Krillion Recorded answers
6,432 recorded answers
How to approach it
Treat the task as a timed recall sprint, not a hunt for one perfect label. Spend a minute noting every genre term you have ever seen attached to a record, from the broadest umbrella phrases down to the strangest compound you can picture, and hold back nothing at this stage. Prune afterwards, keeping only entries you can imagine sitting in the platform's catalogue. The productive route is combinatorial: take one style stem you trust and attach a region, a period, a format or an instrument, then judge which pairings read like genuine tags. Do not chase a brilliant rarity. The field is so wide and the scoring so flat that your first instinct carries as much weight as your twentieth guess, so move fast.
Get a hint
Start with scale: the catalogue holds thousands of tags, so the skill being tested is recall under time pressure. Ask how many genre terms you could list in a minute without repeating yourself.
A little more
Study how most tags are built: a style root fused with a place, a decade, a tempo figure, a technology or an instrument. Once that pattern is visible, one remembered term turns into a dozen variants.
One step further
Then push toward the far edge of the list: hyphenated micro-labels, single descriptors that barely register as genres, and tags lifted wholesale from regional scenes on other continents.
Reveal answers 6,432
- south african rockDeep Cut85points
- south african soulful deep houseDeep Cut85points
- south african technoDeep Cut85points
- south african trapDeep Cut85points
- south african underground rapDeep Cut85points
- south asian metalDeep Cut85points
- south borneo indieDeep Cut85points
- south carolina hip hopDeep Cut85points
- south carolina indieDeep Cut85points
- south carolina metalDeep Cut85points
- south dakota indieDeep Cut85points
- south sudanese popDeep Cut85points
- southampton indieDeep Cut85points
- southeast asian post-rockDeep Cut85points
- southern americanaDeep Cut85points
- southern china indieDeep Cut85points
- southern gospelDeep Cut85points
- southern gothicDeep Cut85points
- southern metalDeep Cut85points
- southern soulDeep Cut85points
- southern soul bluesDeep Cut85points
- southern thai musicDeep Cut85points
- soviet synthpopDeep Cut85points
- sovietwaveDeep Cut85points
- spaDeep Cut85points
- space age popDeep Cut85points
- space ambientDeep Cut85points
- space musicDeep Cut85points
- spacegrungeDeep Cut85points
- spacesynthDeep Cut85points
- spacewaveDeep Cut85points
- spanish baroqueDeep Cut85points
- spanish black metalDeep Cut85points
- spanish bluesDeep Cut85points
- spanish classicalDeep Cut85points
- spanish classical pianoDeep Cut85points
- spanish contemporary classicalDeep Cut85points
- spanish death metalDeep Cut85points
- spanish electronicDeep Cut85points
- spanish electropopDeep Cut85points
- spanish experimentalDeep Cut85points
- spanish folkDeep Cut85points
- spanish folk metalDeep Cut85points
- spanish folk rockDeep Cut85points
- spanish hip hopDeep Cut85points
- spanish indie folkDeep Cut85points
- spanish indie popDeep Cut85points
- spanish indie rockDeep Cut85points
- spanish invasionDeep Cut85points
- spanish jazzDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The numbers tell a flattening story. Out of 6,431 recorded answers, 6,392 scored, and 5,962 of those sat on the same 85 points, one broad band that swallowed everything from bare one-word abstractions such as abstract to hyper-local hyphenates such as adelaide indie and technical oddities such as 8D and 432hz. Only 429 fell to 60, presumably entries the grader read as a weaker fit: a near miss, a variant spelling, or something it would not treat as a genre tag. Exactly one response, stomp and holler, reached 100. That solitary case carries the lesson. Normally the rarest legitimate pick pays best, since fewer players share the pool, but here the catalogue is so vast that rarity stopped carrying information. Obscurity bought nothing: accordion earned the same 85 as afro house angolano. Depth of recall was rewarded only up to the point of being right, and not a single point further.