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• Electronic & DanceDrift Phonkメンフィス系ヒップホップから派生した「フォンク(Phonk)」を、さらに速く、激しくしたサブジャンル。ロシア・東欧を中心に再構築され、車のドリフト動画と結びついてTikTokで爆発的に広まった。本場アメリカではなく、ロシアと東欧、そして車の映像から世界へ広がった異色のジャンルだ。
• Folk & WorldKlezmerEastern European Jewish dance and lament music — clarinet, fiddle and accordion playing weddings, funerals and the gap between.
• Hip Hop / R&BModern Russian RapThe 2015+ battle-rap wave crystallised by Oxxxymiron vs Slava KPSS 2017 (40M+ YouTube views), splitting into literary battle rap and melodic trap.
• Electronic & DanceRussian ElectronicaThree poles of 2010s+ Russian electronic — Pompeya (80s synth-pop revival), Little Big (rave/comedy), IC3PEAK (political hyperpop/witch house).
• Rock & MetalModern Russian RockThe 1997-onward rock generation — Zemfira, Bi-2, Splean, Mumiy Troll — that inherited from Kino/DDT and absorbed Britpop and 90s alternative.
• Rock & MetalRussian DoomerRussian-language cold-wave and post-punk fused with the English-internet 'doomer' meme; Molchat Doma's 'Sudno' (2018) became the TikTok soundtrack of a global aesthetic.
• PopPost-Soviet Russian PopThe pop-machine successor to Soviet estrada — Kirkorov, Alsou (Eurovision 2000), Dima Bilan (Eurovision 2008), Grigory Leps — from the 1990s onward.
• PopManeleRomanian Roma-derived dance pop, controversial at home but massive on the street, built on Balkan ornament and synth orchestras.
• Rock & MetalRussian Rock UndergroundThe Soviet-era rock movement that grew around Leningrad Rock Club (opened 1981): Kino, Aquarium, DDT, Nautilus Pompilius, Alisa.
• PopSoviet EstradaThe state-sanctioned Soviet variety-stage pop of 1960s-80s TV — Pugacheva, Magomayev, Kobzon, Anna German — carried by New Year TV broadcasts.

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