Afro House Artists
Layer hand percussion over a deep four-on-the-floor kick, with warm basslines, chant-like vocals, and spacious melodic hooks.
41 Afro House artists · 267 releases in the last 6 months · Top labels: A State Of Trance Radio, Armada Music, OWSLA
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About Afro House
Afro house emerged in South Africa during the 1990s by folding South African rhythms and sounds into house music. Its tracks retain house’s dancefloor framework but bring in piano, synthesizers and saxophone alongside vocals sung in various African languages. Compared with deep house or melodic house, the emphasis lies less in their particular club textures and more in the rhythmic and vocal material drawn from South African music.
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Common questions
What is Afro House?
Afro House is a music genre defined by four-on-the-floor house rhythms, African-influenced percussion, melodic piano and synth parts, vocals in African languages, and deep rolling basslines. Layer hand percussion over a deep four-on-the-floor kick, with warm basslines, chant-like vocals, and spacious melodic hooks.
What BPM is Afro House?
Afro House tracks typically run between 115 and 125 BPM.
Where did Afro House come from?
Afro House originated in South Africa, 1990s.
What instruments are used in Afro House?
Afro House is built mainly from drum machine, percussion, synthesizer, piano, and saxophone.
Which Afro House artists are most popular?
Keinemusik, Adam Port, Black Coffee, BLOND:ISH, and &ME are the highest ranked by Spotify popularity of the 41 Afro House artists on this page.
Which labels release Afro House?
A State Of Trance Radio, Armada Music, OWSLA, Atlantic, and Space Motion Records have put out the most Afro House records in the Tracknack catalogue.
What genres are similar to Afro House?
Artists tagged Afro House are most often also tagged House, Deep House, Melodic House, Electronic, and Techno.
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