Tech House

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Deep Sub PulseM model

Electronic, Tech House, Minimal Techno, Dubstep, Bass Music

Smiley McSmilebot

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Minimal Club GrooveM model

Electronic, Tech House, Minimal Techno, Dubstep, Bass Music

Smiley McSmilebot

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Style overview

Tech house borrows minimalism from techno and swing from house. The chords are all but deleted, leaving a short elastic bassline under a lot of finely chopped percussion. The kick is tight, the bass is tighter, and the two interlock inside the same beat so the groove rolls instead of pushing. It is one of the most playable club formats there is: little information, clear layers, easy to mix.

Sound characteristics

Tempo: 122–128 BPM most of the time, with newer productions pushing into 128–132
Time signature: 4/4 four-on-the-floor; the off-beat hat is present but clipped short, and sixteenth-note shakers, congas and offset claps supply the swing
Instrumentation: A very short square or triangle bass occupying only 40–90 Hz, a percussion layer built from woodblocks, tambourines and shakers, and at most one or two filtered chord stabs
Vocals: Spoken samples rather than sung lines — a sentence sliced into syllables that loop with a short delay and sit low in the mix
Song structure: Loop-driven: one percussion element swaps out every sixteen bars, an eight-bar kickless gap sits mid-track, and the whole thing runs five to seven minutes

Use cases

Peak-time club stretches where tracks need to blend fast
Rest gaps between strength and interval sets
Skate and street-sport edits
The hour a bar turns from dinner service into a party
Long drives and focus playlists that never demand a decision

FAQ

Where exactly does tech house stop being techno?: In how the low end is written. Tech house gives the bass pitch and bounce so it answers the kick; techno fuses low end and kick into one continuous rumble with no melody in it. Tech house also keeps house swing and percussive detail, while techno stays machine-straight.
What actually produces that rolling groove in a prompt?: Everything depends on note length and placement rather than speed — a faster tempo just makes the loop frantic. Write "bass notes no longer than an eighth, landing a sixteenth after the kick" so the low end answers instead of doubling it, and add "sixteenth-note shaker and conga layer, claps pushed slightly late." Those few milliseconds of lateness are the whole roll.
The vocal samples in my results are too busy — how do I thin them out?: Specify frequency instead of character: "one spoken phrase, cut into two or three syllables, appearing once every four bars, eighth-note delay." Add "no sung sections" and the model stops inventing a lead vocal to fill the empty space you wanted.

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