Electro house is a fusion genre of house music with several other electronic dance music subgenres that came into prominence in the 2000s decade. Stylistically, it combines the minimal-processed four to the floor beats commonly found in house with harmonically rich analogue or digital basslines derived from tech house. The tempo is predominant of house music, meaning that it usually ranges from 125 to 140 BPM, while the song structure greatly varies from 1980-s influenced electro, pop and new wave themes to trance-like progressions.
History
Roots
The most obvious precursor to the modern electro house scene is the electroclash movement of the early 2000s. Electroclash fused the lyrical stylings and melodic feel of early 1980s
synth pop from the UK with the harder rhythmic grooves of electronic dance music that came out of America during the same period:
electro-funk and
freestyle music. Some artists associated with the electroclash movement, such as
Felix da Housecat, noticeably used elements of house in their music at the time and have since come to be seen as highly influential.
At the same time, tech house was becoming prominent in the late 1990s mainstream, with help from DJs like Satoshi Tomiie and Steve Lawler, who also incorporated elements of the original electro music into their sound dating back in 1989. As it started being played in Europe by 2000—01, European DJs often used tubular distortion straight to the basslines of their tracks (Zombie Nation's "KernKraft 400" or Sono's "Keep Control"), where the sound samples came out pre-synthesized similarly to TB-303.
Style development
The first DJ to have directly experimented with the fusion of both styles was
Benny Benassi. His single "Satisfaction" successfully incorporates sounds found in electroclash into a melodic 4-to-4 beat featuring tech house irregularity. In 2003, another sound was created by Benassi's "Illusion" and influenced directly German and Austrian electrotech (a term coined by them) producers such as the
Royal Gigolos and
Global Deejays, who established it as a mainstream genre. By 2004—05, electrotech mixed with heavy elements of
tribal house, to eventually settle into a more serious atmosphere. Early examples of such sound include "I Want You" by
Paris Avenue and "This World" by
Slam.
In late 2005, Matt Schwartz and Dave McCullen from the UK have defined the genre as "electro house" for the first time by incorporating high-pitched abrasive leads with it and borrowing a somewhat steadier beat from the then fading progressive house. The influence resulted was large enough as to become worldwide by 2006: Bodyrox's single "Yeah Yeah" featuring Luciana was labelled by several BBC Radio 1 DJs "the biggest tune of the summer of 2006", and the remix by D.Ramirez gained worldwide popularity, particularly in the Ibiza clubbing scene. Later that same year, several emerging worldwide producers like Dirty South and The Egg shaped the initial sound into emulated disk scratching, all while borrowing deep house beats. Examples include Cicada's "Things You Say", The Egg's "Walking Away" and Guetta's "Love Don't Let Me Go" remixes.
Considerable international mainstream popularity of this genre came by late 2000s, when notorious leaders of the Africanism All Stars project Bob Sinclar and Yves Larock inserted samples of Caribbean music into their house compositions, creating ground for instrumental riffs and vocalizations harmonically shaping rough electronic leads. This in turn influenced an enormous variety of other mainstream genres — particularly rap, R&B; and hip-hop — to be fused into house music, allowing practically any kind of genre remixes. In 2008—09, major hit songs that incorporated electro house with aforementioned styles included "Day & Night (Crookers Remix)" by Kid Cudi, "Shooting Star" by David Rush, "Sexy Bitch" by David Guetta, and many more.
Influences
Electro pop
In the mid to late 2000s, electro house along with other major styles of electronic dance music helped to lay the ground for
electro pop music, which fused contemporary R&B;, hip hop, crunk, indie rock into dance- and mainstream friendly vocal music with 4-to-the-floor rhythm. Electro pop currently dominates music charts all around the globe.
Electro rock
Electro house has also introduced electronic music to the
indie rock scene through its links to the
new rave and
disco-punk movement. Not to be confused with
electronic rock, since the Electro House fusion implements the audio sound and theme of Electro House. Earlier
electronic rock on the other hand merely infused
electronic instrumentation and sounds with any kind of rock music genre. Another genre called
grindie evolved out of the
UK Garage scene, fusing
2-step garage with
alternative rock music, sometimes including an Electro House sound.
Subgenres
Fidget
Fidget house is a style of electrohouse which incorporates elements of early
acid house music.
Reg
Reg is a very limited fusion genre that is set somewhere between funky and tribal house, while borrowing structure from electro. Reg house tends to incorporate elements of
reggae (most often the singer tries to parody reggae-talk),
zouk and other close derivatives. Reg house came to prominence after the project Africanism All Stars was formed in 2004, while the most famous singers to come out of it are
Yves Larock and
Bob Sinclar.
Electro hop
Pertaining to the original
electro movement,
electro hop fuses
hip hop vocal performance and instrumental techniques (i.e. beat skipping and
R&B; vocal samples) into electro house or
electrofunk music. The electro house fusion first appeared as part of reg house, the subgenre quickly split into its own by 2008, with the most notable compositions being "Day & Nite" by Kid Cudi and the Benny Benassi remix of Public Enemy's "Bring the Noise".
Notable artists
Axwell
Benny Benassi
Bodyrox
Boys Noize
Brian Christopher
Busy P
Chris Lake
Cold Blank
Crookers
Dada Life
Daft Punk
Dave Spoon
David Guetta
Deadmau5
Digitalism
DJ Antoine
Fake Blood
Fedde Le Grand
Felguk
Jack Beats
Justice
Klaas
Laidback Luke
Manuel Schleis
Mason
Max Farenthide
Miles Dyson
Mondotek
Music Instructor
MSTRKRFT
Noisia
Outwork
Sebastian Ingrosso
Shinichi Osawa
Steve Angello
Steve Aoki
Swedish House Mafia
The Bloody Beetroots
The Egg
Thunderheist
Tocadisco
Vandalism
Vitalic
Will Bailey
Wolfgang Gartner
Yuksek
Yves Larock
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