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
- nu jazzDeep Cut85points
- nu skool breaksDeep Cut85points
- nu-cumbiaDeep Cut85points
- nu-metalcoreDeep Cut85points
- nubian traditionalDeep Cut85points
- nueva cancionDeep Cut85points
- nueva ola chilenaDeep Cut85points
- nueva ola peruanaDeep Cut85points
- nueva trovaDeep Cut85points
- nueva trova chilenaDeep Cut85points
- nuevo flamencoDeep Cut85points
- nuevo folklore argentinoDeep Cut85points
- nuevo folklore mexicanoDeep Cut85points
- nuevo tangoDeep Cut85points
- nurseryDeep Cut85points
- NWOBHMDeep Cut85points
- nwocrDeep Cut85points
- nwothmDeep Cut85points
- ny rootsDeep Cut85points
- nyahbinghiDeep Cut85points
- nyc metalDeep Cut85points
- nyc popDeep Cut85points
- nyckelharpaDeep Cut85points
- nyhcDeep Cut85points
- nz alternative rockDeep Cut85points
- nz children's musicDeep Cut85points
- nz christianDeep Cut85points
- nz dnbDeep Cut85points
- nz electronicDeep Cut85points
- nz folkDeep Cut85points
- NZ gangsta rapDeep Cut85points
- nz hardcoreDeep Cut85points
- NZ hip hopDeep Cut85points
- nz indieDeep Cut85points
- nz jazzDeep Cut85points
- nz metalDeep Cut85points
- nz popDeep Cut85points
- nz punkDeep Cut85points
- nz reggaeDeep Cut85points
- nz singer-songwriterDeep Cut85points
- oakland hip hopDeep Cut85points
- oakland indieDeep Cut85points
- oaxaca indieDeep Cut85points
- oberkrainerDeep Cut85points
- oc indieDeep Cut85points
- oc rapDeep Cut85points
- occult black metalDeep Cut85points
- oceanDeep Cut85points
- oceania soundtrackDeep Cut85points
- odia bhajanDeep 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.