house music - nick

House music is a genre of electronic dance music; it began in Chicago in the early 1980s. It was initially popularized circa 1984 in Chicago, but beginning in 1985, it fanned out to other major cities such as Detroit, Toronto, New York City, San Francisco, Boston, Montreal, Manchester, Miami, London, and Paris. It then began to influence popular music in Europe. Since the early to mid-1990s, house music has been infused in mainstream pop and dance music worldwide.

House music has many sub genres within it that many music producers branch out to create songs of a verity of genres. Some of these sub genres include:

Progressive house songs are usually much longer than your standard house music song this is because they usually start off with a slow beat that builds up slowly until it peaks.

Dubstep is often comprised of heavy bass that is manipulated to make a wobble pattern which is often referred to as the ‘wub’. Allot of people miss understand dubstep and say it is just random noise, because they don’t understand the genre. It is usually consisted of a slow beat which is then ‘dropped’ into deep bass and fast beats.

Hardstyle is a fast paced beat with a heavy bass and this is often known as the ‘duff duff’ music because the bass is so consistent and heavy it can be heard from a long way away. There are often lyrics involved but most listeners are interested in the extremely fast beat which encourages insane dancing.

Trance music is exactly what it sounds like, the music is usually very simple and repetitive and songs can go for 30 minutes at a time. It usually sends listeners into a trance like state where they dance around with no cares, usually because they are on some kind of drug, drugs are closely associated with this style of music.