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
- frankfurt electronicDeep Cut85points
- frankfurt indieDeep Cut85points
- frauenrapDeep Cut85points
- freak folkDeep Cut85points
- freakbeatDeep Cut85points
- free folkDeep Cut85points
- free improvisationDeep Cut85points
- freeform hardcoreDeep Cut85points
- fremantle indieDeep Cut85points
- french baroqueDeep Cut85points
- french black metalDeep Cut85points
- french classical pianoDeep Cut85points
- french contemporary classicalDeep Cut85points
- french death metalDeep Cut85points
- french dnbDeep Cut85points
- french dubDeep Cut85points
- french emoDeep Cut85points
- french experimental rockDeep Cut85points
- french folkDeep Cut85points
- french folk popDeep Cut85points
- french garage rockDeep Cut85points
- french hardcoreDeep Cut85points
- french hip hopDeep Cut85points
- french indie folkDeep Cut85points
- french indie popDeep Cut85points
- french indietronicaDeep Cut85points
- french jazzDeep Cut85points
- french metalDeep Cut85points
- french movie tunesDeep Cut85points
- french oiDeep Cut85points
- french operaDeep Cut85points
- french orchestraDeep Cut85points
- french popDeep Cut85points
- french post-punkDeep Cut85points
- french post-rockDeep Cut85points
- french psychedelicDeep Cut85points
- french punkDeep Cut85points
- french reggaeDeep Cut85points
- french renaissanceDeep Cut85points
- french rockDeep Cut85points
- french rock-and-rollDeep Cut85points
- french rockabillyDeep Cut85points
- french romanticismDeep Cut85points
- french shoegazeDeep Cut85points
- french soundtrackDeep Cut85points
- french stoner rockDeep Cut85points
- french synthpopDeep Cut85points
- french tech houseDeep Cut85points
- french technoDeep Cut85points
- french worshipDeep 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.