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That's a bit of a loss on your part: Youtube has, ahem, a large music library—my favorite litmus test is the presence of Gruuthaagy's output. And secondly, Youtube's recommendations surface some great stuff once in a while, if you manage to teach it that your taste is not quite generic.

One of my musical pastimes formerly was searching for two disparate genres together on YT. (However, apparently either I've reached the limit of that configuration space, at least for now—or it's Google's algo killing the results by becoming too imprecise.)



YT is how I discovered techno contradance is a thing.

Still have yet to have had it turn up decent electro bluegrass, but it did find some album-oriented bluegrass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zLMsvaRWhY


Well, if I try to imagine electric bluegrass, I get rockabilly.

My favorite cover of DSotM is the meh-titled ‘Jazz Side of the Moon’ by Yahel, Moreno, Hoenig and Blake. More specifically, it's the only worthy cover so far imo (though the bluegrass one is a quite strong contender, yeah). Surprisingly ‘JSotM’ isn't on YT in entirety—which is the greatly preferred mode of listening to it—but some snatches can be had at https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Yahel%2C+Moreno...

P.S. As for techno contra dance: I like my techno on the harder side, so expected something in the vein of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep_35FTnYVA or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48laJC8wYl4. After seeing some fine synchronized pair dancing, of the jumpstyle-shuffle sort, it's quite conceivable for me.


Electro bluegrass to me wouldn't be rockabilly[1], but the high lonesome equivalent of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gApq7K78pbo complete with glitched hemiolas.

I'm trying to refind some of the better audio/video mashups I've seen, but fighting The Algorithm atm.

- BLM cupid shuffle video / audio: boot scoot boogie

- Footloose line dance video / audio: boom boom boom

- vertically spinning race car crash video / audio: lezginka

At least there's still jumpstyle hopak: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqEtq34dSUo

and (not even externally mashed up) bolly[wood] ciao: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2wahu8bDMo

[1] even "electric bluegrass" I'd put closer to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg1AD0GBii4

Bonus track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr7718xoeMI




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