| Dark house | |
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| Stylistic origins | Progressive house Minimalism Trance Electronic |
| Typical instruments | Synthesizer, Drum machine, Sequencer, Sampler, Keyboard |
Dark house (sometimes called dark progressive house) is the name used by some people to describe certain progressive house records that are characterised by deep penetrating lowtempo beats (~130 BPM) and the use of words and sounds that create a foreboding atmosphere.
Structure
Dark-house is usually tribal. It often features echoed trance-like claps (as opposed to progressive house snare drums), and low pitched, driving basslines. The mood is almost always melancholic and somewhat dreamy. At more intense levels, dark house may contain screeching, moaning, or electronic pulses to emulate sounds found in horror movies. Where Detroit techno features raw basses usually looped between four beats, dark house usually has intricate basslines with a possible pitch change looped over eight or more beats.
Examples
The following tracks are examples of the dark house genre:
- Satoshi Tomiie feat. Kelli Ali - Love In Traffic (Dark Path Mix)
- ECVM - Circuit Breaker (John Creamer & Stephane K Main Mix)
- Tijuana - Groove Is In The Air
- Jamez Presents Tatoine - Music (16B Remix)
- Pete Lazonby - Wavespeech
- Sinéad O'Connor - TROY (John Creamer & Stephane K Remix)
- Dirty Harry - Musica
- Moshic & Landa - Faza
- Angel - Powerplant (Hamel & Medway Remix)
- Filur - You And I (Trentemøller Free Dub)
- Federico Franchi - Cream
- Chris Lake - To The Point
- Voodooamt - Nachtschicht
- Pete heller & Smokin jo - Fishbone
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