What is House?

House is electronic dance music built around a four-on-the-floor kick at roughly 120–128 BPM, born in Chicago clubs in the early 1980s out of disco, funk, and emerging drum-machine production. It centres steady percussion, looped basslines, and warm pads or chords; subgenres range from soulful and deep to tech-leaning, garage, and afro variants, all sharing the same architectural pulse.