House

House music emerged from Chicago's underground club scene in the early 1980s, built on the discarded disco records of DJ Frankie Knuckles at the Warehouse. Defined by a steady four-on-the-floor kick drum, deep bass lines, soulful vocals, and synthetic chord stabs, house set the template for virtually every strand of club music that followed. The genre's DNA runs through gospel, R&B, and electronic funk — Larry Heard's deep cuts, Marshall Jefferson's anthems, and the piano-driven rollers of early Chicago all fed the global export machine that turned London, Detroit, and eventually Ibiza into house capitals. On Mixprism, house tracks appear in the highest-played DJ sets in the database: enduring classics from the 1980s and 1990s rub against modern club-focused productions from labels like Wolf Music, Shall Not Fade, and Defected. Whether it's the warm groove of Larry Heard's "Can You Feel It", the driving loops of early Larry Levan edits, or the contemporary tech-inflected sounds from Berlin and London, house remains the connective tissue of electronic music.