The "I love house Music" t-shirt: What's House Music anyway? House music is the direct descendant of the 1970s dance style of Disco, which blended soul, R&B, funk, salsa, rock and pop with a progressive, pro-diversity message. House music also incorporated other influences, such as New Wave, Reggae, Euro-Synth Pop, Industrial and Punk as well as the emerging Rap and Hip-Hop styles. House music DJs experimented with new editing techniques and electronic instruments, such as "remixing," "sampling". House music was developed in the houses, garages and clubs of Chicago and Detroit, and it was produced for local club-goers in the "underground" club scenes, rather than for widespread commercial release. As a result, the recordings were much more conceptual, longer than the music usually played on commercial radio. House, techno, electro and hip-hop musicians used analogue synthesizers and sequencers to create and arrange the electronic elements and samples on their tracks. House music "humanized" of the new electronic instruments by combining live traditional instruments and percussion and soulful vocals with preprogrammed electronic synthesizers and "beat-boxes". <embed wmode="transparent" src="http://www.zazzle.com/utl/getpanel?zp=117558617687643232" flashvars="feedId=117558617687643232&amp;path=http://www.zazzle.com/assets/swf/zp/skins" width="450" height="300" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" enablejavascript="false" allowscriptaccess="never" allownetworking="all" />
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