Tech house
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Tech house is a fusion of house and techno music.
[edit] Structure
Although it uses the same basic structure as house, elements of the house 'sound' such as realistic jazz sounds (in deephouse) and booming kick drums are replaced with elements from techno such as shorter, deeper, darker and often distorted kicks, smaller, quicker hi-hats, noisier snares and more synthetic or acid sounding synth melodies from the TB-303, including raw electronic noises from distorted sawtooth and square wave oscillators.
The well known tech-house producer, Jean F. Cochois, also known as The Timewriter, has often used jazzy, soulful vocals and elements, and equally as much raw electronic sounds in his music. However, a rich techno-like kick and bassline seems to be a consistency amongst tech-house music.
The term Tech-House has proved controversial over the years as some say that the use of the expression has mutated to represent a very particular and narrow style of music (see above), rather than the broad-minded attitude and approach to DJing and production that the Tech-House scene once was during the mid-nineties. For this reason, certain artists such as Asad Rizvi no longer attach the term with their work, as they feel that popular perception of Tech-House is a vastly inaccurate representation of their work.
[edit] Proponents
Main exponents of the genre include Mr C (who is said to have first coined the term), Eddie Richards, Terry Francis, Asad Rizvi (pre-2001), Ravi McArthur,Tom Gillieron, Gideon, Nathan Coles,Laurant Webb,David Coker,Justin Bailey Nils Hess, Layo & Bushwacka!, Morgan Page, Jean F. Cochois aka The Timewriter, Terry Lee Brown, Dave Mothersole, Colin Dale, Tony Thomas, Alan Barratt, Lee Burridge, Relentless, Craig Richards, Aubrey, Mark Ambrose and Ian Pooley.
| House |
|---|
| Acid - Ambient - Chicago - Dark - Deep - Dream - Electro - French - Garage - Ghetto - Hard - Hip - Italo - Latin - Minimal - Microhouse - Progressive - Pumpin' - Tech - Tribal |
| Other electronic music genres |
| Ambient | Breakbeat | Drum and bass | Electronica | Electronic Art Music | Hard Dance | Hardcore | House | Industrial | Synthpop | Techno | Trance |
| Techno |
|---|
| Acid - Detroit - 4-beat - Gabber - Ghettotech - Hardcore - Happy hardcore - Minimal - Nortec - Rave - Schranz - Tech house |
| Other electronic music genres |
| Ambient | Breakbeat | Drum and bass | Electronica | Electronic Art Music | Hard Dance | Hardcore | House | Industrial | Synthpop | Techno | Trance |
