Microhouse

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A subgenre of house music strongly influenced by minimalism and 1990s techno. uncountable

    "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 2001."

  2. 2
    Synonym of microhome. countable

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clickhousemicrohome

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"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 2001."

Etymology

From micro- + house, in the music sense coined by American journalist and DJ Philip Sherburne in 2001.

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house music

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