OHHH but Tom, house is possibly the WORST for subgenres, need I remind
you of all the genres in the list below (from wikipedia), and they
left out jack house (which is my fav type often).
* 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.
* Ambient house (see ambient music): Mixing the moody atmospheric
sounds of New Age and ambient music with pulsating house beats.
* Chicago house: Simple basslines, driving four-on-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.
* Disco house: A more upfront variant of house that relies heavily
on looped disco samples. ex: DJ Sneak, Paul Johnson 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
actual fact it has a lot more in common with Electroclash, Synth pop
and Italo disco. ex: Steve Angello, Eric Prydz.
* Epic house: A variant of progressive house featuring lush
synth-fills and dramatic (some would say pretentious) beat breakdowns.
* Filtered house: 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. ex.
Ian Carey, Hott 22.
* Freestyle house: A Latin variant of NY house music, which began
development in the early 1980s by producers like John Jellybean
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, swirlls 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, 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 pronounced "garridje". See 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
* 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
* "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 incesscently 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 inculde Mr.
Lee, Outhere Brothers, 2 In a Room, Ya Kid K and Freedom Williams.
* 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 characterised 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.
* 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 dirivative 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.
* 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, England. It takes the word scouse from the local dialect
and is a relatively new genre. The structure of the music is
characterised 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
* Track 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.
~David
On 1/24/07, Thomas D. Cox, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i hate all subgenres equally. i play house music! ;)
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> tom
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