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House music has many sub-genres:
Acid house: A Chicago derivative built around the Roland TB-303 bassline machine. Hard, uncompromising, tweaking samples produce a hypnotic effect. ex:
Adonis,
L.A. Williams
Afro house: A form of house developed in Brooklyn, New York which reflects the cultural heritage of Africa and the African Diaspora. Incorporates deep percussive elements, chants, and organic African instruments and voices. Artists include
Osunlade,
Jephte Guillaume,
Ian Friday,
Antonio Ocasio and
DJ Sabine.
Alan House: A form of house music developed in Manhattan in the early 2000s. A blend of Afro house and 1940s swing music. The Alan House dance craze fizzled very quickly when it became painfully evident that the man that started the craze had little to no dancing ability.
Alternative Pop: A form of house music developed by
Marc Mysterio in 2007 which blends pop lyrics and vocal with an electro house beat and bass, however, with pop pads and transitions.
Ambient house (see ambient music): Mixing the moody atmospheric sounds of New Age and ambient music with pulsating house beats.
Baltimore Club: A form of house music in Baltimore, Maryland Interchangeably referred as Baltimore Breaks built off of old samples drawing from a variety of genres of music and including heavy call and response and 'jingles' (singable choruses). Club music is still evolving in Baltimore, and has gone through periods of being driven by samples of popular music sped up and layered over existing loops from old house songs, to shouting out local neighborhoods and much more.
Bassline house: A sub-genre of UK garage that began to emerge into the mainstream in the UK in late 2007. It is an evolution of UK garage but with more emphasis on bass. The scene started in 2002 at the Niche nightclub in Sheffield, which lends an alternative name for the genre.
"Bitch Tracks": Popular in the early to mid 1990s in gay clubs. It featured the spoken vocals of gay men, drag queens and transsexuals, usually African-American or Latino. Generally the lyrics spoke disparaging of other "queens" or other women and were generally thought to be quite funny. ex:
Candy J,
Fierce Men On Wax,
Ride Committee Ft. Roxy
Chicago house: Simple basslines, driving four to the floor percussion and textured keyboard lines are the elements of the original house sound. ex:
Larry Heard,
Steve Poindexter
Deep house: A slower variant of house (around 120 BPM) with warm sometimes hypnotic melodies. ex:
Gemini,
Glenn Underground,
Kevin Yost.
Dream house: An oriented instrumental melody with relaxing beats. ex:
Robert Miles,
Nylon Moon.
Disco house: A more upfront variant of house that relies heavily on looped disco samples. ex:
Dimitri from Paris ,
Jordan Fields,
DJ Sneak,
Paul Johnson,
Modjo, and
Stardust.
Electro house: A style of dance music which has rapidly increased in popularity since the early 2000s. A common misconception is that electro house is influenced by early 80s Electro, when in fact it has a lot more in common with Electroclash, Synthpop and Italo disco. ex:
Steve Angello,
Eric Prydz.
Epic house: A variant of progressive house featuring lush synth-fills and dramatic beat breakdowns.
Fidget house: A style of house music that incorporates other dance music styles including rave, breakbeat and UK garage. ex.
Switch and Hervé.
Filter Disco: A variant of disco house similar to French house (but with less Italo-disco and synthpop crossover) that incorporates pronounced use of filters (e.g. cutoff, flanger, phaser, chorus, and similar effects) and enhanced dynamics processing (usually resulting in pumping basslines and swirling percussion) to render a distinctively analog or "oldschool funky" feel to the production. Filter Disco employed the use of disco loops that were altered as they repeated with the use of filters and other such effects as mentioned previously. ex.
Gene Farris,
Risque de Funk Electrique,
Ian Carey,
Hott 22.
Freestyle house: A Latin variant of NY house music, which began development in the early 1980s by producers like John Benitez. Seen by some as an evolution of electro funk.
French house: A late 1990s house sound developed in France. Inspired by the '70s and '80s funk and disco sounds. Mostly features a typical sound "filter" effect. ex:
Daft Punk,
Alan Braxe,
Le Knight Club,
Synthique
Funky house: Funky house as it sounds today first started to develop during the late 1990's. It can again be sub-divided into many other types of house music. French house, Italian house, Disco house, Latin house and many other types of house have all contributed greatly to what is today known as Funky house. It is recognizable by its often very catchy bassline, swooshes, swirls and other synthesized sounds which give the music a bouncy tempo. It often relies heavily on black female vocals or disco samples and has a recognizable tiered structure in which every track has more than one build-up which usually reaches a climax before the process is repeated with the next track. ex:
Axwell,
Kid Creme,
Seamus Haji and
ATFC to name but a few.
Garage: This term has changed meaning several times over the years. The UK definition relates to New York's version of deep house, originally named after a certain style of soulful disco played at legendary club the Paradise Garage, although the original Garage sound was much more of an eclectic mix of many different kinds of records. May also be called the Jersey Sound due to the close connection many of its artists and producers have with New Jersey such as the legendary
Shep Pettibone and
Tony Humphries at Zanzibar in Newark, NJ. Not to be confused with speed garage or the British style nowadays called UKG or UK garage.
Ghetto house: A derivative of Chicago house with TR-808 and 909 driven drum tracks. Usually contains call-and-response lyrics, similar to the booty music of Florida. ex:
DJ Godfather,
DJ Deeon,
DJ Milton,
DJ Funk,
DJ D-Man
Handbag house: A form of uplifting vocal house music mainly from around the mid 1990s and played in more commercial-orientated dance music venues. Takes its name from the notion of groups of girls dancing around a pile of their handbags on the dancefloor. Examples include
Loveland,
Nush, etc
UK hard house: In the US, a harder, more aggressive form of Chicago house. Sometimes contains elements of Ghetto house, Hip house. ex:
CZR,
DJ Bam Bam,
Abstract Beating System. In the UK, hard house was what is now known as Hard dance
"Househop": The blending of mainstream Hip-Hop hits and House music. Differing from "hip house" in the 80s by its distinctly commercial-pop sound as opposed to the underground aspects of hip house. First reaching the mainstream in the HouseHop CD series by San Francisco radio host and music producer Ross.FM
"House-pop": House-pop is more also known as "commercial dance" music as it is not strictly House nor strictly Dance-pop. House-pop is the first cousins of Dance-pop. It usually features 4/4 beats and deep bassline as House and the incessantly catchy melodies of Dance-pop.
Hi-NRG: Called "high energy". Derived from Dance music and Happy hardcore, you could say what happyhard is to techno, is what HI-NRG is to dance, it usually has female voices with natural pitch, its tempo is also around the same as techno, eg:
Dj Nick Skitz,
Miquel Brown,
Kristine W,
Paul Lekakis.
Hip house: The simple fusion of rap with house beats. Popular for a brief moment in the late 80s. Most famous record is
Jungle Brothers "
Girl I'll House You." Other Hip-House artists include
Mr. Lee,
The Outhere Brothers,
2 in a Room,
Ya Kid Kand
Freedom Williams.
Hooligan House: Came around 2002 with Audio Bullys in the UK and played a big part with UK magazine Muzik.It has strong samples of Punk and SKA and sometime UK garage.
Italo house: Slick production techniques, catchy melodies, rousing piano lines and American vocal styling typifies the Italian ("Italo") house sound. A modulating Giorgio Moroder style bassline is also a trademark of this style.
Kwaito: House music that originated in Johannesburg, South Africa in the mid 90's. It is characterized by slow beats, accompanied by (mostly male) vocals - often shouted and not sung - set against melodic African loops.
Latin house: Borrows heavily from Latin dance music -- Salsa, Brazilian beats, Latin Jazz, etc. It is most popular on the East Coast of the United States, especially in Miami and the New York City metropolitan area. Another variant of Latin house, which began in the mid 1990's, was derived in the Los Angeles metropolitan area and is based on more Mexican-centric styles of music such as Mariachi. Artists include
Artie the One Man Party (known best for "
A Mover la Colita") and
DJ EFX (known best for his remix of "
Volver Volver").
Merenhouse: Merenhouse is the combination of Merengue and House music, particularly Garage/House or House-pop. This style is most popular in the same places Latin House is most popular.
Microhouse: (or Minimal House) A derivative of Tech house with sparse composition and production. ex:
Akufen,
Todd Sines,
Alton Miller
New York house: New York's uptempo dance music, referred to simply as club music by some. This type of house is popular in the extreme East Coast in areas like New York City, Long Island, New Jersey, New England, Boston, Philadelphia, and sometimes Baltimore and Washington DC.
Soulful House: Started in the UK and USA in the mid 90's,and has a similar style to Funky House but less upbeat and influenced by soul music rather than funk. Such music from
Robert Owens with
things that make you feel good use the soulful style. Soulful House also prominently uses Disco beats and uses a lot of deep male and female vocals.
Progressive house: Progressive house is typified by accelerating peaks and troughs throughout a track's duration, and are, in general, less obvious than in hard house. Layering different sound on top of each other and slowly bringing them in and out of the mix is a key idea behind the progressive movement. Some of this kind of music sounds like a cousin of trance music.
Scouse house: A sub genre of House music that originated in Liverpool, United Kingdom. This style is most popular in the north west and north east of England. It takes the word scouse from the local dialect and is a relatively new genre. The structure of the music is characterized by its very 'bouncy' texture and use of samples from happy hardcore tracks.
Tech house: House music with elements of techno in its arrangement and instrumentation. ex:
Rino Cerrone,
Dave Angel
Traxx house: A drum-oriented variant of Chicago house built around compact drum machines of the late '80s and early '90s. ex:
Trackhead Steve,
DJ Rush,
Paul Johnson
Tribal house: Popularized by remixer/
DJ Junior Vasquez in New York, characterized by lots of percussion and world music rhythms.
Vocal house: Composed of soulful vocals and often jazz loops.
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DJ Deeon