Free House Music Downloads - How and Where to Find Them

If you want the latest free house music downloads, you may access not-so-popular, yet very current-sounding ones at the

But first, what is house music?

House music, once the most popular dance music genre in the world, originated in Chicago in the mid-1980's, at a club named "Warehouse", hence the genre's name. The house subculture quickly developed in that city's and New York's underground club scene. Nope, didn't quite hit Los Angeles yet - they must have been into Van Halen or something at that time...

House music is thought to be a derivative of disco, and blossomed with the accent of the DJ/Producer role. This type of genre is well-known for its monotonous, yet infectious "four-on-the-floor" beats, with at least sporadic, if not frequent dices of instrumentation. Overall, the instrumentation takes a back seat to drums and percussion, which form many tracks, creeping its way into the journey of the song, then creeping its way out in the last 60-90 seconds.

There are six sub-categories of free house music downloads found at music.download.com :

- Chicago house - the classic original house
- deep house - originated in San Francisco
- garage house - began at the Paradise Garage in New York
- hard house - aka "acid house" - derived from Manchester's underground club/ rave scene in the early 1990's
- vocal house - probably the most commercial - glistened with soulful vocals
- house

Keep in mind that this is not an all-inclusive list of house subgenres. There is also Tech house, a cross between house and techno. Ambient house is part house, part trance (think The KLF) which has more emphasis on instrumentation, than percussion, yet keeping infectious beats intact.

Hip house is a mix between house and rap, which originated in New York. Ghetto House originated in Chicago in the mid-1990's - this is the "Gangsta" version of house. To attain free house music downloads you need to:

1. Type in "music.download.com" in the search bar below. NOTE: Bookmark this page so you can return here.
2. Click on the artist's name
3. Click on the download MP3 icon below, making sure that the songs are filed under one the six house categories above (some songs will be filed under "techno", "trance", etc., although these are free, too, of course).

You can also listen to free streams or samples of each song. In any case, have fun with your latest free house music downloads!

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