Julien Marchal

Sped-up music is the practice of releasing or circulating versions of existing tracks that have been deliberately accelerated, often with a corresponding pitch raise that produces the classic "chipmunk" timbre. These versions are typically 10–35% faster than the original and are optimized for…

Modern indie folk is a 2010s-era evolution of indie folk that blends intimate, acoustic songwriting with contemporary production aesthetics.

Solo wave is an internet-era microgenre that blends the intimate, DIY sensibility of bedroom pop with vaporwave- and chillwave-tinged atmospheres and soft indie pop songwriting.

Slowed and reverb is an internet-born remix practice in which an existing track is pitched slightly down, time‑stretched, and soaked in reverberation to create a woozy, cinematic feel. The processing emphasizes space, sustain, and tail‑decay so that vocals smear and harmonies bloom while transients…

Modern downshift is a contemporary, playlist-era microgenre that blends hushed alternative pop and alt‑R&B sensibilities with the spaciousness of downtempo and ambient pop.

Post-dubstep is a loosely defined wave of UK-born electronic music that grew out of dubstep but moved away from its rigid 140 BPM wobble-bass formula. It keeps the bass-weight, sound-system focus, and rhythmic syncopation of dubstep and UK garage, but folds in house and techno tempos, R&B vocal…