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
- german dark minimal technoDeep Cut85points
- german death metalDeep Cut85points
- german dnbDeep Cut85points
- german drillDeep Cut85points
- german electronicaDeep Cut85points
- german grindcoreDeep Cut85points
- german hard rockDeep Cut85points
- german hardcoreDeep Cut85points
- german heavy metalDeep Cut85points
- german hip hopDeep Cut85points
- german houseDeep Cut85points
- german hyperpopDeep Cut85points
- german indieDeep Cut85points
- german indie folkDeep Cut85points
- german indie popDeep Cut85points
- german indie rockDeep Cut85points
- german jazzDeep Cut85points
- german jazz rapDeep Cut85points
- german literatureDeep Cut85points
- german melodeathDeep Cut85points
- german metalDeep Cut85points
- german metalcoreDeep Cut85points
- german oiDeep Cut85points
- german operaDeep Cut85points
- german orchestraDeep Cut85points
- german pagan metalDeep Cut85points
- german popDeep Cut85points
- german pop rockDeep Cut85points
- german post-hardcoreDeep Cut85points
- german post-punkDeep Cut85points
- german post-rockDeep Cut85points
- german power metalDeep Cut85points
- german progDeep Cut85points
- german punkDeep Cut85points
- german punk rockDeep Cut85points
- german r&bDeep Cut85points
- german reggaeDeep Cut85points
- german renaissanceDeep Cut85points
- german rockDeep Cut85points
- german rockabillyDeep Cut85points
- german romanticismDeep Cut85points
- german shoegazeDeep Cut85points
- german show tunesDeep Cut85points
- german singer-songwriterDeep Cut85points
- german skaDeep Cut85points
- german soundtrackDeep Cut85points
- german stoner rockDeep Cut85points
- german street punkDeep Cut85points
- german tech houseDeep Cut85points
- german technoDeep 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.