Bass House / Future House
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Bass House / Future House covers the 2010s club-house zone where house music became sharper, bassier, and more drop-focused without fully becoming dubstep, trap, or big-room EDM. Future house brought bouncy chord stabs, compressed sidechain movement, and bright festival-pop hooks; bass house added growling low-end design, garage/bassline swing, and heavier club pressure. The family includes commercial future-house hits, U.K. bass-house strains, Brazilian bass, G-house, dark bass house, slap house, and tech-house-adjacent bass records.
History
Future house became a named movement around Tchami, Oliver Heldens, Don Diablo, and Spinnin'-era festival house in 2013-2015, while bass house grew around Jauz, AC Slater, Joyryde, Ephwurd, Habstrakt, and Night Bass/Confession-adjacent scenes. Brazil developed its own low-slung bass-house lane through Alok, Vintage Culture, Cat Dealers, and Liu. By the late 2010s, slap house turned the formula into global streaming pop, while tech bass house and U.K. bass house kept the club-focused side moving.
Defining artists
Essential listening
- Gecko (Overdrive)(2014) — Oliver Heldens & Becky HillSpotifyYouTube
- Feel the Volume(2014) — JauzSpotifyYouTube
- Promesses(2015) — Tchami feat. Kaleem TaylorSpotifyYouTube
- Deep Down Low(2015) — Valentino KhanSpotifyYouTube
- Rock the Party(2015) — Jauz & EphwurdSpotifyYouTube
- Rhymes(2014) — Hannah Wants & Chris LorenzoSpotifyYouTube
Sources
- UKF bass house explainer https://ukf.com/read/what-the-hell-is-bass-house/
- Future house overview https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_house
- Night Bass label profile https://www.nightbass.com/
- Slap house overview https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slap_house