electro house
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Key facts
- Stylistic origins
- House electro tech house electroclash electropop synth-pop electronic rock
- Cultural origins
- Mid-Late 1990s
- Typical instruments
- Drum machine keyboard personal computer sampler sequencer synthesizer vocoder
- Derivative forms
- Brostep dembow jungle terror moombahton
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- music genre
- Subclass of
- house music
- Country of origin
- Europe
- Image
- Porter Robinson, Zedd, and Skrillex at the 2012 SXSW cropped.jpg
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- topic's main category
- Category:Electro house
- inception
- 1997-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Three genre-crossing representatives: Porter Robinson (left), Zedd (center) and Skrillex (right) at a live performance in 2012 Electro house is a genre of electronic dance music and a subgenre of house music characterized by heavy bass and a tempo around 125–135 beats per minute. The term has been used to describe the music of many DJ Mag Top 100 DJs, including Benny Benassi, Skrillex, Steve Aoki, and Deadmau5.
Characteristics
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “electro house” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.