artists try dance music or electronic music, alternative dance music has been greatly developed and has become an indispensable music component in bar culture. Although it seems that alternative dance music can't replace club dance music, it has become an important form of this cultural periphery because of its popularity and easy combination with other music. This feature makes more people participate in alternative dance music, thus resisting the standard fixed style dance music. Therefore, performers are closer to other music with specific style structure and special musical elements. Many alternative dance artists come from Britain, and they have become very prominent British bars and carnival parties in underground music culture. They created an atmosphere conducive to more music art experiments. The first alternative dance music group in the new order, in their recording 1982-83, appeared this cold and gloomy post-punk style combining the electronic pop music of the power plant orchestra. Compared with alternative music, alternative dance music is the most influenced style by electronic pop music, psychedelic garage music and trip-hop. These forms have produced corresponding alternative dance artists, who had an influence in Manchester, England in the late 1980s, until the 1990s, when they were rooted in independent and trip-hop artists.

Adult alternative music has a large audience, and those who are willing to accept that it is different from mainstream music, but the gap is not far, are often its followers. It is hard to say whether the radio wave mode in the new adult era created adult substitutes or whether adult substitutes themselves existed for radio waves. The unique style of adults is that whether it is the original sound, electronics, or the synthesis of electronics and original sound, it is deeply influenced by the mixed components of pop, rock and jazz. Although the otherness of adults is mainly manifested in musical instruments, many albums are expressed in soft voices. When they want their music to be easily accepted by the audience, top artists always have a special talent for their understanding of melody, different ways of using musical instruments and the persistence of rhythm. However, it also has some disadvantages. Adult alternative music sometimes sounds like outdated pop music without lyrics. Related artists: Yanni, Enya, etc.

Posanova Posanova is a kind of Brazilian music with jazz flavor. /kloc-Antonio Carlos Jopin, a composer in the 1950s, combined the rhythm of Brazilian music with the cool jazz on the west coast of the United States, which is characterized by softness, comfort, relaxation, laziness and romance. 1, 4, 7, 1 1, 14 beats in every two bars are duplicated. Singer Joao Gilberto's pure and heavy voice is an excellent partner of Jopin Music Company, which was very popular after it was introduced to the United States in the mid-1950s. Other famous Bosanova musicians include Charlie Bird, Stan Gates and Astrud Gilberto. The most famous song is The Girl from Ipanema. OSSA NOVA was the most popular in the 1960s, and it also had constant fans in other years.

Break beat is not as regular as House's boom-boom-boom, but is presented in a broken beat, just like a split beat. For example, if you add a small broken drum in two beats, and so on. Breakbeat is just a general term, and many kinds of music belong to Breakbeat, such as Brit-Hop, Big-Beat and black Hip-Hop below.

Brit-Hop accelerates the rhythm of black hip-hop and intensifies the drums. With a little electric guitar and bass, it has the flavor of rock music, such as the style of Chemical Brothers.

Big-Beat "Big Beat" makes Brit-Hop faster, more rhythmic and more rock-and-roll. It can be said that it is a more mature style after the improvement of Brit-Hop. You can imagine what a heavy, broken and somewhat fast beat looks like. For example, the extraordinary orchestra, the chemistry brothers and Slim, the fat boy, are the "big shots" in Big Beat.

The big beat is a form of music that appeared around 1997. Its basic concept is to combine rock music with electronic music, that is, to turn rock music with performance orientation into dance music. But there are also many rock dances outside. )

The most obvious feature of Big Beat should be its rhythm. The beat of Big Beat goes in the direction of Hip-Hop, but it accelerates a lot. Heavy and broken beats are sometimes more explosive than Techno's 4/4 mechanical dance music. Therefore, Big Beat is not only welcomed by dance fans, but also by rock fans.

In fact, as early as 1990 Chaofan Orchestra was founded, they had the concept of combining rock and electronic. But at that time, their music electronic components were still very heavy, and their rhythm and timbre might be closer to Techno. It was not until the release of 1995 album "Chemical Brothers Quit Stardust" that the rock part was clarified. At that time, music critics called their music Brit-Hop. Obviously, the word "Brit" comes from hip-hop music. Because the Chemical Brothers Orchestra is a British organization, the word "Brit" is used. (Simplified the meaning of "Englishman". )

1997, after the release of the extraordinary band's album "Fertility of the Earth", everyone realized the power of the combination of rock and electronic. Compared with the looseness of Exit Planet Dust, the production of The Fat Of The Land is more mature, the rhythm becomes thicker, and the timbre is close to industrial rock and more explosive. This album has achieved very good results in the pop music charts in Britain and America, which shows that most people agree with this kind of music. At this time, the word Big Beat officially appeared. However, this may indicate that Big Beat is the "least electronic one" in electronic music. Although the Extraordinary Orchestra seems to have overwhelmed the Chemical Brothers Orchestra, it is absolutely no exaggeration to say that they are all representatives of electronic rock. The combination of electronics and rock took six or seven years to mature. Because Big Beat is actually rock music based on electronic music, some people call it "electronic punk".

Calm is just a general statement. Next to the dance floor, there will always be an area or a small room, in which some soft and calm music will be put, so that dancers can relax and rest after dancing, mainly playing ambient music, so it is called "Chill Out". Baozhu can be said to be a master of calm music.

There is usually a small area in the ballroom. After the carnival, there will be some relaxing music to calm the dancers, usually accompanied by ambient music. But Chill Out is just a general term, because other light music can be played. Chill Out means "cooling"

Drum' n Bass For some people, the music of Drum' n Bass may be annoying, because Drum' n Bass pays great attention to tricks in rhythm and bass performance, such as fast and complicated beats and the use of various electronic drums or sampling drums. Therefore, drum set is also a kind of break dance.

Drum bass appeared about 95 years ago, combined with jazz style, much softer. As the name implies, drum' n' bass is a performance that focuses on Drum‘n‘bass. Drums may all be electronically synthesized, or they may be sampled from real drums. And its bass sound is particularly loud, and sometimes the sound will spread. However, drum bass music may also use the sound of the drum, and then use the effector to "squeeze" the sound of the drum into bass. This kind of bass is quite oppressive, a little shocking, and it is easy for the ear to hear. However, some orchestras sometimes use the real bass cello to take charge of the bass part, such as the 4 Hero orchestra in Britain.

Although drumming bass sounds like an improvement of the jungle, the boundary between them is not clear. If you hear a piece of music with a fast and complicated rhythm, or it is difficult to grasp its rhythm, it may be jungle/drum bass.

DubDub can be said to be reggae (reggae, also known as reggae, a kind of South American black music with special rhythm and singing method), which opened the distance of songs. When Dub is applied to electronic music, it extracts some songs, emphasizes bass and drums, and adds a lot of echoes. This technology is often used in live performances. Mix songs. The album "Protecting Large-scale Attacks" was adapted into a dubbing version by the Trip-Hop music of Crazy Professor.

Dub has existed since 1970s, and the word Dub means "knocking". The closest music style to dubbing should belong to reggae. Its beat is very rhythmic, emphasizing bass and occasionally rapping in the form of Shan Zhi, which is the most obvious feature of Ragae.

As for the original dubbing, it was reggae music, which removed the human voice, added more beats and bass, and sometimes added some echo effects, but now many dubbing have no reggae flavor. Dub is equivalent to the heavy low-frequency part, not only the bass sound, but also the drum sound will become heavier. When some DJs play music, even if they don't play reggae music, they will use dubbing to deal with the music, making it more oppressive. Because Dub has some percussion meanings, if properly applied, it can create a strong exotic atmosphere.

DREAM-POPDREAM-POP is a kind of "dreamy" pop music with a vague atmosphere, which is mostly caused by synthesizers (electronic synthesizers). It is also an important part of electric junctions with echo effect. The singing part is usually very' breath', that is to say, the lyrics are usually as poetic as dreams. Representative bands include COCTEAU WINS, LISA GERMANO, ST.ETIENNE, THIS mortal coil, MY BLOODY VALENTINE, MAZZY STAR and DEAD CAN DANCE.

European dance music is a kind of European dance music, which is considered as the mainstream dance music by most Europeans. On the basis of disco, many new elements are injected, such as HOUSE, RAP and smoother melody. From the 1980s to the early 1990s, most dance experts followed in his footsteps, and a large number of popular songs appeared. The speed of oral dance is generally between 120 and 130 BPM. European dance music is considered as the mainstream dance music by most Europeans. On the basis of disco, many new elements are injected, such as HOUSE, RAP and smoother melody. From the 1980s to the early 1990s, most dance experts followed in his footsteps, and a large number of popular songs appeared. The speed of oral dance is generally between 120 and 130 BPM.

HOUSEHOUSE is a dance music developed from disco in the 1980s. This is music played by DJ in Chicago. They mixed the records of the German electronic band Power Plant Orchestra with the rhythmical drums and black blues songs, so "Dr. House" came into being. It is usually translated into "Shi Hao" dance music, which is the most basic form of electronic dance music, with a rhythm of 4/4 beat, a drum beat and a simple melody. There are often high-pitched female voices singing. After disco became popular, some DJs changed it and deliberately made it less commercialized. Bass and drums become deeper, and many times they become pure music works. Even if there are singing parts, most of them are short sentences sung by female dancers, and there are often no clear lyrics. Gradually, some people added elements such as LATIN, reggae (reggae originated in the West Indies), RAP or JAZZ. By the end of 1980s, House had rushed out of the underground world and became the darling of the pop charts in Chicago, new york and London.

Why is it called "house"? In other words, as long as you have simple recording equipment, you can make this kind of music at home ~House is also the most acceptable electronic music. I believe that Cher's singing is a good example. M-People can be said to be a representative group of houses. House dance music can be said to have replaced disco music after 1986 became popular.

Classification of houses:

Sour house

Indoor music with TB-303 acid sound

Deep house style

It has a strong soul song, also known as the garage, which is quite popular. Real Mecoy, M-people and Labouche are all garage combinations.

Epic house

It's an epic house. Epic House has a beautiful and smooth melody and majestic momentum, and there is almost no human voice in it (almost no! ). BT's music is a great epic home, and he is also known as the "epic home emperor". In fact, even rock has "epic rock".

Hard house

Simply put, this is a house with a heavy and intense rhythm.

Progressive home

This kind of house has no soul singing, and pays more attention to melody and music arrangement. It's a bit like "playing" chamber music, such as SASH! The album "This is My Life" is a very good album of progressive family.

Three-person house

Imagine: what is a house with African primitive characteristics or Indian drums? This is Tribble House ~ This kind of house not only has the stable rhythm of a general house, but also adds some primitive and fragmentary drums between beats. It's quite interesting ~

But the scope of House is too wide, and a song doesn't have to be classified. These are just to tell you that there are many kinds of houses.