Sunday 19 June 2016

Why you should listen to House music

House music has an extensive history. Frankie Knuckles is one of the main producers and DJs that can be accredited to giving popularity to the music genre known as House. Popularized in Chicago in the 1980s, house music has expanded to the whole world in 2015.
The popularity. Europe lives and breathes house music on a daily basis. Countries like the UK, Benelux, etc have a huge demand for house music. Any club you visit in the aforementioned countries is likely to be playing house music. South Asian countries are also seeing a huge increase in demand for house music. Japan's club scene has recently gotten huge, and it is only getting bigger. House music still has a long way to go in terms of becoming super mainstream albeit acts have been seen in the top 40 charts. Examples of this include Gorgon City.
House Music
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The subgenres. House music has a huge variety of subgenres ranging from the slowest beats at a chilly 110 beats per minute to the dirtiest and fastest at an energetic 140 beats per minute. There is a huge difference between all subgenres in house music simply because there are listeners from all over the world, so the type of house music they enjoy may be influenced by their culture or similar music tastes from earlier influences.
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The community. The house music community is huge, the top producers with millions of followers on social media. The top mainstream producers and DJs make millions of dollars per year, simply because people are willing to pay a load of money to see their shows. The underground community is probably just as big as the mainstream community, albeit there is a bigger divide between the fans of the two communities. For example one producer may have 100 times the fans of another producer but may not necessarily produce music that is 100 times better.
The free downloads. One of the biggest feats of being a house music fan is that you can easily enjoy a lot of music for free. A lot of artists do not charge for a lot of their tunes because they would rather have exposure. The single cost of acquiring these tunes is usually to like an artist on SoundCloud or something similar. It is definitely worth less than the $1.29.
The YouTubers. There are many YouTube channels who's hobby is to literally search for new house music for their fans. These channels spend a lot of their time browsing SoundCloud daily just to hopefully find a good sounding tune to feature on their profile for a few likes and comments. An example of this is a smaller channel named Thrills who promotes Deep House, Future House, Jackin House and more.

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