Afro House is a sub-genre of house music that originated in South Africa and incorporates African elements and rhythms into the electronic dance music framework. Sub-genres: Afro Tech, Afro Deep, Afro Soulful, Afro Tribal, Afro Funk, Afro Latin, Kwaito, Gqom, Amapiano.

Afro House

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Bass House is a sub-genre of house music that emphasizes heavy basslines and hard-hitting beats. Here's a list of some of these styles: UK Bass House, Future House, Wobble House, Garage House, Breaks-infused Bass House, Dark Bass House.

Bass House / Future House

Rhythmic, beat-driven electronic music with syncopated patterns.	Sub-genres: Big Beat, Nu Skool Breaks, Progressive Breaks, Florida Breaks, Atmospheric Breaks.

Breaks / Breakbeat

Dance / Pop

A soulful, melodic variant of house music with smooth chords. Sub-Genres: Tribal Deep House, Afro Deep House, Deep Tech House.

Deep House

Tracks or elements designed for DJs to use in live performances. Acapellas, Loops, Samples, DJ Intros/Outros.

DJ Tools

Fast-paced electronic music with breakbeats and heavy basslines. Liquid, Neurofunk, Jump Up, Jungle, Techstep, Darkstep, Drumfunk, Atmospheric DnB, Dancefloor DnB.

Drum and Bass

Electronic music with heavy basslines, and syncopated rhythms. Sub-genres: Brostep, Riddim, Chillstep, Melodic Dubstep, Wonky, Deathstep, Glitchstep, Deep Dubstep.

Dubstep / Bass / Grime

An early form of electronic dance music with futuristic themes. Detroit Techno, Electro Funk, Electro Breaks, Electroclash.

Electro (Classic / Detroit)

Energetic, hard-hitting dance music with heavy basslines. Sub-Genres: Progressive Electro House, Complextro, Dutch House, Fidget House, Dirty Dutch, Melbourne Bounce.

Electro House / Big Room

Diverse, experimental electronic music with various influences: IDM, Ambient, Downtempo, Glitch, Trip Hop, Breakcore, Experimental, Soundscapes.

Electronica

Upbeat house music with disco, funk, and soul elements. Sub-Genres: Disco House, French House, Filter House, Glitch House, Chicago House.

Funky / Jackin' House

High-energy electronic music with aggressive beats and tempo. Happy Hardcore, Gabber, Hardstyle, UK Hardcore, J-core, Powerstomp, Speedcore, Terrorcore, Breakcore.

Hardcore / Hard Dance

Intense techno variant with faster tempos and heavier beats. Sub-Genres: Schranz, Industrial Techno, Dark Techno, Power Noise.

Hard Techno

Electronic dance music with 4/4 beats and repetitive rhythms. Classic House, Acid House, Vocal House, Chicago House, New York House, Swing House.

House

Electronic music with indie, alternative, and disco influences. Sub-Genres: Synthwave, Italo Disco, Coldwave, Dark Wave, New Wave, EBM.

Indie Dance / Dark Disco

Experimental, unconventional electronic music. Sub-Genres: Leftfield Bass, Leftfield House & Techno, Avant-garde, Musique Concrète, Drone Music.

Leftfield

Relaxing, downtempo electronic music for casual listening. Ambient House, Trip Hop, Downtempo, Balearic, Lo-fi, Nu Jazz.

Lounge / Chill Out

A blend of house and techno with strong melodies and harmonies.	Sub-Genres: Progressive Melodic House, Deep Melodic Techno, Uplifting Melodic Techno.

Melodic House / Techno

Minimalist house music with intricate, glitchy sounds. Minimal Techno, RoMinimal, Clicks & Cuts, Glitch House, Intelligent Dance Music (IDM)

Microhouse

Sparse, stripped-down electronic music with repetitive patterns. Sub-Genres: Minimal House, Microhouse, RoMinimal, Glitch, Ambient Techno

Minimal / Deep Tech

Modern disco and funk-inspired electronic music. Disco House, Funky House, Re-edits, Modern Funk, Boogie, Future Funk, Electro Funk.

Nu-Disco / Soul / Funk

House music with natural, organic sounds and world music elements. Downtempo, Ethnic House, World Electronica, Afro House, Tribal House

Organic House

Evolving, melodic house music with long builds and breakdowns. Sub-Genres: Dream Progressive House, Dark Progressive House, Progressive Trance, Progressive Breaks.

Progressive House

Psy-Trance

House music with a strong soul, gospel, and jazz influences. Sub-Genres: Gospel House, Vocal Soulful House, Jazzy House, Latin House.

Soulful House

Electronic-infused soul, R&B, and hip-hop tracks. Neo-Soul, Future R&B, Instrumental Hip-Hop, Alternative R&B, Trap, Trip Hop, and Grime.

Soul / R&B / Hip-Hop

A fusion of house and techno with an emphasis on percussion. Sub-Genres: Tribal Tech House, Deep Tech House, Minimal Tech House, Acid Tech House, Dub Tech House.

Tech House

Energetic techno with driving beats and strong rhythmic elements. Hard Techno, Detroit Techno, Minimal Techno, Acid Techno, Rave Techno.

Techno (Peak Time)

More stripped-down, atmospheric, and dub-influenced techno. Sub-Genres: Dub Techno, Hypnotic Techno, Ambient Techno, Deep Techno, Experimental Techno.

Techno (Raw, Deep, Dub)

Melodic, uplifting electronic dance music with a fast tempo. Progressive Trance, Uplifting Trance, Psytrance, Vocal Trance, Hard Trance, Tech Trance, Goa Trance.

Trance

A fusion of house, R&B, and jungle, characterized by syncopated beats. Sub-Genres: 2-Step, Speed Garage, Grime, UK Funky, Future Garage, Bassline, Breakstep.

UK Garage / 2-Step

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Dr.Nojoke

Click, clack, flip-flap. Bits with bits with bits making a full track. An army of cuts, microsamples working together as a dreamteam once again. Here is the papercut, cardboard, concrete electronic producer back on Goldmin with six more tracks! Exactly the right amount and just as many tracks as his previous "Post-Techno Crisis" Ep contained. What is great with accurate and dedicated producers like Frank Bogdanowitz aka Dr. Nojoke is that they simply never stop making tracks, never loosing their relevance, sometimes making a typical Nojoke-like tracks where you reckon that he hasnt taken too much risk at innovating but just made another perfect cut, and sometimes you hear something a bit different with a rythmical signature that is not too common over his discography although one way or another, the tracks are being built, sculpted, exported, refined sometimes but the process just goes on like in a neverending factory where the workers only stop to recover and sleep. As a label, it makes it easy as you know the man will always have something new to let you hear, but it also makes it difficult to make a choice among the new material as it requires a sort of digestion when you manage to listen twenty new tracks in the row. Plus, Nojoke tracks' elements are not things that should be taken for their aesthetic value in themselves, being quite neutral, atonal but rather for their utility in the whole track. This is perhaps what makes this very particular and personal form of electronic music in general (and especially Frank's way of turning it) much more closer to various forms of contemporary music than it is close to house music. No bright pad here, not much break (or very sober if there is one), no drops... Someone who would listen a Nojoke track's remix parts one by one wouldn't have much fun. The building blocks of these tracks are truly raw material, like matches assembled together to make one bigger block which we happen to call a track. That's why these few tracks, in addition to another few tracks, and in regard to the rest of his discography becomes a collection where each track is connected to several others, not the same way that Terrence Dixon works for example (his music being more of a mise-en-abime where a one bar loop can be resampled and bring a whole new track), but perhaps much closer to the way a discography like Ricardo Villalobos' one is made. Track after track, click after click, an edifice that keeps on growing day by day and where each track adds it's own redifinition of the actual same definition. Of course, this doesn't mean that Frank's track are not self-sufficient. They are not bad dj tools or the soundtrack of basic youtube tutorials explaining how to make a beat with field-recorded sounds. His tracks are completely mastered works showing a long time experience, each track standing for itself. But it is an interesting thing to do to compare how discographies of artists are made. Running a label makes it even clearer and also allows to write about it. What happens is that one writing a text can quickly be bored with the metaphors, the hyperbolic adjectives and every superlatives comparing music to this or that, then one should be looking for something else. This is perhaps what happened to Nojoke quite quickly with the overused musical themes as well: you don't hear much marvellous synths nor much harmonies in his music, no big scenarized breaks, not much unexpected things but a lot to expect regarding the drums, the very details of these drums (however they might be made). Self-made drums becoming pads, keys, effects, in fact. And self-made clicks, bleeps and tricks filling every single gap of what an electronic track is usually made of. It feels like a Dr. Nojoke track is like having music under a microscope, like hearing something zommed-in and sometimes zoomed-out where the listener kind of has a very bright viewing angle on what's happening musicwise, like a map showing how the track is made and what the track contains. Like if through a magnifying glass, the track was made to be illustrating it's own composition process. This way, Nojoke is doing a mise-en-abime too but his very own way. And it is a tricky process to analyze these tracks as the closer you get, the further it goes. This can be explained by several facts, which are all related to this quite formal minimalistic electronic music's roots like micro-sampling, layering, grain modulation and such things. And of course, music being a substance in movement and a mobile thing, that magnified picture is never too clear, always sort of blurry. Indeed, in a typical Nojoke's track, a hand bumping a table can be used as one half or like ten percent of an actual hat, or a snare, or a kick. And in between the kick and the snare (if we are talking about a basic 4/4 rhytmical pattern), a lot can happen, some very audible things and some quite hardly audible ones. All is connected but at micro level. And onle when zooming out, at a macro level, a track appears and it lengths eight or nine minutes, but these eight or nine minutes are often contained in just few seconds. Rest is modulation, bit of arrangement and improvisation. Though so much things can be done during these very few seconds! Dr. Nojoke is a master at showing that, just like Villalobos and early Monolake are. Their music is like a justification to itself, sounding like an acoustic response to the principles of loop and repetition. On this new ep, Acryl is perhaps a standalone track, one that is quite dubby in a way, more aerial and less focused on "clicks and cuts", yet it is faithful to it's principles and to the artist who made it: a musical control-freak who doesn't let much run out of his circle but who lets so much happens in this circle that every new release of him is a good reason to be happy! "Beats out of bits" could be a good ep title but Frank has chosen "Alma Ata Oum" for this one, a one-sentence-poem that he wrote, and most definitely another great collection of this artist's evergrowing collection.

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