Garage house

For other genres of music with similar titles, see UK garage and garage rock.
Garage house
Stylistic origins Electronic dance music, disco, soul, gospel
Cultural origins Late 1970s – Mid 1980s, New York City and New Jersey, United States
Typical instruments Turntables - Synthesizer - Drum machine - Sequencer - Keyboards - Vocals
Derivative forms House, UK garage, Speed garage

Garage house[1] is a subgenre of electronic dance music developed in the Paradise Garage nightclub in New York City and club Zanzibar in New Jersey, USA.[2]

DJs playing this genre include Junior Vasquez, Tony Humphries and Larry Levan.[3][4]

Garage house is often mistaken with speed garage or its parent genre UK garage but, although influenced by Garage House, they are both completely different genres.

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History

After the collapse of disco music in the late 1970s, dance music became overwhelmed with synthesizers, sequencers and drum machines. Therefore these said musical instruments were and are an essential part of garage music.[5] The direction of garage house was primarily influenced by the New York-based discothèque Paradise Garage where the influential DJ Larry Levan played records.[3]

According to Blues & Soul, garage house started with the early records of Visual, i.e. "The Music Got Me" in 1983 and the material of The Peech Boys.[6]

Characteristics

In comparsion to other house music, garage house has more polished attributes, including gospel-influenced piano riffs and female vocals.[7] Garage house is the soulful branch within house music.

The genre was popular in the 1980s in the U.S. and 1990s in the United Kingdom. Popularity of the genre in the UK gave birth to UK garage, a British variant of garage house.[7]

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Prominent labels

See also

References

  1. ^ You selected: Style: Garage House on Discogs. Retrieved on August 16, 2009
  2. ^ Simpson, Paul (2003). The rough guide to cult pop. U.S.: Rough Guides, 2003. p. 42. ISBN 1843532298. 
  3. ^ a b Sylvan, Robin (2002). Traces of the spirit: the religious dimensions of popular music. U.S.: NYU PRess. p. 120. ISBN 081479809. 
  4. ^ ": Garage at Allmusic". Rovi Corporation. http://www.allmusic.com/explore/style/garage-d2893. Retrieved 2011-08-27. 
  5. ^ Ann Dupuis, Anne De Bruin (2003). Entrepreneurship: new perspectives in a global age. U.S.: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2003. p. 79. ISBN 0754631982. 
  6. ^ "untitled". Blues & soul: Issues 526-537 (Napfield Ltd., the University of Virginia '(originally)'). 1988. "[...] term as garage music now started about five years ago with the first Boyd Jarvis records and the group Visual who did the songs "Somehow, Someway" and "The Music Got Me"" 
  7. ^ a b Verderosa, Tony (2002). The techno primer: the essential reference for loop-based music styles. U.S.: Hal Leonard Corporation, 2002. p. 36. ISBN 0634017888. 
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