Outsider house (originally spawned as outsider dance, also known as raw house) is a genre of

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combining elements of

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techno Techno is a genre of electronic dance music (EDM) which is generally produced for use in a continuous DJ set, with tempo often varying between 120 and 150 beats per minute (bpm). The central rhythm is typically in common time (4/4) and often ch ...

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, and

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, with artists embracing lo-fi techniques rather than the polished cleanliness of mainstream deep house and other

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genres. The term "outsider dance" was first coined in 2012 by DJ

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and emphasized by music journalist Scott Wilson, referring to different producers and record labels "operating at the fringes of the fringes" such as

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. However, Ben UFO himself called the term "off-the-cuff formulation", reacting negatively to the term taking hold and circulating, stating "I'm not exactly happy that it's now being held up as a genre, because I think this outsider thing just doesn't do justice to the artists and their music. ... utsider house artistsare my friends, we get along well and support each other".

Lo-fi house

Around mid-2010s, outsider house developed into a new form, known as lo-fi house. Producers like DJ Seinfield, DJ Boring and Ross From Friends combined rough sounds of the parent genre with the aesthetic of melancholy,

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and

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attributed to

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, creating songs "resembling melancholic 1990s

recorded to cassette and packaged with a veneer of internet-age irony". While the labels like

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, 1080p and Lobster Theremin have carved out a signature sound, attributed to the genre, whereas music is often rough, characterized by muffled drums, fuzzy synths and a gauzy, but also use jazzy piano samples and warm percussion samples.

References

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