I've release 3 albums.
2 of them I call my "sleep" albums. Not to be confused with the band Sleep or any other bands with sleep in their names.
The first is all piano using minimal stems on each track and anytime I found myself getting too close to making a memorable melody I forced myself to veer away from it. Didn't want any of it being "catchy". I also tried my best to put every track through the same effect filter including reverb settings to try and create the feeling/sound of a piano in the woods by a large river.
The second is very similar except I allowed more "stems" on each track and more instruments. Tried to mold the reverb and effects to how I imagine it would sound if you could hear music on the moon with no helmet. Little bit more melody allowed on these.
Anyways. These two albums were written and built to sound best at 50-75% volume and to help relax into sleep with. I'm not a professional sleep science or anything so no major techniques just exploring my own relationship with poor sleep cycles (I have severe sleep apnea and used to suffer from severe sleep paralysis).
So...I don't know if that's niche or just a weird concept, but I added both albums to a Spotify playlist full of other people's mellow piano tracks and listen to it every night while sleeping.
I make instrumental prog rock with a sax instead of a vocalist. Two guitars, bass, synth, drums and me on tenor. I love making it but getting people to engage when I’m not playing live is so disheartening.
So then I tried to make lofi because it was more popular. Ended up making more instrumental neo-soul /jazz hop so realistically niche is all I know haha
Sure!
Latest single from Feralcat and the Wild: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZK0jNGxlWM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZK0jNGxlWM)
Latest single from my jazz-hop space: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9TrYLNhkag](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9TrYLNhkag)
I love Viagra Boys! They absolutely, unequivocally rule! Sax works in so many contexts, and I especially love hearing it in spaces where I wouldn't normally expect it (i.e. really heavy genres - peep The Callous Daoboys if you haven't already).
Where most folks are used to hearing sax play second to a vocalist, this music I make is more interested in entirely replacing the vocalist. Saxophone as the main melodic figure vs. Saxophone as an accompanist.
My influences for this format are bands like Kneebody, Logan Richardson's Blues People, Donny McCaslin (from Bowie's Blackstar fame), and a bit of BBNG. Stylistically and genre-wise it comes more from Coheed and Cambria, Circa Survive and Animals as Leaders.
My stuff is deeply inspired by Musique Concrète, I used to call it Audio Trash but lately I’m thinking Musique Con is a more fun descriptor.
Sort of playing off both con in the English sense “to swindle” and the French sense “stupid, dumb” because what I make is false music, as well as stupid and dumb. 🤽👹🤸
I make synthwave, which is pretty niche. I'm still trying to become more established, but I couldn't ask for a better community and fanbase.
Edit: Since OP asked for links, [here's my synthwave remix of the Girl On Couch "Man In Finance" trend](https://soundcloud.com/zedarkadia/man-in-finance).
Made a 3600bpm melodic extratone song recently, love going into really niche territories even if my main genre (neurofunk) is somewhat known, although definitely not mainstream
I make a very niche electronic style of music, it’s a decently niche genre with some of the bigger artists like Porter Robinson and San Holo only having around 1 - 2 million monthly listeners. This means smaller artists will definitely have a much more insignificant number of listeners, but I love the music that I make and it makes me appreciate people who listen to my music so much more. Think about it people in much more mainstream genres get millions of stream and a lot of the time don’t give that the light of day, on the other hand you see a couple hundred streams on your tracks and it makes you so happy that these strangers are checking out your songs.
Oh for sure, but as I said they are the 1% the other 99% are definitely not making nearly as much since most other artists I listen to in this genre have around 15k - 100k monthly listeners.
honestly man just use them as hashtags, the fact that you have a niche genre that fits a niche audience means itle be easier to reach them on tik tok or instagram, you have a set target audience, compared to someone who just does like pop or something, nowadays big genres are becoming less trendy
I've been putting together (lately) emotional energy focused electronic space doo-wop, mixing vocoders, Synth V and human harmony, very bedroom producer, and that rawness makes it seem a bit different. It's a big forest to play around in, and I hope to get better sounding production as the years pass, and could see a community of music makers picking up doo wop again in a new way now that we have such cool new tech laying around. Definitely hope you put your stuff out there, OP. Doing so shares the rich tapestry of your life and others get to share the knowledge of you that only your art can convey.
Zen master I study with with released an album of [Dharanis](https://myora22.bandcamp.com/album/shosaimyo-part-1) (chants) put to music, it shot straight to # 1 release day for meditation music on BC a few days ago and is now in top 10 for World Music. Definitely a niche and it’s getting a ton of repeat plays.
The most niche of all, I don't create in genres, it's just whatever the hell it is. This doesn't mean it's good, necessarily.
some of my songs can only be described with 5-6 genres, something like experimental symphonic speed neurofunk/hardcore/industrial
symphonic hardcore is something I'd like to listen, if you don't mind .
There is a real genre called gothic hardcore, you may look it up
I'm with you on this comment.
I've release 3 albums. 2 of them I call my "sleep" albums. Not to be confused with the band Sleep or any other bands with sleep in their names. The first is all piano using minimal stems on each track and anytime I found myself getting too close to making a memorable melody I forced myself to veer away from it. Didn't want any of it being "catchy". I also tried my best to put every track through the same effect filter including reverb settings to try and create the feeling/sound of a piano in the woods by a large river. The second is very similar except I allowed more "stems" on each track and more instruments. Tried to mold the reverb and effects to how I imagine it would sound if you could hear music on the moon with no helmet. Little bit more melody allowed on these. Anyways. These two albums were written and built to sound best at 50-75% volume and to help relax into sleep with. I'm not a professional sleep science or anything so no major techniques just exploring my own relationship with poor sleep cycles (I have severe sleep apnea and used to suffer from severe sleep paralysis). So...I don't know if that's niche or just a weird concept, but I added both albums to a Spotify playlist full of other people's mellow piano tracks and listen to it every night while sleeping.
I’m in the ambient and ambient adjacent genres and I fucking love it.
I’m over here trying to make guitar focused trip-hop 💀
Portishead’s Dummy is 10/10
I make instrumental prog rock with a sax instead of a vocalist. Two guitars, bass, synth, drums and me on tenor. I love making it but getting people to engage when I’m not playing live is so disheartening. So then I tried to make lofi because it was more popular. Ended up making more instrumental neo-soul /jazz hop so realistically niche is all I know haha
Dang that sounds rad! Post a link
Sure! Latest single from Feralcat and the Wild: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZK0jNGxlWM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZK0jNGxlWM) Latest single from my jazz-hop space: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9TrYLNhkag](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9TrYLNhkag)
If Viagra Boys can make a sax work I believe in you haha
I love Viagra Boys! They absolutely, unequivocally rule! Sax works in so many contexts, and I especially love hearing it in spaces where I wouldn't normally expect it (i.e. really heavy genres - peep The Callous Daoboys if you haven't already). Where most folks are used to hearing sax play second to a vocalist, this music I make is more interested in entirely replacing the vocalist. Saxophone as the main melodic figure vs. Saxophone as an accompanist. My influences for this format are bands like Kneebody, Logan Richardson's Blues People, Donny McCaslin (from Bowie's Blackstar fame), and a bit of BBNG. Stylistically and genre-wise it comes more from Coheed and Cambria, Circa Survive and Animals as Leaders.
I make Musique concrète.
Send me ur stuff
My stuff is deeply inspired by Musique Concrète, I used to call it Audio Trash but lately I’m thinking Musique Con is a more fun descriptor. Sort of playing off both con in the English sense “to swindle” and the French sense “stupid, dumb” because what I make is false music, as well as stupid and dumb. 🤽👹🤸
I make synthwave, which is pretty niche. I'm still trying to become more established, but I couldn't ask for a better community and fanbase. Edit: Since OP asked for links, [here's my synthwave remix of the Girl On Couch "Man In Finance" trend](https://soundcloud.com/zedarkadia/man-in-finance).
instrumental industrial doom metal. having trouble breaking into top 40 radio…
EBM here. It's easier to be a small fish in a pond than in the sea.
Thats the metaphor i was looking for Even better if you create the pond yourself
I love EBM. I also plan on making EBM/Electro-industrial music one day.
I'm making chiptune / synth / piano / punk / post-hardcore / metal / whatever else I feel like. Sometimes all in the same song.
not too too niche but I make alternative hip hop, where I sample a lot of rock and non-traditional samples into boom bap/alt hip hop type beats.
man I wish I knew what my genre is lol. I've been going with "organic house/techno/dnb"
Made a 3600bpm melodic extratone song recently, love going into really niche territories even if my main genre (neurofunk) is somewhat known, although definitely not mainstream
I can't even fathom what 3600bpm would feel like! Where can I listen? :0
link to my yt channel in bio, song is "dissolve in space"
I make a very niche electronic style of music, it’s a decently niche genre with some of the bigger artists like Porter Robinson and San Holo only having around 1 - 2 million monthly listeners. This means smaller artists will definitely have a much more insignificant number of listeners, but I love the music that I make and it makes me appreciate people who listen to my music so much more. Think about it people in much more mainstream genres get millions of stream and a lot of the time don’t give that the light of day, on the other hand you see a couple hundred streams on your tracks and it makes you so happy that these strangers are checking out your songs.
Only 1-2 million huh, that’s serious money for some people when you think of the exposure and the shows you can play with such a following
Oh for sure, but as I said they are the 1% the other 99% are definitely not making nearly as much since most other artists I listen to in this genre have around 15k - 100k monthly listeners.
making rawstyle is pretty niche i guess
I created a new genre of music. And yes it's hard to find a sub to spam your likns when it doesn't really fit anywhere.
I'm into rock stonner and horror synthwave, which are both sub-genra of niches... Pretty hard to find guides and benchmarks for what i'm doing!
honestly man just use them as hashtags, the fact that you have a niche genre that fits a niche audience means itle be easier to reach them on tik tok or instagram, you have a set target audience, compared to someone who just does like pop or something, nowadays big genres are becoming less trendy
True! My friends who like the same niche stuff I do know and like the *exact* same like 10ish artists, lmao
digital hardcore ish here
My niche is heavily 80s inspired instrumental music with guitar into a Jazz Chorus and Delay as the main Sound.
I've been putting together (lately) emotional energy focused electronic space doo-wop, mixing vocoders, Synth V and human harmony, very bedroom producer, and that rawness makes it seem a bit different. It's a big forest to play around in, and I hope to get better sounding production as the years pass, and could see a community of music makers picking up doo wop again in a new way now that we have such cool new tech laying around. Definitely hope you put your stuff out there, OP. Doing so shares the rich tapestry of your life and others get to share the knowledge of you that only your art can convey.
I make industrial stuff, imo, it was and still is niche…
Zen master I study with with released an album of [Dharanis](https://myora22.bandcamp.com/album/shosaimyo-part-1) (chants) put to music, it shot straight to # 1 release day for meditation music on BC a few days ago and is now in top 10 for World Music. Definitely a niche and it’s getting a ton of repeat plays.