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
- waiata maoriDeep Cut85points
- waiata mo tamarikiDeep Cut85points
- wandelweiserDeep Cut85points
- war metalDeep Cut85points
- warm droneDeep Cut85points
- warrington indieDeep Cut85points
- washboardDeep Cut85points
- washington indieDeep Cut85points
- wassoulouDeep Cut85points
- waterDeep Cut85points
- waveDeep Cut85points
- weightlessDeep Cut85points
- weirdcoreDeep Cut85points
- wellington indieDeep Cut85points
- welsh choirDeep Cut85points
- welsh folkDeep Cut85points
- welsh hip hopDeep Cut85points
- welsh indieDeep Cut85points
- welsh metalDeep Cut85points
- welsh rockDeep Cut85points
- west african jazzDeep Cut85points
- west australian hip hopDeep Cut85points
- west bengali popDeep Cut85points
- west coast reggaeDeep Cut85points
- west coast trapDeep Cut85points
- west virginia indieDeep Cut85points
- west virginia metalDeep Cut85points
- west yorkshire indieDeep Cut85points
- west-vlaamse hip hopDeep Cut85points
- westcoast flowDeep Cut85points
- western americanaDeep Cut85points
- western mass indieDeep Cut85points
- western ny metalDeep Cut85points
- western saharan folkDeep Cut85points
- western swingDeep Cut85points
- whale songDeep Cut85points
- wind ensembleDeep Cut85points
- wind quintetDeep Cut85points
- wind symphonyDeep Cut85points
- windsor on indieDeep Cut85points
- winnipeg hip hopDeep Cut85points
- wisconsin indieDeep Cut85points
- wisconsin metalDeep Cut85points
- witch houseDeep Cut85points
- women's choirDeep Cut85points
- women's musicDeep Cut85points
- wonkyDeep Cut85points
- Worcester MA indieDeep Cut85points
- workout productDeep Cut85points
- world chillDeep 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.