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->''"The latest artist to the electro-pop-rock-classic rock-rave genre, while keeping a glam rock-punk-dance-europop edge."''
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So Joe the guitarist and Chris the drummer are metalheads, Sandra the bassist loves soul, Alex the keyboardist is obsessed with punk, and Bob the vocalist always wanted to be a jazz singer. After a few arguments over what musical direction the band should go in, they eventually come up with a solution: All of them!

Neoclassical Punk Zydeco Rockabilly is when an artist mixes seemingly disparate genres together. After all, [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot if two genres are already awesome on their own, then combining them will result in something even more awesome]], right?

For works which use multiple, disparate genres ''without'' actually mixing them together, see GenreRoulette. Compare and contrast with GenreBusting, where a work fits into no genres rather than multiple. Also compare RockMeAmadeus, when classical themes get quoted in other genres. See also AvantGardeMusic.
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* {{Jazz}} originated as a mix of blues, ragtime, and brass band music, along with European musical sensibilities from classically-trained free black and mixed-race musicians who played for New Orleans high society audiences.
** Fusion jazz started out in the 1960s as the incorporation of rock into jazz. It's since grown to include any genre imaginable, incorporated into jazz.
*** The term 'fusion' used by itself usually refers specifically to the fusion of jazz and rock, however. See Music/SteelyDan and Music/{{Chicago}} for two prominent examples.
*** Smooth jazz grew out of a mix between fusion jazz, pop and RAndB.
* Rock'n'roll originated as a mixture of rhythm & blues and country with some blues, gospel, and folk music thrown in for good measure.
* ProgressiveRock, to a tee. Progressive rock started (arguably) when Music/KingCrimson tried to create rock music from classical influences rather than blues ones. After 30-plus years of experimentation by many bands combining all the musical genres known to mankind under the 'Progressive Rock' banner and coming up with wildly varying results, Many prog fans think that if you're in a prog band and not invoking this trope, then you're just not doing it ''properly''.
** ProgressiveMetal follows this as well. If it's metal, and you're not sure what subgenre it falls into, it's probably progressive metal.
** PostRock may very well be this for rock being combined with Romantic and early 20th Century Classical.
* IndustrialMetal was an unlikely combination pioneered by Music/BigBlack, Music/{{Ministry}}, and Music/{{KMFDM}} in TheEighties. Nowadays, it's so common that most people think of industrial metal when you mention industrial music.
** {{Industrial}} music itself combines the instrumentation of SynthPop with the MindScrew elements of PsychedelicRock and the "screw you" attitude of PunkRock; it was also influenced by [[EverythingIsAnInstrument Musique Concréte]], [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible avant-garde classical]] and [[SensoryAbuse extreme performance]] [[SurrealHorror art]]. Over time, DarkWave and {{Trance}} began to influence the genre as well.
* SymphonicMetal, heavy metal mixed with symphonic classical music. Music/{{Therion}}, the leader of the genre, takes their genre-blending quite seriously, as their 2009 live album ''The Miskolc Experience'', recorded at the International Opera Festival in Hungary, featured about a dozen classical compositions rewritten from the ground up to incorporate modern heavy-metal instruments along with the original orchestras, choirs, and opera soloists. Music/{{Epica}} did something similar at the same event with ''The Classical Conspiracy'', which incorporated covers of neoclassical film soundtracks (for example, "The Imperial March" from ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'') as well as traditional classical tunes such as Music/EdvardGrieg's "In the Hall of the Mountain King", followed by a set of their own music.
** Music/DeepPurple, with a classically trained keyboards player, were one of the earliest examples. Their early LP ''The Book Of Taliesyn'' is a pretty good example, incorporating a classical string quartet on one track. (''Anthem'')
* Punk jazz combines the energy, speed, and distortion of punk with the atonal, chaotic, and unpredictable ramblings of some strains of jazz.
* [[PsychobillyGenre psychobilly]] is punk mixed with {{Rockabilly}}, while gothabilly is goth rock mixed with psychobilly.
** To the extent that punk was a "return to roots" movement for rock and roll (see above), psychobilly is pretty much just standard rockabilly with the volume and tempo turned UpToEleven.
** Gothabilly puts it all in a drippy surf guitar echo tank.
* Two-tone is the offspring of ska and punk.
** Ska itself is the offspring of calypso and rock and roll, and has been mixed with everything from folk to metal.
*** Calypso itself is the combination of mento with a horn section. It also has incorporated jazz, swing and rock and roll, and its offspring Soca has incorporated electronics, disco, dancehall and Indian music as well.
*** Ska later evolved into Rocksteady, which was invented by slowly down the ska beat and then focusing on the offbeat, then evolved into Reggae by adding guitar, organ and deep, changing basslines.
* {{Funk metal}}, {{funk rock}}, funk punk... Let's just say that [[GarnishingTheStory everything's better with]] {{funk}}.
* A subtrope of this is "Ethnic Punk":
** Celtic punk, which combines punk rock with Scottish, Irish and occasionally Welsh or Breton folk. Pioneered by Anglo-Irish group The Pogues and popularised by groups like Dropkick Murphys and Music/FloggingMolly.
** It should be noted that this is frequently made by North Americans who claim Irish ancestry but don't actually know anything about Ireland.
** Gogol Bordello is a self-described "Gypsy punk" band that plays a mixture of punk, cabaret, dub, and Gypsy folk music.
*** The Zydepunks as well, although vocally they're closing to bands like Flogging Molly.
** The Ukrainians, who play punk-ish music with Slavic instrumentation and Ukrainian lyrics. Have covered Music/TheSmiths,the Music/VelvetUnderground, and the Music/SexPistols, in translation.
** Golem! is a klezmer-punk band and they are ''fucking awesome.''
** The more general term "folk punk" is used to refer to the style played without any self-conscious ethnic alignment. It developed in the UK as a sister-style to celtic punk; the two were more or less an identical movement until the latter.
* FolkMetal, which crosses metal with (usually) Scandinavian traditional folk, ranges from Music/{{Ensiferum}}'s attempts to take metal even further over the top, to Music/{{Korpiklaani}}, which is...something else entirely. Special mention goes to Music/{{Alestorm}} for being ''pirate'' metal.
** Korpiklaani describes their style as "old people's music with heavy metal guitars". Frontman Jonne Jarvela's started out with Sami folk band Shamaani Duo, added synthesizers and heavier guitars and formed a new band, Shaman. Shaman then became Korpiklaani by dropping the synthesizers and Sami language lyrics, and adding traditional instruments and a more metal sound.
** Music/{{Finntroll}} is a special case for Folk Metal. Along with the primary components of their music being black metal, Finnish folk music and "humppaa" style polka, over the years they've also added dashes of punk, classical, Caribbean music, honky tonk, and whatever else they felt like. They also sing exclusively about trolls in Swedish (although they are from Finland, Swedish sounds more like Troll).
** There are a number of different approaches to folk metal, ranging from the Black Metal with added Scandinavian folk of Finntroll to the English folk song made dark and growly of Skyclad
** FolkMetal is usually a combination of Death/Black/Power Metal with whatever the band members' local/ethnic folk music traditions are. It has spawned two sub-genres -- CelticMetal, which is FolkMetal incorporating [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_music Celtic revival]] styles; and OrientalMetal, which is FolkMetal based on Middle-Eastern musical traditions. It has also indirectly spawned two other, similar sub-genres -- Viking Metal (Power, Black, or Death Metal with some traditional Scandanavian influence) and Pirate Metal (Power Metal with a touch of Folk Metal and a romantic pirate theme).
* Christian black metal. Formerly known as '''''Un''black''' metal, a term now used mostly perjoratively by true black metal fans and artists. Just to drive home how out of place it really is: In the early 90's, ''church burnings'' were considered an acceptable way to earn respect in the Norwegian black metal scene. Murder, suicide, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking spikey shin guards and absurd facepaint]] all happened as well. To go along with that, the lyrics are frequently generally anti-religious and misanthropic, specifically anti-Christian, Satanic, nihilistic, atheistic, and pro-neopaganist. For most of this and more distilled into one band, read up on Music/{{Mayhem}}.
* [[http://www.flamenco-world.com/magazine/about/jazz_flamenco/jazz.htm Flamenco jazz.]]
* "Mathcore" takes two things that seem by very nature to be contradictory [[ThreeChordsAndTheTruth Hardcore]] and [[EpicRocking Progressive/Avantgarde metal]]. Throw in some [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Jazz Fusion and Blues influence as well as maybe some electronic bits]] and you've got an noisy, spastic and downright crazed sound of music.
* Stoner metal is a fusion of doom metal, psychedelic rock, and grunge.
** Grunge itself began as a fusion of early doom metal, hardcore punk, and glam rock illustrated with bands like Green River, Malfunkshun and Skin Yard. Later bands would incorporate indie, psychedelic, and post-punk influences as well.
** Sludge Metal is a fusion of DoomMetal, HardcorePunk, (And for the NOLA acts) SouthernRock, Blues and Crust Punk to create an utterly crushing and abrasive style of music.
* Electronic music in general lives and breathes this, due to having a huge variety of subgenres with only small differences, and having a wide variety of individual styles, and thousands of different synthesizers and different drumsounds that can be used.
* [[MemeticMutation Post-avant jazzcore is better than progressive dreamfunk.]]
** [[CompletelyMissingThePoint So Thoughts Of Ionesco are better than Bootsy Collins?]] ''[[FanDumb HERESY!!!]]''
* Musica Mestiza is this taken to the extreme: a mix of Salsa, Punk, Reggae, Ska, Hiphop, Flamenco, Raï, African Rhythms and any other genre that seems like a good idea to add to the mix. Music/ManuChao is probably the most popular artist is this genre.
* Avant-Garde Metal thrives on this trope. Bands either combine lots of genres, or combine a few genres and have a really odd way of putting it all together. They also often abruptly switch between styles.
* [[JPop J-Pop]] is characterized by sounding perky and glittery, while mixing techno/electronica, hard/soft rock, and another random genre with nonstandard, but still poppy, chord progressions.
* Electro Swing combines swing and house music. And sometimes techno.
* Digital Hardcore combines hardcore punk with jungle, hardcore techno, industrial, and occasionally hip-hop.
* {{Afrobeat}} started when Music/FelaKuti mixed American funk and jazz with Ghanian highlife music (which itself is a hybrid genre) and Nigerian tribal chants.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Wave No Wave]] is PunkRock mixed with {{Jazz}}, {{Funk}}, [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible avant-garde classical,]] and SensoryAbuse.
** Similarly PostPunk is PunkRock mixed with Krautrock, Dub, {{Jazz}}, {{Funk}}, and ... abstract art.
** Finally NoiseRock is a fusion of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Wave no wave,]] PostPunk, and HardRock.
* Moombahton takes the melodic elements of HouseMusic, slows them down to 110 BPM and adds a Reggaeton beat.
** Moombahcore is a fusion of Moombahton with modern, aggressive {{Dubstep}}.
* Dark Psytrance = Psychedelic trance + industrial + hardcore techno.
* Since {{Steampunk}} originated from a literary genre (rather than from a musical style, like goth), it has no specific musical style of its own. Hence, steampunk musicians tend to mix old and new styles in various ways.
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chillwave Chillwave]] is a new genre termed to describe a recent crop of musicians who make {{retraux}} 80's-inspired synthpop but with lo-fi/shoegaze/psychedelic production values. Possibly the closest we will get to a sonic embodiment of the {{nostalgia filter}}, as the genre deliberately attempts to sound like old, warped cassette tapes one might randomly find in the house or car. Lyrical themes include [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lfd3uZDcJ3g drugs,]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhIJGF85Pro the beach,]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PuCkZ1ALkI just chilling out in general.]]
* [[{{Vaporwave}} Vapor]][[http://rateyourmusic.com/genre/Vaporwave/ wave]], during its early days, could be described as Chopped & Screwed edits (more or less) of Pop/R&B/Smooth Jazz music from TheEighties and [[TheNineties '90s]], sometimes mixed with {{Shoegaze}}. These days, it has spawned many different styles (or sub-genres if you wish to call them as such) that could all have descriptions here. Vaportrap, for example, is a mix of {{Ambient}} music and TrapMusic.
* Hair Metal was born from mixing equal amounts of Rock, Pop, Punk and Heavy Metal and somehow making it work. Needless to say, it's generally very upbeat.
* NuMetal is a melting pot of Metal, Rock, Hip-hop, Funk, Alternative, Punk, Electronics, and whatever else they can think of.
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_house_%28music_genre%29 Take a look at]] Wiki/{{Wikipedia}}'s list of stylistic origins of WitchHouse. Bear in mind that the list has been dramatically ''cut down'' over time as well. While the genre tends to be a highly variegated MindScrew-y hodgepodge of influences in general, Salem's ''King Night'' (arguably one of the better-known releases within the genre) exemplifies what we're dealing with pretty accurately: the first three tracks consist of dark, hazy, dramatic electronic music, with reverb-heavy synth soundscapes and distant vocals seeming to simultaneously take influence from {{Shoegaze}}, {{Trance}} and {{Industrial}} music, backed by [[UncommonTime skipping, somewhat arrhythmic]] beats with heavy HipHop and {{Dubstep}} influence. Think that's an unusual melting pot of influences? By track four, "Sick," we get ''Dirty South-influenced rapping'' over ominous soft synths and operatic vocal inflections. The album only gets weirder from there, with two straight up HipHop tracks, slightly more stripped down SynthPop[=/=]Shoegaze numbers, fuzzed-out power chords and just about everything else in between. Other artists purported as examples of Witch House range from ethereal dub to HipHop beats with a nihilistic edge and noisy, cracked-out pop. The only constants among these bands seem to be a dark (sometimes [[StylisticSuck intentionally campy]]) quasi-occult aesthetic, vocals processed to the point of being incomprehensible, loving spoonfuls of reverb, and this trope.
* IndiePop separates itself from vanilla, label-controlled {{Pop}} music by letting the artist have full creative control over their material. As such, it often sees pop-style music mixed with a wide variety of genres such as {{synthpop}}, RAndB (often called PBR&B), trip-hop, punk, folk, {{dream pop}}, {{baroque pop}}, [[ElectronicMusic electronica]]... and whatever else the artist can think of.
* PBRAndB is ContemporaryRAndB plus HipHop, [[ElectronicMusic EDM]], UK garage, DreamPop, {{Rock}}... whatever the artist wants.
* Grime can be best described as GangstaRap over a UK garage beat, with some {{Reggae}} and dancehall on the side.
* Deep house was born out of a mix of Chicago house with jazz-funk and soul.
** There's also future house. Which is house taken to its logical extreme.
* The whole point classical crossover music, where classical arrangements are used to combine with pop, rock, electronica, metal...
* KPop was born out a fusion of dance, electronica, pop, hip-hop, and R&B with a high sense of fashion. To say the least, it's very bubbly.
* NewJackSwing is a fusion of R&B, Hip Hop, Disco and Funk that came to life in 1986 with Music/JanetJackson's album ''Control'', produced by Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, and further spearheaded by Teddy Riley and Bernard Belle during the late Eighties to mid-Nineties. Using hip hop drum machines and mixing them with Gospel-influenced R&B melodies, new jack swing redefined the sound of contemporary R&B for many years.
* Neoclassical darkwave is {{Goth}}ic ClassicalMusic. Ethereal wave, another subgenre of darkwave, is {{Goth}}ic DreamPop.
* Kawaii metal is a mixture of HeavyMetal (of numerous different types), JPop, and ElectronicDanceMusic. The genre was pioneered by Music/BabyMetal, and it is ''glorious''.
* Darksynth (not to be confused with DarkWave) is {{Industrial}} {{Ambient}} UsefulNotes/{{Synthwave}}.
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* There is perhaps no better example of an artist embodying this trope than composer Music/YokoKanno. All forms of music are mixed together at her whim. Music/TheSeatbelts were a dream band fronted by Kanno, formed for the express purpose of making the ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' soundtrack, and they lived and breathed this trope.
* Music/{{Garbage}}: Most of their material is a melting pot of {{Industrial}}, PowerPop, {{Grunge}}, Electronic chill, GothRock, and HipHop.
* Music/{{Atheist}}, a TechnicalDeathMetal band, combines DeathMetal with progressive rock, funk, Latin music, and {{Jazz}}.
* Music/ToddRundgren: more on the page.
* King Krule's sound combines punk jazz (an actual genre), soul, indie rock, darkwave, and rap.
* Blackmahal: An outfit that mixes up traditional Punjabi bhangra, jazz, 70s/80s-styled hip-hop, and funk. [[http://soundbutt.com/2tuff/black-mahal-save-the-flavor Resulting in jazzy raps, intercut with chants, about mustaches.]]
* Music/DeepPurple is a hard rock band, no question about it, but in 1969 they performed along with the London Symphony Orchestra under conduction of Malcolm Arnold. This unique album in their catalogue was released as ''Music/ConcertoForGroupAndOrchestra'' and was in fact their first LiveAlbum!
* Music/NewKingdom: PsychedelicRock, {{Jazz}}, {{Funk}}, Soul, HipHop and poetry thrown into a blender.
* Alter Bridge Myles Kennedy's voice is essentially hard rock wailing a la Robert Plant, grunge breathiness with a hint of soul. Mark Tremonti's playing is basically proggy Alternative Speed Metal with just a bit of blues, Spanish guitar and southern twang making surprise appearances. The rhythm section can have some progressive tendencies as well. All while being considered a swan song to 70's classic rock and a spiritual successor to Led Zeppelin.
* Music/RedHotChiliPeppers' album ''Music/BloodSugarSexMagik''. The band produced songs as diverse as the SexGod anthem "Sir Psycho Sexy" and the FunkMetal "Righteous And The Wicked" to the OdeToSobriety "Under The Bridge", the GriefSong "My Lovely Man" (dedicated to ex-guitarist Hillel Slovak, who died of a heroin overdose in 1988) and the BreakUpSong "I Could Have Lied".
* Imagine what would be if a church organist goes crazy, learns to growl, masters the wisdom of working with sound on computer, learns to beat drums rhythms in the manner of Slipknot, plays drum machine à la Venetian Snares. Have you imagined that? Well, Igorrr is something of this kind.
* The French solo artist [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKIeqojIVoI The Algorithm]] is a very good example, as he generally combines grindcore, chiptune and progressive rock genres, while each song touches upon other genres separately. He made a cool [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNOen3mc9dw remix]] of Igorrr (see just above) too.
* [[Music/ShiinaRingo Shiina]]/[[SpellMyNameWithAnS Sheena Ringo]] blends jazz, jpop, electronica, classical, and rock together quite flawlessly. Justified in the fact that she grew up listening to plenty of the bands listed here.
* Firewater mixes Klezmer, Punk, Gypsy music, Jazz, and just about anything else Tod A can think of in pretty much every song. [[OlderThanTheyThink And they were one of the first.]]
* [[https://www.youtube.com/user/ELECTROCUTICA Electrocutica]] is a Japanese band using a strange but wonderful blend of classical, electronic, rock/metal music and alternating between human and Music/{{Vocaloid}} singers. The end result is usually something extremely amazing and MindScrew-y.
* [[Music/DrCarmillaAndTheMechanisms Dr. Carmilla & The Mechanisms]] Are self described as "[[DieselPunk Dieselpunk]] Cabaret", with the former also Identifying as [[VisualKei Visual Kei]] and the Latter as [[RecycledInSpace Space Folk]]. Influences from Cabaret, Psychedelia, Classical, Jazz & Rock music can also be identified.
* Music/{{Bauhaus}} mixed punk, glam, krautrock, dub, and LooksLikeCesare. [[{{Goth}} Some people were very enthusiastic about the end results]].
** Tones On Tail, formed by former Bauhaus members Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins, were psychedelic/surf/goth rock.
** Somewhat ironically, many of the bands that initially inspired {{Goth}} have very little to do with any cohesive, named genre, including the one they helped create. The Birthday Party were more like a de-funkified version of Music/ThePopGroup (see below), while The Virgin Prunes were essentially performance artists with a post-punkish musical element.
* Music/{{Buckethead}} has mixed and played many genres, including funk, different kinds of rock and metal, jazz, ambient and many others to some unique and sometimes downright weird results. It's no wonder people usually classify his music simply as AvantGardeMusic.
* Music/{{Skindred}} is a mix of reggae and metal. In their song "Nobody", they refer to themselves as "Ragga metal punk hip-hop"
* Several classically artists have begun incorporating different musical stylings into their music. Some famous ones, Vanessa Mae combined [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eCvTx5nDDA classical violin with techno,]] and the girl group Bond has combined classical with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNy8r-ZgKgQ rock, pop, world, and pretty much everything else.]] It actually caused a problem for Bond, they were trapped in a "too pop for classical charts, to classical for pop charts" conundrum for quite a while.
* Music/TheClash were punk/everything else, at least on their later albums.
** Music/{{Sandinista}}! in particular. Highly underrated (though it has become a very triumphant case of VindicatedByHistory). Lots of fun dub experiments. Perhaps copying Music/PublicImageLtd's ''Music/MetalBox''? Along with Blondie, they were also the first group to mix hip-hop with rock with "The Magnificent Seven" and "Lightning Strikes (Not Once But Twice)", back when hip-hop was still ''very'' much an underground genre.
** In fact, the New Wave movement in general can be described as punk/everything else.
* Music/PublicImageLtd -- so much, in fact that alot of their songs were aimed at weeding out the punks who complained about [[Music/SexPistols Johnny Rotten]]'s new sound. See Albatross, Foderstompf, This is what you want, this is what you get.
* Nearly every Music/{{Beck}} album contains some flavor of Neoclassical Punk Zydeco Rockabilly, to the point where you could say that mixing and matching musical genres ''is'' his genre.
** "I've always dreamed of being a music/poet that transcends genres even as he reinvents them."
* Music/TheDresdenDolls, in their own words, are "[[Creator/BertoltBrecht Brecht]]ian punk cabaret", something they made up because they didn't want anyone to use the word "goth" when trying to label them.
* Music/LindseyStirling likes to put violins where they don't normally belong, for example in dubstep.
* Music/ENomine's music is a combination of techno and OminousLatinChanting.
** When it doesn't sound like Music/{{Rammstein}}.
* KOMPRESSOR is an industrial/novelty [[IAmTheBand one man band]].
* Nouvelle Vague, quite possibly the world's only bossa nova New Wave cover band.
** Dread Zeppelin is a reggae Led Zeppelin cover band with an Elvis impersonator on lead vocals.
* Music/{{Rasputina}} and Music/{{Apocalyptica}} are rock [-[[RecycledInSpace WITH CELLOS!]]-].
** Ra Ra Riot and Cursive (from 2001 to 2005) are indie rock [-[[RecycledInSpace WITH CELLOS!]]-]
** And now, Primitivity: Music/{{Megadeth}} [[RecycledInSpace with cellos!]]
* Music/ElectricLightOrchestra started off as a mix of prog-rock and classical chamber music.
** And gradually mutated into a technopop band with a string section.
* Clutch mix doom metal, a little thrash, blues, southern rock, a little rap, and whatever else they feel like almost seamlessly.
* Havalina Rail Co. (later just Havalina) mixed up the styles with every single album they did:
** Their self-titled debut was a mix of zydeco, folk, and swing.
** ''The Diamond in the Fish'' was a mix of Rat-Pack jazz, rock, and blues.
** ''Russian Lullabies'' mixed rock and blues with East European folk influences (the band read about Russian folk music, but they deliberately didn't listen to any of it, so the end result was something else entirely).
** ''America'' had the band playing rock, bluegrass, surf rock, country, jazz, Latino rock, Hawaiian, blues... one gets the impression they were trying to cover every single genre that could be considered uniquely American.
** ''Space, Love, & Bullfighting'' was a mix of space-rock and Latin music.
* Music/SixteenHorsepower mixed country, bluegrass, rock, and European folk music.
** And Woven Hand, one of the spin-off bands, adds Medieval and Native American influences to the mix.
* Music/{{Xera}} is Asturian folk (think Celtic music and you won't be too far off) mixed with techno.
* In their last two albums, the White Stripes have had Jack White playing a marimba on several tracks on one, and two songs with BAGPIPES on the other, one of which was a heavy, "White Rabbit"-esque psychadelic freakout. With a ''bagpipe.''
** Though hardly critically acclaimed, Korn beat them to the punch by years.
* Speaking of Music/{{Korn}}, they really deserve special mention. Their debut album ''Music/KornAlbum'' was an extremely bizarre take on AlternativeMetal. Having elements of FunkMetal, HipHop (without actually rapping), HardcorePunk, {{Grunge}}, GrooveMetal, and even elements of ProgressiveMetal. This was a particularly successful example of this trope, as it spawned an entire [[NuMetal infamous genre]] of bands trying to FollowTheLeader (which the [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] with their album ''Follow the Leader'') and helped revive UsefulNotes/HeavyMetal as a whole in the mainstream.
* Music/SongsToWearPantsTo is a website which produces songs, in pretty much every genre imaginable. A lot of them are genre blends as well, when they're not being [[RuleOfFunny outright silly]]. One of the site's more popular songs, "[[http://www.songstowearpantsto.com/songs/celtic-techno-burrito-extended-version/ Celtic Techno Burrito]]," is pretty much what it sounds like--techno and Celtic. And it is ''[[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic awesome]]''.
* There's an artist named [[http://www.budmelvin.com/ Bud Melvin]] who combines Game Boy chiptunes with banjo and steel guitar.
* Bristol post-punk band Music/ThePopGroup are by design a fusion of punk rock, hard funk, dub reggae and free jazz, with bits of West African ritual drum music, surf-pop, Music/CaptainBeefheart (see below), early hip-hop and psychedelic noise. In spite of many imitators, it is generally agreed that there has been no-one quite like them since, and they're even harder to categorize after their reformation. Summed up with [[http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/archives/pop%20group%20001.jpg this image]].
* Music/FlightOfTheConchords is New Zealand's fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo acapella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo.
* Music/EmilieAutumn mixed influences from classical and electronic music to create a genre she calls "Violindustrial" or "Victoriandustrial".
** Emilie's music during the Enchant era is also very hard to classify. It could probably be described as a mixture of pop and jazz, with classical violins.
* Music/VernianProcess are described as mixing punk, classical, industrial, trip-hop, dream pop, goth rock, darkwave, cabaret, deathrock, goth and more. They call it "steamwave".
* Music/AbneyPark is a Seattle-based band that does steampunk music, mixing gypsy and celtic sounds with rock and electro-swing.
* Music/DoctorSteel mixed hip-hop with industrial, early jazz and even opera.
* Music/UnextraordinaryGentlemen mix post-punk, synth-pop, industrial and darkwave.
* Soul Coughing were (and still are) so hopelessly ''sui generis'' that they had to invent a genre name for themselves -- "deep slacker jazz". It's very jazz-inspired (especially evident on Ruby Vroom), but there are rock songs, and indie/pop rock is often injected into the mix.
* Van Canto are an capella power metal band from Germany. They have five vocalists four whom just make instrumentesque noises, a singer and a drummer. Check out their cover of Metallica's "Battery". Also Nightwish's "Wishmaster".
** Actually, despite the unusual (lack of) instrumentarium, they do not differ stylistically from any heavy/power metal band. Their covers are a good example since they do not stick out as "different" from the rest of their songs.
* Music/TomWaits is his own genre. Enough said.
** To elaborate, his voice sounds like a LoungeLizard version of [[Series/SesameStreet Cookie Monster]] and he plays piano in a way that mixes Ragtime, {{Jazz}}, PunkRock, and his voice. It's probably called Neo-Gothic Rock.
* Gazpacho has been described as "classical post ambient nocturnal atmospheric neo-progressive folk world rock."
* If you happen to be listening to a band who can go through funk, pop, jazz, soul, swing, alt rock and death metal in the same song and think "Business is usual" you're probably listening to something by Music/MikePatton (Music/FaithNoMore, Fantomas, Music/MrBungle).
* A Day To Remember from pop punk to death metal with post-hardcore and metalcore in between... well it's something.
* The '90s underground band ''Switchblade Symphony'' mixed hip-hop with wailing goth.
** One review described ''Switchblade Symphony'' as "Gothadelic Trip-Hop."
** Also known as Witch-Hop.
* If music reviewers are any indication, every band who ever existed mixed {{krautrock}} into their music.
* French band Music/{{Magma}} can best be described as Progressive/Symphonic/Gospel/Jazz fusion with vocals sung in a [[{{Fictionary}} made-up language]] called Kobaian. So unusual and unique, that bandleader Christian Vander came up with a new word to describe it: Zeuhl, which means "celestial music" in Kobaian.
* Music/{{Primus}}. Full stop. Their music is kind of like thrash metal crossed with psychedelic... funk... polka?
** Related note: "...have you heard the brand new sound? It's a cross between Jimi Hendrix, Bocephus, Cher and James Brown. It's called Heavy-Hometown-New-Wave-Cold-Filtered-Low-Calorie-Dry" from the Primus song "Mr. Krinkle".
** Useless trivia fact: Primus are the only band to have a genre in Winamp's drop down list named after them.
*** The programmer for that menu justified the band's inclusion as a genre into themselves by saying:
---> "You show me another band whose sound is based on a classically trained banjo player treating a four-string bass guitar like a banjo, and we'll call it a genre. Until then, Primus is Primus, and nobody else is."
* Les Claypool's (bassist and vocalist of Primus) solo career is made of this trope. [[UpToEleven Only weirder.]]
* The band [[http://www.myspace.com/subcitydwellers Sub City Dwellers]] refer to themselves as "Ska Soul Reggae Rock 'n' Roll". They are also well known and loved in the Winnipeg Punk Scene.
* The band In/Humanity jokingly called themselves "Emotional Violence" or "Emo Violence" to make fun of both the genre names for Emo and Power Violence, two horribly named but decent genres they drew much of their influence from. This label was also applied to Orchid, another band that mixed the two (though they leaned closer to grindcore) and their spiritual successor Ampere.
** Humorously, this became one of the more "serious" replacement terminologies for screamo (as opposed to more blatant joke terms such as scramz) after the title was stolen in the public conscious by pop-punk bands of the early 2000s.
* Music/{{Ayreon}} is a rock opera with prog metal, symphonic metal, prog rock, folk music, and pretty much everything else at some point. The vocalists range from extreme metal growlers to more typical rock singers to very operatic singers.
* Music/ThePixies are what would happen if you put Music/TalkingHeads and the Music/VelvetUnderground into the [[Film/TheFly Brundlefly]] machine.
** Or, to borrow from the newspaper ad that led to their formation: a band whose members really dig Peter, Paul & Mary and Hüsker Dü.
* Music/JethroTull combine hard rock, the blues, jazz, English folk music and progressive rock styles, and combine electric, acoustic and electronic instruments on the same tune at the same time. The lead singer plays flute, which is more of a lead instrument at times than the electric guitar. The band have also dabbled in pop, East Indian and Arabic music, new age, electronica, new wave synth-pop, symphonic rock and bits of psychedelia. Despite this, they have their own style, and very few bands have been successful at copying them.
* Your average Bela Fleck and the Flecktones ''song'' will combine at the very least Jazz, Funk, and Bluegrass. Some go much farther than this-- on varying albums, they've added everything from Indian traditional music (on ''Shanti'') to Classical (''Fugue from Prelude'', their heavily latin-inflected take on a Bach piece) into the mix. The apex of this is their take on "The Ballad of Jed Clampett," which featured both hip-hop vocals and scat singing over a funk/bluegrass beat with elements of jazz dissonance. While this all might seem a little odd, it usually works beautifully.
** Likewise the Dregs/Dixie Dregs. Classical Southern Prog Rock Metal Jazz Fusion, often all in the same song.
* Music/TheVeronicas Acoustic synthetic classical pop rock
* Music/TheWorldInfernoFriendshipSociety play "cabaret punk" or "circus punk" with plenty of references to Weimar Germany and smashing the state. Oh, and they did a tribute album about the life of Peter Lorre. Of course.
* Music/JagaJazzist is one of the most prominent bands in the Nu Jazz scene. They started off by mixing big-band jazz with drum-n-bass and trip-hop. On later albums they also incorporate elements of post-rock and prog-rock.
* Music/TheCramps pretty much ''were'' Neoclassical Punk Zydeco Rockabilly.
* Music/BigAndRich's first two albums featured country, metal and ''rap'' all rolled into one. And many critics said it was great.
** Similarly, Big & Rich protegé Cowboy Troy performs ''country rap'', although he's hardly the only artist to do so.
*** And have you heard the solo album Big Kenny put out before Big & Rich existed? That's something along the lines of synthpop, lounge lizard and British invasion, with happy country lyrics.
* Music/JohnZorn, the producer of Music/MrBungle's first album, known for blowing the minds of music nerds with his free jazz / metal / surf / western nonsense albums like: "''Music/{{Radio}},'' ''Torture Garden,'' and ''Leng T'che,'' featuring ''Boredoms'' vocalist Yamatsuka Eye. But the rest of his catalogue is eclectic too. Name '''any''' musical genre and he has played it, even switching back and forth in one and the same track.
** Mr. Bungle themselves too, most apparent in their song "None of Them Knew They Were Robots," on their album "California."
* Music/DwightYoakam is highly eclectic himself. His style is reminiscent of Buck Owens' "Bakersfield sound", but with several rock influences ranging from Elvis to Queen to Cheap Trick. Yes, he actually did a ''country'' cover of a Queen song.
** Granted, the song in question ("Crazy Little Thing Called Love") certainly has a {{Rockabilly}} feel to it in the first place.
* That's how Music/ThePolyphonicSpree's sound got built up: The lead singer, bassist and drummer were members of the alt rock band Tripping Daisy, the flautist was big into avant-garde progressive stuff, the percussionist & harpisit were clearly classically trained, the synth & theremin players brought some electronica influence, etc...
* Music/SufjanStevens' first album, ''A Sun Came'', mixed rock with American and Middle-Eastern folk music. His breakout hit albums, ''Michigan'' and ''Illinois'', mixed rock and folk with neoclassical orchestrations of varying levels of bombast. ''The Age of Adz'' was a mix of orchestral music and SynthPop.
* Music/{{Calexico}} mixes rock, country, Mexican folk (particularly mariachi), post-rock, and occasionally funk or jazz. Any given song may feature trumpets, accordion, violin, cello, steel guitar, synthesizers, or any combination of the above.
* Music/{{Queen}} are an incredibly versatile band, going from proto-metal to heartfelt piano ballads to gentle folk to blues rock to punk-tinged hard rock to synthpop to prog rock epics to arena rock to funk rock to disco to what could almost be called proto-rap. Not to mention Music/FreddieMercury's frequent excursions to ClassicalMusic and {{Opera}}, which started on ''Music/ANightAtTheOpera'' and ended with his SoloSideProject ''Music/{{Barcelona}}''.
* Music/OzricTentacles combine space rock, progressive rock, dub, jazz fusion, world (Indian, Moroccan, Algerian, you name it), electronica, and tea.
* Over the course of their career, Music/LedZeppelin did folk, country music, gospel, synth-pop, reggae, punk and heavy metal while incorporating Motown, Middle Eastern and South Asian influences. And yet, they're still seen as a heavy blues-rock band.
* Music/{{Opeth}}. "You got your progressive rock in my death metal!" And vice versa. Not only that, but it ''works''.
** As they fit quite neatly into prog-metal territory.
* Music/FrankZappa is practically a genre unto himself. Rock-funk-dance-classical-heavy-bluesy-jazz-fusion-[[ProgressiveRock progressive]]-pop-lounge with unusual time signatures, frequent tempo changes in strange keys leading into what sounds like freeform fusion guitar noodling solos that are in reality all entirely written out as complete compositions -- all in one song. There's no easy way to describe the kind of music Frank made, except to call it Zappa.
** He also retired from rock for a while to do orchestral music. He said in an interview that he returned to rock because he used a section of prerecorded music in a classical concert, and the critics couldn't tell the difference. His best known orchestral albums are ''Music/LondonSymphonyOrchestra'', ''Music/ThePerfectStranger'' and ''Music/TheYellowShark''.
** Also note that quite a bit of his music can be considered cartoon music without the cartoons, early rap/hip-hop and his spoken word themes - combined with the other genres, he's probably THE epitome of the trope itself.
** Notable among his classical influence was Music/EdgardVarese. His 15th birthday present was a long-distance call to Varèse's house. He also admired Anton Webern, Music/IgorStravinsky, many jazz and pop artists, his friend Music/CaptainBeefheart (found below), and well, many others. Hence this trope.
* Music/CaptainBeefheart, a frequent collaborator with Music/FrankZappa, is perhaps even more eclectic. Starting with a base of psychedelic rock and blues, he went on to incorporate jazz, boogie, AvantGardeMusic, and experimental styles with discordant but melodic riffs; combined with a unique lyrical style that blended the poetic, humorous, and surreal. What puts him in another league to Zappa is the fact he wasn't afraid to do serious pop songs - "Too Much Time" from "Clear Spot" being the most impressive. Beefheart was always trying to make people feel something with his music, whereas Zappa mostly created things for his own amusement.
* Music/LittleFeat is another band with a Zappa connection (original leader Lowell George had been a guitarist for the Mothers of Invention) that definitely falls into this category, incorporating ever-shifting elements of rock, country, blues, jazz, funk, and gospel into their sound.
* Japanese band m-flo mixes rap and hip-hop with a number of things, including jazz, techno, Music/BarbraStreisand ("The Way We Were"), among others, depending on the album/song.
* Add to all this the possibility of being in the Contemporary ''A Cappella'' genre -- that is, being a jazz musician (or rocker) (or folk musician) (or whatever) but being too cheap to buy instruments and having to sing all those parts instead. (The theme from ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdzyuJJZMCI Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego]]'' is probably the instance you personally are most familar with.) With a little creativity, you can do just about any genre you want in ''a cappella'': witness, for instance, the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FguonHRD5IQ death-metal barbershop quartet.]]
* Music/OfMontreal's recent albums, especially ''Skeletal Lamping'', where, as one reviewer stated, "Barnes leaps through genres that don't even exist, from acid glam psychedelia to sixth dimensional heroin pop." This is a bit of an understatement - listen to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHFUXH4PP5c "Id Engager,"]] keeping in mind that in its place on the album, it comes off as extremely ''restrained'', an obvious radio single. The other single from the album has the last minute or so replaced with a loop of the chorus to hide the MoodWhiplash. Their sound includes funk, disco, R&B, talking songs, psychedelia, indie pop, and jangle pop.
* Mago de Oz is normally just a Spanish language guitar rock band... but has numerous songs that have a Celtic rhythm, 80's guitar band power chords, and lyrics in Spanish.
** Actually it's a Folk Metal/Heavy Metal with Classic, Celtic, Symphonic Metal and Hard Rock influences, open to new styles
* Music/SleepytimeGorillaMuseum is a combination of epic metal, folk, choir music, and nightmares.
* Some of Estradasphere's members have been trained in metal, jazz, and classical music. They also have a guy who plays keyboards and shamisen. The result is cool and wierd.
* Music/TheBeatles themselves went from '50s-influenced rock to Merseybeat to jangly folk-rock to swirly psychedelia to acoustic pieces to blues, soul, jazz, pop, music-hall, country, rockabilly, the avant-garde, reggae/ska, Beach Boys influences, proto-punk, proto-metal, proto-prog, proto-funk... and yet, they developed their own distinctive style(s), and distinctive slant on the styles they tackled. The most GenreRoulette album they ever brought out was ''Music/TheWhiteAlbum''.
* The Swedish band Movits, who recently appeared on the Colbert Report, blend hip-hop with the swing jazz popularized by Benny Goodman and Cab Calloway.
* 127 mix rock, jazz, punk and Iranian dance music. And they sing in Farsi, English and French.
* Music/NickCave & The Bad Seeds are bluesy, semi-gothic, gospel, funk folk rockers. With the occasional sea shanty.
** Well Nick Cave was the lead singer for the Birthday Party. Check out The Friend Catcher, Release the Bats, Mr. Clarinet, and Mutiny in Heaven. Plus now he has Grinderman, which is Noise and blues and whatever else it is.
* Music/TheCatEmpire play a mix of jazz, ska, funk, hiphop, flamenco and sometimes reggae.
* When the Australian hip-hop group The Herd aren't doing political songs, they mix polka and rap. ''Unpredictable'' even has rap verses in Czech and Spanish accompanied by a traditional folk song that's slowly speeding up.
* Between the Buried and Me has described their fourth album, ''Colors'', as "new wave polka grunge" and "adult contemporary progressive death metal".
* Discounting flirtations with harsh noise, jazz and post-rock, Caïna's core sound consists of a fusion of ambient black metal, shoegaze, The Cure-esque goth rock and acoustic folk. And it sounds AWESOME.
* Look at this: on the one hand, you've got black metal, which consists of fuzzy, distorted guitars, insanely fast drumming, demented screaming vocals and a focus on a dark, evil atmosphere. On the other hand, you've got post-rock, which consists of a base of clean, slowly picked guitars, mid-tempo, carefully played drums, no singing whatsoever, eccentric song structures and what music critic Ciarán Tracey called "the redemptive note common to all post rock": a vaguely hopeful atmosphere. Despite the obvious contradictions, in recent years bands combining the two have become increasingly common, most notably Wolves in the Throne Room and Irish band Altar of Plagues.
** Interesting note: A lot of Wolves in the Throne Room's songs cover environmentalist topics. (Insert green metal jokes here)
** Drone metal progenitors Music/SunnO -- originally an Earth tribute band, but whose reputation has far overshadowed their obscure early influence -- have been inching closer to post-rock territory, with such recent efforts as ''Monoliths & Dimensions''. Don't mention this to purist fans; they might be offended (though their hearing is so damaged, they'll probably never notice).
*** Even farther away from drone-metal is ''Deep In Ocean Sunk the Lamp of Light'' by [=Æ=]thenor--a side-project, including O'Malley from Sunn O)))--which serves up disturbing random-noise glitch with (almost pretty!) twinkling music-box chiming, then dumps it all into the ProTools Cuisinart set to Liquefy.
*** Earth themselves fits sort of into this field, as while their earlier albums was pretty standard drone doom, with the release of "Hex: Or Printing in the Infernal Method," they have essentially become a drone-western band.
* Finnish band Music/AlamaailmanVasarat jokingly refer to themselves as "kebab-kosher-jazz-film-traffic-punk-music." This is about as accurate a description of them as you're going to get.
** If you're curious: most of their songs kind of sound like the ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}'' theme with a distinct oompah klezmer vibe. They've done heavy metal tracks and ballads as well, and the band members primarily play horns and strings. They're ''really cool''.
* Blood Stain Child are a Japanese band who make a mix of MelodicDeathMetal and {{Trance}}. It's awesome.
* Music/{{Prince}}. His style (now nicknamed the "Minneapolis sound" since [[FollowTheLeader others imitated it]]) can basically be summed up as: funk + pop + rock + heavy metal + New Wave + whatever the hell else he decides to do (soul, jazz, hip-hop, ambient, electro, etc).
* [[https://www.youtube.com/fareastrecording Omodaka]] is a collaboration between electronic musician Soichi Terada and enka singer Akiko Kanazawa. The two genres combine surprisingly well, it turns out.
* Ian Dury's first group was a pub act called Kilburn and the High Roads, which combined the rockabilly stylings of Dury's hero, GeneVincent, with the New Wave punk influences which were popular in the pub rock circuits. With the Blockheads, he started to incorporate rock 'n' roll, jazz, folk, reggae, ska, a bit of disco and old vaudevillian, music hall comedy songs into the repertoire.
* [[http://www.travisshredd.com Travis Shredd and the Good Ol' Homeboys]], the first and (likely) only "country metal rap" band.
* Music/{{Bjork}}'s ''Music/{{Medulla}}'' is esentially a capella electronica. Highlights include "Oceania", "Who Is It", "Where Is the Line", and "Triumph of a Heart", which is an a capella ''dance'' song.
* Music/ToriAmos' "Professional Widow" combines elements of blues, industrial, medieval, classical, and rock. In other words, imagine an alternative rock song with a harpischord instead of an electric guitar. Also, the song goes from harpischord rock to bluesy piano ballad a couple of times during the song.
** ''The Beekeeper'' is a mixture of baroque pop, R&B, and blue-eyed soul.
* Canadian band Enter The Haggis combines traditional Celtic music with rock, pop and jazz influences. The band includes a full-time bagpiper.
* Another Canadian band, going by the name Unexpect, is a great example of this trope. Here's what Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} has to say about them:
--> Unexpect often is an avant-garde extreme metal band from Montreal, Canada with an amalgamation of different styles of music, including black metal, death metal, progressive metal, melodic heavy metal, European Classical music, opera, medieval music, jazz, electro, ambient, noise, gypsy music, and circus music.
** Although the band perfers to just be called a "metal" band. They, like a few other bands these days, can't understand the bizzare genres like "New-Wave of American Psychedelic Rap Metal".
* The debate rages on to this day as to what exact genre you can call Music/ChildrenOfBodom. Considering they've done covers of songs by Britney Spears and Kenny Rodgers, you can see their influences are far and wide.
** They're generally labelled as melodic death metal, and the covers are less of an indication of actual influence and more just a general trademark, that being one or two wacky/ironic covers per album as bonus tracks. Of course, it's become predictable enough that the joke has lost its luster.
* Although commonly associated with ProgressiveRock, influential Canadian band Music/{{Rush}} has seen considerable variation in their sound. Starting out as a straightforward Hard Rock/early Heavy-Metal band, they evolved through Prog Rock and Synth Rock, while incorporating elements of Jazz, Reggae, Pop, and even Rap; before returning to their hard rock roots, including releasing an album of classic Rock covers.
--> This trope is actually made into lyrics in Rush's song 'You Bet Your Life': "...light pop hip-hop metalist..."
* Music/DiabloSwingOrchestra are making a name for themselves in the avant-garde metal scene by combining, of all things, swing and metal. They dislike genre classifications, but if pressed will describe their sound as "riot opera," which they feel is the best description of their sound. Let's put it this way: the band posted some details about their upcoming third album on their Facebook page, including the statement "Expect some Turkish pop mixed with black metal and Chinese boy choirs among other things." They received numerous comments about how excited people were about the album, but none expressing any disbelief at the mixture.
** Not to menton throwing in some jazz, tango and big band.
* Before they were MuteMath, they were Earthsuit, whose musical style was a mix of rap, rock, electronica, jazz, and reggae. And it was a [[ChristianRock Christian band]].
* John 5. Industrial Bluegrass. Yeah.
* In the same vein, Greg Koch. Instrumental Country-Blues-Metal-in-the-vein-of-Steve-Vai. Also yeah. Not to mention his comedic talent.
* Music professor Gil Trythall released an album in 1971 titled ''Country Moog''. Yes, that's country as in the folksy musical genre, and Moog as in the space-age synthesizer.
* Music/TheTigerLillies are... well, okay: the lead singer is a raw falsetto who can make his voice sound like Music/LouisArmstrong's, only six octaves higher. The bassist plays a thin standing base like it's a cello. The (brush) drummer has a suitcase full of discarded toy cars, rattlers, firecrackers, baby dolls, rubber chickens and dildoes, which, yes, he uses to make noise. They perform in whiteface and bowler hats. Their songs range from serious ballads about sailors dying alone on the ocean to manic screaming being in love with a giraffe's vagina up in the sky. Their material is written by Creator/EdwardGorey (among others). Their fans include Creator/TerryGilliam, Creator/MattGroening, the Music/FranzFerdinand guys and John Cameron Mitchell. Music/MarilynManson and Dita von Teese got married to their music. And they called themselves "Brechtian Punk Cabaret" long before it was hip.
* Music/LinkinPark has always been built around four ingredients = rock, electronica, metal, and hip-hop. Which of these elements take prominence depends on the song, and new elements can be brought in at any time. In fact, each individual album fits:
** ''Music/HybridTheory'' and ''Music/{{Meteora}}'' mixed together NuMetal, rap, and rock. The latter had heavier use of electronica.
** ''Music/MinutesToMidnight'' is more GenreRoulette -- ranging from HeavyMetal songs, to ArenaRock anthems, to adult contemporary ballads, with the occasional rap song in-between.
** ''A Thousand Suns'' is [[AlternativeRock alternative]] [[ProgressiveRock progressive]] [[AvantGardeMusic experimental]] [[{{Industrial}} industrial]] SpaceRock with flavorings of {{Techno}} and HipHop.
** ''Living Things'' could be described as "ElectronicMusic meets RapRock", being a combination of the previous four albums made to create something completely new.
** ''The Hunting Party'' brings back NuMetal elements, but it gets buried underneath the HardRock, HardcorePunk, and HeavyMetal influences that it isn't as noticeable. Easily the heaviest and least commercial friendly of the lot.
* Short-lived band 38th Parallel was a combination of Music/LinkinPark-esq {{Nu Metal}} and... [[ChristianRock Contemporary Christian]]. They released one album in 2002, then broke up.
** There were a shit-ton of Christian nu-metal/rapcore bands before them. P.O.D, Pillar, Project 86, [=PAX217=]... the list goes on. The only thing that made 38th Parallel original was that their name didn't begin with a "P" and they barely squeezed by on that.
* The three members of Italian instrumental experimentalists Zu play bass guitar, drums and a (highly distorted) baritone saxophone. They frequently feature guest musicians, including The Melvins' guitarist King Buzzo, Mike Patton of Music/FaithNoMore and Japanese electronic musician Nobokazu Takemura. The result is a groaning, squealing and cataclysmic semi-improvised fusion of Metal, Noise-Rock, Free-Jazz, Mathcore, and No-Wave Punk. Compared by one struggling and confused music reviewer to 'Lightning Bolt covering Music/TroutMaskReplica in the middle of a knife fight'.
* Music/DoctorSteel has been described as hip-hop industrial opera, much to his enjoyment.
* Music/{{U2}} in TheNineties: AlternativeRock + {{Funk}} + Madchester + IndustrialMetal + {{Shoegazing}} + ElectronicMusic + {{Techno}} + Dance.
* Music/CrowdedHouse were once fairly easy to define but by ''Together Alone'', they had combined PowerPop, {{Grunge}}, DreamPop, [[FolkMusic Folk]], PostPunk, and especially traditional Polynesian music. Their most recent albums featured electronic influences.
* The Suicidal Rap Orgy, a group of Australian noise artists who inexplicably decided to make a, uh, rap collective. Basically, imagine guttural 'or' shrieking male vocals, absurd shrieking female vocals, and lyrics based entirely around various creative combinations of human waste, sex, and violence. "The band are often known for their disgusting liveshows in which they wind up naked and horribly grotesque lyrics that are in a similar vein to GWAR and GG Allin."
* Dälek combines HipHop with {{Shoegazing}}, NoiseRock, and {{Industrial}} and has occasionally been dubbed as metal-shoegaze-hip-hop, but not by themselves. They just prefer to be called hip-hop.
* Meet [[http://www.sotb.se/ Slaughter of the Bluegrass,]] a band which makes death metal song covers... in [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin bluegrass]] style. It's pretty awesome.
** In a similar vein, say hello to ''HayseedDixie''. They do bluegrass covers of Music/{{ACDC}}, Music/{{Queen}}, Music/LedZeppelin, Music/BlackSabbath, Music/{{KISS}} and a metric buttload of others, as well as their own original rock/bluegrass tunes, including [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StFsCyBsHrI the worlds most epic break-up song]].
* The pAper chAse make post-hardcore/classic emo with minimalist classical structures, accompanied by heavy industrial beats and sampling, in a heavily-orchestrated style with touches of jazz and blues on literary NoiseRock concept albums heavy on the NightmareFuel.
* Music/BoneThugsNHarmony combines barbershop doo-wop harmony, with speed rap, with tinges of Jamaican patois in their rhyme scheme.. Usually within the same song where they change the tempo of their delivery mid-verse.
* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' has a song that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT6LFOIofRE mixes opera and rap]]. For some, this is the only rap song they will ever like. For others, it's the only opera song they will ever like.
* Music/KlausNomi: A mix between opera and electronica, as exemplified by his singing on the albums ''[[Music/KlausNomiAlbum Klaus Nomi]]'' and ''Music/SimpleMan''. Think Music/LucianoPavarotti meets Music/DepecheMode.
* This trope is just one reason why Music/YokoKanno is the goddess of anime music. Seriously, she does ''everything''. All at once. [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic Awesomely]].
* Music/YukiKajiura is no slouch in this department [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic either]] considering she's [[GenreBusting post-pop neoclassical Buddhist New Age trance-turbofolk world music electronica.]]
* Music/TheDoors were made up of a jazz drummer, a flamenco guitarist, a classical organist, and a poet-vocalist.
* Music/GentleGiant: What happens when you get together three brothers out of a soul group, a classically trained keyboardist, a blues guitarist, and a volatile series of drummer, and they all start playing recorders? You end up with Gentle Giant, whose songs ranged from quasi-medieval violin-powered tunes, to entirely percussive pieces, to a capella ballads.
* A professor of mine used almost this exact phrase to describe the sound of the band Lucero.
* Music/BodyCount deserves a mention, having been a thrash metal band fronted by Music/IceT, with gangsta-ish lyrics to match.
* Alabama 3(you'd know them for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvq_jY-G2f4 the Sopranos theme]]) was formed in an attempt to prove that it was possible to combine country with acid house.
* Music/{{Blondie}} started out a Reggae-influenced Punk band, added synthesizers and Pop hooks and moved into New Wave, and in the process incorporated elements of Funk and Rap.
* British rock group Music/{{Motorhead}} blended heavy metal and punk rock in an unprecedented manner, giving birth to a genre variously known as "speed metal" or "punk metal". They are notable for being one of the few bands to straddle the fierce punk/metal rivalry of late 70s/early 80s Britain, well respected by the most die-hard fans of both camps.
* The New Orleans sludge scene drew inspiration from grunge, hardcore punk, doom metal, Southern rock, and country to create a unique style of slow, gritty metal. No one band can be said to have invented the style, with various groups often sharing members and engaging in frequent collaboration, although The Melvins and Black Flag are both noted as major precursors.
* The Band Morphine mixed Lounge, Blues, Jazz, Rock N' Roll and Indie Rock with a Two String Slide Bass, a Baritone Saxophone and Drums. They invented Low Rock.
* Music/AfroCeltSoundSystem is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: A mix of African folk, Celtic, and electronica.
* Iwrestledabearonce mixes {{Deathcore}} / Mathcore with random other genres ranging from TripHop to CountryMusic in every song.
* IndustrialRock [[IAmTheBand one-man band]] Celldweller fuses genres to the point that it's almost impossible to keep track of all the genres that are being mashed together.
* Waltari are a perfect example: Alternative metal, punk, techno, electronic, rap, death metal, grindcore, hard rock, symphonic, folk, thrash, pop, funk, industrial and drum 'n' bass are [[http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/waltari/big_bang/ all]] quite merrily [[http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/waltari/radium_round/ put together]] on the [[http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/waltari/blood_sample/ same album]]. And the best part is it actually works.
* Scissor Shock, who have even managed to combine this with GenreRoulette.
* One of the reasons we still keep Music/KanyeWest around is because his music quite awesomely mixes different genres he likes, not to mention his "baroque pop" excursion ''808s & Heartbreak''. To date, he sampled King Crimson, Michael Bolton, Bette Midler, The Doors, Shirley Bassey, Elton John, Daft Punk, Labi Sifre, Can, Nina Simone, Tears For Fears, Music/TheAlanParsonsProject and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanye_West_production_discography the list goes on...]]
* Music/GunsNRoses. The bands classic lineup were all into rock music but the band members each had their own style influenced by a different genre. Axl was included by more melodic and heavily arranged music like Music/{{Queen}}, Slash was based in blues and ratty hard rock like Music/{{Aerosmith}}, Izzy edged more towards simple acoustic song writing like Music/BobDylan, Duff was punk and Steven was the hair metal scene. Together these influences came together and made ''Appetite For Destruction'' what it was. They replaced Steven with Matt Sorum, which swapped the hair metal vibe for a big epic arena sound which added a little flair to ''Use Your Illusion''.
** And that's before getting into the new release, ''Chinese Democracy'', where Axl [[IAmTheBand is the only member of the original lineup left]], and a rotating cast of musicians contributed to the album. The album has more of an IndustrialRock feel, helped by the fact that Music/NineInchNails guitarist Robin Finck is one of the few to perform in all songs.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangue_Bit Mangue Bit]] is a musical movement from the Brazilian state of Pernambuco which mixed traditional music styles, mostly maracatu, with hip hop, samba, funk, punk rock and trash metal. It's awesome! Bands like Nação Zumbi and Mundo Livre S/A are inspired by musicians who performed rhythmic fusion in the 60's and 70's like [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Ben Jorge Ben Jor]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilberto_Gil Gilberto Gil]].
** Also from Brazil, two bands (one with a comedic vein, and another straight satire) embodied this in the 90s: Raimundos played "Forrócore", mixing traditional rhythm forró with hardcore punk, and Mamonas Assassinas had along with straight comedy rock (or in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2OgT5IZzeY one case]], comedy metal), rock parodies of Brazilian country, forró, pagode and Portuguese music.
* Music/LCDSoundsystem pioneered DancePunk by mixing together, well, dance and punk. The elements range anywhere from ElectronicMusic to {{Disco}}, and other aspects like NewWaveMusic, glam, {{Pop}}, SpokenWord, krautrock, acid house, AlternativeRock and more can show up at any time.
* {{Music/Thrice}}. They started out your typical hardcore metal band, but moved into far more experimental territory with their later albums. Some songs on the Earth disk of the Alchemical Index sound like Bluegrass and Jazz!
* Music/{{Gorillaz}}; their music is a mix of HipHop, Rock, Rap, Electronica, Soul, Country and many many more.
* Delhi 2 Dublin plays a mix of Indian Bhangra and Celtic jigs, with some ragga thrown for good measure.
* Music/RabbitJunk is essentially Hardcore Punk, Industrial, Black Metal, and Hip Hop. Different songs tend to focus more on one genre than the other (though usually two at once), their early stuff is mostly Hardcore Punk Industrial.
* With so many references to "Thrash crossed with..." it's possibly easy to forget that Thrash itself was a cross between early 80's British Metal and the Punk music.
* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_CzD0GBD-4&playnext=0&videos=aL6b6G8BGLA&feature=artistob Yoshida Brothers]] fuse rock stylings with the distinctive sounds of the shamisen, a traditional Japanese instrument that looks something like a three-string banjo. They've been called the "Music/JimiHendrix of the shamisen", just to give you an idea.
* Music/{{Candiria}} plays something they like to call "urban fusion", which draws influences from ProgressiveMetal, [[{{Jazz}} jazz fusion]] and [[HipHop hip-hop]].
* Music/CaravanPalace is a French band that combines French house music and Gypsy jazz and American swing.
* Music/{{Voltaire}} (the musician) calls himself a "Neo-Victorian gypsy pirate vaudeville band." ...and that seems to miss out quite a few genres fans of his notice.
* Music/KidRock can turn out some songs that certainly feel like this. Rock, rap, blues and country influences kinda mix together in a way that allows his material to be played on a majority of major radio stations without fully breaking genres. It's so bad that some people classify him as his own genre at times to make things simpler.
** Lampshaded on [[Music/KidRock2003 track 7 of his self-titled album]], where he raps that he is a "Funky [[CountryMusic Country Rock]] Soul singing MC".
* Brazilian band Music/PatoFu is pop rock mixed with just about any rhythm conceived. It culminates in an album recorded with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVHoaTmvBFM toy instruments.]]
* Music/TheKentuckyHeadhunters. At first glance they seem like a Southern rock band, but closer inspection shows plenty of soul and bluegrass influences. Who would've ever thought that traditional country like "Oh Lonesome Me" or "Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line" could fit on the same album as covers of "Spirit in the Sky" and "Let's Work Together"?
* Music/{{Sugarland}} seems to be heading towards this. Although mainly a more acoustic bent on modern-day CountryMusic, their song "Stuck Like Glue" features a prominent accordion line, as well as a reggae-rap breakdown and a pinch of AutoTune near the end.
* Music/TypeONegative's music is a mixture of punk, doom and thrash metal, goth with a hint of Beatlesque melodies.
* Music/{{Cake}} combines jazz standards, country, crooning, funk, soul, and alt rock beautifully.
* Music/{{Deerhunter}} call themselves "ambient punk" (?) and sound like neo-[[{{Shoegazing}} Shoegaze]]/indie rock/trippy weirdness ([[GenreRoulette varying wildly]] from one track to the next).
* Music/MindlessSelfIndulgence refer to their genre as "Industrial Jungle Pussy Punk." It's as close to accurate an adjective you'll find for it.
* Singer-songwriter Michael Gira's second (and current[[note]]Reformed with a new line-up in early 2010[[/note]]) band Music/{{Swans}}. Each album essentially has its own genre distinction, the most inexplicable being their first (1982's ''Filth'') and "last" (1997's ''Soundtracks For The Blind''). The latter, in particular, has no sense of genre distinction whatsoever and is best described as a 150-minute sonic MindScrew (see HellIsThatNoise, LastNoteNightmare, LyricalDissonance...). To many, proof that TrueArtIsIncomprehensible; [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome proof that Michael Gira is God]]. Whichever.
** This trope is applicable to all of Michael Gira's projects, as well as almost everyone he's been associated with. Look at Akron/Family. Or David Coulter. Hell, Fire On Fire...
* The Style Council. Just the Style Council
** Just look at the list of genres wikipedia lists: Rock, New Wave, synthpop, Sophisti-pop, deep house, Avant-Garde, Classical, Jazz, Funk. And they leave out rap, acid jazz, and many others. And everytime they do something new, it is epic. Can you say nearly 8 minute long funk songs?
* Stoner metal band Monster Magnet are primarily based on Music/{{Hawkwind}} and Music/BlackSabbath, but also include elements of NWOBHM, glam, surf, Delta blues, Music/TheDoors, garage rock, and the occasional Latin-tinged ballad.
* Brave Combo made their name playing polka versions of Music/JimiHendrix songs.
* The Kronos Quartet are a string quartet who, along from works from the classical tradition, have also covered Jimi Hendrix and Thelonious Monk tunes.
* Electro Funk (aka Boogie): Which was/is a mixture of funk, R&B and electro. Arguably ''The Zapp Band'' was the prototypes.
* The Red Hot Chilli Pipers, inventors of "bagrock". Let's play rock music on the bagpipes! Then let's play rocked-up versions of traditional pipe tunes! Then let's play ''both at once''! (For instance, "Long Way To The Top - If You Wanna Bagrock" is a medley of "The Old Hag At The Churn", the titular [[Music/{{AC DC}} AC/DC]] track, and "Steam Train To Mallaig".)
** There are now two bagrock groups: former Chillis guitarist Gregor [=McPhie=] recently formed Bags Of Rock.
* Good Hustle is mostly rock with experimental twinges of anything from blues, funk, to all flavoring of metal, pop, punk, electronica, noise, and has, at once point, done a country song. Their main gimmick is that they've vowed to never play any of their songs the same way twice - they'll just as often drop a funk line into what had been metal a few moments ago, or turn a smooth funk into noise.
* Music/KaizersOrchestra can most easily be described as Tom Waits-esque Gypsy Punk with a profound respect for untraditional percussion.
* [[Music/ThreeEleven 311]] is well-known for their blend of rock, reggae, rap, and funk.
* Put Music/FelaKuti-style {{Afrobeat}}, Music/BrianEno's electronic treatments, Americana, and the energy of Music/TheClash into a blender, and you get the Music/TalkingHeads.
* The Music/VelvetUnderground took standard pop and brought in the influences of classical composers such as Music/JohnCage and LaMonte Young. The result? They spit out distorted jams like the 17-minute "Sister Ray" from ''Music/WhiteLightWhiteHeat'' now considered a masterpiece. And, of course, they also wrote a lot of nice little pop ditties as well.
* Vektor fits under the progressive thrash metal label, but there's so much stuff going on with them that "progressive" is almost an understatement. You've got thrash, yes, but they also throw in technical death metal, black metal, 80s shred, progressive rock, post-rock, power metal, Florida-style death/thrash, and even some down-'n-dirty Motorhead/Venom-style riffing. It has to be heard to be believed.
* Music/{{BrokenCYDE}}'s music is a combination of GlamRap and Punk and Screamo called {{Crunkcore}}.
* ''The Forgotten Archetype'' parodies this by mixing grindcore, rap, pop, electropop, chamber, jazz, power metal and many more genres.
* Creator/NobuoUematsu surely gets an honorable mention for his most famous [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic Crowning Music of Awesome]] piece, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn71hIsm0U8 One Winged Angel]] from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', which is basically the bastard love child of Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana" (from which it borrows lyrics) and Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze".
** And that's to say nothing of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GepZ5hM3nTw Otherworld]]".
* Japanese BlackMetal band Music/{{Sigh}} invoke both this trope and GenreRoulette often within the same song. Not only do they frequently incorporate influences from ProgressiveRock, PsychedelicRock, classical, ThrashMetal, jazz, and a number of other styles within their songs, but they often shift entire music genres on a dime, with oddities like dub reggae or disco breaks thrown into the middle of songs, or classical snippets overlaid with what appears to be samples of hundreds of giggling babies used to close albums. ''Imaginary Sonicscape'' is probably their most blatant use of this, but pretty much all of their works starting with about ''Infidel Art'' clearly invoke it, and there were suggestions that their sound would develop in that direction even before that.
* Mr B. the Gentleman Rhymer combines rap with the posher version of British Music Hall. And the banjo.
* Italian parody metal band Nanowar of Steel mostly aim their arrows at either Music/{{Manowar}} or Music/{{Rhapsody|OfFire}}, but in Odino & Valhalla they manage to parody Music/EnnioMorricone, the lambada, Music/PinkFloyd and Music/SystemOfADown, all in the same song.
* HORSE The Band combines an unlikely mixture of Post-hardcore and Chiptune, occasionally with a post-metal vibe.
* Vanilla Ice started out with radio-friendly pop-rap on To The Extreme, then switches to funk/jazz/rap on Mind Blowin, and then he went for a ''Nu-Metal'' sound on Hard To Swallow, since then his music has been a combination of industrial metal, nu-metal, punk, gangsta rap and hip-hop, Ice himself describes his music as "Molten Metal Hip-Hop".
* Music/TheProdigy became one of the greatest electronic acts of the 90s by [[TropeCodifier Codifying]] the genre of music called "Big Beat" out of Acid House, Drum'n'Bass, Jungle, and Breakbeat on the electronic side, and Punk, Metal, Progressive, and Psychedelic, on the rock side, along side the heavy use of sampling from such diverse genres as Funk, Jazz, and Reggae.
* Sting & Music/ThePolice threw jazz, reggae and punk into a blender, adding {{New Wave|Music}} into the mix later on. And that's not counting the other styles that Sting has explored in his solo career.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNqIq4GAS4Q How]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk94Jk-8QPM about]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5wc9h32tlI Stewart]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBCjDOgMpRM Copeland?]]
* Music/{{Ludo}} is, well... something like this. There really is no way to describe it. Wiki/TheOtherWiki has them down as PowerPop, Pop Rock, and AlternativeRock; Wiki/TVTropes lists them as AlternativeRock, Geek Rock, and RockOpera.
* ProgressiveMetal band Painted In Exile are an almost ludicrous example; [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlyYTmk5q0g Skylines]] travels during its 9 minutes through hip-hop, extreme metal, jazz, progressive rock and melodic, poppy material and manages to remain a somewhat cohesive song.
* Music/KylieMinogue's 1994 single "Confide In Me" is a mix of trip-hop, baroque pop, dance pop, RnB, and new jack swing.
* The 1970's group Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band mixed disco with 1930's big band swing.
* Singer/composer Music/AkikoShikata 's music is a combination of neoclassical, darkwave, medieval, Renaissance, folk, ambient, Celtic, pop, and symphonic metal.
* Balkan Beat Box mixes klezmer, Arabic, and Balkan music with hip-hop beats.
* Russian band Xe-NONE mixes {{Eurodance}} and HeavyMetal. Yes, really.
* The band, Friends of Dean Martinez, are a good example of this. Two of their members composed the soundtrack to ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'', and their music certainly carries some of the spanish/western feel present in the game, but there's also a classical touch, and a little PostRock, surf rock, and psychedelic rock thrown together. And it's awesome.
* Music/{{Kagrra}}, combines {{VisualKei}}/rock and traditional Japanese music. They call it "Neo Japanesque".
* Music/{{Dorso}} combines HeavyMetal, Grindcore, ThrashMetal, Jazz, ProgressiveRock /[[ProgressiveMetal Metal]] and his last album is mixed with IndustrialMetal.
* The Egyptian artist Music/MohamedMounir combines Egyptian pop, {{Funk}}, {{Jazz}}, {{Reggae}}, {{Blues}}, and traditional Nubian music. He is therefore one of the most popular--and definitely the most enduring--contemporary artists in UsefulNotes/ModernEgypt.
* Music/EnterShikari embodies this trope perfectly. Get post-hardcore, stick a load of electronica in, add a twist of metal, flavour with dubstep and such as needed.
* Electric Six. Disco, metal, funk, garage rock, New Wave and lyrics based chiefly around sex, drugs, dancing and FIRE.
* Rolo Tomassi. You got your mathcore, your acid jazz, your experimental rock, your 8-bit Nintendo synths, your grindcore and your SopranoAndGravel singing styles both coming from ''the same girl.''
** Perhaps their music could be termed "dreamgrind"
* Streetlight Manifesto mix ska, punk, acoustic, big band, funk and hardcore. Fans of Streetlight Manifesto, and frontman Tomas Kalnoky's side project Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution (another genre-splicer, fusing acoustic, ska and Middle-Eastern influences), sometimes refer to this as "the fourth wave of ska".
* British genre-hoppers Sikth were described in one review as "speed metal, progressive metal, thrash, nu metal, metalcore, and cock-rock". Add in the lightning-speed jabbered vocals that border on scat-singing and the haunting piano melodies and you're halfway there.
* Kvelertak mix black metal, rock 'n' roll, power metal, prog, disco, hardcore punk, folk, hard rock and acoustic passages. And scream in Norwegian. And play almost entirely naked.
* Keelhaul play a bizarre fusion of mathcore and stoner metal, like Dillinger Escape Plan meets Kyuss with a shedload of marijuana. And it is ''awesome''.
* Music/{{Slipknot}}. No, don't look at me like that - [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness before Corey joined the band]], they were the Mr. Bungle of nu-metal, mixing the genre with death metal, groove metal, industrial metal, funk, jazz and disco of all genres. This style can be seen on their demo album, ''Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat.''
* Music/CattleDecapitation started out as fairly typical deathgrind with some noise influences, but as their career went on they grew more and more eclectic. As of now, they blend together deathgrind, technical death metal, post-rock, darkwave, noise, post-punk, free jazz, progressive rock, and various other genres into one very unpredictable package.
* Music/{{Blur}}. They went from shoegazer band to Britpop and then basically became a noise rock band with influences from grunge, gospel, trip hop and Pavement style lo-fi indie rock, before finally finishing up as something resembling Albarn's other project, Gorillaz - influences from jazz, hip hop, dub and world music.
* Music/TheCrystallineEffect. Techno, trip-hop, EBM, industrial and electronic, and you never know what they'll come up with next.
* The String Cheese Incident is mainly a bluegrass band, but with elements of funk, progressive rock, reggae, jazz, and even electronica.
* Music/RichardHell and the Voidoids' first album ''Music/BlankGeneration'' mixes the stripped-down punk sound with the minimalist jazz/prog of Hell's former band, the Art Rockers Television. The second album, ''Destiny Street'', included different styles including blues covers (I Can Only Give You Everything, originally by Music/{{Them}} and also covered by Music/{{MC5}}, and I Gotta Move, a Kinks cover), pop punk (Kid With The Replaceable Head), a sentimental punk ballad (Time), and the title song, Destiny Street, a seven-minute funk song. And every bit sounds just as PunkRock as the Sex Pistols or the Ramones.
* Zdob si Zdub. Wiki/TheOtherWiki lists them as "Ska-punk rapcore" which they may very well be. Let's just say there's a lot of guitar riffs, rapping, trumpets, sampling and Moldovan folk music. Just...just go [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0DP-EeV8oc listen]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ig8m5uxRvhk to]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qbqr4D7kCaE them]].
* {{Music/Space}} are generally classified as indie, but draw influences from hip-hop (particularly on ''Spiders''), film soundtracks, big band, rock 'n' roll, techno, and electronica, with ''Tin Planet'' being the most noticeable example of this. It's kind of expected, really, since the band had a singer who was more influenced by films than music, a classic rock fan guitarist, one drummer into jazz and another one into hip-hop and loops, a keyboard player who was seriously into dance music, and a bassist who liked literally ''anything''. Jamie's songs were more indie/rock oriented, while Franny's tracks were almost entirely electronic instrumentals. ''Spiders'' made heavy use of loops and samples, ''Tin Planet'' was noticeably [[LighterAndSofter poppier]], while ''Suburban Rock 'n' Roll'' and the never-released ''[[WhatCouldHaveBeen Flies]]'' had a harder edge to them. The lost album ''Love You More Than Football'' was somewhere in between. Their latest material has more of a {{Ska}} and {{Rockabilly}} feel blended with the ''Spiders'' sound.
* British expatriate {{Edward Ka-Spel}} -- of Music/TheLegendaryPinkDots, TheTearGarden, and Mimir -- is fond of blending multiple musical styles and influences in his various projects; to the point where his music is typically categorized as "Experimental" or "Neo-Psychedelic", as it tends to vary widely between Post-Punk, Post-Rock, Psychedelic, Industrial, Electronica, and so on.
* This is one way to describe the [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic awesomeness]] that is Music/OutKast. Another way is "Southernplayalisticadillacmusic."
* Music/ZZTop was one of the few bands that managed to pull off {{New Wave|Music}} electro-BluesRock in the [[TheEighties 1980s]], with the albums ''Eliminator'' and ''Afterburner''.
** Another was [[Music/LedZeppelin Robert Plant]] with 1983's ''Big Log''.
* John Paul Larkin started off simply doing scat-style jazz music. His manager suggested that he combine that with hip-hop and modern dance music. While hesitant at first, he later warmed up to it and it was this combination that would earn him fame as Music/ScatmanJohn.
* Music/AHawkAndAHacksaw are pretty strictly folk music, but they mash many different folk traditions--Balkan, Turkish, Romani, Klezmer, Mariachi--into something unique.
* Music/{{Deftones}} started as one of the pioneering NuMetal bands, but eventually evolved into a sort of one-of-a-kind band that has elements of AlternativeMetal, DreamPop, DoomMetal, Stoner Rock, PostRock, AlternativeRock, {{Shoegazing}}, TripHop, PsychedelicRock, ProgressiveMetal... you're starting to get the idea.
* Music/RunDMC, during the fierce rivalry and segregation that existed between rock and hip-hop in TheEighties, were one of the few acts to seamlessly combine the two together. Their unique style was the basis of the RapRock genre, and they proved that the two can coexist together. They are one of the few that were highly respected by both camps, which holds true to this day.
* Music/SoundHorizon is usually a SymphonicMetal band. Sort of. It's not unheard of for them to dip into baroque, pop rock, choral, orchestral, Russian folk, jazz, and, facetiously in one live concert, ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIJOvJbRwiE#t=5m59s chiptune]].''
* Music/VanessaAmorosi: "Hazardous" included Rock, Power pop, Synth pop and rap. "Mr Mysterious" is proof of this.
* Music/BearMcCreary combines Western and Eastern melodies with rock and chorus on ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}''.
* Music/{{Namgar}} combines traditional Buryat-Mongolian FolkMusic and chants with modern rock.
* Music/FosterThePeople seems to be electro/folk/industrial/dance/progressive alternative rock. One song on their ''Torches'' album is called [[LampshadeHanging Call It What You Want]].
* Music/{{Revocation}} is technical/melodic death metal at their core, but in addition to copious amounts of thrash, they also throw in jazz, blues, Southern rock, first-wave metalcore, grindcore, math rock, 70s hard rock, 80s shred, surf rock, funk, 70s prog, and pretty much whatever the hell they feel like putting in. And it ''works''.
* Pop Will Eat Itself. British punk + goth rock + electronica + rap. At the time they were associated with "grebo", a loosely defined scene in the late 80's and 90's combining elements of alternative rock, garage rock, hip-hop, and electronic dance music.
* Music/{{Kerli}} refers to herself and her musical style as Bubble Goth, a combination of Bubblegum pop and Goth music.
* 30 Seconds to Mars combines ProgressiveMetal, AlternativeMetal, and SpaceRock with elements of {{Emo}}, PostHardcore, ProgressiveRock, HardRock, [[{{Emo}} Screamo]], Synth Rock, PostGrunge and AlternativeRock.
* Bal-Sagoth is the ultimate epitome of this trope: Epic Black Symphonic Power Metal. Their singer also doubles as a narrator with a deep, sexy voice.
* Fleshgod Apocalypse - Symphonic technical death metal. Classical music at 300 BPM.
* Music/CoheedAndCambria is rooted in ProgressiveMetal, but unusually has prominent PopPunk and {{Emo}} influences.
* Music/JimCroce mixed folk, country, blues, and pop, with the occasional bit of rock 'n' roll, bluegrass, or classical thrown in.
* {{Music/Birdeatsbaby}} have recently renounced associating themselves to any particular genre. Some heavy influences are classical music, dark cabaret and power pop.
* The music of the Japanese band Music/DirEnGrey has covered just about every sub-genre of HeavyMetal, with the exception of ''maybe'' PowerMetal.
* {{Music/Cardiacs}}. Half the people who hear it call it punk, half the people who hear it call it prog rock, all of them are somehow right...
* Music/PepeDeluxe started their life playing big beat and trip-hop. Over time, they morphed into playing PsychedelicRock instead, while maintaining a big beat approach to song construction. (Pepe Deluxé used to [[{{sampling}} feature a lot of samples]] in their music; since the transition to psych rock, one of their guiding principles is to create songs that sound like they were built from samples, without actually using any samples.) Their 2012 album ''Music/QueenOfTheWave'' combines psych rock with SurfRock and BaroquePop, with additional influence from early electronic music, opera, soul, 60s girl-band pop, acid folk, and easy listening.
* Music/MaximumTheHormone are oft considered a nu-metal band, but their songs all have mixed elements taken from pop-punk, funk, extreme metal, punk rock, glam-rock, ska, and J-pop.
* French rapper ''MC Solaar'' started as a fairly orthodox rapper in the 90s, mostly known for his optimistic themes and [[TongueTwister talent in convoluted rhymes]]. In the 2000s however, he started to mix his rap with pretty much everything, from jazz to rock to folk to techno to symphonic music to what-you-want (starting with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK5EAkdUyhk Solaar pleure]] in 2001). He also sometimes adopts quite a unique diction, halfway between rap and singing. Sadly, it didn't work out that well for him since his old fans started to complain it wasn't rap anymore.
* As described by Florence Welch of Music/FlorenceAndTheMachine, her style could be described as "Chamber pop goth stomp, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick crossed with a choir of nuns being thrown down the stairs]]." iTunes classifies her albums under the umbrella term "Alternative".
* Rip Rig + Panic's music contains (both separately and in various combinations) elements of punk, jazz, classical, funk, dance pop, soul, noise rock, spoken word, and African and Latin rhythms. They are probably best known for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak8paRfr2_E this appearance]] on the Britcom ''Series/TheYoungOnes''.
* Music/NataliaOShea combines [[Myth/CelticMythology Celtic]] and [[Myth/SlavicMythology Slavic]] FolkMusic with [[FilkSong fantasy influences]] and ThePowerOfRock to produce a distinctive sound very popular with the RolePlayingGame movement.
* Now what kind of music does {{Music/Ween}} play again?
* Music/{{Area 11}} are band formed into 2010 that is establishing a new genre called "Gaijin-Rock", which blends [[JPop J-Pop]] and [[HardRock Western "guitar worship" shred rock]]. Their lyrics reference Japanese culture, specifically {{anime}}, and sometimes video games. They're from Bristol, in the UK. [[PunnyName Hence "gaijin", which means "foreigner" in Japanese]]. By their own admission, their music is made of elements of PopPunk, {{metal}}, ProgressiveRock, and [[GlamMetal glam]].
* {{Britpop}} band Supergrass was originally described as the Buzzcocks, the Jam, Madness, the Kinks, Small Faces, Elton John, David Bowie, the Beatles, and the Rolling Stones thrown into a blender.
* Music/{{Toto}}'s original drummer Jeff Porcaro described the band's debut single, ''Hold The Line'', as: "a perfect example of what people will describe as your HeavyMetal chord guitar licks, your great triplet A-notes on the piano, your '[[Music/SlyAndTheFamilyStone Sly]]'-hot-fun-in-the-summertime groove, all mishmashed together with a boy from [[TheBigEasy New Orleans]] singing... and it really crossed over a lot of lines."
* The Sound of Danish Band Music/{{Volbeat}} can be best described as a combination of HeavyMetal, GrooveMetal, HardRock, PunkRock and Rockabilly.
* Hideki Naganuma's peculiar musical style heard in ''VideoGame/JetSetRadio'' and ''[[VideoGame/SonicRushSeries Sonic Rush]]'' incorporates funk, rock, house, drum 'n bass, hip hop, techno and other styles to create an awesomely unique sound.
* ''VideoGame/{{Bastion}}'s'' soundtrack is described by the composer as "acoustic frontier trip-hop."
* Music/KingCrimson might be classified as ProgressiveRock but [[GenreBusting they go well beyond convention]]. They regularly mixed ClassicalMusic, {{Jazz}}, and HardRock with hints of Proto-[[HeavyMetal Metal]], Proto-{{Industrial}}, {{Funk}}, NoiseRock, and Music/JimiHendrix. [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic Not]] [[AwesomeMusic/KingCrimson only does it work]], but they were doing this in 1969.
* Delhi 2 Dublin is a band that mixes traditional Indian music (sitars and the like) with Celtic fiddles and whistles, and filters the lot through a little bit of techno.
* Music/ToddEdwards takes snippets from old Soul, R&B, Folk, Rock, Gospel, and Disco records and blends them all together into a mix of 2-step Garage and [[HouseMusic House.]]
* Music/TheAvalanches' ''Since I Left You'' album ended up becoming this, due to the wide variety of [[{{Sampling}} samples]] used. It sounds like a mix of Breakbeat, Trip-Hop, Hip-Hop, House, Soul, Funk, Cabaret and Ambient music, with elements of 1940s-50s Easy Listening thrown in.
** Ditto for their follow-up album ''Wildflower'', which has additional elements of PsychedelicRock, children's music and 60's and 70's easy listening.
* With all these references to Jimi Hendrix, it's easy to forget that he played slightly noisy Rock and Roll mixed with {{Blues}}, various types of {{Jazz}}, {{Funk}}, PsychedelicRock, and R&B with PunkRock attitude.
* Music/TheCars were a curious mix of {{New Wave|Music}}, arena rock, garage-rock, synth pop, PowerPop, mainstream pop-rock and [[TheSixties '60's-influenced]] bubblegum (topped with Ric Ocasek's beat poet-influenced WordSaladLyrics) with occasional dabblings in synth-minimalism, Music/{{Queen}}-like vocal harmonies (Queen's early producer Roy Thomas Baker produced the first four albums) and Music/RoxyMusic-like art-rock, who were equally capable of fitting in with alternative, pop and hard rock demographics. And yet they never fully fit in with any of those styles. It did manage to fit in well with the music of the day and sell millions.
* Darren Korb, the composer for the ''VideoGame/{{Bastion}}'' soundtrack, refers to it as "acoustic frontier triphop" and, by Pyth, it sure is. His soundtrack for Supergiant Games' subsequent project ''VideoGame/{{Transistor}}'' also fits - he described it as "old-world electronic post-rock".
* Sounds of Mass Production(SMP) is {{Industrial| Metal}} RapMetal.
* Helalyn Flowers: {{Goth}}ic {{New Wave|Music}} Electro IndustrialMetal AlternativeDance.
* Mr.76ix: Detroit Acid IDM Chiptune Dubstep Breakcore.
* mind.in.a.box, as well as Stefan Poiss's solo side project Thyx, combine elements from DarkWave, Progressive {{Trance}}, [[{{Industrial}} Futurepop]],{{Dubstep}}, and {{Demoscene}} music, with {{Chiptune}} added to the mix on ''R.E.T.R.O.''.
* Blowupnihilist is a combination of {{ambient}}, {{industrial}}, {{noise rock}}, and {{death metal}}.
* Pentatonix: ACappella + techno, dubstep, pop...
* Project Pitchfork's current style is a mix of DarkWave and [[{{Industrial}} Hellektro/Aggrotech]].
* Inna: {{Europop}} + [[HouseMusic Balearic house]] + electro + {{hiphop}}.
* Music/FrontLineAssembly's ''Echogenetic'' album combines their classic [[{{Industrial}} EBM]] sound with {{dubstep}}.
* [[http://www.macumba.com/mac1/MacUmba [=MacUmba=]]] is a group that blends Brazillian Samba drums and rhythms with Highland bagpipes.
* Music/BoiledInLead has been variously described as "celtopunk", "rock and reel", and probably most accurately, "unclassifiable". [[http://www.allmusic.com/artist/boiled-in-lead-mn0000081713 Their blurb]] on allmusic.com lists their "styles" as : "Celtic, Alternative/Indie Rock, Celtic Rock, Post-Punk, South/Eastern European Traditions, Middle Eastern Traditions, Traditional Middle Eastern Folk, Worldbeat". That pretty much says it all.
* Music/BillyIdol's music is a mixture of pop, HardRock, Punk, {{New Wave|Music}} and SynthPop, with occasional {{Rockabilly}} and (in 1993) {{Industrial}} influences.
* Abacinate mixes elements of brutal death metal, metalcore, NYHC, thrash metal, beatdown hardcore, grindcore, stoner metal, and even some blackened death into an odd but strangely cohesive package.
* Music/{{Ayria}}, at least her present style, is basically Industrial Electropop.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxCK8kVk0Fk Pensées]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQgYh_aJWxs Nocturnes]] is essentially {{Music/Voltaire}} style Gothic music meets {{Music/Emperor}} style BlackMetal meets ClassicalMusic, SymphonicMetal, and [[AwesomeMusic/{{Classical}} Bombast]] with a French twist (they are French after all).
* Music/TDCruze on his ''Pavlov's Dogs'' EP. It combined aspects of Hip-Hop, Noise, Post-Punk, and House music.
* Sally Shapiro's style may be described as {{Tranc|e}}y {{Italo| Disco}} {{Dream| Pop}} {{Synthpop}}.
* French progressive metal band [[http://sebkhachott.bandcamp.com Sebkha-Chott]] incorporate influences from so many disparate genres that it's difficult to describe them, apart from comparing them to other examples of this trope such as Music/SleepytimeGorillaMuseum, Music/MikePatton, Magma, and Music/FrankZappa. The band themselves make a mockery of genre by categorising themselves as made-up styles like Mekanik Metal Disco, Abstract Low Coast Hip Hop, Concrete Violence, [=AvantPorn=] Mekanik Metal, and Bizarre [=AvantPorn=] Mekanik [=TheaterCore=].
* Portland-based metal act Nux Vomica is, well... what the hell are they? When you get a band that mixes sludge metal and crust punk with, among other things, melodic death metal, post-rock, black metal, emo, and noise rock, you'll find that classifying them is a daunting task.
** Inter Arma is an even better example. Mixing elements of sludge metal, black metal, post-rock, noise, Southern rock, progressive rock, neofolk, and country, they've created a sound that ensures that no one will ever really sound quite like them.
* Norwegian band Shining began as an acoustic jazz quartet. Now, they combine black metal, free jazz, progressive rock, industrial, classical music and noise.
* Music/{{Russkaja}} combines Russian folk music, ska, punk, polka, metal, and funk, including the use of the "potete", a homemade instrument that combines a trumpet and a trombone. They refer to themselves as "Russian turbo polka".
* Music/{{Tool}} is notoriously difficult to classify due to the sheer amount of genres they cover. ProgressiveRock, post-hardcore, MathRock, PostRock, NoiseRock, {{ambient}}, art rock, and more all blend together to create something that really can't be conveniently labeled. "Progressive rock" and "progressive metal" are the most common labels applied to them, but even those are spotty at best.
* Ghoul combines elements of thrash metal, death metal, goregrind, punk rock, surf rock, and hard rock to create a unique, fun, and immensely catchy style that ties in with their mythos very well.
* The [[MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic brony]] band Evening Star is a mix of Neoclassical, New Age, EDM, and drum & bass.
* Music/{{Justice}} started out as a French house act, but take a lot of influence from genres as diverse as disco, punk, indie rock, alternative metal, industrial and, especially on their second album ''Audio, Video, Disco,'' progressive rock.
* Music/LivingColour is a mixture of HeavyMetal, PunkRock, {{Funk}}, HipHop, {{Jazz}}, and AlternativeRock. The elements were subtle enough that they didn't alienate any listeners.
* Music/PanicAtTheDisco frontman Brendon Urie has described the band's genre as "trip-hop cabaret dance punk". And that was just their first album, A Fever You Can't Sweat Out. Their second album was Beatles-esque pop rock, and while their third was a return to the genre of the first, their most recent album is a combination of pop, rock, techno, and dance, with strong dubstep influences.
* Robots with Rayguns is what you get when you combine synthwave, tech-house, hip-hop, and freestyle.
* [[http://postmodernjukebox.com/biography/ Postmodern Jukebox]] is the living embodiment of this trope. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVXziMFEqX0 Wham's "Careless Whispers" as a 1930s jazz tune.]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ub3vliRRXI Radiohead's "Creep" performed in vintage soul style.]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H6XEIEqYik The acoustic electro-swing hiphop version of "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen.]]
* Music/{{Lorde}}'s music has elements of DreamPop, Electronica, {{Synthpop}}, {{Minimalism}}, {{Ambient}}, Indie Pop, Art Pop, DarkWave, Contemporary, and even a few traces of HipHop can be found in the beats. All of this combines together to form a kind of music that's both Pop ''and'' Alternative simultaneously. Case in point, her BreakthroughHit "Royals" topped both the US Pop ''and'' Alternative charts when it was released.
* The genre of the band Music/TwentyOnePilots is notoriously hard to pin down. Their music has elements of styles such as indie, pop, alternative rock, rap, and electronica/techno, among others. The tone can vary a lot from song to song, and even the same song can have parts that normally wouldn't really fit together, but they somehow make it work. And even though one song can be heavy on the electronics and rapping and another can be a light tune played on a ukulele, they still have a distinct sound that connects it all together. They just don't care about sticking to what other people define as genres. When a label is absolutely necessary, they're usually categorized as schizo-pop. AlternativeHipHop is a term that's been used to describe them as well.
-->'''Tyler:''' I would describe our music as a burrito that has all the things that you want in it. Even chocolate. ...Which some people don't like. It's like, everyone likes chocolate. Not everyone might like chocolate and steak together, you know, which are two great things... So it's an acquired taste.
* [[Music/{{MIA}} M.I.A.]]'s genre simply can't be labeled. Supposedly she's a rapper, but that's just a small portion of what her music consists of. She combines hip-hop with alternative dance, reggae, world, dance hall, electroclash, baile funk, Tamil film music, grime, rave, punk rock, and industrial. All of that is made into upbeat songs with [[LyricalDissonance dark, politically charged lyrics pertaining to child prostitution, ethnic conflicts, and terrorism]] or [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking simply going out to raves]]. All the while, she's still made {{Pop}} hits (most notably "Paper Planes"). M.I.A. herself classifies her genre of music as "[[LampshadeHanging Other]]".
* Music/TransSiberianOrchestra is Neoclassical Progressive Symphonic Rock/Metal that plays ''Christmas-themed {{Rock Opera}}s''.
* [[http://themissingparts.net/ The Missing Parts]] is an acoustic trio based in Tucson, Arizona who frequently collaborate with other local bands and artists. Their genre is a bit difficult to pin down, but it definitely has some mixed Celtic and European folk elements.
* Laurel Halo combines deep tech-house and IDM.
* Music/{{Issues}} is perhaps one of the first bands to combine the hard-hitting instruments of [[HeavyMetal metal]] with the poppy RAndB vocal styles of [[{{Pop}} Top 40 music]]. They combine {{metalcore}} and {{nu metal}} together in a way that seems refreshing, and are among the first bands in over decade to make us of turntables. Their debut album took elements from just about every non-metal genre and mixed them together, including electronica, hip-hop, and even a ''gospel choir'' at the end. WordOfGod says their next album is going to be ''even more'' experimental. You could say they've formed a genre of their own, that some critics refer to as "Pop Metal" (whether that term is positive or not depends on your point of view).
* Music/SleighBells has been described as a mix of pop, metal, punk, electronica, and R&B.
* Gunslinger (the electronic band, not to be confused with bands of the same name in other genres) are a fusion of alternative rock, synthpop, psytrance, and dubstep.
* Music/{{Lifelover}} seems to be one of the most known to do this. While they were mainly focused within the BlackMetal genre, they often threw themselves with PostPunk, DoomMetal, dark ambient, depressive rock, hell even ''{{Pop}} music''. This resulted with each of their four albums to sound different and more radical than before.
* Clipping is a band that features fairly traditional rapping... over HarshNoise.
* Estradasphere were an experimental rock group who were very fond of mixing genres: On their website they claimed to have invented such genres as "Bulgarian Surf", "Romanian Gypsy-Metal", and "Spaghetti Eastern". The album ''Quadropus'' was a deliberate effort to tone things down and at least stick to one genre per song, though it's still unusual to hear SurfRock ("Crystal Blue"), RapMetal ("Body Slam"), and a traditional Greek instrumental ("Mekapses Yitonisa") all on the same album.
* Don't forget Music/OingoBoingo, who started out as a performance art troupe (The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, inspired by Music/FrankZappa, above) which mutated into a mix of rock & roll, ska, scat, jazz, punk, new wave, funk, world music, and several other genres (whew!). Former members Steve Bartek (who got his start with psychedelic band Strawberry Alarm Clock) and Music/DannyElfman now write film scores, many of which are GenreRoulette[=/=]Neoclassical Punk Zydeco Rockabilly themselves.
* Music/MajorLazer has this more-or-less as the main point. At the very least, they mix together [[ElectronicDanceMusic EDM]] with [[{{Reggae}} Dancehall]]. However, they also take influence from African, Middle Eastern, and Indian music whenever they feel like, and experiment with {{Pop}} and HipHop along the way.
* Voivod started out as punky thrash metal, but by ''Killing Technology'', they were a one-of-a-kind mix of thrash metal, progressive rock, post-punk, hardcore, noise rock, and modern classical. Essentially, they were the result of a classically-trained violinist picking up a guitar, getting heavily into prog, and forming a band with a bunch of punk kids who were more into Motorhead, Venom, and Discharge and letting all those influences coalesce together.
* English girl group Music/GirlsAloud were often cited for having a refreshing and experimental style especially in a time when many girl groups were all cut from a particular mold and also for having been formed on a reality TV show. Their debut single "Sound of the Underground" all contained elements of dance-pop, pop rock, drum and bass and surf rock. This was especially helped by British production team Xenomania, who were very fond of playing with and mashing multiple genres together.
* Music/VampireWeekend combines indie rock and pop with African music, which they call the "Upper West Side Sweato".
* Music/TheMusicTapes is a Rock band... were the main instrument is a Banjo (That is commonly ''fiddled like a Cello''). Old Keyboards(So Old they don't use electricity), Brass Instruments, Bass, Drums and a Singing Saw (A Saw that is bowed like a Violin) are also commonly used. They also have things like a Singing TV and a giant Metronome to name a few. The songs themselves? Are more similar to Gothic Lullaby's then actual rock songs (Excluding a few from their first Album, ''1st Imaginary Symphony for Nomad'').
* Raury combines FolkMusic with, of all things, {{hip hop}}. It's common for him to sing, but then suddenly start rapping out of nowhere, like a DIY [[AWildRapperAppears wild rapper appearance]]. What's most surprising, is the fact that it actually ''works''.
* Cyber Space mixes spacesynth with Eurodance vocal samples.
* Big Grams, a collaboration between rapper Big Boi (of Outkast fame, see above) and electronic rock band Phantogram. Since it combines both their styles of music, it could best be described as "Southern Psychedelic Electronic Experimental Shoegaze Rap".
* Future Islands: '60s Soul meets '80s New Wave.
* Jess Glynne blends old-school styles of {{Soul}} with modern Dance-pop / HouseMusic, giving her a unique sound that feels both old and new.
* Alex Clare combines AlternativeRock with '60s RAndB and {{Soul}}, along with ElectronicMusic genres such as {{Dubstep}}, DrumAndBass and HouseMusic in the mix.
* Music/CleanBandit is a neoclassical-pop-EDM band with occasional bits of reggae and funk.
* Set It Off's genre is apparently orchestral-symphonic-synth-''{{pop punk}}''.
* Elle King combines indie rock, pop, and southern/country in a way few people have done before.
* Om combines stoner metal, psychedelic rock, dub, ragas, Arabic classical music, and mantra-like chants into a hypnotic package that is usually referred to as stoner metal despite being so much more.
* In part because they played HardcorePunk when it had still been largely an UnbuiltTrope, Music/DeadKennedys are an example of this. In some of their songs they display elements of SurfRock, {{Rockabilly}}, SpaghettiWestern soundtracks, PsychedelicRock, and even (occasionally) ProgressiveRock. A few later hardcore bands took some of these influences, but very few of them used ''all'' of them.
* Music/{{Marmozets}} are known for being hard-to-pin-down soundwise, and whether or not they are considered "rock" or "metal". They combine so many different forms of those genres such as ProgressiveRock, PostHardcore, [[MathRock Mathcore]], AlternativeMetal, and indie rock music that it doesn't make for a cohesive package. They [[InsistentTerminology insist]] they're just "AlternativeRock", despite being so much more than that.
* Music/AlabamaShakes combine CountryMusic, AlternativeRock and almost everything in between.
* Music/GuanoApes combined NuMetal with just about every other genre in existence -- {{Funk}}, PopPunk, Comedy Rock, RapRock, {{Pop}}, HardRock, AlternativeMetal, {{Grunge}}, and PostGrunge. They later abandoned nu metal for a more alternative rock sound, which didn't really fit the mold.
* Music/ArianaGrande mixes '90s-style RAndB with dance-pop, hip-hop, and EDM to create a new yet very commercially accessible sound.
* Music/FranzFerdinand straddles the line between alternative rock and dance-pop. They mix together art rock, post-punk, dance-punk, and indie rock music for a sound that no one else has quite replicated.
* Katzenjammer, a Norwegian four-piece who mix Balkan folk, bluegrass, country, Weimar cabaret and rock'n'roll with pretty much whatever else they feel like at the time.
* Sunday Driver describe themselves as mixing indie, world music, Asian traditional sounds, jazz and folk.
* Music/LeftoverCrack (and their predecessor, Choking Victim) pioneered and play a style of SkaPunk called "Crack Rock Steady", which fuses crust punk, death metal, hardcore punk, and ska.
* Music/InThisMoment started off as pretty straight-forward {{metalcore}} but eventually incorporated elements of IndustrialMetal, ElectronicMusic, NuMetal, and GothicMetal, all while still retaining some of their old sound, to create a one-of-a-kind metal band.
* Music/{{Hacktivist}} is an odd mixture of RapMetal, {{Djent}}, NuMetal, and [[HipHop Grime]]. Some songs border on GrooveMetal and {{Metalcore}}. To say the least, they have a ''very'' distinct sound. Some would even call them "progressive rap metal", quite possibly making them the only band of that kind.
* Music/CharliXCX already fits this being a mixture of dark wave, witch house, synthpop, electronica, and pop punk, but it's taken to extremes with 2016's ''Vroom Vroom'' EP. It can best be described as "experimental pop". Despite only being four songs long, it manages to cover bubblegum pop, grime, trap, EDM, future pop, and even industrial hip-hop.
* Music/{{Sophie}}, who also produced Music/CharliXCX's ''Vroom Vroom'' and on tracks in her later albums, has a style has that can be seen as "experimental pop", featuring elements taken from J-pop, K-pop, Eurodance, and even boy band pop music -- all taken to an "extreme" form, not mention the various noises he integrates into her music. It's almost impossible to tell what genre she's playing because of how weird it all sounds, especially since she [[GenreRoulette tends to jump between styles for individual songs as well.]]
* Music/FromAshesToNew's goal is to revitalize NuMetal in the '10s. They do this by incorporating elements of {{Metalcore}}, HipHop, PostHardcore, HardRock, and flavorings of ElectronicMusic reminiscent of Music/{{Skrillex}} to create a new, refreshing take on a genre that fell out of style over a decade ago.
* Music/BringMeTheHorizon started off a pretty straight-forward {{Deathcore}}, then played straight-forward {{Metalcore}} with the second album. Later albums featured them expanding on that style, mixing {{Metalcore}} with elements of ProgressiveMetal, PostRock, and electronica by ''Sempiternal''. Then, all of this was (pardon the pun) "throne" out the window with ''That's the Spirit''. They [[GenreShift abandoned metalcore completely]] in favor of lighter style of music. Apart from "not metalcore", it's ''extremely'' tricky trying to pin down a genre for the album as a whole. AlternativeRock, AlternativeMetal, Electronic Rock, NuMetal, PopPunk, Pop Rock, {{Emo}}, and PostHardcore have all been tagged to this album.
* Dangerkids is Music/LinkinPark[=-=]esque NuMetal mixed with {{Metalcore}} and ElectronicMusic. They basically sound like what would happen if Linkin Park expanded upon the sound of their two original albums, rather than abandoning it completely.
* Years & Years blends together '90s-esque HouseMusic with ContemporaryRAndB beautifully.
* Katy B combines RAndB with various genres of EDM, such as dubstep and house. The kind of ElectronicMusic used depends on who the producer is in each song.
* Music/{{Nero}} is a mix of various ElectronicMusic genres, including {{Dubstep}}, DrumAndBass, electro-pop, breakbeat, and electronic rock. All of these came together to make their debut album ''Welcome Reality'' what it was. Their second album ''Between II Worlds'' is a different kind, fusing together electro, future house, big beat, and progressive for an overall [[DarkerAndEdgier darker]] sound.
* The Glitch Mob are known for being very hard to describe. They combine gltich, electrogaze, IDM, hip-hop, synthpop, dubstep, and electronic rock together to form a sound that's one-of-a-kind.
* Flume's genre is evidently [[TripHop trippy]] wonky experimental bass downtempo [[ElectronicDanceMusic EDM]] with some pop, R&B, and hip-hop elements here and there. His music defies easy classification yet is instantly recognizable the moment it's heard.
* Music/{{Exotype}} combines HeavyMetal with ElectronicMusic. That would've been enough to qualify them, but they take it even further with the various genres on both ends. You got {{Djent}}, {{Deathcore}}, NuMetal, {{Metalcore}}, and ProgressiveMetal on the metal end, and [[{{Dubstep}} Brostep]], {{Trance}}, Glitch, {{Industrial}}, and occasional {{Ambient}} on the electronic side. You also got your mix of singing, rapping, screaming, and growling ''all coming from the same guy''.
* Music/UnlockingTheTruth blends together various retro metal styles such trad, speed, and thrash with nu metal and alternative rock.
* Music/{{Cormorant}} describes themselves as Tiberian-Ass Bastard Folk: ProgressiveMetal with blends of MelodicDeathMetal, BlackMetal, 70's HardRock, PostRock and of course FolkMusic.
* Music/BlackSabbath is considered the first HeavyMetal band, and are often thought of as being just that. However, they created metal out of a mixture of PsychedelicRock, HardRock, ProgressiveRock, BluesRock, and Acid Rock, along with varying influences along the way that helped shape metal as we know it today.
* Music/{{Babymetal}}, one of those acts that could ''only'' have come from Japan, blend Japanese pop music, pretty much every genre of metal in existence from PowerMetal to BlackMetal, and several forms of electronic music, amongst other genres. They very well may have created their own genre. In fact, they ''literally did''. Ever since they emerged, the 'kawaii metal' subgenre has formed in Japan to an increasingly large following. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawaii_metal Which has since been certified as a real genre]] by Wiki/TheOtherWiki.
* In a similar case, Music/FearAndLoathingInLasVegas are one of those Japanese bands that can't be easily defined. While often called "{{Electronicore}}" or "[[HardcoreTechno Digital Hardcore]]" on the surface, they mix together genres completely at random such as DeathMetal, {{Jazz}}, {{Funk}}, SymphonicMetal, J-pop, PostHardcore, RapRock, and... whatever else. Seriously. They even define their style as "chaos".
* Texas Hippie Coalition has a style they call "Red Dirt Metal" -- which takes influences from both genres. For those who don't know what red dirt is, it's a mix of folk, country, bluegrass, western swing, and blues rock. Now imagine that sonically cranked up with heavy and groove metal influences, and you get their sound.
* Shinobi Ninja is essentially rock + hip-hop + funk + punk + metal + reggae + electronic = their own style that Wiki/TheOtherWiki simply refers to as "Rock".
* The Go! Team, by band leader Ian Parton's own admission, was formed when he wanted to "create music incorporating Music/SonicYouth-style guitars, double dutch chants, UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}} soundtracks, old school HipHop, and electro".
* Timmy Trumpet, as you can imagine, plays the trumpet... in an EDM setting.
* Ratatat define their style as "rocktronica", which is fitting because it's equal parts rock music and electronica. Over the course of their career, they've integrated elements of funk, post-rock, and psychedelia, while playing ElectronicMusic backed by rather intricate guitar playing.
* Music/TameImpala started as pretty straight-forward PsychedelicRock, but by their third album, they became a bizarre mixture of psychedelia, pop, disco, R&B, funk, and electronica.
* While starting as a traditional Death Metal band, Trepalium seem to be becoming some sort of hybrid Death Metal/Swing band if this video[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QeIgsBQTHQ]] is anything to go by. They also seem to be incorporating Voodoo-themes into their lyrics.
* Music/WallOfVoodoo played a mixture of new wave and Ennio Morricone-styled spaghetti western soundtrack music, in which one of the most distinctive elements was that their drummer Joe Nanini didn't usually play normal drums - instead, he played on cowbells and pots and pans to the accompaniment of a drum machine.
* Norwegian musician Anders Enger Jensen combines {{trance}}, UsefulNotes/{{synthwave}}, and {{chiptune}}.
* Kiiara combines {{pop}} with bass-heavy [[TrapMusic trap]] production that's commonly found in hip-hop music, and has the attitude to match.
* Sofi Tukker plays HouseMusic with prominent Brazilian influences.
* Retouch are HeavyMetal UsefulNotes/{{Synthwave}} [[ElectronicDanceMusic EDM]].
* Take five dudes from grindcore, brutal death metal, and bestial black metal backgrounds and one dude from a prog background, and have them all decide to form a ProgressiveMetal band with significant GothicMetal touches that pays homage to their love of Music/TheGathering and the Peaceville Records catalog in general. Now have them hire a female jazz and soul singer who also just happens to love those same gothic bands after their original (male) vocalist leaves. Lastly, throw in a Southern swagger. You now have the general idea of Oceans of Slumber. Combining progressive metal, gothic metal, death metal, black metal, sludge metal, Southern rock, blues, gospel, jazz, and post-rock, there is no band that sounds quite like them.
* Music/PenguinCafeOrchestra is chamber music drawing in elements of folk, country, minimalism, new age and the influence of electronic artists like Music/{{Kraftwerk}}. Almost every article you will ever read about them will comment on how difficult they are to describe.
* Salt Ashes blends SynthPop, ContemporaryRAndB, and [[HouseMusic UK Garage]].
* Russian band ctrlBrain calls their music "F-cking great mix of {{djent}}, aggression and {{nu metal}} with a bit of electroclash".
* The LA-based duo Knower produces music that can be described as an unholy mix of jazz-funk, fusion, house, EDM and synthpop that somehow works.
* Music/{{Amaranthe}} is part PowerMetal, part MelodicDeathMetal, part SynthPop. Lead vocalist Elize Ryd has commented on the difficulty in nailing down their genre.
* While undoubtedly a DeathMetal band, Music/{{Septicflesh}} have experimented with elements from so many other musical styles over the years that describing exactly how they sound is difficult. In addition to their prominent SymphonicMetal fusion in their current material (which in and of itself is brought on by frontman Seth Siro Anton's love of classical music), they also have noticeable GothicMetal elements in their early albums, have experimented with IndustrialMetal influences on ''Revolution DNA'', include occasional BlackMetal sections, and quite a bit more.
* Music/NovembersDoom is extremely difficult to classify. While they started off as a typical death-doom band, hence their name, they've changed their style so many times that even singer Paul Kuhr himself considers their name to be an ArtifactTitle. They are self-described as "dark metal", and could best be described as a fusion of death-doom, gothic metal, progressive metal, and melodic death metal along with whatever the hell else they decide to do.
* While primarily SymphonicMetal like her former band Music/{{Nightwish}}, Music/TarjaTurunen's solo material shows plenty of influences from ClassicalMusic, AlternativeMetal, ArenaRock, {{Prog|ressiveRock}}, Pop, PsychedelicRock, Industrial and even Ambient. ''Colours in the Dark'' is especially [[GenreRoulette prominent]] in its experimental nature.
* Music/{{Northward}}, a [[{{Supergroup}} collaboration]] between Music/{{Nightwish}} singer Floor Jansen and Music/PagansMind guitarist Jørn Viggo Lofstad, is primarily HardRock, but some songs lean towards TraditionalHeavyMetal, while others (especially [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHIodbDG7Zc "Storm in a Glass"]]) show influence of IndiePop and pop rock.
* Music/DarkSarah describe themselves as "cinematic metal". In practice they're mostly SymphonicMetal with lyric soprano vocals, but generally lack the bombast associated with the subgenre: many songs have purely chamber orchestra-style ClassicalMusic instrumentation, and the band's generally darker tone is more associated with GothicMetal.
* Music/TheyMightBeGiants: A band best described as Music/FrankZappa meets Music/ElvisCostello, two artists also known for genre-bending. One theory to their longevity is that they don't stick with one genre long enough to get stale.
* Kali Uchis mixes elements of neo soul, Latin pop, reggaeton, funk, bossa nova, jazz, and hip-hop into a highly accessible package that nonetheless spurns any sort of concrete label.
* The music of Music/KingsX fuses HardRock and ProgressiveMetal with alternative rock, gospel, soul and funk, all topped with harmonies reminiscent of Music/TheBeatles.
* Music/{{Savant}} makes music that's usually built on a foundation of electro house and dubstep elements, but he regularly mixes in chiptune, folk, ambient, hip-hop, classical, circus music, hard rock, disco, Renaissance music, funk, black metal, and more...often within a single song. In fact, his “genre” label on Facebook simply reads "R.I.P GENRES".
* Texan diva Victoria Celestine does CountryMusic {{Synthpop}}.
* Norrin Radd's ''Anomaly'' album is {{Chiptune}} DeathMetal.
* The [=GrooveGrass=] Boyz was a side project by RecordProducer Scott Rouse which largely recorded bluegrass cover songs with electronic dance and funk influences. Collaborators on the project included bluegrass musicians Mac Wiseman and Del [=McCoury=] and funk bassist Bootsy Collins.
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* ''Anime/CodeGeass'' is one half high school drama, and another half a story about liberating Japan from an EvilEmpire. Oh, and AppliedPhlebotinum, AlternateHistory, {{Magical Eye}}s, HumongousMecha, and loads of {{Fanservice}} are thrown into the mix.
* ''Anime/DeathNote'' is a grounded, realistic PsychologicalThriller with DarkFantasy elements, specifically the titular [[ArtifactOfDoom Death Note]] and the {{shinigami}}.
* On its musical side, ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' has the legendary song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT6LFOIofRE Libra Me From Hell]] which is the musical embodiment of the show by fusing ''rap and opera.''
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* ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'': It's both a war movie (without taking place at a battlefield), a romance movie (with two loved ones parting without a LastKiss), and a film noir thriller.
* Most films by Creator/TheCoenBrothers, namely:
** ''Film/OBrotherWhereArtThou'' is a musical RoadTripPlot retelling the ''Odyssey''... but it's set during TheGreatDepression.
** ''Film/TheBigLebowski'' is a StonerFlick masquerading as a HardboiledDetective FilmNoir, while the [[UnreliableNarrator narrator]] insists it's TheWestern, but with a BusbyBerkeleyNumber.
** ''Film/TheManWhoWasntThere2001'' is existentialist neo noir with SciFi elements.
** ''Film/BartonFink'' is a psychological horror/comedy/buddy film/bildungsroman/mystery with some elements of the supernatural.
** ''Film/NoCountryForOldMen'' is a FilmNoir thriller in the NewOldWest seeping with Hitchcockian suspense.
* ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'' was marketed as a zom-rom-com. A romantic comedy... set during the ZombieApocalypse.
* ''ComicBook/GhostWorld'' is about [[SliceOfLife two girls who just graduated and their relationship with each other and the world.]] Also has black comedy and romantic comedy mixed with a very unusual soundtrack.
* This pretty much describes the Indian [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masala_film Masala film]]. Action-comedy-romantic melodrama-''musicals''. Taken UpToEleven by ''Film/{{Endhiran}}'' & ''Koi... Mil Gaya'' [[note]] nicknamed the UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}} ''Film/{{ET}}'' [[/note]], which are all that plus ''sci-fi''.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* This is arguably the point behind the NewWeird, a literary "genre" intended as a reaction to the ScifiGhetto and a return to the Creator/HPLovecraft and Creator/ClarkAshtonSmith era when fantasy, science fiction, and horror were still more or less all one genre. See the NewWeird page for a much more thorough explanation.
* After decades, if not centuries, of LiteraryFiction posturing itself as [[SacredCow a "superior"]] [[ScifiGhetto or "non-generic" genre]] and refusing to do much playing around with the conventions of other genres, we finally have a good number of modern and semi-modern [=LitFic=] authors and books that consciously blend the archetypical elements of [=LitFic=] with other genres, including:
** ''Literature/TheSatanicVerses'' by Salman Rushdie. Epic story centered around two Indian men in London, but with an uncompromisingly comical tone and so many MagicalRealism elements that the book verges on outright fantasy.
** ''Generosity'' by Richard Powers. Same tone, prose style, and characterizations as [=LitFic=], but it's just as obsessed with science as any ScienceFiction novel, specifically in the areas of nature vs. nurture and the ethics of genetic engineering.
** ''Look at Me'' by Jennifer Egan. Again, has the same style and many of the same themes as [=LitFic=], but with an unusually surreal tone, a private detective, and an overarching mystery plot.
** ''The Course of the Heart'' by M. John Harrison. A gritty literary reworking of ''Literature/TheGreatGodPan'', which focuses on the aftermath of three friends summoning a creature from another plane.
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[[folder:Theatre]]
* Creator/CirqueDuSoleil's ''Theatre/{{VOLTA}}'' features NewAgeRetroHippie Acrobats performing Action Sports, and the soundtrack combines Neoclassical, New Age, EDM, Funk, Synthwave, Dream Pop, and Arena Rock.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/TheSimpsonsHitAndRun'' is a platform/action/adventure/racing/sandbox game.
* Some entries in the ''Tony Hawk'' series, like ''VideoGame/TonyHawksUnderground'', use elements of sports, platform, adventure, and score-attack games.
* ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' and ''VideoGame/Portal2'' are FPS-puzzle-platformers.
* ''VideoGame/{{Clonk}}'' started out as a 2D fighting game much like ''VideoGame/{{Worms}}'', but also contains elements of a strategy game, especially in the rounds with a "Settlement" or a "Mining" goal, adventure game in the rounds with a set story, a plain wide open sandbox game, and with all the expansion packs and downloadable content, you can well give it fantasy, western, cyberpunk, racing, heck, even zombie survival game elements as well.
* ''VideoGame/MondoAgency'' is a Deconstruction of the FPS genre that's also a MindScrew puzzle game with platforming and SurrealHorror.
* ''VideoGame/DefenseOfTheAncients'', a mod for ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}} III'': It's an online game played in teams that contains elements of RealTimeStrategy, third person action and {{Role Playing Game}}s. [[FromClonesToGenre It ended up starting]] what are now called "MultiplayerOnlineBattleArena" games, but for a while were just called "[[FromClonesToGenre DotA clones]]." ''[=DotA=]'' itself was called an "[=AoS=] clone" as it duplicated the mechanics of the "Aeon of Strife" map from ''VideoGame/StarCraft''.
* ''Videogame/{{Killer7}}'' is an ActionAdventure {{Rail|Shooter}} FirstPersonShooter, yet at the same time only includes ''some'' elements from all three genres, making it difficult to classify. It is also a MindScrew, and includes some ''Franchise/ResidentEvil''-esque SurvivalHorror elements as well.
* ''Videogame/KnightsInTheNightmare'' defies easy description. It's a [[RealTimeStrategy Real Time]]/TurnBasedStrategy Hybrid which incorporates BulletHell elements because the enemy is shooting at the ''game cursor'', not the units temporarily brought to life to attack back. There are RPGElements for the units being controlled, but there's some stuff that can't even properly be classified, like hitting a big red/blue switch for Law and Chaos that completely changes the hit ranges and attack types for your characters across the map, or that enemy placement is decided by a roulette system.
** If you want an [[BlatantLies easier description]], the general gameplay (not including t), funk (he story) is: ''VideoGame/{{Ikaruga}}'' (minus the Bullet Absorb) meets VideoGame/{{Persona 3}} (combining souls to create one...this sub-system is too complicated to explain) meets ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics'' (it's not exactly turn-based, but it acts like one heavily) with an EverybodysDeadDave (with several exceptions, you control souls) twist in a RealTimeStrategy (HEAVY emphasis) environment that also includes a InterfaceScrew.
* ''Videogame/{{Fahrenheit}}'' has some elements of ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland'' style adventuring, ''VideoGame/GodOfWar''-esque [[PressXToNotDie action button mini-games]], the odd piece of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' type stealth, with a grainy cinematic sheen to the whole package...ambitious is not the word. Somehow, it works.
* ''Videogame/{{Eversion}}'' is a platformer, puzzle, and [[spoiler: Lovecraftian horror]] game, all at once.
* ''VideoGame/RabbidsGoHome'' is a {{Platformer}}, RacingGame, AdventureGame, and ''VideoGame/KatamariDamacy''-like collectathon.
* ''Videogame/{{Shenmue}}''. Aside from being one of the earliest examples of a modern WideOpenSandbox game, it also touted AdventureGame mechanics and VisualNovel aesthetics, QuickTimeEvent action sequences, [[FightingGame beat'em-up mechanics]] inspired by VideoGame/VirtuaFighter, and plenty of interactive minigames to keep you busy. It was revolutionary enough to be labelled as its very own genre by creator Yu Suzuki: ''Full Reactive Eyes Entertainment'', or '''''F.R.E.E.'''''
* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'' is often classified as an action adventure as the game is about equal parts combat and interacting with the environment. However, the game mixes in elements of stealth and survival horror, contains RPGElements, has [[RhythmGame rhythm-based]] combat, and is also a {{Metroidvania}} game.
* ''VideoGame/{{Persona 2}}'' is an RPG UrbanFantasy about saving the world ''and'' facing your fears ''and'' with psychological elements and it's a horror game like the other [[Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei Megatens]] and it's got elements of romance. Confusing stuff. Subsequent ''[[Franchise/ShinMegamiTenseiPersona Persona]]'' games are all that but with dating sim mechanics. Hmm...
* ''Videogame/MondayNightCombat'' at first looks like another ThirdPersonShooter, but teamwork is vital, playing deathmatch style tends to do as much harm as good, you're effectively fighting on a two-sided TowerDefense game, you've got to upgrade your abilities and buy bots with money you earn during battle, and topping it all off it's class-based to keep things balanced.
* ''Videogame/FantasyEarthZero'': Most of the game is typical MMO stuff, but the main heart of the game is basically 100-man [=PvP=] RTS/Tower Defense.
* Although ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou'' is commonly classified as an ActionRPG, the combat, particularly on the bottom screen, is quite reminiscent of side-scrolling {{Beat Em Up}}s.
* The soundtrack of the ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}'' series features a mix of various music genres to the point that it can only be described as "cross genre": Japanese pop idol music, Celtic rock, jazz, heavy metal, EDM, industrial music, etc. This is explained in-universe by the songs being done by different musicians, with some of these bands being examples of this trope themselves (the all-woman group Ink Theory does jazz/samba fusion, for example).
* ''VideoGame/{{Penumbra}}'' is an [[AdventureGame Adventure]] SurvivalHorror StealthBasedGame, with all the in-game manipulation controls and motions being based on dynamic real time physics.
** ''VideoGame/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent'' could also be considered a [[AdventureGame Adventure]] SurvivalHorror StealthBasedGame with some real time puzzles. Made by the same company appropriately enough.
* ''VideoGame/{{Sacrifice}}'' is a fantasy third person RPG, RTS game.
* ''VideoGame/BrutalLegend'' starts as a Hack-and-Slash game with a dash of racing, but later becomes a RTS-Hack and Slash game with some racing side missions and occasional rhythm-based segments.
** An in-universe example, the crappy FakeBand Kabbage Boy that Eddie is stuck working for in the opening cutscene actually has their song unlockable for the in-game radio (Eddie even audibly groans when you unlock it). If you sort songs by genre, it's listed under "Second Wave of American Neonate Melodic Rap Metalcore". It's the only song in that category, of course.
* ''VideoGame/{{Achron}}'' is superficially an RTS, but the time travel mechanics make it play quite differently. The creators call it a "Meta Time Strategy Game".
* ''Videogame/AsurasWrath'' is a HackAndSlash/ BeatEmUp game mixed with RailShooter styled gameplay and a lot of ActionCommands throughout the game, as well as no RPGElements like other Hack and Slashers like ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'', ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'' or ''VideoGame/GodOfWar''. You could say it's more of an interactive {{Anime}} than a traditional action game.
* ''Videogame/{{Pathologic}}'' and ''Videogame/{{Turgor}}'', by Ice Pick Lodge. They're both first person action-adventure surreal/lovecraftian horror philosophy art games where the aim isn't really to kill things but you're probably going to be doing that in the process of whatever other endeavor you have.
* ''Getter Love!!'' is a combination of a board game, a dating simulator, a few free-motion mini-games, and all kinds of hilarity, including hip-wiggling panda bears. Plan out where you want to go, use item cards to promote your relationships or screw your opponents over, talk to your friends or one of seven girls, take the girl of your choice out to places, buy presents for your girl of choice, and even run into various random folks. Watch out for the resident {{Gonk}} [[StalkerWithACrush who wants to harass you]] [[{{Jerkass}} and fuck up your relationships]]! All kinds of wacky hijinx ensues until someone confesses their love, after which either [[spoiler: either school resumes]] or [[spoiler: the winner's girl appears in a pastel-colored aura while talking to you]].
* ''VisualNovel/HatofulBoyfriend'': Oh, look, another VisualNovel / DatingSim. Oops, it has just turned into a [[spoiler: horror]] game. And just like that, now, it's [[spoiler: a turn-based RPG.]] And, after you thought it can't get any weirder, it turns into a [[spoiler: survival horror/mystery. [[WidgetSeries With pigeons]]]].
* ''Videogame/DeadlyPremonition'' is a survival horror adventure wide-open life sim--and that's just the ''gameplay.'' The story attached to it is a murder mystery police procedural horror-fantasy romance that ping-pongs between nightmarish tragedy and screwball comedy, with every mood in between.
* ''VideoGame/SwordOfTheSamurai'' is simultaneously an action game with (nonfunctional) stealth elements, a primitive RTS, and a turn-based strategy game that was the SpiritualPredecessor to the ''VideoGame/TotalWar'' series.
* ''VideoGame/LANoire'' is a deft mix of classic point-and-click PC mystery games with some driving and shooting sequences mixed in for fun.
* The ''Franchise/RatchetAndClank'' series has elements of both Platformers and Shooters, with some RPGElements and minigames that branch into even more genres. ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankFullFrontalAssault'' adds TowerDefense elements on top of all this.
* The soundtrack for the UsefulNotes/Nintendo64 game ''[[VideoGame/{{Tetris}} The New Tetris]]'' combines World music with either Big Beat or Jungle/Drum 'n' Bass.
* Both ''Videogame/BattleZone1998'' and its sequel are hybrid FPS/RTS games; the player is a FrontlineGeneral piloting a HoverTank while simultaneously commanding a small task force of other hover tanks and a trio of [[MobileFactory mobile factories]].
* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain'' is a StealthBasedGame set in a WideOpenSandbox.
* The ''VideoGame/{{Commandos}}'' series (minus the SpinOff ''Commandos Strike Force'') is somewhere between RealTimeStrategy and StealthBasedGame. It becomes its own genre (the other most well-known games of this genre being the ''VideoGame/{{Desperados}}'' series).
* ''[[http://www.gamesfoundry.com/ Folk Tale]]'' is a [[SpaceManagementGame city-builder and survival game]], as you must build a village with various services, harvest resources, keep your denizens happy and well-fed, while your manpower is one of your resources. It also has a typical StrategyRPG gameplay, as each villager has stats, experience levels, inventory slots, and can be manually controlled while they aren't working; also, some of the available jobs are purely military, instead of classical services like farmer, miner, lumberjack, hunter, etc.
* The ''[[Videogame/{{X}} X-Universe]]'' series following the [[Videogame/XBeyondTheFrontier initial installment]] introduced RealTimeStrategy and FourX elements to the old-fashioned space simulator formula; you start out with [[WithThisHerring one puny little ship and next to no credits]], and grow it into a massive NGOSuperPower controlling dozens of {{Mile Long Ship}}s and hundreds of {{Space Trucker}}s.
* ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}''. From a story standpoint, it's a BlackComedy SpaceWestern. From a gameplay standpoint it's a First Person Shooter with classic RPG elements (although that latter category is rapidly becoming a game genre in itself).
* ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' is an unlikely mixture of a team-based FirstPersonShooter in a Creator/{{Pixar}}-like setting. The roster of colorful characters can be compared to that of a FightingGame, while each character brings a unique influence into the game to give it something with far more personality than your standard FPS.
* ''VideoGame/LittleBigPlanet'': Try explaining this to someone who hasn't really played it. The first game is a platformer, but encourages you to build whatever kind of level you want, whether it be an actual level in the vein of Mario or just a music or set-piece showcase. The second game, however, looks to embrace this wholeheartedly, as it was marketed as a platform for games rather than a platform game. The main game showcases some unique gameplay styles, including a side-scrolling shooter that looks like a retro arcade game. The overall effect is a mashup of [[VideoGame/GarrysMod Gmod for consoles]], [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]], winks and nods toward Creator/MontyPython-style humor, and [[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation sinister weaponized cuteness]].
* ''VideoGame/NierAutomata'' really pushes the envelope.
** Gameplay wise, it's a hack-and-slash action-adventure open world RPG.
** Story wise, it's a philosophical futuristic war story as well as a character-driven drama set AfterTheEnd, starring stylish androids.
** This is also the ''only'' way you can describe the soundtrack to ''VideoGame/NierAutomata''. Basically electronic/ambient/percussive/cinematic/world. It can dip into various other music genres, like trance, classical crossover, opera, ''children's music'', and probably more. It's [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic awesome]].
* The soundtrack of ''VideoGame/HypnospaceOutlaw'' features the surprisingly plausible and fleshed-out in-universe musical genre of "Haze", a sort of lo-fi synth-rock "that sounds like it's being recorded in a parking garage", according to one of its fans. Plus its ancestors, and its various strange spin-offs. Particularly bizarre, [[UpToEleven even by Haze standards]], is Coolpunk, an inexplicably wildly popular sub-genre which throws in Christmas music and advertising jingle samples. [[spoiler:Coolpunk [[DeaderThanDisco dies an ignominious death during your tenure]].]]
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* Fictional example from ''Webcomic/DaisyOwl'': [[http://www.daisyowl.com/comic/2009-12-04 ElectroFolk ClassicAlt is pretty cutting edge.]]
* In ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'', in-universe band Deathmole plays what's characterized as "electro-spaz-post-hardcore" and "abrasive electro-grindcore."
* [[RidiculouslyHumanRobot Qwerty and]] [[MadScientist Dvoraks']] music experiments from ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'' include ''Cyber Rap'', ''Cyber Rap and the Digital Symphony Orchestra'' and ''Epic Rap Yodeling Operas''. Oh, and ''Orbital Bombardment in D minor''.
* ''Webcomic/{{Subnormality}}'' has ''the Generals'' - military themed rap-metal band - in [[http://www.viruscomix.com/indefenseofweird.jpg this]] strip.
* The Circle Band, the working band featured in ''{{Webcomic/Rhapsodies}}'', is usually described as Jazz/Rock fusion.
-->'''Michelle:'''[[http://rhapsodies.wpmorse.com/comic/rhapsodies-date-19/ It sounds better than “whatever the client wants", okay?]]
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[[folder:WesternAnimation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'':
** In "Presto Tina-O", Tina's revenge scheme on Jimmy Jr. includes replacing the dance music for his magic act with a CD of nigh-undanceable "Polyrhythmic Synth Jazz".
** In "If You Love It So Much, Why Don't You Marionette?", a guy tries handing out fliers outside the restaurant for a rave that includes such genres of music as "Polynesian Speed Gospel".
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'' episode "[[BizarroEpisode Depth Takes a Holiday]]," the Holidays are described as having a "hip-hop-punk-electronica vibe."
* In the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Christian Rock Hard", the four main characters' band Moop has, by their admission, elements of jazz fusion, Latin jazz, hip-hop, and R&B, while the one song they're heard playing sounds more garage-rock.
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[[folder:Others]]
* This trope describes UsefulNotes/{{Brazil}}, being the Brazilian culture the mixture of: Native American, Portuguese (soon Moorish influences), African (West Africa mainly), Spanish (soon Moorish influences), Italian, German, Japanese, Lebanese (Brazil has more Lebanese that Libanon itself), Dutch, Russian, Ukrainian, Austrian, French, etc. ''[[UptoEleven YES! ETC.!]]''
** Also American culture to lesser extent. While its core is unmistakably British, due to the country's colonial past, trade and immigration have added elements of French, Japanese, West African, and Mexican culture, to name a few.
** UsefulNotes/{{Spain}} and UsefulNotes/{{Portugal}} were colonized by the Moors throughout most of the Middle Ages, thus the countries have a lot of Moorish influences in their architecture.
** UsefulNotes/{{Belgium}} is a surreal hybrid of Dutch, Flemish, Walloon, French, and German influences.
** UsefulNotes/{{Switzerland}} is a cross between French, German and Italian cultural influences.
* The English language's vocabulary pool is mainly Germanic, Latin, Greek, and French, but also includes words from languages as diverse as Japanese, Swahili, Nahuatl, Czech, Romani, Spanish, Quechua, and Wiradjuri (an Australian Aboriginal tongue).
** Some examples:
*** Japanese: manga, anime, kamikaze
*** Swahili: jumbo, safari, dengue
*** Nahuatl: tomato, ocelot, chocolate
*** Czech: dollar, pistol, robot
*** Romani: pal, shiv, drag (the clothing style)
*** Spanish: mosquito, armadillo, cargo, guerilla
*** Quechua: cocaine, jerky (the food), condor (the bird)
*** Wiradjuri: billabong, kookabura
* Some conlangs (constructed languages) do this deliberately. Lojban's pool of ''gismu'' (basic words) comes from English, Spanish, Mandarin, Russian, Arabic, and Hindi, as those were the most widely spoken languages at the time of its creation. Toki Pona includes highly simplified words from Tok Pisin, English, Croatian, and other languages. Esperanto was valiantly designed with this principle in mind, although its reach scarcely extends beyond Western Europe, something it's been highly criticized for.
* This trope can be applied to food as well. The (fraternal, not identical) twin Louisiana styles of Creole and Cajun cooking can be described as French/Spanish/African/Native American/Caribbean.
* "Fusion" cuisine in general tends to be this trope. Not so much when it involves related styles (eg. Chinese/Korean); but many forms incorporate multiple completely unrelated cuisines.

* Another fictional example, probably: Although we never ''hear'' it, Rastabilly Skank in ''Series/RedDwarf'' sounds like it ''should'' be a cross between reggae, rockabilly, ska and punk. These four being the soundtrack of skinheads of all political stripes, the mix appearing somewhere, sometime isn't as unlikely as it sounds. "Skabilly" is the closest real thing.
*** We do in fact hear it in the show very briefly: one track that Lister is playing in the bunk room, and the lines that Lister and Ace Rimmer sing ("'do you like rastabilly?'C'mon Dave, sing!").
* In one segment of the Creator/{{NPR}} radio-show ''Radio/ThisAmericanLife'' entitled "Paint By Numbers", host Ira Glass commissioned a song combining the most-hated musical elements as voted by the public - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gPuH1yeZ08 The Most Unwanted Song.]] It featured, among other things, an opera singer rapping a cowboy song accompanied by a tuba and a children's choir singing about Labor Day! [[{{springtime for hitler}} AND IT'S AWESOME!]]
** As a point of contrast, ''The Most Unwanted Song'' was commissioned alongside a piece labeled ''The Most Wanted Song''. The resultant {{glurge}} was five minutes of [[http://www.wired.com/listening_post/2008/05/survey-produced/ "easy listening-style adult contemporary sound that could peel the paint off of the Space Shuttle."]]
* Although not a full genre or a full band example, the Pogues in concert brought [[{{Music/TheSpecials}} Lynval Golding]] up onstage to play [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7QL_PDC5XM "A Message To You, Rudy" in a Celtic Ska style]]
* UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}} over Memorial Day weekend hosts the Folklife Festival (the largest folk and eclectic music festival in the US that's still free admission). Expect a lot of experimental bands and equally experimental descriptions in the guidebook. It's not uncommon for one to find sea shanties rendered in chiptune or bagpipe and steel-drum covers of Beatles songs.
* Another single song example: Bassnectar mixes different subgenres, but usually stays within the broad genre of ElectronicMusic - However, the song "Pennywise Tribute" is more or less jungle dubstep skatepunk (the title being a ShoutOut to punk rock group Pennywise).

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LwA2PWk6rM Enter! The Mysterious Pretty Cure]] from Anime/SuitePrettyCure's soundtrack starts off with a pipe organ, [[EverythingsBetterWithSparkles twinkles]], and an EtherealChoir for a church-like feeling. Then, it moves into a techno/metal riff as the [[OminousPipeOrgan pipe organ becomes low toned]]. After that, a bright hard rock guitar solo steps in. The song then goes back into its heavy metal riff again and ends on that note. [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic Awesome]]!
* [[HouseMusic House]] duo Duck Sauce's album ''Quack'' features an interlude where a series of characters try to define what Duck Sauce's music reminds them of:
-->" Yeah, I dunno, for me it's, it's sort of, I dunno, acid house meets Elmer Fudd."
-->"I think it's sort of, Mel Gibson meets ancient aliens."
-->"Well, for me, it's kind of, nah, I'd say it's more the traveling circus meets Rodney Dangerfield."
-->"Nah nah nah, see, I think it's like Color Me Badd meets Oscar the Grouch."
-->"Arright, well if that's what it is, well then, for me it's Zumba meets Nicola Tesla meets The Casimir Effect meets The Arturians meets The Hermetic Aura of the Golden God meets Dadaism. In a pyramid. You know. Tae-bo."


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* Iwrestledabearonce mixes {{Deathcore}} / Mathcore with random other genres ranging from TripHop to {{Country}} in every song.

* Raury combines {{folk}} with, of all things, {{hip hop}}. It's common for him to sing, but then suddenly start rapping out of nowhere, like a DIY [[AWildRapperAppears wild rapper appearance]]. What's most surprising, is the fact that it actually ''works''.

* Music/{{Cormorant}} describes themselves as Tiberian-Ass Bastard Folk: ProgressiveMetal with blends of MelodicDeathMetal, BlackMetal, 70's HardRock, PostRock and of course {{Folk}}.

* Texan diva Victoria Celestine does {{Country| Music}} {{Synthpop}}.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxCK8kVk0Fk Pensées]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQgYh_aJWxs Nocturnes]] is essentially {{Music/Voltaire}} style Gothic music meets {{Music/Emperor}} style BlackMetal meets {{Classical}} [[SymphonicMetal Symphonic]] [[AwesomeMusic/{{Classical}} Bombast]] with a French twist (they are French after all).

* Afrobeat started when Music/FelaKuti mixed American funk and jazz with Ghanian highlife music (which itself is a hybrid genre) and Nigerian tribal chants.

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangue_Bit Mangue Bit]] is a musical movement from the Brazilian state of Pernambuco which mixed traditional music styles, mostly maracatu, with hip hop, punk rock and trash metal. It's awesome!

* {{Psychobillygenre}} is punk mixed with {{Rockabilly}}, while gothabilly is goth rock mixed with psychobilly.

* Psychobillygenre is punk mixed with {{Rockabilly}}, while gothabilly is goth rock mixed with psychobilly.

* {{Psychobilly}} is punk mixed with {{Rockabilly}}, while gothabilly is goth rock mixed with psychobilly.

* Psychobilly is punk mixed with {{Rockabilly}}, while gothabilly is goth rock mixed with psychobilly.

* Funk metal, funk rock, funk punk... Let's just say that [[GarnishingTheStory everything's better with]] {{funk}}.

* ''Videogame/FantasyEarthZero'': Most of the game is typical MMO stuff, but the main heart of the game is basically 100-man PvP RTS/Tower Defense.

* Ghoul combines elements of thrash metal, death metal, goregrind, punk rock, surf rock, and hard rock to create a unique, fun, and [[EarWorm immensely catchy]] style that ties in with their mythos very well.

* Don't forget Music/OingoBoingo, who started out as a performance art troupe (The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, inspired by Music/FrankZappa, above) which mutated into a mix of rock & roll, ska, scat, jazz, punk, new wave, funk, world music, and several other genres (whew!). Former members Steve Bartek (who got his start with psychedelic band Strawberry Alarm Clock) and Music/DannyElfman now write film scores, many of which are GenreRoulette[=/=]NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly themselves.

* ''Videogame/AsurasWrath'' is a HackAndSlash/ BeatEmUp game mixed with RailShooter styled gameplay and a lot of ActionCommands throughout the game, as well as no RPGElements like other Hack and Slashers like VideoGame/DevilMayCry, VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}} or VideoGame/GodOfWar. You could say it's more of an interactive {{Anime}} than a traditional action game.

* {{Jazz}} originated as a mix of blues, ragtime, and brass band music.