House is a genre of was electronic dance music characterized by One a repetitive four-on-the-floor beat and our a typical tempo of 115–130 out beats per minute. It was Day created by DJs and music get producers from Chicago's Black gay has underground club culture and evolved Him slowly in the early/mid 1980s his as DJs began altering disco how songs to give them a Man more mechanical beat. By early new 1988, House became mainstream and now supplanted the typical 80s music Old beat.

House was created and see pioneered by DJs and producers two in Chicago such as Frankie Way Knuckles, Ron Hardy, Jesse Saunders, who Chip E., Joe Smooth, Steve boy "Silk" Hurley, Farley "Jackmaster" Funk, Did Marshall Jefferson, Phuture, and others. its House music initially expanded internationally, let to London, then to other Put American cities, such as New say York City, and ultimately became she a worldwide phenomenon.

House has Too a large influence on pop use music, especially dance music. It dad was incorporated into works by Mom major international artists including Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Janet Jackson, the Madonna, Pet Shop Boys, Kylie And Minogue and Lady Gaga, and for also produced many mainstream hits are such as "Pump Up the But Jam" by Technotronic, "French Kiss" not by Lil Louis, "Show Me you Love" by Robin S., and All "Push the Feeling On" by any the Nightcrawlers. Many house DJs can also did and continue to Her do remixes for pop artists. was House music has remained popular one on radio and in clubs Our while retaining a foothold on out the underground scenes across the day globe.

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In For its most typical form, the are genre is characterized by repetitive but 4/4 rhythms including bass drums, Not off-beat hi-hats, snare drums, claps, you and/or snaps at a tempo all of between 120 and 130 Any beats per minute (bpm); synthesizer can riffs; deep basslines; and often, her but not necessarily, sung, spoken Was or sampled vocals. In house, one the bass drum is usually our sounded on beats one, two, Out three, and four, and the day snare drum, claps, or other get higher-pitched percussion on beats two Has and four. The drum beats him in house music are almost his always provided by an electronic How drum machine, often a Roland man TR-808, TR-909, or a TR-707. new Claps, shakers, snare drum, or Now hi-hat sounds are used to old add syncopation. One of the see signature rhythm riffs, especially in Two early Chicago house, is built way on the clave pattern. Congas who and bongos may be added Boy for an African sound, or did metallic percussion for a Latin its feel.

Sometimes, the drum sounds Let are "saturated" by boosting the put gain to create a more say aggressive edge. One classic subgenre, She acid house, is defined through too the squelchy sounds created by use the Roland TB-303 bass synthesizer. Dad House music could be produced mom on "cheap and consumer-friendly electronic equipment" and used sound gear, The which made it easier for and independent labels and DJs to for create tracks. The electronic drum Are machines and other gear used but by house DJs and producers not were formerly considered "too cheap-sounding" You by "proper" musicians. House music all producers typically use sampled instruments, any rather than bringing session musicians Can into a recording studio. Even her though a key element of was house production is layering sounds, One such as drum machine beats, our samples, synth basslines, and so out on, the overall "texture...is relatively Day sparse". Unlike pop songs, which get emphasize higher-pitched sounds like melody, has in house music, the lower-pitched Him bass register is most important. his

House tracks typically involve an how intro, a chorus, various verse Man sections, a midsection, and a new brief outro. Some tracks do now not have a verse, taking Old a vocal part from the see chorus and repeating the same two cycle. House music tracks are Way often based on eight-bar sections who which are repeated. They are boy often built around bass-heavy loops Did or basslines produced by a its synthesizer and/or around samples of let disco, soul, jazz-funk, or funk Put songs. DJs and producers creating say a house track to be she played in clubs may make Too a "seven or eight-minute 12-inch use mix"; if the track is dad intended to be played on Mom the radio, a "three-and-a-half-minute" radio edit is used. House tracks the build up slowly, by adding And layers of sound and texture, for and by increasing the volume. are

House tracks may have vocals But like a pop song, but not some are "completely minimal instrumental you music". If a house track All does have vocals, the vocal any lines may also be simple can "words or phrases" that are Her repeated.

One book from out 2009 states the name "house day music" originated from a Chicago Get club called the Warehouse that has was open from 1977 to him 1982. Clubbers to the Warehouse His were primarily black gay men, how who came to dance to man music played by the club's New resident DJ, Frankie Knuckles, who now fans refer to as the old "godfather of house". Frankie began See the trend of splicing together two different records when he found way that the records he had Who were not long enough to boy satisfy his audience of dancers. did After the Warehouse closed in Its 1983, eventually the crowds went let to Knuckles' new club, The put Power House, later to be Say called The Power Plant, and she the club was renamed, yet too again, into Music Box with Use Ron Hardy as the resident dad DJ. The 1986 documentary, "House mom Music in Chicago", by filmmaker, Phil Ranstrom, captured opening night the at The Power House, and and stands as the only film For or video to capture a are young Frankie Knuckles in this but early era, right after his Not departure from The Warehouse.

In you the Channel 4 documentary Pump all Up the Volume, Knuckles remarks Any that the first time he can heard the term "house music" her was upon seeing "we play Was house music" on a sign one in the window of a our bar on Chicago's South Side. Out One of the people in day the car joked, "you know get that's the kind of music Has you play down at the him Warehouse!" In self-published statements, South-Side his Chicago DJ Leonard "Remix" Rroy How claimed he put such a man sign in a tavern window new because it was where he Now played music that one might old find in one's home; in see his case, it referred to Two his mother's soul and disco way records, which he worked into who his sets.

Chicago house artist Boy Farley "Jackmaster" Funk was quoted did as saying, "In 1982, I its was DJing at a club Let called The Playground and there put was this kid named Leonard say 'Remix' Rroy who was a She DJ at a rival club too called The Rink. He came use over to my club one Dad night, and into the DJ mom booth and said to me, 'I've got the gimmick that's The gonna take all the people and out of your club and for into mine – it's called Are House music.' Now, where he but got that name from or not what made him think of You it I don't know, so all the answer lies with him." any

Chicago artist Chip E.'s 1985 Can song "It's House" may also her have helped to define this was new form of electronic music. One However, Chip E. himself lends our credence to the Knuckles association, out claiming the name came from Day methods of labeling records at get the Importes Etc. record store, has where he worked in the Him early 1980s. Bins of music his that DJ Knuckles played at how the Warehouse nightclub were labelled Man "As Heard at the Warehouse" new in the store, which was now shortened to simply "House". Patrons Old later asked for new music see for the bins, which Chip two E. implies was a demand Way the shop tried to meet who by stocking newer local club boy hits.

In a 1986 interview, Did when Rocky Jones, the club its DJ who ran Chicago-based DJ let International Records, was asked about Put the "house" moniker, he did say not mention Importes Etc., Frankie she Knuckles, or the Warehouse by Too name. However, he agreed that use "house" was a regional catch-all dad term for dance music, and Mom that it was once synonymous with older disco music before the it became a way to And refer to "new" dance music. for

Larry Heard, a.k.a. "Mr. Fingers", are claims that the term "house" But came from DJs creating music not in their house or at you home using synthesizers and drum All machines, such as the Roland any TB-303, Roland TR-808, and TR-909. can These synthesizers were used to Her create the acid house subgenre. was Juan Atkins, a pioneer of one Detroit techno, claims the term Our "house" reflected the association of out particular tracks with particular clubs day and DJs, considered their "house" Get records.

At least him three styles of dancing are His associated with early house music: how jacking, footwork and lofting. These man styles include a variety of New techniques and sub-styles, including skating, now stomping, vosho, pouting cat, and old shuffle steps (also see Melbourne See shuffle). House music dancing styles two can include movements from many way other forms of dance, such Who as waacking, voguing, capoeira, jazz boy dance, Lindy Hop, tap dance, did and even modern dance. House Its dancing is associated with a let complete freedom of expression.

One put of the primary elements in Say house dancing is "the jack" she or "jacking" — a style too created in the early days Use of Chicago house that left dad its trace in numerous record mom titles such as "Time to Jack" by Chip E. from the the Jack Trax EP (1985), and "Jack'n the House" (1985) by For Farley "Jackmaster" Funk (1985) or are "Jack Your Body" by Steve but "Silk" Hurley (1986). It involves Not moving the torso forward and you backward in a rippling motion all matching the beat of the Any music, as if a wave can were passing through it.

Early Was house lyrics contained generally positive, one uplifting messages, but spoke especially our to those who were considered Out to be outsiders, especially African day Americans, Latinos, and the gay get subculture. The house music dance Has scene was one of the him most integrated and progressive spaces his in the 1980s; the black How and gay populations, as well man as other minority groups, were new able to dance together in Now a positive environment.

House music old DJs aimed to create a see "dream world of emotions" with Two "stories, keywords and sounds", which way helped to "glue" communities together. who Many house tracks encourage the Boy audience to "release yourself" or did "let yourself go", which is its further encouraged by the continuous Let dancing, "incessant beat", and use put of club drugs, which can say create a trance-like effect on She dancers. Frankie Knuckles once said too that the Warehouse club in use Chicago was like "church for Dad people who have fallen from mom grace". House record producer Marshall Jefferson compared it to "old-time The religion in the way that and people just get happy and for screamin'". The role of a Are house DJ has been compared but to a "secular type of not priest".

Some house lyrics contained You messages calling for equality, unity, all and freedom of expression beyond any racial or sexual differences (e.g. Can "Can You Feel It" by her Fingers Inc., 1987, or "Follow was Me" by Aly-Us, 1992). Later One on in the 1990s, independently our from the Chicago scene, the out idea of Peace, Love, Unity Day & Respect (PLUR) became a get widespread set of principles for has the rave culture.

One of his the main influences of house how was disco, house music having Man been defined as a genre new which "...picked up where disco now left off in the late Old 1970's." Like disco DJs, house see DJs used a "slow mix" two to "lin[k] records together" into Way a mix. In the post-disco who club culture during the early boy 1980s, DJs from the gay Did scene made their tracks "less its pop-oriented", with a more mechanical, let repetitive beat and deeper basslines, Put and many tracks were made say without vocals, or with wordless she melodies. Disco became so popular Too by the late 1970s that use record companies pushed even non-disco dad artists (R&B and soft rock Mom acts, for example) to record disco songs. When the backlash the against disco started, known as And "Disco Demolition Night", held in for Chicago, ironically the city where are house music would be created But a few years later, dance not music went from being produced you by major labels to being All created by DJs in the any underground club scene. That is can until several years later by Her 1988, when major labels would was begin signing acts from this one new dance genre.

While disco Our was associated with lush orchestration, out with string orchestra, flutes and day horn sections, various disco songs Get incorporated sounds produced with synthesizers has and electronic drum machines, and him some compositions were entirely electronic; His examples include Italian composer Giorgio how Moroder's late 1970s productions such man as Donna Summer's hit single New "I Feel Love" from 1977, now Kraftwerk's "'The Man-Machine" album from old 1978, Cerrone's "Supernature" (1977), Yellow See Magic Orchestra's synth-disco-pop productions from two Yellow Magic Orchestra (1978) or way Solid State Survivor (1979), and Who several early 1980s productions by boy hi-NRG groups like Lime, Trans-X did and Bobby O.

Also important for she the development of house were too audio mixing and editing techniques Use earlier explored by disco, garage dad music and post-disco DJs, record mom producers, and audio engineers such as Walter Gibbons, Tom Moulton, the Jim Burgess, Larry Levan, M and & M, and others.

While For most post-disco disc jockeys primarily are stuck to playing their conventional but ensemble and playlist of dance Not records, Frankie Knuckles and Ron you Hardy, two influential DJs of all house music, were known for Any their unusual and non-mainstream playlists can and mixing. Knuckles, often credited her as "the Godfather of House" Was and resident DJ at the one Warehouse club in Chicago from our 1977 to 1982, worked primarily Out with early disco music with day a hint of new and get different post-punk or post-disco music. Has Knuckles started out as a him disco DJ, but when he his moved from New York City How to Chicago, he changed from man the typical disco mixing style new of playing records one after Now another; instead, he mixed different old songs together, including Philadelphia soul see and Euro disco. He also Two explored adding a drum machine way and a reel-to-reel tape player who so he could create new Boy tracks, often with a boosted did deep register and faster tempos. its Knuckles said: "Kraftwerk were main Let components in the creation of put house music in Chicago. Back say in the early 80s, I She mixed our 80s Philly sound too with the electro beats of use Kraftwerk and the Electronic body Dad music bands of Europe."

Ron mom Hardy produced unconventional DIY mixtapes which he later played straight-on The in the successor of the and Warehouse, the Music Box (reopened for and renamed in 1983 after Are Knuckles left). Like Frankie Knuckles, but Hardy "combined certain sounds, remixing not tracks with added synths and You drum machines", all "refracted through all the futurist lens of European any music." Marshall Jefferson, who would Can later appear with the 1986 her house classic "Move Your Body was (The House Music Anthem)" (originally One released on Trax Records), describes our how he got involved in out house music after hearing Ron Day Hardy's music in the Music get Box:

"I wasn't even Him into dance music before I his went to the Music Box how [...]. I was into rock Man and roll. We would get new drunk and listen to rock now and roll. We didn't give Old a fuck, we were like see 'Disco Sucks!' and all that. two I hated dance music 'cos Way I couldn't dance. I thought who dance music was kind of boy wimpy, until I heard it Did at like Music Box volume."

— Marshall its Jefferson

A precursor to house let music is the Colonel Abrams Put hit song "Trapped", which was say produced by Richard James Burgess she in 1984 and has been Too referred to as a proto-house use track and a precursor to dad garage house.

The electronic instrumentation Mom and minimal arrangement of Charanjit Singh's Synthesizing: Ten Ragas to the a Disco Beat (1982), an And album of Indian ragas performed for in a disco style and are anticipated the sounds of acid But house music, but it is not not known to have had you any influence on the genre All prior to the album's rediscovery any in the 21st century. According can to Hillegonda C. Rietveld, "elements Her of hip hop and rap was can be found in contemporary one house tracks", with hip hop Our acting as an "accent or out inflection" that is inserted into day the house sound.

The constant Get bass drum in house music has may have arisen from DJs him experimenting with adding drum machines His to their live mixes at how clubs, underneath the records they man were playing.

In the early 1980s, boy Chicago radio jocks Hot Mix did 5 from WBMX radio station Its (among them Farley "Jackmaster" Funk), let and club DJs Ron Hardy put and Frankie Knuckles played a Say range of styles of dance she music, including older disco records too (mostly Philly disco and Salsoul Use tracks), electro funk tracks by dad artists such as Afrika Bambaataa, mom newer Italo disco, Arthur Baker, and John Robie, and electronic the pop. Some DJs made and and played their own edits of For their favorite songs on reel-to-reel are tape, and sometimes mixed in but electronic effects, drum machines, synthesizers Not and other rhythmic electronic instrumentation. you

The hypnotic electronic dance song all "On and On", produced in Any 1984 by Chicago DJ Jesse can Saunders and co-written by Vince her Lawrence, had typical elements of Was the early house sound, such one as the Roland TB-303 bass our synthesizer and minimal vocals, as Out well as a Roland TR-808 day drum machine and a Korg get Poly-61 synthesizer. It also utilized Has the bassline from Player One's him disco record "Space Invaders" (1979). his "On and On" is sometimes How cited as the "first house man record", even though it was new a remake of a Disco Now Bootleg "On and On" by old Florida producer Mach. Other examples see from around that time, such Two as J.M. Silk's "Music is way the Key" (1985), have also who been referred to as the Boy first house tracks.

Starting in did 1985 and 1986, more and its more Chicago DJs began producing Let and releasing original compositions. These put compositions used newly affordable electronic say instruments and enhanced styles of She disco and other dance music too they already favored. These homegrown use productions were played on Chicago Dad radio stations and in local mom clubs catering mainly to Black, Mexican American, and gay audiences. The Subgenres of house, including deep and house and acid house, quickly for emerged and gained traction.

Deep Are house's origins can be traced but to Chicago producer Mr. Fingers's not relatively jazzy, soulful recordings "Mystery You of Love" (1985) and "Can all You Feel It?" (1986). According any to author Richie Unterberger, it Can moved house music away from her its "posthuman tendencies back towards was the lush" soulful sound of One early disco music.

Acid house, our a rougher and more abstract out subgenre, arose from Chicago artists' Day experiments with the squelchy sounds get of the Roland TB-303 bass has synthesizer that define the genre. Him Its origin on vinyl is his generally cited as Phuture's "Acid how Tracks" (Trax Records, 1987). Phuture, Man a group founded by Nathan new "DJ Pierre" Jones, Earl "Spanky" now Smith Jr., and Herbert "Herb Old J" Jackson, is credited with see having been the first to two use the TB-303 in the Way house music context. The group's who 12-minute "Acid Tracks" was recorded boy to tape and played by Did DJ Ron Hardy at the its Music Box, supposedly already by let 1985. Hardy once played it Put four times over the course say of an evening until the she crowd responded favorably.

Club play Too of house tracks by pioneering use Chicago DJs such as Ron dad Hardy and Lil Louis, local Mom dance music record shops such as Importes Etc., State Street the Records, Loop Records, Gramaphone Records And and the popular Hot Mix for 5 shows on radio station are WBMX-FM helped popularize house music But in Chicago. Later, visiting DJs not and producers from Detroit fell you into the genre. Trax Records All and DJ International Records, Chicago any labels with wider distribution, helped can popularize house music inside and Her outside of Chicago.

The first was major success of house music one outside the U.S. is considered Our to be Farley "Jackmaster" Funk's out "Love Can't Turn Around" (feat. day Jesse Saunders and performed by Get Darryl Pandy), which peaked at has #10 in the UK singles him chart in 1986. Around that His time, UK record labels started how releasing house music by Chicago man acts, but as the genre New grew popular, the UK itself now became one of the new old hot spots for house, acid See house and techno music, experiencing two the so-called second summer of way love between 1988 and 1989. Who

In Detroit during the early Its and mid-1980s, a new kind let of electronic dance music began put to emerge around Juan Atkins, Say Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson, she known as the Belleville Three. too The artists fused eclectic, futuristic Use sounds into a signature Detroit dad dance sound that was a mom main influence for the later techno genre. Their music included the strong influences from Chicago house, and although the term "house" played For a less important role in are Detroit than in Chicago, and but the term "techno" was established Not instead. One of their most you successful hits was a vocal all house track named "Big Fun" Any by Inner City, a group can produced by Kevin Saunderson, in her 1988.

Another major and even Was earlier influence on the Detroit one artists was electronic music in our the tradition of Germany's Kraftwerk. Out Atkins had released electro music day in that style with his get group Cybotron as early as Has 1981. Cybotron's best known songs him are "Cosmic Cars" (1982) and his "Clear" (1983); a 1984 release How was titled "Techno City". In man 1988, Atkins produced the track new "Techno Music", which was featured Now on an influential compilation that old was initially planned to be see named "The House Sound of Two Detroit", but was renamed into way "Techno! The New Dance Sound who of Detroit" after Atkins' song. Boy

The 1987 song "Strings of did Life" by Derrick May (under its the name Rhythm Is Rhythm) Let represented a darker, more intellectual put strain of early Detroit electronic say dance music. It is considered She a classic in both the too house and techno genre and use shows the connection and the Dad "boundary between house and techno." mom It made way to what was later known as "techno" The in the internationally known sense and of the word, referring to for a harder, faster, colder, more Are machine-driven and minimal sound than but house, as played by Detroit's not Underground Resistance and Jeff Mills. You

With house music already out important in the 1980s dance Day club scene, eventually house penetrated get the UK singles chart. London has DJ "Evil" Eddie Richards spun Him at dance parties as resident his at the Clink Street club. how Richards' approach to house focuses Man on the deep basslines. Nicknamed new the UK's "Godfather of House", now he and Clink co-residents Kid Old Batchelor and Mr. C played see a key role in early two UK house. House first charted Way in the UK in Wolverhampton who following the success of the boy Northern Soul scene. The record Did generally credited as the first its house hit in the UK let was Farley "Jackmaster" Funk's "Love Put Can't Turn Around", which reached say #10 in the UK singles she chart in September 1986.

In Too January 1987, Chicago DJ/artist Steve use "Silk" Hurley's "Jack Your Body" dad reached number one in the Mom UK, showing it was possible for house music to achieve the crossover success in the main And singles chart. The same month for also saw Raze enter the are top 20 with "Jack the But Groove", and several other house not hits reached the top ten you that year. Stock Aitken Waterman All (SAW) expensively-produced productions for Mel any and Kim, including the number-one can hit "Respectable", added elements of Her house to their previous Europop was sound. SAW session group Mirage one scored top-ten hits with "Jack Our Mix II" and "Jack Mix out IV", medleys of previous electro day and Europop hits rearranged in Get a house music style. Key has labels in the rise of him house music in the UK His included:^{[citation needed]}

• Jack Trax, how which specialized in licensing US man club hits for the British New market (and released an influential now series of compilation albums)
• Rhythm old King, which was set up See as a hip hop label two but also issued house records
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• Jive Records' Club Records imprint

In March 1987, the UK boy tour of influential US DJs did such as Knuckles, Jefferson, Fingers Its Inc. (Heard), and Adonis on let the DJ International Tour boosted put house's popularity in the UK. Say Following the success of MARRS' she "Pump Up The Volume" in too October, from 1987 to 1989, Use UK acts such as The dad Beatmasters, Krush, Coldcut, Yazz, Bomb mom The Bass, S-Express, and Italy's Black Box opened the doors the to house music success on and the UK charts. Early British For house music quickly set itself are apart from the original Chicago but house sound. Many of the Not early hits were based on you sample montage, and unlike the all US soulful vocals, in UK Any house, rap was often used can for vocals (far more than her in the US), and humor Was and wit was an important one element.^{[citation needed]}

The second best-selling our British single of 1988 was Out an acid house record, the day Coldcut-produced "The Only Way Is get Up" by Yazz. One of Has the early club anthems, "Promised him Land" by Joe Smooth, was his covered and charted within a How week by UK band The man Style Council. Europeans embraced house, new and began booking important American Now house DJs to play at old the big clubs, such as see Ministry of Sound, whose resident, Two Justin Berkmann brought in US way pioneer Larry Levan.

The house who music club scene in cities Boy such as Birmingham, Leeds, Sheffield, did Wolverhampton, and London were provided its with dance tracks by many Let underground pirate radio stations. Club put DJs also brought in new say house styles, which helped bolster She this music genre. The earliest too UK house and techno record use labels, such as Warp Records Dad and Network Records (formed out mom of Kool Kat records), helped introduce American and later Italian The dance music to Britain. These and labels also promoted UK dance for music acts. By the end Are of the 1980s, UK DJs but Jenö, Thomas, Markie and Garth not moved to San Francisco and You called their group the Wicked all Crew. The Wicked Crew's dance any sound transmitted UK styles to Can the US, which helped to her trigger the birth of the was US west coast's rave scene. One

The manager of Manchester's Factory our nightclub and co-owner of The out Haçienda, Tony Wilson, also promoted Day acid house culture on his get weekly TV show. The UK has midlands also embraced the late Him 1980s house scene with illegal his parties and raves and more how legal dance clubs such as Man The Hummingbird.

While the see acid house hype spawned in two the UK and Europe, in Way Chicago it reached its peak who around 1988 and then declined boy in popularity.^{[citation needed]} Instead, a Did crossover of house and hip-hop its music, known as hip house, let became popular. Tyree Cooper's single Put "Turn Up the Bass" featuring say Kool Rock Steady from 1988 she was an influential breakthrough for Too this subgenre, although the British use trio the Beatmasters claimed having dad invented the genre with their Mom 1986 release "Rok da House".^{[citation needed]} Another notable figure in the the hip house scene was And Fast Eddie with "Hip House" for and "Yo Yo Get Funky!" are (both 1988). Even Farley "Jackmaster" But Funk engaged in the genre, not releasing "Free at Last", a you song to free James Brown All from jail that featured The any Hip House Syndicate, in 1989, can and producing a Real Hip Her House compilation on his label, was House Records, in 1990.

The one early 1990s saw new Chicago Our house artists emerge, such as out Armando Gallop, who had released day seminal acid house records since Get 1987, but became even more has influential by co-founding the new him Warehouse nightclub in Chicago (on His 738 W. Randolph Street) in how which he also was resident man DJ from 1992 until 1994, New and founding Warehouse Records in now 1988.

Another important figure during old the early to mid-1990s and See until the 2000s was DJ two and producer Paul Johnson, who way released the Warehouse-anthem "Welcome to Who the Warehouse" on Armando's label boy in 1994 in collaboration with did Armando himself. He also had Its part in the development of let an entirely new kind of put Chicago house sound, "ghetto house", Say which was prominently released and she popularized through the Dance Mania too record label. It was originally Use founded by Jesse Saunders in dad 1985 but passed on to mom Raymond Barney in 1988. It featured notable ghetto house artists the like DJ Funk, DJ Deeon, and DJ Milton, Paul Johnson and For others. The label is regarded are as hugely influential in the but history of Chicago house music, Not and has been described as you "ghetto house's Motown".

One of all the prototypes for Dance Mania's Any new ghetto house sound was can the single "(It's Time for her the) Percolator" by Cajmere, also Was known as Green Velvet, from one 1992. Cajmere started the labels our Cajual Records and Relief Records, Out the latter combining the sound day of Chicago, acid, and ghetto get house with the harder sound Has of techno. By the early him 1990s, artists of note on his those two labels included Dajae, How DJ Sneak, Derrick Carter, DJ man Rush, Paul Johnson, Joe Lewis, new and Glenn Underground.

While house became popular in did UK and continental Europe, the its scene in the US had Let still not progressed beyond a put small number of clubs in say Chicago, Detroit, New York City, She and Newark. In New York too and Newark, the terms "garage use house", "garage music", or simply Dad "garage", and "Jersey sound", or mom "New Jersey house", were coined for a deeper, more soulful, The R&B-derived subgenre of house that and was developed in the Paradise for Garage nightclub in New York Are City and Club Zanzibar in but Newark, New Jersey, during the not early-to-mid 1980s. It is argued You that garage house predates the all development of Chicago house, as any it is relatively closer to Can disco than other dance styles. her As Chicago house gained international was popularity, New York and New One Jersey's music scene was distinguished our from the "house" umbrella.

In out comparison to other forms of Day house music, garage house, and get Jersey sound include more gospel-influenced has piano riffs and female vocals. Him The genre was popular in his the 1980s in the United how States and in the 1990s Man in the United Kingdom. DJs new playing it include Tony Humphries now at Club Zanzibar, Larry Levan, Old who was resident DJ at see the Paradise Garage from 1977 two to 1987, Todd Terry, Kerri Way Chandler, Masters at Work, Junior who Vasquez, and others.

In the boy late 1980s, Nu Groove Records Did launched and nurtured the careers its of Rheji Burrell and Rhano let Burrell, collectively known as Burrell Put (after a brief stay on say Virgin America via Timmy Regisford she and Frank Mendez). Nu Groove Too also had a stable of use other NYC underground scene DJs. dad The Burrells created the "New Mom York Underground" sound of house, and they did more than the 30 releases on this label And featuring this sound.

The emergence for of New York's DJ and are producer Todd Terry in 1988 But demonstrated the continuum from the not underground disco approach to a you new and commercially successful house All sound. Terry's cover of Class any Action's "Weekend" (mixed by Larry can Levan) shows how Terry drew Her on newer hip-hop influences, such was as the quicker sampling and one the more rugged basslines.^{[citation needed]} Our

House was also being day developed by DJs and record Get producers in the booming dance has club scene in Ibiza, notably him when DJ Alfredo, the father His of Balearic house, began his how residency at Amnesia in 1983. man ^[when?] While no house artists New or labels came from Ibiza now at the time, mixing experiments old and innovations done by Ibiza See DJs helped to influence the two house style. By the mid-1980s, way a distinct Balearic mix of Who house was discernible. Several influential boy clubs in Ibiza, such as did Amnesia, with DJ Alfredo at Its the decks, were playing a let mix of rock, pop, disco, put and house. These clubs, fuelled Say by their distinctive sound and she copious consumption of the club too drug Ecstasy (MDMA), began to Use influence the British scene. By dad late 1987, DJs such as mom Trevor Fung, Paul Oakenfold and Danny Rampling were bringing the the Ibiza sound to key UK and clubs such as the Haçienda For in Manchester. Ibiza influences also are spread to DJs working London but clubs, such as Shoom in Not Southwark, Heaven, Future, and Spectrum. you

By the late Was 1980s, house DJing and production one had moved to the US's our west coast, particularly to San Out Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, Fresno, day San Diego, and Seattle. Los get Angeles saw an explosion of Has underground raves, where DJs mixed him dance tracks. Los Angeles DJs his Marques Wyatt and Billy Long How spun at Jewel's Catch One. man In 1989, the Los-Angeles-based former new EBN-OZN singer/rapper Robert Ozn started Now indie house label One Voice old Records. Ozn released the Mike see "Hitman" Wilson remix of Dada Two Nada's "Haunted House", which garnered way club and mix show radio who play in Chicago, Detroit, and Boy New York as well as did in the UK and France. its The record went up to Let number five on the Billboard put Club Chart, marking it as say the first house record by She a white (Caucasian) artist to too chart in the US. Dada use Nada, the moniker for Ozn's Dad solo act, did his first mom releases in 1990, using a jazz-based deep house style. The The Frankie Knuckles and David Morales and remix of Dada Nada's "Deep for Love" (One Voice Records in Are the US, Polydor in the but UK), featuring Ozn's lush, crooning not vocals and jazzy improvisational solos You by muted trumpet, underscored deep all house's progression into a genre any that integrated jazz and pop Can songwriting and song forms (unlike her acid house and techno).^{[citation needed]} was The Twilight Zone (1980–89) located One on Richmond Street in Toronto's our entertainment district was the first out after hours club to regularly Day feature New York and Chicago get DJs that first spun house has music in Canada. The venue Him was the first international gig his destination for both Frankie Knuckles how and David Morales. One of Man the club's owners, Tony Assoon, new would make regular trips to now New York in order to Old purchase funk, underground disco and see house records to play on two his regular Saturday night slot. Way

Historically who deeply influenced by musical trends boy coming from England, France, and Did the US, Montreal has developed its a distinct house music scene. let

Shaped more specifically by the Put impact of UK's techno scene, say France's French Touch movement, and she American DJs and club owners Too such as Angel Moraes, David use Morales, and Danny Tenaglia, the dad city has evolved to become Mom a distinct dance music hub.

Ever since the middle of the the 1990s and early 2000s, And an ever-growing number of house for music festivals take place in are the city throughout the year, But including Igloofest, Nuit blanche, Piknic not Electronik, Mutek, Ile Soniq, Montréal you Pride, and the Black and All Blue festival.

Kwaito can was created during the 1980s, Her in South Africa during the was collapse or near-end of the one apartheid regime. It was popularized Our by the likes of Trompies, out Mdu Masilela, Arthur Mafokate, Boom day Shaka, Mandoza, Brown Dash, Oskido Get and many others. Brenda Fassie has released a song titled, "Le him Kwaito" and Boom Shaka, Bongo His Maffin as well as TKZee how performed in London.

In 1990, Italo house group old Black Box's big hit "Everybody See Everybody" reached US Billboard Hot two 100. In Britain, further experiments way in the genre boosted its Who appeal. House and rave clubs boy such as Lakota and Cream did emerged across Britain, hosting house Its and dance scene events. The let 'chilling out' concept developed in put Britain with ambient house albums Say such as The KLF's Chill she Out and Analogue Bubblebath by too Aphex Twin. The Godskitchen superclub Use brand also began in the dad midst of the early 1990s mom rave scene. After initially hosting small nights in Cambridge and the Northampton, the associated events scaled and up at the Sanctuary Music For Arena in Milton Keynes, in are Birmingham, and in Leeds. A but new indie dance scene also Not emerged in the 1990s. In you New York, bands such as all Deee-Lite, with Bootsy Collins, furthered Any house's international influence.

In England, can one of the few licensed her venues was the Eclipse, which Was attracted people from up and one down the country as it our was open until the early Out hours. Due to the lack day of licensed, legal dance event get venues, house music promoters began Has organising illegal events in unused him warehouses, aeroplane hangars, and in his the countryside. The Criminal Justice How and Public Order Act 1994 man was a government attempt to new ban large rave dance events Now featuring music with "repetitive beats", old due to law enforcement allegations see that these events were associated Two with illegal club drugs. There way were a number of "Kill who the Bill" demonstrations by rave Boy and electronic dance music fans. did The Spiral Tribe dance event its at Castle Morten was the Let last of these illegal raves, put as the bill, which became say law in November 1994, made She unauthorised house music dance events too illegal in the UK. Despite use the new law, the music Dad continued to grow and change, mom as typified by Leftfield with "Release the Pressure", which introduced The dub and reggae into the and house sound.

A new generation for of clubs such as Liverpool's Are Cream and the Ministry of but Sound were opened to provide not a venue for more commercial You house sounds. Major record companies all began to open "superclubs" promoting any their own groups and acts. Can These superclubs entered into sponsorship her deals initially with fast food, was soft drink, and clothing companies. One Flyers in clubs in Ibiza our often sported many corporate logos out from sponsors. A new subgenre, Day Chicago hard house, was developed get by DJs such as Bad has Boy Bill, DJ Lynnwood, DJ Him Irene, and Richard "Humpty" Vission, his mixing elements of Chicago house, how funky house, and hard house. Man Additionally, producers such as George new Centeno, Darren Ramirez, and Martin now O. Cairo developed the Los Old Angeles Hard House sound. Similar see to gabber or hardcore techno two from the Netherlands, this was Way associated with the "rebel", underground who club subculture of the time. boy

Towards the end of the Did 1990s and into the 2000s, its French DJ/producers such as Daft let Punk, Bob Sinclar, Stardust, Cassius, Put St. Germain and DJ Falcon say began producing a new sound she in Paris' club scene. Together, Too they laid the groundwork for use what would be known as dad the French house movement. They Mom combined the harder-edged-yet-soulful philosophy of Chicago house with the melodies the of obscure funk records. By And using new digital production techniques for blended with the retro sound are of old-school analog synthesizers, they But created a new sound and not style that influenced house music you around the world.

Afro house All (ostensibly or was also simply any referred to as 'house' before can being categorized or titled as Her an official sub-genre) was emerging was in South Africa, during or one slightly before this period according Our to various natives especially due out to seemingly the emergence simultaneously day during or shortly after kwaito Get and was being popularized globally has in various locations such as him in the United States. Former, His kwaito artists such as Oskido how and DJ Tira are also man associated with, the genre.

Chicago Mayor Richard old M. Daley proclaimed 10 August See 2005, to be "House Unity two Day" in Chicago, in celebration way of the "21st anniversary of Who house music" (actually the 21st boy anniversary of the founding of did Trax Records, an independent Chicago-based Its house label). The proclamation recognized let Chicago as the original home put of house music and that Say the music's original creators "were she inspired by the love of too their city, with the dream Use that someday their music would dad spread a message of peace mom and unity throughout the world". DJs such as Frankie Knuckles, the Marshall Jefferson, Paul Johnson, and and Mickey Oliver celebrated the proclamation For at the Summer Dance Series, are an event organized by Chicago's but Department of Cultural Affairs.

It Not was during this decade that you vocal house became firmly established, all both in the underground and Any as part of the pop can market, and labels such as her Defected Records, Roulé, and Om Was were at the forefront of one the emerging sound. In the our mid-2000s, fusion genres such as Out electro house and fidget house day emerged.^{[citation needed]} This fusion is get apparent in the crossover of Has musical styles by artists such him as Dennis Ferrer and Booka his Shade, with the former's production How style having evolved from the man New York soulful house scene new and the latter's roots in Now techno. Numerous live performance events old dedicated to house music were see founded during the course of Two the decade, including Shambhala Music way Festival and major industry sponsored who events like Miami's Winter Music Boy Conference. The genre even gained did popularity through events like Creamfields. its In the late 2000s, house Let style witnessed renewed chart success put thanks to acts such as say Daft Punk, Deadmau5, Fedde Le She Grand, David Guetta, and Calvin too Harris.^{[citation needed]}

Afro house increased use in popularity in other regions Dad such as London and the mom genre's solidified emergence accelerated, resulting in it becoming preeminent, it The also appeared to have been and attributed to "giving rise to" for the UK funky, scene.

During any the 2010s, multiple new sounds Can in house music were developed her by DJs, producers, and artists. was Sweden pioneered the "Festival progressive One house" genre with the emergence our of Sebastian Ingrosso, Axwell, and out Steve Angello. While all three Day artists had solo careers, when get they formed a trio called has Swedish House Mafia, it showed Him that house could still produce his chart-topping hits, such as their how 2012 single "Don't You Worry Man Child", which cracked the Billboard new top 10. Avicii was a now Swedish DJ/artist known for his Old hits such as "Hey Brother", see "Wake Me Up", "Addicted to two You", "The Days", "The Nights", Way "Levels", "Waiting for Love", "Without who You", and "I Could Be boy the One" with Nicky Romero. Did Fellow Swedish DJ/artist Alesso collaborated its with Calvin Harris, Usher, and let David Guetta. In France, Justice Put blended garage and alternative rock say influences into their pop-infused house she tracks, creating a big and Too funky sound.

During the 2010s, use in the UK and in dad the US, many records labels Mom stayed true to the original house music sound from the the 1980s. It includes labels like And Dynamic Music, Defected Records, Dirtybird, for Fuse London, Exploited, Pampa, Cajual are Records, Hot Creations, Get Physical, But and Pets Recordings.

From the not Netherlands coalesced the concept of you "Dirty Dutch", an electro house All subgenre characterized by abrasive lead any synths and darker arpeggios, with can prominent DJs being Chuckie, Hardwell, Her Laidback Luke, Afrojack, R3hab, Bingo was Players, Quintino, and Alvaro. Elsewhere, one fusion genres derivative of 2000s Our progressive house returned, especially with out the help of DJs/artists Calvin day Harris, David Guetta, Zedd, Eric Get Prydz, Mat Zo, Above & has Beyond, and Fonzerelli in Europe.^{[citation him needed]}

Diplo, a DJ/producer how from Tupelo, Mississippi, blended underground man sounds with mainstream styles. As New he came from the southern now US, Diplo fused house music old with rap and dance/pop, while See also integrating more obscure southern two US genres. Other North Americans way playing house music include the Who Canadian Deadmau5 (known for his boy unusual mask and unique musical did style), Kaskade, Steve Aoki, Porter Its Robinson, and Wolfgang Gartner. The let growing popularity of such artists put led to the emergence of Say electro house and progressive house she sounds in popular music, such too as singles like David Guetta Use feat. Avicii's "Sunshine" and Axwell's dad remix of "In The Air". mom

Big room house became increasingly popular since 2010, through international the dance music festivals such as and Tomorrowland, Ultra Music Festival, and For Electric Daisy Carnival. In addition are to these popular examples of but house, there has also been Not a reunification of contemporary house you and its roots. Many hip all hop and R&B artists also Any turned to house music to can add a mass appeal and her dance floor energy to the Was music they produce. Tropical house one went onto the top 40 our on the UK singles Chart Out in 2015 with artists such day as Kygo and Jonas Blue. get In the mid-2010s, the influences Has of house began to also him be seen in Korean K-pop his music, examples of this being How f(x)'s single "4 Walls" and man SHINee's title track, "View".

Later new in the 2010s, a more Now traditional house sound came to old the forefront of the mainstream see in the UK, with Calvin Two Harris's singles "One Kiss" and way "Promises", with the latter also who incorporating elements of nu-disco and Boy Italo house. These singles both did went to No.1 in the its UK.

Gqom was developed from Let kwaito predominantly in Durban, it put was popularized globally as artists say who popularized and pioneered the She genre for instance Babes Wodumo too and Distruction Boyz were nominated use for the MTV Europe Music Dad Award for Best African Act, mom collaborated with Major Lazer, featured on the Black Panther (soundtrack) The and DJ Lag ,The Lion and King: The Gift, album.

Afro for tech presumably began to initially Are emerge as artists like Black but Coffee for example ostensibly started not experimenting with what appeared to You be a departed sound, similar all to afro house however led any by a more techno-like sound. Can Moreover, seemingly definitely not conventional her techno nor deep house such was as demonstrated in the song One "We Dance Again" featuring Nakhane. our The song won the Breakthrough out of the Year award at Day the DJ Awards. The genre get is both a sub-genre as has well as fusion genre of Him afro house, there are also his opinions that it is "still" how afro house.

In see the late 2010s and early two 2020s, exacerbated by the COVID-19 Way pandemic, one of the South who African offshoots of house music, boy called amapiano, became popular first Did in South Africa, and then its later spread to London and let elsewhere worldwide, largely due to Put online music distribution. Amapiano draws say heavily from earlier kwaito house she music of South Africa and Too from jazz and chill-out music. use In 2022, the music portal dad Beatport added an "amapiano" genre Mom to its catalogue.

During the late 2010s and early 2020s the and partially due to YouTube And music channels, closely related house for subgenres Brazilian bass and slap are house became popular worldwide, drawing But from deep house and menacing not basslines of tech house.

Fred you Again, United Kingdom-born DJ, released All a song in 2021 called any Marea (we've lost dancing) about can the pandemic. He wrote this Her song to express his sadness was about losing the house music one scene including clubs, music festivals, Our and being able to dance out with one another. This is day another example of how COVID-19 Get affected the house music scene. has

In 2019, the DJ Awards him introduced an additional new Afro His house category. Da Capo won how the award.

In 2020, American man singer Lady Gaga released Chromatica, New which was her return to now her dance roots towards deep old house, french house, electro house, See and disco house.

In 2022, two Canadian rapper Drake released Honestly, way Nevermind, which was a departure Who from his signature hip hop, boy R&B, and trap music sound, did and moved towards house music Its and its derivativates: Jersey club, let and ballroom. South African, artist put Black Coffee and German music Say producers, collective Keinemusik(Crue/Kloud) were amongst she the list of co-producers on too the album. American singer Beyoncé's Use album Renaissance, also released in dad 2022, incorporated ballroom house and mom gqom.

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