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House Music

House music, (named "House Music" after The Warehouse club in Chicago where it originated in the early 1980's,) is a style of electronic dance music that was developed by dance club DJs in Chicago that were influenced by early to mid-1970s dance music as spun by DJs in New York, and spread to Detroit, New York, and eventually Europe. House music is strongly influenced by elements of the early to mid 1970s soul- and funk-infused dance music style of disco. House music takes disco's use of a prominent bass drum on every beat and developed a new style by mixing in a heavy electronic synthesizer bassline, electronic drums, electronic effects, funk and pop samples, and reverb- or delay-enhanced vocals.

The common element of house music is a prominent kick drum on every beat (also known as a four-to-the-floor beat), usually generated by a drum machine or sampler. The kick drum sound is augmented by various kick fills and extended dropouts. The drum track is filled out with hihat cymbal patterns on the eighth-note offbeats, and a snare drum or clap sound on beats two and four of every bar. This pattern is derived from so-called "four-on-the-floor" dance drumbeats of the 1960s and especially the 1970s disco drummers.

Producers commonly layer sampled drum sounds to achieve a more complex sound, filling out the audio spectrum and tailoring the mix for large club sound systems. House music is uptempo music for dancing and has a tempo range of between 118 and 135 bpm. Producers use many different sound sources for bass sounds in house music, from continuous, repeating electronically-generated lines sequenced on a synthesizer such as a Roland TB-303 to studio recordings or samples of live electric bassists, or simply filtered-down samples from whole stereo recordings (from classic funk tracks or any other song).

Electronically-generated sounds and samples of recordings from genres such as jazz, blues and synth pop are often added to the foundation of the drum beat and synth bass line. House songs may also include disco or soul-style and gospel vocals and additional percussion. Techno and trance, which developed alongside house music, share this basic beat infrastructure, but they usually eschew house's live-music-influenced feel and Black or Latin music influences in favor of more synthetic sound sources and approach.
The BucketHeads - The Bomb

Joe Smooth - Promised Land

Kerri Chandler - The Machine

House Music includes various subgenres such as Deep House(My Favorite), Hard House, Tech-House, Funky House...etc.
by Taelue August 5, 2008
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House Music

Jesus: What're you doing on sunday, Let's go to church.

Bill: Nah, I'm gunna listen to some HOUSE MUSIC.
by DjDuji October 18, 2008
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House music

Crap music that whores listen to when they want to pick up a horny wog guy.
Girl: Hey I really like your woggy car
Guy: Sure ulet I'll show you da back seat mate
by bobs your uncle September 5, 2005
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Witch House Music

Dark and moody, atmospheric electronic music, that grew as offshoots of the earlier experimental days of the darkwave and industrial scenes. The style is epitomized by acts like The Synthetic Dream Foundation, White Ring, Balam Acab, Ritualz
White Ring and The Synthetic Dream Foundation make killer Witch house music
by witch house music doctor August 6, 2013
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summer house music

EDM music that normally has a real gay uplifting melody that you would dance to on a beach with beautiful women while drinking out of a coconut with an umbrella in it. Or at least imagine that while you're outside you're trailer in a blow-up pool from Walmart drinking natural light while starring at your average girl with a ridiculous tan line....
"Dude, I'm totally feeling some summer house music right now."
"Yeah! We can pretend we're in Ibiza even though we're in Gulf Shores, AL"
by Nicetobeimportant March 22, 2017
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deep throat house music

Deep throat house music is - When the beat drops hard, heavily eletronic , usually not too many lyrics, lyrics are often repeated, lots of "ohh yeahs" and "oh god" ...
Is this house music?
Nah hear than beat drop, that's deep throat house music !
by Wesnjbag December 1, 2015
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deep house music

A subgenre of house music that requires massive amounts of drugs to be perceived as "good music"
Want to go to this deep house music concert?

Hold on let me buy an 1/8 of shrooms first.
by skid mark steve April 9, 2016
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