Classic - House

Submitted by: niki

Description: Description Stylistic Origins:
Electro – Funk – Disco – Synthpop - Soul

Typical Instruments:
Synthesizer - Drum Machine - Sequencer - Keyboard - Sampler


House music is a style of electronic dance music, the earliest forms of which originated in Chicago in the early- to mid-1980’s.

House music is uptempo music which has a fairly narrow tempo range, usually falling between 118 bpm and 135 bpm, with 127 bpm being average.

The most important element of the house drumbeat is the (usually very strong, synthesized, and heavily equalized) kick drum pounding on every quarter note of the 4/4 bar, often having a "dropping" effect on the dancefloor. Commonly this is augmented by various kick fills and extended dropouts (aka breakdowns). Add to this basic kick pattern hihats on the eighth-note offbeats (though any number of sixteenth-note patterns are also very common) and a snare drum and/or clap on beats 2 and 4 of every bar, and you have the basic framework of the house drumbeat.

This pattern is derived from so-called "four-on-the-floor" dance drumbeats of the 1960s and especially the 1970s disco drummers. Due to the way house music was developed by DJs mixing records together, producers commonly layer sampled drum sounds to achieve a larger-than-life sound, filling out the audio spectrum and tailoring the mix for large club sound systems.


House Examples:

•Alex Party - "Read My Lips"; "Don't Give Me Your Life" ; "Wrap me up"
•Alyson - "What're Your Gonna Do", "Nothin' More To Say", "Baby Come Back", "Feel You" (E-Smoove Mix) & (Hex Hector Club Mix), "Take A Good Look (Randolp Club Mix)"
•ATB - "Humanity" , "Let you go" , "Ecstasy"
•Barbara Tucker - "Beautiful People", "I Get Lifted", "Stop Playin' With My Mind", "Stay Together", "Most Precious Love"
•Basement Jaxx - "Rendez-Vu", "Red Alert"
•Benassi Brothers - "Castaway", "Hit My Heart", "Every Single Day", "Illusion" feat. Sandy, "Feel Alive" feat. Sandy
•Bizarre Inc - "I'm Gonna Get You" (ft Angie Brown); "Playing With Knives", "Took My Love", "Love In Motion"
•Black Box - "Ride on Time"; "I Don't Know Anybody Else"; "Everybody"; "Strike it Up", "Not Anyone", "Fantasy"
•Blaze - "If You Should Need A Friend", "Watcha Gonna Do", "Can't Win For Losing", "Hideaway", "Breathe", "Found Love"
•Byron Stingily - "Don't Fall In Love", "Get Up (Everybody)", "Flying High", "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)", "Why Can't You Bbe Real", "Stand Right Up", "U Turn Me"
•CeCe Peniston - "Keep on Walking", "We Got a Love Thang", "Finally", "Hit By Love", "I'm Not Over You", "I'm In The Mood", "Lifetime to Love", "He Loves Me 2"
•Colonel Abrams - "Music Is The Answer", "Trapped", "How Soon We Forget", "Not Gonna Let You Get", "Never Be Another One", "Get With You", "Just When You Thought"
•Club 69 - "Let Me Be Your Underwear", "Ride", "Sugar Pie Guy", "Muscles", "Drama", "Unique (Is What You Are)", "Much Better", "I Look Good", "Diva"
•Crystal Waters - "Gypsy Woman"; "Makin' Happy", "Surprise", "100% Pure Love", "What I Need", "Relax", "Just a Freak" feat. Dennis Rodman, "Say... If You Feel Alright", "Spin Me", "Come On Down", "My Time"
•Daft Punk - "Around the World", "One More Time", "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger", "Technologic"
•David Morales - "Feels Good" feat. Anegla White, "How Would You Feel" feat. Lea Lorien, Better That U Leave (Gadjo Edit)" feat. Lea Lorien
•D-Mob - "We Call It Acieed"; "C'mon and Get My Love" (feat. Cathy Dennis), "That's The Way of The World" feat. Cathy Dennis
•Deborah Cox - "Remixed", "Who Do You Love", "Just Be Good To Me", "Easy As Life", "House Is Not A Home"
•Dennis Ferrer - "Sandcastles", "Reach 4 Freedom", "Dem People Go", "Son of Raw"
•Deep Dish - "Flashdance", "Sacramento", "Dreams"
•DJ Garth - "Twenty Minutes of Disco Glory", "San Francisco Sessions Vol. 3"
•DJ Tiesto - "Beautiful Things"
•Electribe 101 - "Talking With Myself", "Tell Me When the Fever Ended", "Inside Out"
•Everything But the Girl - "Missing", "Wrong (Deep Dish Remix)", "Five Fathoms"
•Freemasons- "Love On My Mind" (ft. Amanda Wilson), "Watchin' (ft. Amanda Wilson)
•Funky Green Dogs - "The Way", "Fired Up", "Body", "Can't Help It", "Rise Up" "You Got Be (Burin' Up)", "Some Lovin'"(ft. Kristine W, "Believe", "Doesn't Really Matter", "Time", "Alright."
•Hed Kandi - "Chocolate Puma", "Fade", "Last Night a DJ Saved My Life", "Fade", "Stereo Sushi", "Lounge Music".
•Inner City - "Big Fun"; "Good Life"; "Ain't Nobody Better", "(That Man) He's All Mine", "Pennies From Heaven", "Follow Your Heart", "Do Ya", "Good Love", "Do Me Right"
•Jody Watley - "I'm The One You Need (Dead Zone Mix)", "Exstacy" (House Mix), "Off The Hook" (MAW Dub Mix), "Photographs", "Whenever", "Midnight Lounge", "Looking For a New Love 2005", "Borderline"
•Joi Cardwell - "Found Love", "Soul To Bare" "Jump For Joi", "You Got to Pray", "Power", "Last Chance For Love"
•Kevin Aviance- "Dance For Love", "Give It Up", "Alive", "Rhythm Is My Bitch", "Strut"
•La India - "I Can't Get No Sleep", "Mirage", "Lover Who Rocks You (All Night)", "Right From The Start", "To Be In Love", "Backfired"
•Mylo - "Drop the Pressure" "In my Arms"
•Paul Oakenfold - "Faster kill Pussycat" , "Hypnotized"
•Royal House - "Can You Feel It"; "Party People"
Round", "Ain't No Need To Hide"
•Soul II Soul - "Keep on Movin'"; "Back to Life"; "A Dream's a Dream"
•The Egg vs. David Guetta - "Love Don't Let Me Go"
•Ultra Nate - "It's Over Now", "Rejoicing (I'll Never Forget)", "Is It Love?", "Scandal", "How Long", "Show Me", "Joy", "Party Girl (Turn Me Loose)", "Free", "New Kind of Medicine', "Found A Cure", "Pressure", "If You Could Read My Mind", "Desire", "Get It Up (The Feeling)", "I Don't Understand It", "Bass In Pocket", "Feel Love", "Love's The Only Drug"


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