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Arcade game sounds had a particularly strong influence on the hip hop, [65] pop music (particularly synthpop) [66] and electro music [67] genres during the golden age of arcade video games in the early 1980s.
Though entirely chiptune records were uncommon at the time, many mainstream musicians in the pop rock, [52] hip hop [53] and electronic music [54] genres were sampling arcade game sounds and bleeps during the golden age of video arcade games (late 1970s to mid-1980s), as early as Yellow Magic Orchestra's "Computer Game" in 1978. [25]
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Nintendocore [note 1] is a broadly defined style of music that most commonly fuses chiptune and video game music with hardcore punk and/or heavy metal.The genre is sometimes considered a direct subgenre of post-hardcore [10] and a fusion genre between metalcore and chiptune. [11]
This is a list of electronic music genres, consisting of genres of electronic music, primarily created with electronic musical instruments or electronic music technology. A distinction has been made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. [ 1 ]
Arcade game sounds also had a strong influence on the hip hop, [113] pop music (particularly synthpop) [114] and electro music genres during the early 1980s. [115] The booming success of video games at the time led to music magazine Billboard listing the 15 top-selling video games alongside their record charts by 1982. [ 13 ]
"Arcade" is a song by Dutch singer-songwriter Duncan Laurence written and composed by Laurence, Joel Sjöö, Wouter Hardy, and Will Knox. The song was released on 7 March 2019 by Spark Records. [ 1 ] It was later included as the lead single on his debut studio album Small Town Boy , and also features on his debut EP Worlds on Fire .
Funk – a popular music genre that combines blues (via rhythm and blues), jazz, and soul music and is known for its de-emphasis towards melodies and harmonies in favor of the bassline. Funk carioca – a Brazilian hip hop-influenced music genre from Rio de Janeiro, taking influences from musical styles such as Miami bass and freestyle.