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Alternative & Punk
Punk music is better described by a fast tempo, often a binary rhythm and the use of distortion and saturated sound. Most of the time, songs are played on power-chords.
Blues/R&B
Christmas
The Christmas music and songs (under the category 'christmas') are music and songs (christian or secular) traditionally interpreted around the year end celebrations.
Length : 00:04:43 | 100 BPM 


Une étoile se lève, un chant monte de la plaine et les tambours résonnent vers des sommets africains.
Length : 00:02:14 | 74 BPM 


La nuit de noël, la plus douce et la plus belle. Interprétation magnifique.
Length : 00:02:18 | 100 BPM 


Traditionnel Christmas's Lead played in a Trip Hop Style with Meollotron Sound.
Classical
Classical music covers by convention all music composed between Johann Sebastian Bach death in 1750, and the romantic period in the 1820's. By exension, we call classical music all european music from Renaissance to contemporary music.Thus, it is important to make the difference between classic style music, of which main composers are Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig Van Beethoven and Christoph Willibald Gluck, and classical music opposed to popular music, in the West or elsewhere.
Length : 00:02:03 | 114 BPM 


Petite oeuvre classique pour attente téléphonique ou vidéo nécéssitant une ambiance classique.
Country
Rythmic or drawling, emotional or moving, country music comes from Irish and Scotish migrants' Celtic folk music. Along with black people's Blues and Rhythm & Blues, this music has contributed a lot to the expansion of Rock music.
Easy Listening
The term "Easy Listening" regroups several musical universes, all related to mellow, melodic and harmonious music. It is therefore more of an adjective than a specific music genre. It refers to artists of the early or mid 20th Century, and to others considered as composing electro music.
Length : 00:02:04 | 100 BPM 


Ambiance cool et détendue, un son de guitare vintage et optimiste comme dans certaines séries américaines des années 60.
Length : 00:02:04 | 120 BPM 


Ballade avec nappe harmonique aux cordes et thème au piano.Douceur,nostalgie.
Length : 00:06:17 


Titre Easy Listening symphonique : ensemble violon/piano, réflexion sur l'au-delà et l'aventure avec un zeste dramatique
Length : 00:02:35 | 100 BPM 


Ambiance détendue et relax, musique soul joyeuse et positive, chœurs réels et synthétiques, guitares funky. Convient très bien aux sites web. Plusieurs ambiances, un break, le morceau peut être facilement découpé.
Length : 00:05:49 


Titre Easy Listenig : musique calme et noble, piano, violons, trombone. Action glorieuse
Length : 00:05:36 


Titre d'easy listening : Musique positive chargée d'espoir de harpe, de flute, et de piano
Length : 00:05:01 | Loop 


Titre Easy listening : percussion cristalline sur lit de violons et de guitare basse
Length : 00:01:51 | 125 BPM 


Rythmique Latine pour une couleur plutôt Loundge. Ambiance sereine et optimiste.
Electronica/Dance
This music genre is based on electronic material sounds. Although electronic music comes from works on magnetic tape with traditional music, the first sounds to be conserved as electric signals go back to the invention of the phone by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876. Nowadays, frontiers are not clear, but we usually call electro, musics composed with a computer using all frequencies of the acoustic spectrum, unlike techno and trance.
Length : 00:04:01 | 128 BPM 


Titre house minimal à la construction judicieuse et dynamique. Des sonorités positives et une mélodie entrainante.
Length : 00:02:55 | 128 BPM 


Titre electro dancefloor. Un titre intemporel mixant années 80, 90 et 2000.
Length : 00:02:39 | 128 BPM 


Titre electro très dancefloor. Montée envoutante aux sonorités actuelles avec un mélange de synthés 80's.
Length : 00:03:40 | 125 BPM 


Titre electro-dance très dancefloor aux nappes et mélodies synthétiques.
Length : 00:02:51 | 130 BPM 


titre electro digne des meilleures fin de soirée ou l'ambiance est synonyme de transe.
Length : 00:03:06 | 130 BPM 


titre electro que l'on pourrait entendre dans une boîte de nuit sur la plage. Energie positive et voyage.
Folk
Folk music used to mean "traditional popular music" in English speaking countries. However, from the early 20th century, popular music features have changed: being nowadays called pop music, folk music refers now to oral tradition popular music.
Funk
Funk is a kind of afro-american music born in the late 60's, and that has been growing through the 70's and 80's. maninly springing from Soul and Jazz musics, Funk's characteristics are the rhythm section predominance (guitar, bass ,drums), the typical presence of brass wind on the rythm (riffs) or solos, and in general, the major role granted to instruments.
Fusion
Groove
To groove means to have fun. In popular music, it is related to the rythme and used the refer to rhythm section embellishment.
Hard Rock
Hard Rock was born in the late 60's with British groups like Black Sabbath, Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin. For some, Hard Rock is the equivalent of the Americano-British Heavy Metal, for others, it is only a small part of Heavy metal, and for others, it is a generic term gathering all kinds of "hard" music, opposed to "soft" musics.
Hip Hop/Rap
Hip-Hop is a cultural and artistic trend, or even a way of life, born in the United States of America in the mid 70's, and that has spread throughout the world till then. Coming from New York's Black Ghettos, it mixes festive and protest aspects. The four main components of Hip-Hop culture are Rap, and more generally Hip-Hop music, graffiti, deejaying, break dance, and other Hip-Hop dances. Beatbox also also sometimes included, or the street language, the street fashion, the street knowledge and the street entrepreneurialism.
Industrial
Industrial music is a mix of Experimental music with Electro music. It usually regroups various musical categories using Rock or electronic instruments.
Jazz
Jazz is a music genre born in the United States in the early 20th Century. It is considered as the first artistic form coming from the United States, and springs from the meeting of Blues, Ragtime, and European music.
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Piano, contre basse guitare et batterie pour une ballade à deux en bord de plage. Et se retrouver au coin d'un bar feutré...
Metal
Heavy Metal is a subgroup of Rock n' Roll, and became a proper musical style during the 70's. Between 1969 and 1974, it gets its inspiration in Hard Rock groups that combined Blues and Rock n' Roll, creating an hybrid focused on drums impulsions and guitare amplified distortion.
New Age
New Age music genre was born in the 70's with mind-blowing music derivated from Brian Eno's ambient music and influienced at the beginning by groups like the Pink Floyds, Tangerine Dream, Vangelis. Often mystic, it exalts the voice power: the canadian Patrick Bernard (ex Bernhardt), Deva Premal, Robert Gass. A number of composers devote themselves to merely instrumental music used for relaxation, for instance the French Michel Pépé, Thierry Morati, Logos or Music-Synthese, using mainly synthesizer and traditional instruments often embellished by nature sounds (waves, birds song) and possibly by voice samples (Grégorian chants, oriental mantras, American Indian chants, etc). Some record labels such as "Imagine records", "Oréade music", Narada or "Le Souffle d'Or", deal exclusively with New Age and spiritual World music.
Length : 00:01:54 | 90 BPM 


Jazz, electro, lounge, zen. Une deuxième partie avec rythme plus soutenu.
Length : 00:10:00 


Titre New Age venu du fond des âge Japonais. Percussion et cordes ethniques ponctué par des bruits de natures. Calme et apaisant.
Length : 00:03:18 


Titre New Age entre pop et musique asiatique. Petite mélodie évoquant "transformation".
Length : 00:07:19 


Titre New Age apaisant et calme. Bruits de natures et instruments ethniques asiatiques.
Length : 00:04:06 | 100 BPM 


Musique planante portée par une flûte et une trompette sur une nappe synthétique.
une évasion, un rêve...
Pop
The word "Pop music", or popular music, appeared in the 60's to refer to Rock n' Roll (first called Rythm n' Blues by Ray Charles, and then by the Rolling Stones.) and all related music, unlike previous music genres: light music, easy listening, classical music, jazz, French and international folklore music, etc). Its more general meaning is used to refer to popular music of the moment, without implying any specific style criteria.
Pop/Rock
Pop-Rock refers to the Pop branch that remained close to its Rock roots. The words "Pop Rock" can also be used to gather both genres, Pop and Rock, as a jointure, not an intersection. In the late 60's, Rock music was split into two main branches: one closer to the Blues from which it sprang, and Pop music, that emphasizes melodies and vocal harmony. Rock is more musically radical and often less politically correct in the lyrics (even raging) then Pop music, more consensual. Pop artists are generally less provocative (although some use provocation as their hallmark).
Length : 00:03:10 | 120 BPM 


Une musique pop rock sur un fond grégorien. Une voix féminine douce et aérienne.
Length : 00:01:22 | 77 BPM 


Titre pop rock à la mélodie efficace et à la rythmique de guitare dynamique et positive.
Length : 00:03:16 | 92 BPM 


Titre pop rock efficace avec la particularité de proposer des changements de rythme bien senti.
Progressive Rock
Reggae
Reggae music is one of the most famous and popular jamaican musical expression. It has become a major musical genre that carries its own culture, thanks to its international success. Reggae music was born at the end of the 60's. It is the result of several encounters and crossbreedings: Although Reggae is an evolution of Ska and Rocksteady, traditional caribeen music such as mento and calypso are considered to be its roots, but it has also been influenced by Rythm&Blues, Jazz and Soul music (since American music used to be very fashionable in Jamaica then). It has also been influence by African music, Rasta trend, and Nyabinghi chants. This mix of genres does not stop here, since nowadays many styles take inspiration from it, incorporate or cover Reggae style all over the world.
Reggae is now a universal music, as its main ambassador Bob Marley once dreamed about it.
Rock
Rock n' Roll is a genre that mixes black Blues and Rhythm & Blues, with White culture, notably marked by Country Music.
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Mélange des genres, quand le rock et l'electro rencontrent la musique traditionnelle arabe.
Soundtrack
Original Sountrack and Cinema appeared simultaneously... Although it was silent in the first place, producers immediately understood the necessity of an audio media to support and enhance video media. Generally written especially for the movie, it reveals the emotions generated by the images or dialogue. Some themes became famous classical music pieces.
Length : 00:03:12 | 112 BPM 


Dans la forêt équatoriale profonde. Climats successifs, nature et espace avec flûtes guitares, et partie tribale puissante avec percussions, voix.
Length : 00:01:16 | Loop | 85 BPM 


Titre idéal pour l'habillage sonore de reportage ou de jingle : Ambiance zen et nature. Oiseaux en fond, instruments orientaux.
Length : 00:02:43 | 120 BPM 


Climat puissant et dramatique évoquant le Moyen Orient. Musique du monde avec percussions réelles, voix et flûtes, synthés créant tension et suspens.
Length : 00:08:34 


Souvenirs d'une journée d'avril. Un patchwork de sons et d'ambiances de tous horizons. Etonnant !
Length : 00:05:43 


Un titre en 3 partie : ambiance de guerre avec bruitages, ambiance urbaine trip-hop et ambiance industrielle, technologique.
Techno
Techno is a electronic music genre appeared in November 1974 (with the title "Autobahn" from Kraftwerk) and developed in the 80's in Detroit(Etats-Unis). Most of the time composed in home-studio and replayed by disc-jockeys during parties, it is more than anything else a dance music.
Its first influences were Chicago House music, Electro music, New Wave, Funk and futurist music themes that prevailed in popular culture, especially during the later period of cold war industrial America.
In the 90's, after the initial success of Detroit Techno music which turned into a proper musical culture, a whole subgroup of genres more or less directly related to the initial one, came to the fore globally.
Unclassifiable
Miscellaneous music...
Length : 00:02:53 | 155 BPM 


Alternance entre un orchestre et la musique électronique soutenue par une voix d'ange.
Length : 00:04:31 | 114 BPM 


Titre aux multiples sonorités, dynamique et mélangeant beaucoup de styles.
Length : 00:05:36 


Titre qui pourrait habiller un spectacle dansant d'une petite danseur automatique.
World
World Music is a general term, quite a catch-all, that covers all types of music that do not belong to Pop music, Classical music, Jazz, Rap, or Techno music main streams, and have ethnic-style resonances. It covers Third World Pop music as well as Eurpoean Pop Music that uses Third World musical influence, and traditional music mainly but not only from the Third World.
Length : 00:03:00 | 120 BPM 


Un matin ensoleillé sur le Bosphore au son des ouds, des saz, des darboukas et des haut-bois.
Length : 00:02:20 | 110 BPM 


Titre World Music : Musique rythmée avec des instruments traditionnels et des choeurs.
Length : 00:00:36 | 120 BPM 


Boucle world musique : nappe synthé avec bruitage de nature et percussions.
Length : 00:01:44 | 130 BPM 


Titre World musique. Réunion autour d'un chef de tribu africaine, soutenue par une musique aux mélanges d'instruments traditionnels et électroniques
Length : 00:01:08 | 120 BPM 


Titre world Musique : Réunion du conseil rythmée par un ostinato de marimba et de percussion.
Length : 00:02:22 | 80 BPM 


Titre world musique : Ballade mélancolique porté par un piano et un saxophone.
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