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[[File:phineas_rage.png|link=Templar, Arizona|frame|The coolest band that never existed.]]
 
 
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*** "Caribbean rhythms" means calypso, itself the result of West African ritual music wedded to Christian slave music.
**** And then there's reggae: a handy way to skank up any song by accenting the off-beat.
* Funk metal, funk rock, funk punk...let's just say that [[Everything's Better Withwith Indexes|everything's better with]] [[Funk]].
* A subtrope of this is "Ethnic Punk":
** Celtic punk, which combines punk rock with Scottish, Irish and occasionally Welsh or Breton folk. Pioneered by Anglo-Irish group The Pogues and popularised by groups like Dropkick Murphys and [[Flogging Molly]].
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*** Formerly known as '''''Un''black''' metal, a term now used mostly perjoratively by trve black metal fans and artists. Just to drive home how out of place it really is: In the early 90's, ''church burnings'' were considered an acceptable way to earn respect in the Norwegian black metal scene. Murder, suicide, [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|spikey shin guards and absurd facepaint]] all happened as well. To go along with that, the lyrics are frequently generally anti-religious and misanthropic, specifically anti-Christian, Satanic, nihilistic, atheistic, and pro-neopaganist. For most of this and more distilled into one band, read up on [[Mayhem]].
* [http://www.flamenco-world.com/magazine/about/jazz_flamenco/jazz.htm Flamenco jazz].
* "Mathcore" takes two things that seem by very nature to be contradictory [[Three Chords and Thethe Truth|Hardcore]] and [[Epic Rocking|Progressive/Avantgarde metal]]. Throw in some [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|Jazz Fusion and Blues influence as well as maybe some electronic bits]] and you've got an noisy, spastic and downright crazed sound of music.
* Stoner metal is a fusion of doom metal, psychedelic rock, and grunge.
** Grunge itself began as a fusion of early doom metal, hardcore punk, and glam rock illustrated with bands like Green River, Malfunkshun and Skin Yard. Later bands would incorporate indie, psychedelic, and post-punk influences as well.
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* Musica Mestiza is this taken to the extreme: a mix of Salsa, Punk, Reggae, Ska, Hiphop, Flamenco, Raï, African Rhythms and any other genre that seems like a good idea to add to the mix. Manu Chao is probably the most popular artist is this genre.
* Avant-Garde Metal thrives on this trope. Bands either combine lots of genres, or combine a few genres and have a really odd way of putting it all together. They also often abruptly switch between styles.
* [[J Pop|J-Pop]] is characterized by sounding perky and glittery, while mixing techno/electronica, hard/soft rock, and another random genre with nonstandard, but still poppy, chord progressions.
* Electro Swing combines swing and house music. And sometimes techno.
 
== Artists ==
* [[Todd Rundgren]]: more on the page.
* [[New Kingdom (Music)|New Kingdom]]: [[Psychedelic Rock]], [[Jazz]], [[Funk]], Soul, [[Hip Hop]] and poetry thrown into a blender.
* Alter Bridge Myles Kennedy's voice is essentially hard rock wailing a la Robert Plant, grunge breathiness with a hint of soul. Mark Tremonti's playing is basically proggy Alternative Speed Metal with just a bit of blues, Spanish guitar and southern twang making surprise appearances. The rhythm section can have some progressive tendencies as well. All while being considered a swan song to 70's classic rock and a spiritual successor to Led Zeppelin.
* Igorrr neatly stitches together Baroque Classical, Breakcore and [[Death Metal]]
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** In fact, the New Wave movement in general can be described as punk/everything else.
* Public Image ltd. - - so much, in fact that alot of their songs were aimed at weeding out the punks who complained about [[Sex Pistols|Johnny Rotten]]'s new sound. See Albatross, Foderstompf, This is what you want, this is what you get.
* Nearly every [[Beck (Musicmusician)|Beck]] album contains some flavor of [[Neoclassical Punk Zydeco Rockabilly]], to the point where you could say that [[Mix and Match Musical Genres]] ''is'' his genre.
** "I've always dreamed of being a music/poet that transcends genres even as he reinvents them."
* The Dresden Dolls, in their own words, are "[[Bertolt Brecht (Creator)|Brecht]]ian punk cabaret", something they made up because they didn't want anyone to use the word "goth" when trying to label them.
* [[E Nomine (Music)|E Nomine]]'s music is a combination of techno and [[Ominous Latin Chanting]].
** When it doesn't sound like [[Rammstein (Music)|Rammstein]].
* KOMPRESSOR is an industrial/novelty [[I Am the Band|one man band]].
* Nouvelle Vague, quite possibly the world's only bossa nova New Wave cover band.
** Dread Zeppelin is a reggae Led Zeppelin cover band with an Elvis impersonator on lead vocals.
* [[Rasputina (Music)|Rasputina]] and [[Apocalyptica]] are rock <small>[[Recycled in Space|WITH CELLOS!]]</small>.
** Ra Ra Riot and Cursive (from 2001 to 2005) are indie rock <small>[[Recycled in Space|WITH CELLOS!]]</small>
** And now, Primitivity: [[Megadeth (Music)|Megadeth]] [[Recycled in Space|with cellos!]]
* [[Electric Light Orchestra]] started off as a mix of prog-rock and classical chamber music.
** And gradually mutated into a technopop band with a string section.
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* [[The Veronicas]] Acoustic synthetic classical pop rock
* [[The World Inferno Friendship Society|The World/Inferno Friendship Society]] play "cabaret punk" or "circus punk" with plenty of references to Weimar Germany and smashing the state. Oh, and they did a tribute album about the life of Peter Lorre. Of course.
* [[Jaga Jazzist (Music)|Jaga Jazzist]] is one of the most prominent bands in the Nu Jazz scene. They started off by mixing big-band jazz with drum-n-bass and trip-hop. On later albums they also incorporate elements of post-rock and prog-rock.
* [[The Cramps (Music)|The Cramps]] pretty much ''were'' [[Neoclassical Punk Zydeco Rockabilly]].
* Big & Rich's first two albums featured country, metal and ''rap'' all rolled into one. And many critics said it was great, although [[Your Mileage May Vary]].
** Similarly, Big & Rich protegé Cowboy Troy performs ''country rap'', although he's hardly the only artist to do so.
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* That's how the Polyphonic Spree's sound got built up: The lead singer, bassist and drummer were members of the alt rock band Tripping Daisy, the flautist was big into avant-garde progressive stuff, the percussionist & harpist were clearly classically trained, the synth & theremin players brought some electronica influence, etc...
* [[Sufjan Stevens]]' first album, ''A Sun Came'', mixed rock with American and Middle-Eastern folk music. His breakout hit albums, ''Michigan'' and ''Illinois'', mixed rock and folk with neoclassical orchestrations of varying levels of bombast. ''The Age of Adz'' was a mix of orchestral music and [[Synth Pop]].
* [[Calexico (Music)|Calexico]] mixes rock, country, Mexican folk (particularly mariachi), post-rock, and occasionally funk or jazz. Any given song may feature trumpets, accordion, violin, cello, steel guitar, synthesizers, or any combination of the above.
* [[Queen]] are an incredibly versatile band, going from proto-metal to heartfelt piano ballads to gentle folk to blues rock to punk-tinged hard rock to synthpop to prog rock epics to arena rock to funk rock to disco to what could almost be called proto-rap.
* Ozric Tentacles combine space rock, progressive rock, dub, jazz fusion, world (Indian, Moroccan, Algerian, you name it), electronica, and tea.
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* Look at this: on the one hand, you've got black metal, which consists of fuzzy, distorted guitars, insanely fast drumming, demented screaming vocals and a focus on a dark, evil atmosphere. On the other hand, you've got post-rock, which consists of a base of clean, slowly picked guitars, mid-tempo, carefully played drums, no singing whatsoever, eccentric song structures and what music critic Ciarán Tracey called "the redemptive note common to all post rock": a vaguely hopeful atmosphere. Despite the obvious contradictions, in recent years bands combining the two have become increasingly common, most notably Wolves in the Throne Room and Irish band Altar of Plagues.
** Interesting note: A lot of Wolves in the Throne Room's songs cover environmentalist topics. (Insert green metal jokes here)
** Drone metal progenitors [[Sunn O)))]])))--originally an Earth tribute band, but whose reputation has far overshadowed their obscure early influence--have been inching closer to post-rock territory, with such recent efforts as ''Monoliths & Dimensions''. Don't mention this to purist fans; they might be offended (though their hearing is so damaged, they'll probably never notice).
*** Even farther away from drone-metal is ''Deep In Ocean Sunk the Lamp of Light'' by Æthenor--a side-project, including O'Malley from [[Sunn O)))]])))--which serves up disturbing random-noise glitch with (almost pretty!) twinkling music-box chiming, then dumps it all into the [[Pro Tools]] Cuisinart set to Liquefy.
*** Earth themselves fits sort of into this field, as while their earlier albums was pretty standard drone doom, with the release of "Hex: Or Printing in the Infernal Method," they have essentially become a drone-western band.
* Finnish band [[Alamaailman Vasarat (Music)|Alamaailman Vasarat]] jokingly refer to themselves as "kebab-kosher-jazz-film-traffic-punk-music." This is about as accurate a description of them as you're going to get.
** If you're curious: most of their songs kind of sound like the ''[[Beetlejuice (Film)|Beetlejuice]]'' theme with a distinct oompah klezmer vibe. They've done heavy metal tracks and ballads as well, and the band members primarily play horns and strings. They're ''really cool''.
* Blood Stain Child are a Japanese band who make a mix of [[Melodic Death Metal]] and [[Trance]]. It's awesome.
* [[Prince]]. His style (now nicknamed the "Minneapolis sound" since [[Follow the Leader|others imitated it]]) can basically be summed up as: funk + pop + rock + heavy metal + New Wave + whatever the hell else he decides to do (soul, jazz, hip-hop, ambient, electro, etc).
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* [http://www.travisshredd.com Travis Shredd and the Good Ol' Homeboys], the first and (likely) only "country metal rap" band.
* [[Bjork]]'s ''Medúlla'' is esentially a capella electronica. Highlights include "Oceania", "Who Is It", "Where Is the Line", and "Triumph of a Heart", which is an a capella ''dance'' song.
* [[Tori Amos (Music)|Tori Amos]]' "Professional Widow" combines elements of blues, industrial, medieval, classical, and rock. In other words, imagine an alternative rock song with a harpischord instead of an electric guitar. Also, the song goes from harpischord rock to bluesy piano ballad a couple of times during the song.
** ''The Beekeeper'' is a mixture of baroque pop, R&B, and blue-eyed soul.
* Canadian band Enter The Haggis combines traditional Celtic music with rock, pop and jazz influences. The band includes a full-time bagpiper.
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* Music professor Gil Trythall released an album in 1971 titled ''Country Moog''. Yes, that's country as in the folksy musical genre, and Moog as in the space-age synthesizer.
* [[The Tiger Lillies]] are... well, okay: the lead singer is a raw falsetto who can make his voice sound like Louis Armstrong's, only six octaves higher. The bassist plays a thin standing base like it's a cello. The (brush) drummer has a suitcase full of discarded toy cars, rattlers, firecrackers, baby dolls, rubber chickens and dildoes, which, yes, he uses to make noise. They perform in whiteface and bowler hats. Their songs range from serious ballads about sailors dying alone on the ocean to manic screaming being in love with a giraffe's vagina up in the sky. Their material is written by [[Edward Gorey]] (among others). Their fans include Terry Gilliam, Matt Groening, the Franz Ferdinand guys and John Cameron Mitchell. [[Marilyn Manson]] and Dita von Teese got married to their music. And they called themselves "Brechtian Punk Cabaret" long before it was hip.
* Short-lived band 38th Parallel was a combination of [[Linkin Park]]-esq [[Nu Metal-metal]] and... [[Christian Rock|Contemporary Christian]]. They released one album in 2002, then broke up.
** There were a shit-ton of Christian nu-metal/rapcore bands before them. P.O.D, Pillar, Project 86, PAX217... the list goes on. The only thing that made 38th Parallel original was that their name didn't begin with a "P" and they barely squeezed by on that.
** [[Linkin Park]] themselves, switching from nu-metal with prominent hip-hop and electronica influences on their first two albums to synth-rock with elements of reggae and rap on their latest.
* The three members of Italian instrumental experimentalists Zu play bass guitar, drums and a (highly distorted) baritone saxophone. They frequently feature guest musicians, including The Melvins' guitarist King Buzzo, Mike Patton of [[Faith No More]] and Japanese electronic musician Nobokazu Takemura. The result is a groaning, squealing and cataclysmic semi-improvised fusion of Metal, Noise-Rock, Free-Jazz, Mathcore, and No-Wave Punk. Compared by one struggling and confused music reviewer to 'Lightning Bolt covering [[Captain Beefheart|Trout Mask Replica]] in the middle of a knife fight'.
* [[Doctor Steel|Dr. Steel]] has been described as hip-hop industrial opera, much to his enjoyment.
* [[U 2U2]] in [[The Nineties]]: [[Alternative Rock]] + [[Funk]] + Madchester + [[Industrial Metal]] + [[Shoegazing]] + [[Electronic Music]] + [[Techno]] + Dance.
* The Suicidal Rap Orgy, a group of Australian noise artists who inexplicably decided to make a, uh, rap collective. Basically, imagine guttural 'or' shrieking male vocals, absurd shrieking female vocals, and lyrics based entirely around various creative combinations of human waste, sex, and violence. It's... I'm not sure if it's [[Better Than It Sounds]]. "The band are often known for their disgusting liveshows in which they wind up naked and horribly grotesque lyrics that are in a similar vein to GWAR and GG Allin."
* Dälek combines [[Hip Hop]] with [[Shoegazing]], [[Noise Rock]], and [[Industrial]] and has occasionally been dubbed as metal-shoegaze-hip-hop, but not by themselves. They just prefer to be called hip-hop.
* Meet [http://www.sotb.se/ Slaughter of the Bluegrass], a band which makes death metal song covers... in [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|bluegrass]] style. It's pretty [[Better Than It Sounds|awesome]].
** In a similar vein, say hello to ''[[Hayseed Dixie]]''. They do bluegrass covers of [[ACDC (Music)|ACDC]], [[Queen]], [[Led Zeppelin]], [[Black Sabbath (Music)|Black Sabbath]], [[Kiss]] and a metric buttload of others, as well as their own original rock/bluegrass tunes, including [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StFsCyBsHrI the worlds most epic break-up song].
* The pAper chAse make post-hardcore/classic emo with minimalist classical structures, accompanied by heavy industrial beats and sampling, in a heavily-orchestrated style with touches of jazz and blues on literary [[Noise Rock]] concept albums heavy on the [[Nightmare Fuel]].
* [[Bone Thugs-n-Harmony]] combines barbershop doo-wop harmony, with speed rap, with tinges of Jamaican patois in their rhyme scheme.. Usually within the same song where they change the tempo of their delivery mid-verse.
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** [[Yuki Kajiura]] is [[Trope Pantheons/Music|no slouch on that department]] [[Crowning Music of Awesome|either]].
* [[The Doors]] were made up of a jazz drummer, a flamenco guitarist, a classical organist, and a poet-vocalist.
* [[Gentle Giant (Musicband)|Gentle Giant]]: What happens when you get together three brothers out of a soul group, a classically trained keyboardist, a blues guitarist, and a volatile series of drummer, and they all start playing recorders? You end up with Gentle Giant, whose songs ranged from quasi-medieval violin-powered tunes, to entirely percussive pieces, to a capella ballads.
* A professor of mine used almost this exact phrase to describe the sound of the band Lucero.
* Body Count deserves a mention, having been a thrash metal band fronted by ''Ice-T'', with gangsta-ish lyrics to match.
* Alabama 3(you'd know them for [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvq_jY-G2f4 the Sopranos theme]) was formed in an attempt to prove that it was possible to combine country with acid house.
* [[Blondie (Musicband)|Blondie]] started out a Reggae-influenced Punk band, added synthesizers and Pop hooks and moved into New Wave, and in the process incorporated elements of Funk and Rap.
* British rock group [[Motorhead (Music)|Motörhead]] blended heavy metal and punk rock in an unprecedented manner, giving birth to a genre variously known as "speed metal" or "punk metal". They are notable for being one of the few bands to straddle the fierce punk/metal rivalry of late 70s/early 80s Britain, well respected by the most die-hard fans of both camps.
* The New Orleans sludge scene drew inspiration from grunge, hardcore punk and doom metal to create a unique style of slow, gritty metal. No one band can be said to have invented the style, with various groups often sharing members and engaging in frequent collaboration, although The Melvins and Black Flag are both noted as major precursors.
* The Band Morphine mixed Lounge, Blues, Jazz, Rock N' Roll and Indie Rock with a Two String Slide Bass, a Baritone Saxophone and Drums. They invented Low Rock.
* [[Vernian Process]] are described as mixing punk, classical, industrial, trip-hop, dream pop, goth rock, darkwave, cabaret, deathrock, goth and more. They call it "steamwave".
* Afro Celt Sound System is [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin]]: A mix of African folk, Celtic, and electronica.
* Iwrestledabearonce mixes [[Deathcore]]/[[Mathcore]] with random other genres ranging from [[Trip Hop]] to [[Country]] in every song.
* [[Industrial Rock]] [[I Am the Band|one-man band]] Celldweller fuses genres to the point that it's almost impossible to keep track of all the genres that are being mashed together.
* Waltari are a perfect example: Alternative metal, punk, techno, electronic, rap, death metal, grindcore, hard rock, symphonic, folk, thrash, pop, funk, industrial and drum 'n' bass are [http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/waltari/big_bang/ all] quite merrily [http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/waltari/radium_round/ put together] on the [http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/waltari/blood_sample/ same album]. And the best part is it actually works.
* Scissor Shock, who have even managed to combine this with [[Genre Roulette]].
* One of the reasons we still keep [[Kanye West]] around is because his music quite awesomely mixes different genres he likes, not to mention his "baroque pop" excursion ''808s & Heartbreak''. To date, he sampled King Crimson, Michael Bolton, Bette Midler, The Doors, Shirley Bassey, Elton John, Daft Punk, Labi Sifre, Can, Nina Simone, Tears For Fears, [[The Alan Parsons Project (Music)|The Alan Parsons Project]] and [[wikipedia:Kanye West production discography|the list goes on...]]
* [[Guns N' Roses (Music)|Guns N' Roses]]. The bands classic lineup were all into rock music but the band members each had their own style influenced by a different genre. Axl was included by more melodic and heavily arranged music like [[Queen]], Slash was based in blues and ratty hard rock like [[Aerosmith (Music)|Aerosmith]], Izzy edged more towards simple acoustic song writing like [[Bob Dylan]], Duff was punk and Steven was the hair metal scene. Together these influences came together and made ''Appetite For Destruction'' what it was. They replaced Steven with Matt Sorum, which swapped the hair metal vibe for a big epic arena sound which added a little flair to ''Use Your Illusion''.
** And that's before getting into the new release, ''Chinese Democracy'', where Axl [[I Am the Band|is the only member of the original lineup left]], and a rotating cast of musicians contributed to the album. The album has more of an [[Industrial Rock]] feel, helped by the fact that [[Nine Inch Nails]] guitarist Robin Finck is one of the few to perform in all songs.
* [[wikipedia:Mangue Bit|Mangue Bit]] is a musical movement from the Brazilian state of Pernambuco which mixed traditional music styles, mostly maracatu, with hip hop, punk rock and trash metal. It's awesome!
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* [[wikipedia:Chillwave|Chillwave]] is a new genre termed to describe a recent crop of musicians who make [[Retraux]] 80's-inspired synthpop but with lo-fi/shoegaze/psychedelic production values. Possibly the closest we will get to a sonic embodiment of the [[Nostalgia Filter]], as the genre deliberately attempts to sound like old, warped cassette tapes one might randomly find in the house or car. Lyrical themes include [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lfd3uZDcJ3g drugs], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhIJGF85Pro the beach], and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PuCkZ1ALkI just chilling out in general].
* The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_CzD0GBD-4&playnext=0&videos=aL6b6G8BGLA&feature=artistob Yoshida Brothers] fuse rock stylings with the distinctive sounds of the shamisen, a traditional Japanese instrument that looks something like a three-string banjo. They've been called the "[[Jimi Hendrix]] of the shamisen", just to give you an idea.
* [[Candiria]] plays something they like to call "urban fusion", which draws influences from [[Metalcore|metalcore]], [[Jazz|jazz fusion]], [[Hip Hop|hip-hop]], and [[Ambient|ambient]].
* Caravan Palace is a French band that combines French house music and Gypsy jazz and American swing.
* [[Voltaire (Musicband)|Voltaire]] (the musician) calls himself a "Neo-Victorian gypsy pirate vaudeville band." ...and that seems to miss out quite a few genres fans of his notice.
* [[Kid Rock]] can turn out some songs that certainly feel like this. Rock, rap, blues and country influences kinda mix together in a way that allows his material to be played on a majority of major radio stations without fully breaking genres. It's so bad that some people classify him as his own genre at times to make things simpler.
* Brazilian band [[Pato Fu]] is pop rock mixed with just about any rhythm conceived. It culminates in an album recorded with [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVHoaTmvBFM toy instruments.]
* The Kentucky Headhunters. At first glance they seem like a Southern rock band, but closer inspection shows plenty of soul and bluegrass influences. Who would've ever thought that traditional country like "Oh Lonesome Me" or "Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line" could fit on the same album as covers of "Spirit in the Sky" and "Let's Work Together"?
* [[Sugarland]] seems to be heading towards this. Although mainly a more acoustic bent on modern-day [[Country Music]], their song "Stuck Like Glue" features a prominent accordion line, as well as a reggae-rap breakdown and a pinch of [[AutotuneAuto-Tune]] near the end.
* [[Type O Negative]]'s music is a mixture of punk, doom and thrash metal, goth with a hint of Beatlesque melodies.
* [[CAKE (Musicband)|CAKE]] combines jazz standards, country, crooning, funk, soul, and alt rock beautifully.
* Deerhunter call themselves "ambient punk" (?) and sound like neo-[[Shoegazing|Shoegaze]]/indie rock/trippy weirdness ([[Genre Roulette|varying wildly]] from one track to the next).
* [[Mindless Self Indulgence]] refer to their genre as "Industrial Jungle Pussy Punk." It's as close to accurate an adjective you'll find for it.
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** Just look at the list of genres wikipedia lists: Rock, New Wave, synthpop, Sophisti-pop, deep house, Avant-Garde, Classical, Jazz, Funk. And they leave out rap, acid jazz, and many others. And everytime they do something new, it is epic. Can you say nearly 8 minute long funk songs?
*** 8 minute funk songs are ''typical'' for [[George Clinton|P-Funk]].
* Stoner metal band Monster Magnet are primarily based on [[Hawkwind]] and [[Black Sabbath (Music)|Black Sabbath]], but also include elements of NWOBHM, glam, surf, Delta blues, [[The Doors]], garage rock, and the occasional Latin-tinged ballad.
* Brave Combo made their name playing polka versions of [[Jimi Hendrix]] songs.
* The Kronos Quartet are a string quartet who, along from works from the classical tradition, have also covered [[Jimi Hendrix]] and Thelonious Monk tunes.
* Electro Funk (aka Boogie): Which was/is a mixture of funk, R&B and electro. Arguably ''The Zapp Band'' was the prototypes.
* The Red Hot Chilli Pipers, inventors of "bagrock". Let's play rock music on the bagpipes! Then let's play rocked-up versions of traditional pipe tunes! Then let's play ''both at once''! (For instance, "Long Way To The Top - If You Wanna Bagrock" is a medley of "The Old Hag At The Churn", the titular [[ACDC (Music)|AC/DC]] track, and "Steam Train To Mallaig".)
** There are now two bagrock groups: former Chillis guitarist Gregor McPhie recently formed Bags Of Rock.
* [[Kaizers Orchestra]] can most easily be described as Tom Waits-esque Gypsy Punk with a profound respect for untraditional percussion.
* [[Three Eleven (Music)|311]] is well-known for their blend of rock, reggae, rap, and funk.
* Put Fela Kuti-style Afrobeat, Brian Eno's electronic treatments, Americana, and the energy of [[The Clash]] into a blender, and you get the [[Talking Heads]].
* The [[Velvet Underground]] took standard pop and brought in the influences of classical composers such as John Cage and [[La Monte]] Young. The result? They spit out distorted jams like the 17-minute "Sister Ray," now considered a masterpiece. And, of course, they also wrote a lot of nice little pop ditties as well.
* Vektor fits under the progressive thrash metal label, but there's so much stuff going on with them that "progressive" is almost an understatement. You've got thrash, yes, but they also throw in technical death metal, black metal, 80s shred, progressive rock, post-rock, power metal, Florida-style death/thrash, and even some down-'n-dirty Motorhead/Venom-style riffing. It has to be heard to be believed.
* [[BrokenBroke CYDENCYDE]] shows how ''not'' to do it.
* ''The Forgotten Archetype'' parodies this by mixing grindcore, rap, pop, electropop, chamber, jazz, power metal and many more genres.
* [[Nobuo Uematsu]] surely gets an honorable mention for his most famous [[Crowning Music of Awesome]] piece, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn71hIsm0U8 One Winged Angel] ([[Final Fantasy VII]]), which is basically the bastard love child of Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana" (from which it borrows lyrics) and Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze".
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* Vanilla Ice started out with radio-friendly pop-rap on To The Extreme, then switches to funk/jazz/rap on Mind Blowin, and then he went for a ''Nu-Metal'' sound on Hard To Swallow, since then his music has been a combination of industrial metal, nu-metal, punk, gangsta rap and hip-hop, Ice himself describes his music as "Molten Metal Hip-Hop".
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1Ez_ar4Yig The Prodigy] became one of the greatest electric acts of the 90s by [[Trope Codifier|Codifying]] the genre of music called "Big Beat" out of Acid House, Drum'n'Bass, Jungle, and Breakbeat on the electric side, and Punk, Metal, Progressive, and Psychedelic, on the rock side, along side the heavy use of sampling from such diverse genres as Funk, Jazz, and Reggae.
* Sting & [[The Police]] threw jazz, reggae and punk into a blender, adding [[New Wave (Music)|New Wave]] into the mix later on. And that's not counting the other styles that Sting has explored in his solo career.
* [[Ludo]] is, well... something like this. There really is no way to describe it. [[The Other Wiki]] has them down as [[Power Pop]], Pop Rock, and [[Alternative Rock]]; [[TV Tropes]] lists them as [[Alternative Rock]], Geek Rock, and [[Rock Opera]].
* [[Progressive Metal]] band Painted In Exile are an almost ludicrous example; [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlyYTmk5q0g Skylines] travels during its 9 minutes through hip-hop, extreme metal, jazz, progressive rock and melodic, poppy material and manages to remain a somewhat cohesive song.
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* Singer/composer [[Akiko Shikata]] 's music is a combination of neoclassical, darkwave, medieval, Renaissance, folk, ambient, Celtic, pop, and symphonic metal.
* Balkan Beat Box mixes klezmer, Arabic, and Balkan music with hip-hop beats. It's [[Better Than It Sounds]].
* Russian band Xe-NONE mixes [[Eurodance]] and [[Heavy Metal (Music)|Heavy Metal]]. Yes, really.
* The band, Friends of Dean Martinez, are a good example of this. Two of their members composed the soundtrack to [[Red Dead Redemption]], and their music certainly carries some of the spanish/western feel present in the game, but there's also a classical touch, and a little [[Post Rock]], surf rock, and psychedelic rock thrown together. And it's awesome.
* [[Kagrra,]], combines [[Visual Kei]]/rock and traditional Japanese music. They call it "Neo Japanesque".
* [[Dorso]] combines [[Heavy Metal (Music)|Heavy Metal]], Grindcore, [[Thrash Metal]], Jazz, [[Progressive Rock]] /[[Progressive Metal|Metal]] and his last album is mixed with [[Industrial Metal]].
* The Egyptian artist [[Mohamed Mounir]] combines Egyptian pop, [[Funk]], [[Jazz]], [[Reggae]], [[Blues]], and traditional Nubian music. He is therefore one of the most popular--and definitely the most enduring--contemporary artists in [[Modern Egypt]].
* [[Enter Shikari]] embodies this trope perfectly. Get post-hardcore, stick a load of electronica in, add a twist of metal, flavour with dubstep and such as needed.
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* Blur. They went from shoegazer band to Britpop and then basically became a noise rock band with influences from grunge, gospel, trip hop and Pavement style lo-fi indie rock, before finally finishing up as something resembling Albarn's other project, Gorillaz - influences from jazz, hip hop, dub and world music.
* [[The Crystalline Effect]]. Techno, trip-hop, EBM, industrial and electronic, and you never know what they'll come up with next.
* Richard Hell and the Voidoids' first album Blank Generation mixes the stripped down punk sound with the minimalist jazz/prog of Hell's former band, the Art Rockers Television. The second album, Destiny Street, included different styles including blues covers(I Can Only Give You Everything, originally by Them and also covered by [[MC 5MC5]], and I Gotta Move, a Kinks cover) pop punk (Kid With The Replaceable Head) a sentimental punk ballad (Time) and the title song, Destiny Street was a seven minute funk song. And every bit sounds just as [[Punk Rock]] as the Sex Pistols or the Ramones.
* Zdob si Zdub. [[The Other Wiki]] lists them as "Ska-punk rapcore" which they may very well be. Let's just say there's a lot of guitar riffs, rapping, trumpets, sampling and Moldovan folk music. Just...just [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WReABTpqv0I go listen] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qbqr4D7kCaE to them].
* [[Space (Music)|Space]] are generally classified as indie, but draw influences from hip-hop (particularly on ''Spiders''), film soundtracks, big band, rock 'n' roll, techno, and electronica, with ''Tin Planet'' being the most noticeable example of this. It's kind of expected, really, since the band had a singer who was more influenced by films than music, a classic rock fan guitarist, one drummer into jazz and another one into hip-hop and loops, a keyboard player who was seriously into dance music, and a bassist who liked literally ''anything''. Jamie's songs were more indie/rock oriented, while Franny's tracks were almost entirely electronic instrumentals. ''Spiders'' made heavy use of loops and samples, ''Tin Planet'' was noticeably [[Lighter and Softer|poppier]], while ''Suburban Rock 'n' Roll'' and the never-released ''[[What Could Have Been|Flies]]'' had a harder edge to them. The lost album ''Love You More Than Football'' was somewhere in between.
* British expatriate [[Edward Ka-Spel]] -- of [[The Legendary Pink Dots]], [[The Tear Garden]], and Mimir -- is fond of blending multiple musical styles and influences in his various projects; to the point where his music is typically categorized as "Experiemental" or "Neo-Psychadelia", as it tends to vary widely between Post-Punk, Post-Rock, Psychadelic, Industrial, Electronica, and so on.
* This is one way to describe the [[Crowning Music of Awesome|awesomeness]] that is [[OutkastOutKast]]. Another way is "Southernplayalisticaddilacmusic."
* [[ZZ Top]] was one of the few bands that managed to pull off [[New Wave (Music)|New Wave]] electro-[[Blues Rock]] in the [[The Eighties|1980s]], with the albums ''Eliminator'' and ''Afterburner''.
** Another was [[Led Zeppelin|Robert Plant]] with 1983's ''Big Log''.
* John Paul Larkin started off simply doing scat-style jazz music. His manager suggested that he combine that with hip-hop and modern dance music. While hesitant at first, he later warmed up to it and it was this combination that would earn him fame as [[Scatman John]].
* [[A Hawk and A Hacksaw (Music)|A Hawk and Aa Hacksaw]] are pretty strictly folk music, but they mash many different folk traditions--Balkan, Turkish, Romani, Klezmer, Mariachi--into something unique.
* [[Sound Horizon (Music)|Sound Horizon]] is usually a [[Symphonic Metal]] band. Sort of. It's not unheard of for them to dip into baroque, pop rock, choral, orchestral, Russian folk, jazz, and, facetiously in one live concert, ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIJOvJbRwiE#t=5m59s chiptune].''
* [[A Day to Remember]] is a mix of metalcore, alternative metal, pop, pop-punk, post-hardcore, emo, a bit of death metal, and who knows what else??
* [[Vanessa Amorosi]]: "Hazardous" included Rock, Power pop, Synth pop and rap. "Mr Mysterious" is proof of this.
* [[Bear McCreary]] combines Western and Eastern melodies with rock and chorus on ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]''.
* [[Namgar (Music)|Namgar]] combines traditional Buryat-Mongolian [[Folk Music]] and chants with modern rock.
* [[Foster the People]] seems to be electro/folk/industrial/dance/progressive alternative rock. One song on their ''Torches'' album is called [[Lampshade Hanging|Call It What You Want]].
* Revocation is technical/melodic death metal at their core, but in addition to copious amounts of thrash, they also throw in jazz, blues, Southern rock, first-wave metalcore, grindcore, math rock, 70s hard rock, 80s shred, surf rock, funk, 70s prog, and pretty much whatever the hell they feel like putting in. And it ''works''.
* Pop Will Eat Itself. British punk + goth rock + electronica + hardcore gangsta rap. YMMV, but it is popularly [[Worse Than It Sounds (Darth Wiki)|Worse Than It Sounds]].
* [[Kerli]] refers to herself and her musical style as Bubble Goth, a combination of Bubblegum pop and Goth music.
* 30 Seconds to Mars combines [[Progressive Metal]], [[Alternative Metal]], and [[Space Rock]] with elements of [[Emo]], [[Post Hardcore-hardcore]], [[Progressive Rock]], [[Hard Rock]], [[Emo|Screamo]], Synth Rock, [[Post -Grunge]] and [[Alternative Rock]].
* Bal-Sagoth is the ultimate epitome of this trope: Epic Black Symphonic Power Metal. Their singer also doubles as a narrator with a deep, sexy voice.
* Fleshgod Apocalypse - Symphonic technical death metal. Classical music at 300 BPM.
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* Fictional example from ''[[Daisy Owl]]'': [http://www.daisyowl.com/comic/2009-12-04 ElectroFolk ClassicAlt is pretty cutting edge.]
* A fictional example: the Kabbage Boy in ''[[Brutal Legend]]'' are a "Second Wave of American Tween Melodic Rap Metalcore" [[Boy Band]].
* Another fictional example, probably: Although we never ''hear'' it, Rastabilly Skank in ''[[Red Dwarf (TV)|Red Dwarf]]'' sounds like it ''should'' be a cross between reggae, rockabilly and ska punk.
** It's a rare genre, but "Skabilly" fits that description.
* [[Ridiculously Human Robot|Querty's and]] [[Mad Scientist|Dvorak's]] music experiments from ''[[Freefall (Webcomic)|Freefall]]'' include ''Cyber Rap'', ''Cyber Rap and the Digital Symphony Orchestra'' and ''Epic Rap Yodeling Operas''. Oh, and ''Orbital Bombardment in D minor''.
* In one segment of the [[NPR]] radio-show [[This American Life]] entitled "By the Numbers", host Ira Glass commissioned a song combining the most-hated musical elements as voted by the public - it featured, among other things, an opera singer rapping a cowboy song accompanied by a tuba and a children's chior singing about Labor Day!!! [[Springtime for Hitler|AND IT'S AWESOME]]
* Although not a full genre or a full band example, the Pogues in concert brought [[The Specials (Musicband)|Lynval Golding]] up onstage to play [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7QL_PDC5XM "A Message To You, Rudy" in a Celtic Ska style]
* Webcomics [[Subnormality]] has ''the Generals'' - military themed rap-metal band - in [http://www.viruscomix.com/indefenseofweird.jpg this] strip.
* Delhi 2 Dublin is a band that mixes traditional Indian music (sitars and the like) with Celtic fiddles and whistles, and filters the lot through a little bit of techno.
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