Fizz
.jpg)
Fizz is a music genre, community and movement started in 2025. The term “Fizz” originally used to describe the “jazzy” Bass music style pioneered by phonon, with many new artists joining the genre following the premiere of it’s flagship album, Fizz Vol. 1 by phonon and Israel Strom on April 16, 2025. The Torus of Fizzosophy, first seen on phonon’s “What is Fizz” YouTube video from June 24, 2025 lays out the foundational, interconnected principles of Fizz.
Genre
Fizz is generally understood as a subgenre of EDM with influence from Bass music styles like Dubstep and Drum n Bass, as well as modern Jazz subgenres like Nu-Jazz and Jazztronica. Fizz is often summarized as “Jazz x Dubstep”. Unlike most EDM subgenres, Fizz doesn’t have specific criteria for BPM, drum patterns or production/sound design methods. Fizz has a multitude of recognizable musical tropes, including catchy melodies, dense harmony, jumpy bass lines, layered orchestration, real and fake shredding, SFX, samples and chaotic song structure.
Culture
Fizz culture is heavily rooted in the Gen-Z flank of both EDM and Jazz culture, embracing social media, memes, absurdist humor and nostalgia. Fizz fans (Aka. fizzheads, fizzers) use memes to spread Fizz on the internet. Absurdist music theory and sound design memes being some of the most viral. Generally, fizzheads (especially Fizz extremists) are vehemently pro-creativity, anti-slop and anti-establishment.
Symbolism
The Fizz community has a multitude of symbols to represent their ideas, Including the fancy f (the main symbol for Fizz), the Dark Fizz symbol, and the symbol for “The Thing”.
Examples
The “every fizz song (not really)” YouTube playlist is a regularly updated collection of music identified as “Fizz” by their creators.
Controversy
Accusations of elitism
The enthusiasm for music theory and sound design amongst Fizz musicians is commonly perceived as “elitist”, with skeptics often bringing up the snobbish tendencies of theory-heavy Classical and Jazz musicians. However, this couldn’t be any less true for Fizz. Real fizzheads won’t judge someone for not knowing enough theory, but they will be the first to say “hell yeah” when someone sticks a cool extra note in one of their chords.
There’s also a myth that the enthusiasm for music theory in Fizz is indicative of some sort of “barrier of entry”, with fizz-curious musicians expressing sentiments along the lines of “I want to make Fizz, but I need to get good at [insert thing here] first.”In reality, there’s no barrier entry to making Fizz, since it’s a genre, not a record label (although there is a Fizz record label).
Fizz vs. Jazz
Musically and culturally, Fizz is heavily derived from Jazz, but Fizz is technically not Jazz. This distinction angers pawns of the Jazz Imperial Complex, who insist that Fizz is “just Jazz fusion”.