House music
House music is a type of electronic dance music. It began during the early 1980s from disco and the black American soul music tradition. It takes its name from the Warehouse, a Chicago club where DJs first played their records to a large audience. The original "House" sound is characterized by "four on the floor" beats at 120-130 BPM, forward-driven bass lines, an emphasis on the second and fourth beats of each measure, handclaps, and cymbals. Over the years, house has created many types of house music. These include:
- Acid house (with its "trippy" melodic lines, usually generated on a Roland 303 synthesizer)
- Ambient house (with an ambient, atmospheric sound)
- Bassline house (with an prominent warpy low bass sound)
- Deep house (with a greater emphasis on "soul" and atmospheric background sounds)
- Electro house (with a fuzzy, electronic and dirty bassline and heavy usage of synthesizers, similar to electropop)
- Euro house (with a sound similar to Eurodance)
- Balearic house (originating in the Balearic islands of Spain)
- French house (originating in France)
- Italo house (originating in Italy)
- Speed garage (featuring choppy basslines, reggae-style vocals and often "broken" beats)
- Kuduro (a type of house music played in Angola features Angolan music and world music)
- Progressive house (usually faster than traditional house, with many volume and phase changes and a "progression" of different background sounds)
- Disco house (even greater emphasis on the bassline, and the return of many disco-like additions such as violin sections)
- Hip house (House music with rapped lyrics)
- Tech house (techno sounds featured over a house-derived beat, with melodic progression often less emphasized)
- Latin house (incorporating elements of traditional Latin American music)
- Tribal house (greater emphasis on drumlines; melodies may be present, but with less traditional "progression")
- Witch house (with a dark, paranormal and witchcraft-themed sound) and Rodrick Onunuga
| House | |
|---|---|
| Typical instruments | Synthesizer, drum machine, keyboard, Turntable, Computer |
| Other topics | |
| Dance music, electronic music | |
House Music Media
- 909 house pattern.ogg
A house rhythm played on a Roland TR-909 drum machine, featuring a four-on-the-floor bass drum plus cymbal, claps, hi-hats and rimshots
- 5LA 8757 house.jpg
House music pioneers Alan King, Robert Williams and Derrick Carter
- Frankie Knuckles @ ADE 2012.jpg
Frankie Knuckles (pictured in 2012) played an important role in developing house music in Chicago during the 1980s.
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Building in New York City where the Paradise Garage nightclub was located
- Deep house dj.jpeg
This photo of a deep house DJ shows the pair of turntables and the DJ mixer in between.
- Swedish House Mafia and Benny Benassi.jpg
Swedish House Mafia and Italian DJ Benny Benassi performing in 2011.
- Avicii @ Inox Park Paris Chatou 2011 (cropped).jpg
Avicii in 2011 in Paris
Drake (pictured in 2016) released a house album Honestly, Nevermind in 2022.
