microhouse
microhouse noun: a subgenre of house music strongly influenced by minimalism and 1990s techno.
Noun
microhouse (countable and uncountable, plural microhouses)
- A subgenre of house music strongly influenced by minimalism and 1990s techno.
- And for the greater part of the noughties, the connoisseur consensus sound has been a German invention, microhouse—nowadays an unsatisfactory umbrella term for an increasingly diverging array of sub-styles, but originally a useful and era-defining concept coined by techno writer Philip Sherburne in...2013, Simon Reynolds, Energy Flash, updated edition, Faber and Faber, →ISBN, pages 626–627
- Matthew Dear (Saturday) This experimental microhouse D.J. and producer channels Detroit techno in his reedy, subtly dystopian brushes of beats.2015 June 25, “Pop & Rock Listings for June 26-July 2”, in New York Times
- Synonyms:
- clickhouse
- Synonym of microhome.
- Synonyms:
- microhome
Synonyms of microhouse
- clickhouse
- microhome
Forms of microhouse
| plural | microhouses |
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Origin of microhouse
From micro- + house, in the music sense coined by American journalist and DJ Philip Sherburne in 2001.
Questions about microhouse
- What does microhouse mean?
- Microhouse means a subgenre of house music strongly influenced by minimalism and 1990s techno.
- What part of speech is microhouse?
- Microhouse is a noun.
- What is the plural of microhouse?
- The plural of microhouse is microhouses.
Words near microhouse in the dictionary
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