A genre or subgenre of music that emphasizes percussion as the primary focus, often elevating drums from a background rhythmic role to a lead melodic or emotional driver. Tracks in this style use aggressive, experimental, or unconventional drum patterns—often with glitchy, distorted, or high-intensity textures. It’s less about traditional melodies and more about impact, rhythm, and raw sonic energy.
Percussion Wave tracks can be found across hyperpop, experimental rap, trap, breakcore, and even ambient—if the drums are doing the talking, it qualifies. The genre often leans on techniques like the Machine Gun Kickwave, chaotic hi-hat runs, distorted snares, and unorthodox time signatures.
Coined by artist and producer Some Rando on YouTube (handle: @SomeRandoOfficial) in 2025, it emerged as a descriptor for a new wave of beat-making where percussion is king.
Percussion Wave tracks can be found across hyperpop, experimental rap, trap, breakcore, and even ambient—if the drums are doing the talking, it qualifies. The genre often leans on techniques like the Machine Gun Kickwave, chaotic hi-hat runs, distorted snares, and unorthodox time signatures.
Coined by artist and producer Some Rando on YouTube (handle: @SomeRandoOfficial) in 2025, it emerged as a descriptor for a new wave of beat-making where percussion is king.
This track ain’t even got a melody—it’s just pure Percussion Wave. The kicks got more plot than a Netflix drama.
by SomeRandoOfficial April 18, 2025
Get the Percussion Wavemug. Heat Waves is an amazing DreamNotFound fanfiction on AO3 (Archive Of Our Own) written by tbhyourelame, it's sequel is Helium. Heat Waves is about Dream struggling with his feelings for George and obsessing over the song "Heat Waves", by Glass Animals which gained lots of traction because of the fanfiction. The romance ends up nearly destroying things in the end but they pull through and it is beautiful in the final chapters. It's famous quote is "I burn you?" "You melt me."
DNF Shipper #1: What are you reading?
DNF Shipper #2: Heat Waves.
DNF Shipper #1: "I burn you?"
DNF Shipper #2: "You melt me."
Both: VYU3BIVBEINVHU MY TWIN SOUL
DNF Shipper #2: Heat Waves.
DNF Shipper #1: "I burn you?"
DNF Shipper #2: "You melt me."
Both: VYU3BIVBEINVHU MY TWIN SOUL
by Bumble's H3@RT May 20, 2022
Get the Heat Wavesmug. by Cum boi0 July 27, 2021
Get the get wavesmug. Insincere offers of incentives used in place of actual incentives or as virtue signaling. Mentioning funding, promotions or benefits without the authority, intention or ability to deliver.
“Management has nothing left to offer us apart from some carrot-waving. Frankly, I’m more worried where that carrot is going to end up.”
by ragnar hairy breeches January 26, 2024
Get the carrot-wavingmug. Waves is something yusf or victor don’t got but l no who getting then Taheem waves is like ocean sea push forward
by Nbayounboy January 7, 2019
Get the Wavesmug. by tywave April 14, 2024
Get the the wave of the wave the wave of the mapmug. 1. A wave that is unbreaking and ongoing. Can be regular or modulated (as long as the modulations are themselves regular).
2. The ongoing gesture made by a friend, spouse, or other acquaintance whose ship is leaving the harbor.
3. The Wave happening inside a stadium that goes on for an unusually long time. This phenomenon is rare, and should be memorized like it's a double rainbow.
2. The ongoing gesture made by a friend, spouse, or other acquaintance whose ship is leaving the harbor.
3. The Wave happening inside a stadium that goes on for an unusually long time. This phenomenon is rare, and should be memorized like it's a double rainbow.
Examples:
1. A flashlight, the sun, and any other solid light.
2. Constant, ongoing sounds, such as the "beeeeeeeeep" tone marking someone's death at a hospital, a mosquito that just won't go away, a broken car horn after it has rear-ended somebody.
3. "For five solid minutes my friend continuously waved to the masses below as the ship moved away. He might have gone on waving then, but I didn't see him afterwards so I dunno."
4. Guy 1: "Remember that time The Wave broke out at the game a year ago? The one that went on for like five minutes?"
Guy 2: "Yeah, now that's what I call a continuous wave. You don't see shit like that every day."
1. A flashlight, the sun, and any other solid light.
2. Constant, ongoing sounds, such as the "beeeeeeeeep" tone marking someone's death at a hospital, a mosquito that just won't go away, a broken car horn after it has rear-ended somebody.
3. "For five solid minutes my friend continuously waved to the masses below as the ship moved away. He might have gone on waving then, but I didn't see him afterwards so I dunno."
4. Guy 1: "Remember that time The Wave broke out at the game a year ago? The one that went on for like five minutes?"
Guy 2: "Yeah, now that's what I call a continuous wave. You don't see shit like that every day."
by Remousamavi May 16, 2014
Get the continuous wavemug.