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Title: fusion music fun
Post by: Gyrre on 26 Feb 2020, 03:26: Saw that there wasn't really a thread dedicated to musical fusions (closest I saw was for jazz), so figured 'why not ?'

Post your favorite musical fusions. Funky blues, progressive rockabilly, punk ska, techno flamenco, chiptune gospel, electro-swing, vaudeville big band ragtime -- it's all accepted here. And, yes, I can provide examples for all of those.

Feel free to also suggest music fusions, as well.

[Sidebar: I was originally going to make this a poll. But then I had a Beepatrice moment and decided I didn't want to spend 10+ minutes listing a bunch of genres which would have ultimately culminated in a very long list.]
EDIT: typo fix
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Post by: Gyrre on 26 Feb 2020, 03:29: Just in case anyone doubted my ability to provide samples, here's some chiptune gospel.
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Post by: Tova on 29 Feb 2020, 00:50: Eumir Deodato (https://beatcaffeine.com/far-out-recordings-reissues-eumir-deodatos-1973-brazilian-fusion-classic/) is the fusion music of my childhood.
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Post by: Gyrre on 26 Mar 2020, 17:54: Two songs infused with some spaghetti western music.
Tornado[/] (live version) by Wintergatan

And Trail Dust and Turtle Wax by Viking Guitar. Spaghetti Western to metal wirh touches of surf rock.
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Post by: Gyrre on 24 Sep 2020, 06:27: Chiptune Third-wave Ska
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Post by: Akima on 12 Oct 2020, 16:58: Classical pipa (琵琶) meets Western rock. The piece is《十面埋伏》or "Ambush from all Sides", a very famous pipa solo commemorating the historical Battle of Gaixia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gaixia), which lead to the establishment of the Han Dynasty, essentially the "foundational" dynasty of Imperial China, and the reason we call ourselves the Han* people to this day.
*Of course not everyone in China is Han, but regrettably Han chauvinism tends to ignore that... But so do outsiders when they speak of the "ethnic Chinese".
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Post by: Gyrre on 13 Oct 2020, 03:58: Quote from: Akima on 12 Oct 2020, 16:58
Classical pipa (琵琶) meets Western rock. The piece is《十面埋伏》or "Ambush from all Sides", a very famous pipa solo commemorating the historical Battle of Gaixia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gaixia), which lead to the establishment of the Han Dynasty, essentially the "foundational" dynasty of Imperial China, and the reason we call ourselves the Han* people to this day.
*Of course not everyone in China is Han, but regrettably Han chauvinism tends to ignore that... But so do outsiders when they speak of the "ethnic Chinese".

This is a really good piece!
Title: Re: fusion music fun
Post by: Skewbrow on 14 Oct 2020, 13:55: Trying to match Akima's take of a traditional ethnic instrument used to perform a modern piece. The best I could find right away was this
kantele (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kantele) player joining forces with a cellist.

I concede that the drummer in Akima's video is way more convincing than this cellist as supporting cast :-D.

The lady is making a living teaching youngsters to play (modern) kantele, so I guess there are enough people interested in learning the art. Most of us associate kantele with folkloristic music from the era when the Finns didn't know whether they want to advance from the bronze age to the iron age.

I think here
her kantele sound is closer to the "traditional".
Title: Re: fusion music fun
Post by: Skewbrow on 14 Oct 2020, 22:46: Quote from: Gyrre on 26 Mar 2020, 17:54
Two songs infused with some spaghetti western music.
Tornado[/] (live version) by Wintergatan

I like this. But won't click anything with ninja turtles in it :-)
Title: Re: fusion music fun
Post by: Gyrre on 14 Oct 2020, 23:31: Quote from: Skewbrow on 14 Oct 2020, 22:46
Quote from: Gyrre on 26 Mar 2020, 17:54
Two songs infused with some spaghetti western music.
Tornado[/] (live version) by Wintergatan

I like this. But won't click anything with ninja turtles in it :-)
Don't worry, it's only music. The visual component of the video is a stock loop that plays for most of the songs on that channel.
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Post by: Gyrre on 04 Feb 2021, 17:22: Let's see..... Metal, techno, industrial, with some disco, and a few other bits.
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Post by: Akima on 09 May 2021, 16:57: Sultans of Swing on the gayageum (the Korean take on the guzheng) by Luna Lee:
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Post by: sitnspin on 09 May 2021, 21:01: Her "Thunderstruck" rendition is amazing and has given me some ideas.
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Post by: Gyrre on 20 Jul 2021, 20:11: Big Bug Funk (https://soundcloud.com/ocremix/03-big-bug-funk-deedubs?in=ocremix/sets/jet-force-gemini-mizar-attacks)

It's a military march mixed up with funk and EDM.
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Post by: Gyrre on 06 Aug 2021, 13:36: Louie Zong describes this as "pizza reggae"
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Post by: Tova on 23 Aug 2021, 03:01: It amuses me to put this into the fusion thread. The things that cross my YouTube recommends ...
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Post by: Gyrre on 26 Sep 2021, 06:14: Chiptune exotica w/ pipe organ.
It really picks up and becomes one of my favorite remixes of this theme at 26 seconds.
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Post by: Thrillho on 28 Sep 2021, 14:50: Quote from: Akima on 09 May 2021, 16:57
Sultans of Swing on the gayageum (the Korean take on the guzheng) by Luna Lee:

This fucking ROCKS
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Post by: Gyrre on 31 Oct 2021, 08:40: cinematic symphony plus rock
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Post by: Gyrre on 17 Feb 2022, 17:16: I'd love to hear more stuff like whatever this mixed up medival drums etc remix of "A Night Without a Lover" would be classed as.