![]() ![]() While Roden claims he had been making lowercase music since the mid-1980s, it wasn’t until 2002 that lowercase gained some attention from the press following the release of the compilation album Lowercase-Sound, which introduced the genre’s other artists to listeners.Ĭreated for the Resonanzen exhibition in Saarbrucken, Germany, Roden’s “Bell Is The Truth (Berlin)” is a fine example of how beautiful and mesmerizing lowercase can be. On his album Forms of Paper, Roden handled various types of paper, recording the sounds before amplifying, stretching, looping, and otherwise affecting them until he generated a type of ambient electronic music. lowercaseīack in 2001, American sound and visual artist Steven Roden coined and inadvertently created a genre of extreme and minimal form of ambient music that he called lowercase. Others, such as hypnagogic pop, may raise a few eyebrows.īelow are are ten fairly obscure genres, some more so than others, with listenability ranging across the spectrum. Some, like chillwave, are fairly descriptive. Occasionally, as in the case of the so-called witch house subgenre, artists even pull them out of thin air for laughs, perhaps even as a way of screwing with music critics.Īt any rate, these games have led to a lot of absurd sounding music subgenres. And the only thing music journalists love more than dropping a genre is creating one. Whether praising or gutting an artist or scene, they’re handy identifiers for reviewing music. ![]()
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