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Experimental music is an umbrella term for practices that prioritize exploration, process, and discovery over adherence to established genre norms. It embraces new sound sources, nonstandard tuning systems, indeterminacy and chance operations, graphic and open-form scores, extended techniques, and technology-led sound design (tape, electronics, computers, and live processing). Rather than a single style, it is a methodology and ethos: testing hypotheses about sound, structure, and performance, often blurring boundaries between composition, improvisation, sound art, and performance art. Listeners can expect unfamiliar timbres, unusual forms, and an emphasis on how music is made as much as the resulting sound.

Mashup is a genre and production technique in which two or more pre‑existing recordings are combined to form a new track, most commonly by placing the vocal (a cappella) from one song over the instrumental of another. It relies on beatmatching, harmonic mixing, and careful editing to create the illusion that disparate sources naturally fit together. Unlike a traditional remix (which typically reworks stems from a single song) or a medley (which plays songs sequentially), a mashup emphasizes simultaneous overlay and interplay between multiple songs, often highlighting humor, contrast, or surprising continuity. The style rose to prominence in the early 2000s UK “bastard pop” scene and spread via file‑sharing, blogs, and video platforms; it remains popular in DJ culture, pop culture countdowns, and internet meme communities, while inhabiting a legal gray area due to copyright.

Meme is an internet-native umbrella genre for songs and audio clips that are created for, shaped by, or propelled through online meme culture. It blends humor, parody, and fast-turnaround production with infectious hooks designed to spread rapidly across platforms. Stylistically, meme music is eclectic. It can be rap, pop, EDM, rock, or mashup-driven collage; the common thread is comedic framing, referential lyrics, exaggerated vocal processing, and recognizable samples that cue shared online in-jokes. Tracks often favor short runtimes, bold punchlines, and instantly loopable sections optimized for social media. Because it thrives on virality rather than a fixed instrumentation set, meme functions as a meta-genre. It borrows techniques from mashup culture, YTPMV, soundclown, nightcore, and novelty/comedy traditions, while using platform-specific aesthetics from YouTube, SoundCloud, Vine, and TikTok.