has many sub-divisions:
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- ''Afro house'': A form of house developed in Brooklyn, New York which reflects the cultural heritage of Africa and the African Diaspora. Incorporates deep percussive elements, chants, and organic African instruments and voices. Artists include Osunlade , Jephte Guillaume, Ian Friday, Antonio Ocasio and DJ Sabine.
- '' and ambient music with pulsating house beats.
- '' built off of old samples drawing from a variety of genres of music and including heavy call and response and 'jingles' (singable choruses). Club music is still evolving in Baltimore, and has gone through periods of being driven by samples of popular music sped up and layered over existing loops from old house songs, to shouting out local neighborhoods and much more. For more information and popular DJs, see the entry Baltimore Club .
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- '', Glenn Underground , Kevin Yost .
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- ''Disco house'': A more upfront variant of house that relies heavily on looped disco samples. ex: Jordan Fields , DJ Sneak , Paul Johnson and Stardust .
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- ''Epic house'': A variant of Progressive House featuring lush synth-fills and dramatic beat breakdowns.
- ''Filtered house'': A variant of Disco House similar to French House (but with less Italo-disco and synthpop crossover) that incorporates pronounced use of filters (e.g. cutoff, flanger, phaser, chorus, and similar effects) and enhanced dynamics processing (usually resulting in pumping basslines and swirling percussion) to render a distinctively analog or "oldschool funky" feel to the production. ex. Risque De Funk Electrique, Ian Carey, Hott 22.
- ''. Seen by some as an evolution of Electro Funk .
- '', Alan Braxe , Le Knight Club , Synthique
- '' Funky House '': Funky house as it sounds today first started to develop during the late 1990's. It can again be sub-divided into many other types of house music. French house, Italian house, Disco house, Latin house and many other types of house have all contributed greatly to what is today known as Funky house. It is recognizable by its often very catchy bassline, swooshes, swirls and other synthesized sounds which give the music a bouncy tempo. It often relies heavily on black female vocals or disco samples and has a recognizable tiered structure in which every track has more than one build-up which usually reaches a climax before the process is repeated with the next track. ex: Axwell, Seamus Haji and ATFC to name but a few.
- '', although the original Garage sound was much more of an eclectic mix of many different kinds of records. May also be called the Jersey Sound due to the close connection many of its artists and producers have with New Jersey such as the legendary Shep Pettibone and Tony Humphries at Zanzibar in Newark, NJ. Not to be confused with Speed Garage or the British style nowadays called UKG or UK Garage .
- '', DJ Deeon , DJ Milton , DJ Funk , DJ D-Man
- '' Gospel House '': Vocal house with either gospel choires as backing vocals or lyrics about Jesus or God. (Michelle Weeks, Jasper Street Company, Kurt Lykes, Kenny Bobien, Ron Carroll, Barbara Tucker etc.)
- '' Handbag House '': A form of uplifting vocal house music mainly from around the mid 1990s and played in more commercial-orientated dance music venues. Takes its name from the notion of groups of girls dancing around a pile of their handbags on the dancefloor! Examples include Loveland, Nush, etc
- '', DJ Bam Bam , Abstract Beating System . In the UK, hard house was what is now known as Hard Dance
- " Househop ": The blending of mainstream Hip-Hop hits and House music. Differing from "hip house" in the 80s by its distinctly commercial-pop sound as opposed to the underground aspects of hip house. First reaching the mainstream in the HouseHop CD series by San Francisco radio host and music producer Ross.FM
- " House-pop ": House-pop is more also known as "commercial dance" music as it is not strictly House nor strictly Dance-pop. House-pop is the first cousins of Dance-pop. It usually features 4/4 beats and deep bassline as House and the incessantly catchy melodies of Dance-pop.
- '', Kristine W , Paul Lekakis .
- '', Outhere Brothers , 2 In A Room , Ya Kid K and Freedom Williams .
- '' style bassline is also a trademark of this style.
- '', South Africa in the mid 90's. It is characterized by slow beats, accompanied by (mostly male) vocals - often shouted and not sung - set against melodic African loops.
- '' Latin House '': Borrows heavily from Latin dance music -- Salsa, Brazilian beats, Latin Jazz, etc. It is most popular on the East Coast of the United States, especially in Miami and the New York City metropolitan area. Another variant of Latin house, which began in the mid 1990's, was derived in the Los Angeles metropolitan area and is based on more Mexican-centric styles of music such as Mariachi. Artists include Artie The One Man Party (known best for "A Mover La Colita") and DJ EFX (known best for his remix of "Volver Volver").
- '' Merenhouse '' Merenhouse is the combination of Merengue and House music, particularly Garage/House or House-pop. This style is most popular in the same places Latin House is most popular.
- '', Todd Sines , Alton Miller
- '''s uptempo dance music, referred to simply as club music by some. This type of house is popular in the extreme East Coast in areas like New York City, Long Island, New Jersey, New England, Boston, Philadelphia, and sometimes Baltimore and Washington DC.
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- '', UK . This style is most popular in the North West and North East of England . It takes the word scouse from the local dialect and is a relatively new genre. The structure of the music is characterized by its very 'bouncy' texture and use of samples from Happy Hardcore tracks.
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- '', DJ Rush , Paul Johnson
- '' in New York, characterized by lots of percussion and world music rhythms.
- '' Vocal House '': Composed of soulful vocals and often jazz loops.
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