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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 Ambient house: Mixing the moody atmospheric sounds of New Age and ambient music with pulsating house beats. ex: The Orb ect. Baltimore House: 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. Blog house: Generally considered a pejorative term, Blog house is a catch-all for dance music primarily distributed through music blogs. Blog house breaks many of the established rules of house; abandoning the buildup-breakdown-buildup formula in favor of chaotic arrangement, including collaborations with rappers, and remixes of indie rock. ex: Justice, MSTRKRFT, Steve Aoki, Van She, etc. Chicago house: Simple basslines, driving four to the floor percussion and textured keyboard lines are the elements of the original house sound. ex: Jamie Principle, Steve Silk Hurley, Mr. Fingers, Nitro Deluxe, Farm Boy, Frankie Knuckles, Marshall Jefferson, Jungle Wonz, Chip E. etc. Deep house: A slower variant of house 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, Stupid Disco, Shapeshifters, Freemasons. Dutch house: A Style of House music from the Netherlands. It has a more harder and elecronic edge, sound & beat. ex:Quazar, Dano, The Prodigy, Eq Lazer, Booming Support, Human Resource, Speedy Joe, Hardwell, Switch Krookers etc. 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, D. Ramirez. Fidget house: A style of house music that incorporates other dance music styles including rave, breakbeat and UK garage. ex. Switch and Hervé. 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, Martin Solveig, Basement Jaxx, Uniting Nations The Original, Bob Sinclar, ATFC ect. 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. It 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. There is also Garage House which is a style of US Garage. ex: Blaze, Colonel Abrahams, Phase II, Jomanda, NYC Peech Boys, ect. 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 Glitch House: House music mixed with Glitch music. ex: Oval ect. Handbag: 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, ect. Hardbag: A darker & more harder version of Handbag. Hard House: A style of house dating back to the early nineties, Hard House is defined by its aggressive sounds and distorted beats. One of the most recognizable of these is the Hoover sound, invented by Joey Beltram and recently re-popularized by groups like The Bloody Beetroots, leading to a small Hard House revival. 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 ect. 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 K and Freedom Williams. "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. ex: Krush, Bomb The Bass, Coldcut. , Yazz, Madonna, Danni Minogue, Penthouse 4 ect. 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. 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"). Leftfield house: Another House music sound from the Early Rave Scene. ex: Leftfield, Rhythmatic ect. 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: Is A derivative of Tech house & Glitch House with sparse composition and production. ex: Akufen, Gamat 3000, etc. Minimal House: House music mixed with Minimal. It has a very futuristic House sound. ex: Egotronic, Todd Sines, Alton Miller, etc. 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. Rave House: The biggest of all Rave House music ex: 808 State, Altern8, Cola Boy, Liquid Oxygen, Shut Up& Dance, Bay Ford, Fast Eddie, Lil Louis ect. Piano house: Piano House is the cousin of Italo House. However, Piano House is filled with electronic Piano Strings. ex: baffa, Electric Choc, Liberation, Denno Lenny, System ect. 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. Technohouse: House music with Techno that was popular in the Early Rave Scene. ex: Bizarre Inc. , Tricky Disco, Forgemasters, Neux 21, Orbital, The Hypnotist, Cubik22, R&V, MK, Space Opera, Real 2 Real, Chubby Chunks, Basstonik, Man With No Name, Model 500 Unique 3, ect. It is not to be confused with Tech house, which is a latter version of Technohouse. Tech house: House music with elements of techno in its arrangement and instrumentation. ex: Rino Cerrone, Dave Angel Tribal house: Popularized by remixer/DJ Junior Vasquez in New York, characterized by lots of percussion and world music rhythms. 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 Vocal house: Composed of soulful vocals and often jazz loops.
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