- published: 18 Jun 2014
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French house is a catch-all term for house music by many French artists, a popular strand of the late 1990s and 2000s European dance music scene and a form of Euro disco. The genre has also been referred to as "neu-disco" (new disco, distinct from the non-house "nu-disco" revival), "French touch", "filter house" and "tekfunk" over the years. The defining characteristics of the sound are heavy reliance on filter and phaser effects both on and alongside samples of late 1970s and early 1980s American or European disco tracks. Celebrated and successful purveyors of this music include Daft Punk,Cassius and Etienne de Crécy. Most tracks in this vein feature steady 4/4 beats with a tempo range of 110–130 beats per minute.
French house is greatly influenced by the lineage of American dance music from the emergence of disco onwards, maintaining a distinct connection to Euro disco and the short lived space disco music style. Space disco was very popular in France, with artists like Cerrone, Space and Sheila B. Devotion during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Additional influences came from P-Funk, especially the George Clinton and Bootsy Collins hits of that era. Due to originating from the same foreign market, P-Funk was played alongside disco in many French discothèques, especially after the Disco Demolition Night took place in the United States. The Jacking aspect of Chicago house was also picked up on as a theme to incorporate (with "jack house" becoming a short-lived descriptive term for the sound in the UK).
House music is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in the American city of Chicago, Illinois in the early 1980s. It was initially popularized in mid-1980s discothèques catering to African-Americans and Latinos in Chicago circa 1984. From 1985 onwards, it began to fan out to other cities such as Detroit, Toronto, New York City, Montreal, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Manchester, Miami, London, and Paris. It then reached and began to influence popular music in Europe as a whole, with pop chart hits such as "House Nation" by House Master Boyz and the Rude Boy Of House (1987) and "Doctorin' The House" by Coldcut (1988). Since the early to mid-1990s, house music has been infused in mainstream pop and dance music worldwide.
Early house music was generally dance-based music characterized by repetitive 4/4 beats and rhythms centered around drum machines, off-beat hi-hat cymbals and synthesized basslines. While house displayed several characteristics similar to disco music, it was more electronic and minimalistic, and the structured music's focus around a repetitive rhythm was more important than the song itself. House music today, while keeping several of these core elements, notably the prominent kick drum on every beat, varies a lot in style and influence, ranging from the soulful and atmospheric deep house, to the more minimalistic microhouse. House music has also fused with several other genres creating fusion subgenres, such as Euro house and tech house.
lived in 20 houses in the same damn town
right around the block use to slang wraps round
got it all up, got it all back now
it's a haunted house, got sold by the pound
if you wanna dance, think about it right now
see, i'm not in it yo listen, i'm not in it
this song's about beats, streets, i walked in it
when hit i get defensive cause he kris-krossed in it
i've known who i am for longer than i've remember
but that was before i met you, so don't try eject into
some old-school memories, they never came up
i was never seen clean, so don't get it mixed up
y'all know what i'm talking bout
when it's time to rock about
sock em out, STOP now
(ch, ch) i'm in the house
yeah im in the house
i got friends who star for theyselves
gold-rimmed cronies with a handful of shells
in the next tuesday, i'll line myself with crisp
on the CBC, they film me above the hips
look at that car i drive, i whip it real good
devos, titos, rims, ghost ridin and it feels good
no, that ain't "real" hood
no that ain't lifestyle
i just rap about it so the kids can clap about it
i rap about drugs, i do it for my family
sold those packs from the back of a Camary
(NO) make sure what you write is correct
i gotta good eye, now my lines are connect
y'all know what i'm talking bout
when it's time to rock about
sock em out, STOP now
(ch, ch) i'm in the house
yeah im in the house
welcome to the club scene
half of these rappers thugged it out
i've never had fun in the club scene
yo i dance real close in the club scene
started a real toast in the club scene
it's lovely
the club scene loves me, i spend my time in it
4 days a week, yo i write my rhymes in it
drink "grasshopper" with a couple lines in it
i know some bathrooms they did a couple lines in em
at the studio i get a couple styles out
wait in line for drinks, it's another time out
made out on the floor with a couple dames
how come i never seem to get what my money is spent?
y'all know what i'm talking bout
when it's time to rock about
sock em out, STOP now
(ch, ch) i'm in the house