Chicago House (1984): In Chicago's early 1980s, DJs at the Warehouse and the Music Box stretched disco out with drum machines, and their regulars eventually moved into the studio…
Acid House (1986): In 1985, Phuture repurposed the Roland TB-303, a commercially unloved bass machine, and discovered that its squelching filter was an instrument in its own…
Garage House (1977): Garage house is the New York, soulful side of house music, named after Larry Levan's Paradise Garage. Gospel vocals stay at the center, piano and organ chords…
Deep House (1985): In 1986, Larry Heard laid down the deep house formula with Can You Feel It: sustained, jazzy synthesizer chords, a supple bass line, discreet drums and a…
Soulful House (1991): House that keeps gospel at its center: big voices, choirs, piano chords and written arrangements, a direct inheritance from New York garage. Masters At Work…
Lo-Fi House (2015): Lo-fi house is house music deliberately degraded, soaked in hiss and tape noise, born on YouTube and Bandcamp in the mid-2010s. The machines run slightly out…
Hip House (1987): Hip house paired rap directly with house rhythms in Chicago and New York in 1988, running around 120 beats per minute. The phrasing was chanted, the choruses…
UK House (1986): UK house is Britain's reception of Chicago house, filtered through acid house and the raves of 1988 before settling in as the common language of English…
Italo House (1988): Italy answered Chicago with what it did best: melody. Bright, chord-stabbing piano, inherited from italo disco, became the style's emblem, dubbed dream house…
Hard House (1994): Hard house is house music toughened up in English clubs of the mid 1990s, with Trade in London at its epicenter: faster, more percussive and more tense than…
Progressive House (1990): Progressive house is the English sound of 1990 to 1992 that stretches house music into long tracks, built in layers that rise in stages rather than through…
Disco House (1990): House music that openly repays its debt to disco by sampling it outright: loops of strings and basses filtered open and shut with a lowpass, like a curtain…
French House (1995): Paris, the second half of the 1990s: a generation raised on filtered disco turned sampling into a national signature. Breathing filters, compression pumping…
Electro House (2002): The 2000s house sound that swapped disco samples for saturated synthetic basslines played like riffs. The sound is aggressive, compressed and built for big…
Bass House (2015): The meeting of house music with the bass sound design inherited from dubstep, formalized in the mid-2010s: a four-on-the-floor house structure carrying…
Future House (2014): A label born around 2013 for melodic house built on plucked, metallic sounding basses, popularised out of the Netherlands. The sound is clean and instantly…
Tribal House (1990): House reduced to percussion: congas, timbales and toms layered into polyrhythms, harmony almost absent, tension built entirely through the drum. New York…
Afro House (2003): Afro house is house music rewritten from South Africa and its diaspora, where kwaito, traditional percussion and deep house all meet. Its rhythms are…
Amapiano (2020): South Africa, 2015 to 2020: a slow hybrid of deep house, kwaito and local jazz, instantly recognizable for its log drum, that hollow, bouncing percussive bass…
Gqom (2016): Gqom is a dark, stripped down club music from Durban in the early 2010s, built on droning triplets, cavernous drums and almost no round bassline, made on…
Latin House (1987): Latin house is house music spoken in Spanish and played in clave: Afro Cuban percussion, montuno piano and sampled or live brass. Chicago and New York began…
Ghetto House (1995): Ghetto house is Chicago again, but from the South Side and West Side in the 1990s: raw, repetitive, obscene and joyful house music, pressed cheaply on the…
Juke (2002): Juke is Chicago ghetto house accelerated at the turn of the 2000s, up to 150 or 160 beats per minute, built for the south side's dance battles. Triplet toms,…
Footwork (2012): Born from Chicago dance battles at the end of the 2000s, footwork pushes juke into abstraction: 160 beats per minute, triplet toms set against offbeat kicks,…
