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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 July 13, 2008

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devil music

Music that an elder or person of a different liking and/or more religious value finds offensive, unholy, or just pain stupid.

MTV plays nothing but satan music anymore... nothing with moral values.

by Angelica Guevara August 11, 2005

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Mainstream music

Music that always plays on the radio and the TV, and is on the top 40 list on every music software like iTunes and Spotify. It is quick-made on a computer, usually featuring not very good but good looking musicians (if they can be called that) and it is un-original and boring. People without any taste in music listen to it because it's easy to find and everyone else listen to it, so then they don't need to worry about being considered "different". Mainstream music songs usually stay on the top-lists for a couple of months or maybe a year, and then they're gone. Also, people who listen to it usually would call a 2 year old song "very old", though bands like Led Zeppelin still rock anyone's brains out with their songs from the seventees.

Annoying teen girl: "Oh my god, have you heard that new Rihanna song? I love it!"

A month later, someone puts on the same mainstream music song

Same annoying chick: "Eww that song is old and outdated, turn it off"

by rocknroller2012 November 27, 2012

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music fanatic

Someone who connects with all genres of music. Someone who feels the Music in their soul and it becomes something like an addiction. Like you need music to function.

She's a music fanatic. Trust her with the aux cord .

by Music_lover0000 April 23, 2017


intersection music

when you're in a sick car, coming up to an intersection, you're praying for a red light so that when you stop everybody is looking at you in your car, then it's your time to play the hottest song: intersection music.

getting all the attention you want at the intersection w/ a hot song

"this song by Young Jeezy is definitely intersection music"

by kdj4891 September 22, 2011


Trailer Music

Trailer music (a subset of production music) is the background music used for film previews, which is not always from the film's soundtrack. The purpose of this music is to complement, support and integrate the sales messaging of the mini-movie that is a film trailer. Because the score for a movie is usually composed after the film is finished (which is much after trailers are released), a trailer will incorporate music from other sources. Sometimes music from other successful films or hit songs is used as a subconscious tie-in method.

"Library" music, which is previously composed production music. Trailer music library companies typically do not offer their music to the public and develop and license music exclusively to the motion picture studios, although Immediate Music did release a commercial album called "Trailerhead,” Reeltime Music with a double CD called “Coming Soon” and Two Steps From Hell with three albums called "Invincible” (2010), "Archangel” (2011) and "SkyWorld" (2012). Brand X Music and Audiomachine have also released albums available to the public.

by TrailerMusicVibe December 19, 2012


Elevator music

The shnazzy music that plays in elevators, supermarkets, cheep family restaurants, amusement park lines, and the YMCA's men locker room. Useually jazz or clasical.

*muffled* doo doo di doo doopidy doo.

by joe shmoe March 1, 2003

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