Fidget House
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Fidget house is a style of house music that incorporates other dance music styles including Electro, Techno, breakbeat and UK garage.
It has a 4/4 beat and a cut-up, glitch style which contrasts other dance genres such as progressive house and trance. The way in which it differs from other house music styles is that it usually discards the solo drum beat introduction, thus encouraging a more cut-up rather than blend mixing style amongst DJs. Other common elements of fidget house include vocal sample snippets and a prominent bassline which often bends in pitch, rather than progressing by the semitone.
With it's emphasis on rhythm and bassline rather than harmony and melody, fidget house roots lie in early Chicago house. The synth 'stabs' and 'pitched-up' vocal snippets that commonly feature in fidget tracks are reminiscent of the rave and UK garage genres.
The term fidget house was coined by DJ/producers Jesse Rose and Switch, apparently as a joke. It had come to generally signify this cut-up style of house music.
Jesse Rose, Switch, Trevor Loveys, Hostage, DJ Fame, Sinden, Hervé, Duke Dumont, Mowgli, Byran Cox, Foamo, Fake Blood, Crookers, Lee Mortimer, Stupid Fresh, Gaëtan, Pette Vaydex, The Bulgarian, 3 Is A Crowd, Lars Moston and Ziggy Slezak. |
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