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History

Microhouse has its roots in the minimal techno, glitch (both developed in the early 90's), and house (developed in the mid-80's) genres of music. Its first echoes appeared in the glitch album by German experimental artist Oval, in 1993. Like many contemporary electronic genres, Microhouse has many influences, most notably techno and the "click and pop" garage house that has emerged from Yorkshire Bleeps and Bass (or "Bleep"), glitch and minimal techno. Contrasting with tech house, which is often thought of as 'house with techno melodic elements', microhouse is more aptly described as 'housey minimal techno' - a marriage of the funky and groovy backroom house elements with glitch and the driving, repetitive sound of techno. Minimal techno, a minimalist sub-genre of Techno music, is characterized by a stripped-down, glitchy sound, simple 4/4 beats (usually around 120-135 BPM), repetition of short loops, and subtle changes. ... Glitch (also known as Clicks and Cuts from a representative compilation series by the German record label Mille Plateaux) is a genre of electronic music that became popular in the late 1990s with the increasing use of digital signal processing, particularly on computers. ... Glitch (also known as Clicks and Cuts from a representative compilation series by the German record label Mille Plateaux) is a genre of electronic music that became popular in the late 1990s with the increasing use of digital signal processing, particularly on computers. ... Oval is an electronic music group founded in Germany in 1991. ... For the comic book character previously known as Techno, see Fixer (comics). ... Yorkshire Bleeps and Bass or Yorkshire Techno was a short-lived and very localised musical movement centred on the northern English cities of Bradford & Leeds in West Yorkshire and Sheffield in South Yorkshire in 1989-1991. ... Glitch (also known as Clicks and Cuts from a representative compilation series by the German record label Mille Plateaux) is a genre of electronic music that became popular in the late 1990s with the increasing use of digital signal processing, particularly on computers. ... Minimal techno, a minimalist sub-genre of Techno music, is characterized by a stripped-down, glitchy sound, simple 4/4 beats (usually around 120-135 BPM), repetition of short loops, and subtle changes. ... For the comic book character previously known as Techno, see Fixer (comics). ...

The first microhouse track to gain mainstream popularity by a non-glitch artist was Isolee's 1999 anthem, 'Beau Mot Plage'. However, microhouse did not begin to rapidly build in popularity until the early 2000s with the advent of record labels such as Kompakt, Perlon, Spectral Sound, Fabric, Telegraph and Force Inc. The term microhouse is usually credited to music journalist Philip Sherburne, writing for the magazine The Wire in 2001, to describe, according to Stelfox, "the spectral, hypnotic interpretation of classic Chicago grooves emerging on labels such as Perlon, Kompakt, Playhouse, Ongaku, Klang Elektronik and the Mille Plateaux family of imprints-most notably Force Tracks and Force Inc- at the turn of the millennium."^[1] Kompakt is a Cologne-based electronic music record label and vinyl/CD distributor, owned by Wolfgang Voigt, Michael Mayer and Jürgen Paape. ... Perlon is an electronic music record label founded in Frankfurt, Germany, based in Berlin, and run by Zip and Markus Nikolai. ... Spectral Sound - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Fabric is a nightclub in London, United Kingdom. ... Telegraphy (from the Greek words tele = far away and grapho = write) is the long distance transmission of written messages without physical transport of letters, originally over wire. ... Philip Sherburne is an American music journalist and DJ based in Barcelona. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ...

Musicology

Microhouse strips house music down to a more minimal and sparse aesthetic, in the same vein as tech house. Its relationship to house and tech house music can be compared to the relationship between minimal techno and the harder techno genres. Like house and techno, microhouse is built around a 4/4 time signature. A noticeable difference between microhouse and house is the replacement of typical house kick drums, hi-hats and other drum machine samples with clicks, static, glitches, and small bits of noise. Microhouse artists often experiment with different forms of sampling to achieve this effect. Tech house is a fusion of house and techno music. ... Minimal techno, a minimalist sub-genre of Techno music, is characterized by a stripped-down, glitchy sound, simple 4/4 beats (usually around 120-135 BPM), repetition of short loops, and subtle changes. ... For the comic book character previously known as Techno, see Fixer (comics). ... A bass drum in a drum kit A bass drum is a large, heavy drum that produces a thump of low but indefinite pitch. ... The hi-hat stand has changed little since its invention. ... This article is about reusing existing sound recordings in creating new works. ...

One characteristic feature of microhouse is the use of sampling: extremely short ('micro') samples of the human voice, musical instruments, everyday noises and computer created wave patterns are arranged to form complex melodies (such as can be heard in Akufen's "Deck the House"). Vocals in microhouse are often simplistic, nonsensical, and monotone in nature, although some artists, such as Matthew Herbert, Luomo, and Justus Kohncke, combine singing with microhouse production. Akufen is the musical pseudonym of Montreal, Canada based artist, Marc Leclair. ... Matthew Herbert (1972 - ) is an influential and critically acclaimed British electronic musician. ...

Microhouse is somewhat obscure when compared to other genres of house and techno, but several cities including Cologne, Paris, Montreal, the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, Minneapolis, Detroit, Chicago and Portland have budding scenes, and with the minimal techno boom of the mid-00s, is now gaining great popularity in German, Canadian, Italian and Spanish clubs. Mainstream tech house records and CDs will occasionally have microhouse or minimal reworks of tracks. On top of this, several tracks have become major club hits over the years, and a few others have even gained European radioplay.

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Notable Microhouse Records

1992

• Tha by Aphex Twin

Earliest precedent of the genre, before there was a name to it.

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• Beau Mot Plage by Isolee

The very first microhouse record to reach the club charts. Isolee's 1999 album, Rest, containing the hit, was arguably^{[attribution needed]} the first microhouse full-length.

• 808 the Bassqueen by Ricardo Villalobos

An early record by an artist who would later become one of the microhouse genre's (very small number of) superstar DJs.

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• Bushes by Markus Nikolai

Another charting microhouse record, this time bridging the gap between microhouse and traditional house.

2001

• Dias Grises by Dias Nublados

A minimal response of the genere.

2002

• My Definition of Microhouse by Pepo Feelings

A nostalgic piecework from a talquinian talent music.

• Amanda by Michael Mayer

One of the Kompakt label's first forays into microhouse, which they would later bring (in a form) to European pop radio, and turn into one of Europe's major club genres.

• Lemon by Dettinger

One of the first microhouse records to be made by a minimal techno artist.

• Vocalcity by Luomo

The first microhouse album to introduce elements of pop music to the genre, which eventually gave birth to a popular subgenre of microhouse, known as micropop.

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• So Weit Wie Noch Nie by Juurgen Paape

The first microhouse track to gain (European) radioplay.

• Tomorrow by Superpitcher

One of Kompakt's largest and most played microhouse records.

• The Videoage by Farben

With this record, Farben crafted a more rubbery, liquid sound, a bizarre contrast to most of microhouse's (up to that point) precision.

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• Deck the House by Akufen

Another microhouse club anthem, notable through its extreme use of radio sampling. This was the precursor to Akufen's critically-acclaimed album "My Way", throughout which over 2000 different radio samples are used.

• Textstar' by Farben

One of the most critically-acclaimed microhouse albums ever released. With this record, Farben continued the sound developed with his groundbreaking record "The Videoage."

• Easy Woman (Robag Wruhme mix) by Metaboman

While not groundbreaking, this is considered by many^{[attribution needed]} to be one of the strongest "ambient microhouse" tracks ever created.

• (This is) The Dream of Evan and Chan (Superpitcher Kompakt mix) by Dntel

This track brought microhouse to the "indie rock" community, as the vocals were provided by Death Cab for Cutie's singer, Ben Gibbard. The style quickly becomes an underground favorite, and albums begin getting reviews in indie rock magazines and websites, such as Pitchfork, Stylus, and PopMatters. Also considered by many^{[attribution needed]} to be the absolute masterpiece of micropop.

• Immer by Michael Mayer

Microhouse's most famous and arguably strongest DJ mix album.

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• Dog Days by Matthew Dear

Again, while not groundbreaking, this club charting track is considered by many to be the ultimate perfection of club microhouse, and is quite notable regardless.

• The Present Lover by Luomo

Luomo creates the first entirely "micropop" styled microhouse album. Every track is vocal, and many even feature verses and choruses.

• Yes Sir, I can Hardcore (Michael Mayer mix) by Ferenc

With this record, the rave genre's aesthetic was applied to microhouse for the first time.

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• Thé Au Harem D'Archimède by Ricardo Villalobos

With this album, Ricardo Villalobos generated a completely new subgenre of microhouse, now known as ketamine house, or ketaminimal, which has become a driving force in the "minimal" community.

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• Kreucht und Fleucht by Dominik Eulberg

The first ketamine house dominated mix compilation to gain wide release.

• Leuchtturm (Wighnomy's polarzipper mix) by Triola

One of ketamine house's first club hits.

• Achso by Ricardo Villalobos

Ricardo Villalobos furthers his (now much copied) "ketamine house" aesthetic.

• Paranoia by John Tejada

The first ketamine house track to reach the club charts.

• Thought vs Action by The Field

A more trance music influenced sound is introduced to microhouse.

• Mormax by Ricardo Villalobos

The first microhouse record to sample a minimalist composer. While not incredibly groundbreaking, this is a beautifully circular innovation, as the stylistic roots (if traced far enough back) of microhouse are found in the orchestral form of minimalism. (The track samples Philip Glass's opera Einstein on the Beach, and his soundtrack to Koyaanisqatsi)

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Notable microhouse record labels

The following record labels release microhouse almost exclusively:

• Cynosure
• Dirt Crew Recordings
• Freude Am Tanzen
• Mo's Ferry Prod. / Rrygular
• Minisketch
• Perlon
• Scandium Records
• Telegraph Records
• Titbit
• Traum Schallplatten / Trapez
• Wagon Repair

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• Cocoon
• Ghostly International / Spectral Sound
• Force Inc Music Works / Mille Plateaux
• Karmarouge
• Kahlwild
• Kompakt / K2
• M_nus
• Orac Records
• Poker Flat Recordings
• Truesoul

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Notable artists

• Akufen
• Alexkid
• Anders Ilar
• Apathesis
• Aphex Twin
• Aril Brikha
• Benjamin Wild
• Craqault
• Deadbeat
• Decomposed Subsonic
• Dettinger
• Dimbiman
• Dominik Eulberg
• Frivolous
• Gabriel Ananda
• Gastek
• Guaton Churrasco
• Gui Boratto
• Guido Schneider
• Isolée
• John Tejada
• James Ruskin
• Justus Kohncke
• Juurgen Paape
• Kit Clayton
• Losoul
• Luciano
• Luomo (a.k.a. Vladislav Delay)
• Markus Nikolai
• Martin Landsky
• Mathew Jonson (a.k.a. Cobblestone Jazz)
• Matthew Dear (a.k.a. Audion, False and Jabberjaw)
• Matthew Herbert
• Melchior Productions
• Michael Mayer
• Mossa
• M.R.I.
• New Electric Dog
• Oliver Ho
• Pantytec
• Paul Brtschitsch
• Pepo Feelings
• Ricardo Villalobos
• Robag Wruhme
• Sieg Uber Die Sonne
• Steve Beaupré
• Steve Bug
• Superpitcher
• Tomas Jirku
• Wighnomy Brothers
• Zip

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Notes

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External links

• minimal board
• All Music Guide article on microhouse
• An article on the Minneapolis minimal/microhouse scene
• An article on the click-hop subgenre of microhouse, with some discussion of microhouse as a genre
• FWD - Minimal House podcast
• Hyperdub article