Electro house

This article is about Electro house music which is called 'electro' frequently. For original Electro music, see Electro music.

Electro house (or, shortly, electro) is a fusion genre of house music and electro, sometimes with the influence of other genres such as industrial, trance, dancehall, or indie rock.^{[citation needed]} Stylistically, it combines the four to the floor beats commonly found in house music with harmonically rich analogue or digital basslines, abrasive high-pitched leads and the occasional piano or string riff. The tempo of electro house ranges approximately from 120 to 135 bpm.^{[citation needed]}

The style is considered to have originated in the early 2000s.^{[citation needed]} From the point of origin, electro house has developed various subgenres of its own.

The use of the word electro to describe this style of modern house music is contentious, and creates an ambiguity between electro house and classic electro, mostly because both styles sometimes share common sounding characteristics and similar tempo speed.^{[citation needed]}

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 Latin hip-hop.^[1] 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.^[2] French house has also been considered an influence.^{[citation needed]}

Satoshi Tomiie has helped to shape the typical sound of electro house by adding his own blend of NY-groove styled musical elements to further influence and enhance the musical sound of this genre.^{[citation needed]} His influence on electro house begins back in the 1989^{[citation needed]} with the affiliation to the famous high-society DJ Frankie Knuckles and Satoshi Tomiie is still currently playing a substantial role in the composition of the electro house sound.^{[citation needed]}

Style development

In 2003 some tribal house DJs such as Steve Lawler^{[citation needed]}, while previously associated with the darker-hued sounds of progressive house, began to use analogue basslines, starting a sound dubbed 'dirty tribal'.^[3] Concurrently, the breakbeat scene was creating similar sounds with the popular tech-funk style. It was around this time that electro house properly began to emerge.^{[citation needed]}

The sound became steadily more popular throughout 2006.^{[citation needed]} 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.^[4][5] Another key point was when Tocadisco's remix of "Walking Away" by The Egg gained significant media coverage after being featured on a television advertisement for the Citroën C4. A mashup of the track with "Love Don't Let Me Go" by David Guetta was also later released as a single, which reached #1 in the charts in Spain and #3 in the UK.

As of 2007, the sound has been recognised as one of the most dominant movements in house music,^{[citation needed]} surpassing funky house in popularity,^{[citation needed]} with a large range of DJs and producers finding an interest in its dancefloor sensibilities and sense of fun, such as Dave Seaman from the progressive house scene;^[6] Tiefschwarz^[7] and Ben Watt who previously played deep house,^[8] Steve Lawler from the tribal sound, Wutam & J-Break from the breakbeat scene,^[9] and popular Ibiza club DJ Lisa Lashes who is most known for her work in hard dance.^[10] Dave Spoon and Lisa Maffia also proved electro house could be well received by the mainstream audience with the song "Bad Girl at Night".^{[citation needed]}

Subgenres and derivative forms

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.^{[citation needed]}

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.^{[citation needed]} Beatport even defines electro house as a fusion of house music with indie rock.^{[citation needed]}

Artists

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Samples

	Bodyrox - Yeah Yeah (D.Ramirez Dub Mix) (2006) Excerpt from the instrumental (dub) remix of "Yeah Yeah", by Bodyrox. An electro house track which had massive success worldwide in 2006.
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	M.A.N.D.Y vs. Booka Shade - Body Language (Tocadisco Remix) (2006) Excerpt from Tocadisco's remix of "Body Language." This track is a representation of the more subtle sound in electro house, influenced by tech house and minimal techno.
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	Erick Morillo - Dancin' (Fuzzy Hair Remix) (2003) Excerpt from Fuzzy Hair's remix of "Dancin'", by Erick Morillo. This track is an example of an influential predecessor to the genre which is described as electro house today, despite the label not being used when it was released.
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References

1. Electro House streaming radio on Digitally Imported

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