I don't read those magazines, but sometimes i write for them. The idea of 'electro house' does seem a bit of an oxymoron to me, since my concept of different genres is rooted in the characteristic beat patterns they use.
House music almost invariably employs a kick on the beat (i.e. 1 2 3 4) and a 'backbeat' sound, usually but not always a clap (i.e. 2 4) Around this armiture all sorts of syncopation is possible, but that boom chick boom chick between 115 and 130 BPM is what makes it instantly recognizable. Electro, by contrast has the backbeat on 2 and 4, but generally has a syncopated, prominent kick. House will drop the backbeat on occasion, but Electro generally maintains the backbeat from beginning to end. So Electro house would be ... what? Maybe this seems flippant, but discriminating between genres is a continuing vexation for me. I'm still trying to figure out what hard house is, but I have a hard time dissecting it taxonomically because any time I hear a mix represented to me as hard house I rarely last more than 5 minutes before I run screaming. On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Alex Bates wrote: > mate i dont read those magazines, in fact i dont read any music > mags/websites. i never heard the label 'electro house' until i made it up 30 > mins ago. > > damn people like you for getting upset that people use terms to describe a > certain style of music! :) >
