| Ghetto house | |
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| Stylistic origins | Chicago house Synthpop Miami Bass |
| Cultural origins | U.S. |
| Typical instruments | Sampler • Drum machine • Synthesizer • Sequencer • Rapping |
Ghetto house, or booty house, is a type of Chicago House which started being recognised in its own right from around 1992 onwards. It features minimal 808 and 909 drum machine-driven tracks, and sometimes sexually explicit lyrics.
Using the template of classic Chicago House music (primarily, Percolator by Cajmere), and adding the sexual lyrics perceived by casual fans of Miami Bass, it has usually been made on very minimal equipment with little or no effects. It usually features a "4-to-the-floor" kick drum (full sounding, but not too long or distorted) along with Roland 808 and 909 synthesised tom-tom sounds, minimal use of analogue synths, and short, slightly dirty sounding (both sonically and lyrically) vocals samples, often repeated in various ways. Also common are 808 and 909 clap sounds, and full "rapped" verses and choruses.
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The 2000's have also seen a rise in Chicago Juke, a faster variant of Ghetto House. Chicago Juke is defined as around 150-160 BPMs with bass drums usually in a One-And-Two A-And-Four style pattern and a lo-fi production style like Baile Funk. Chicago Juke is accompanied by Footwork, born in the disparate ghettos and back alley nightspots of Chicago and living hand in hand with juke music, footwork is one of the last untapped (and resultantly, unfiltered) hood dance music styles in the world.[1] Footwork is a controlled and complex moving of the feet at high speeds, a modern form of Breakdancing. Chicago Juke artists like Dude 'n Nem and Starfoxxx (Chicago remix trio) have helped bring Chicago Juke into the mainstream of Club dance music.
Juke/Footwork has been popular in the clubs of Europe particularly in Paris and Brussels for a number of years with the Booty Call club nights and artist such as Kill Frenzy and DJ Hilti putting out releases via the Juke Trax label. It has however only recently begun to flourish in UK clubs, thanks to the "Bangs and Works Volume 1" compilation on the Planet Mu label from London, the label is owned by Mike Paradinas (also known as µ-Ziq). Though earlier releases by DJ Slugo can be found on UK label WIDE, Planet Mu were the first to grab any media attention.
Various artists evolving around what is often labeled by various subcultural medias as the deeper or rather avant-garde sub-sonorities of dubstep music, have started to integrate juke elements to their works in the last few years, perhaps subsequently to the recent bloom of juke music in Europe. Labels such as Swamp81 and artists such as Addison Groove and Ramadanman ( the latter two who can both be quoted as producers known for their work throughout the dubstep genre ) have have started to incorporate idiosyncratic elements of juke and ghetto house to their recent productions.
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