House Music Artists
The legends, the headliners, and the ones playing small rooms right now. Every artist comes with something to press play on.
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Under the Radar
The sound you’re going to be hearing a lot more of.
DJ Sauce
El Paso born. Juárez raised. Denver based.
Founder of Lubdub Records.
“Eclectic house melodies to raw acid cuts.”
Hear DJ Sauce- Overtones (DJ Sauce Remix)Lubdub Records
- Fake TomorrowPhonicHouse1 Records
- Early DeparturePhonicHouse1 Records
- Wild HeavenOutcast Music
- Infinite ThinkingLubdub Records
Shared booths with Lee Burridge, Nick Warren, Dana Ruh, Riva Starr, Latmun
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The Roots
Start with the roots
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Subgenres
Pick your lane
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Lineage
Chicago to everywhere
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The List
House music artists, A to Z
Every house music artist on the site, pioneers to headliners to the underground, each with a page that tells you what to play first.
- Armand Van Helden The remix that changed Tori Amos, a UK number one, and later Duck Sauce with… Start-here tracks, story…
- Black Coffee South Africa's biggest house export. Grammy winner, Soulistic Music founder, and the reason the world turned to Afro……
- Chris Lake UK-born producer and Black Book Records boss. “Operator (Ring Ring)” and “Turn Off the… Start-here tracks, story and…
- CID Queens-born DJ and producer Carlos Cid, with a Grammy-nominated remix of LSD's… Start-here tracks, story and facts.
- Daft Punk Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo. Chicago house, filtered through Paris, then… Start-here tracks, story and facts.
- DJ Sauce DJ Sauce (Jorge Esparza): El Paso-born, Juárez-raised, Denver-based house DJ and founder of Lubdub Records. Where to start…
- DJ Sneak Puerto Rico-born, Chicago-made. The filtered disco-house king of the… Start-here tracks, story and facts.
- Dom Dolla Melbourne's tech house hitmaker. “Take It”, “San Frandisco” and “Rhyme Dust” with… Start-here tracks, story and facts.
- FISHER Gold Coast surfer turned festival main stage. “Losing It” made tech house a stadium… Start-here tracks, story and…
- Frankie Knuckles The Godfather of House. A Bronx kid who moved to Chicago in 1977, played the Warehouse, and gave…
- Fred again.. London producer Fred Gibson. Voice notes, field recordings and house drums, built into the Actual Life… Start-here tracks,…
- Honey Dijon A Chicago-born DJ who learned from the originals and carries their sound to the biggest stages and runways…
- Jesse Saunders “On and On” (1984) is widely called the first house record ever pressed to… Start-here tracks, story and…
- John Summit From Chicago's suburbs to headline sets. Experts Only label boss behind “Deep End” and “Where You… Start-here tracks,…
- Kerri Chandler New Jersey's deep house lifer. Basslines you feel in your chest, from the early 1990s to… Start-here tracks,…
- Larry Heard Mr. Fingers. The man who made house music deep, with “Can You Feel It” and “Mystery of… Start-here…
- Larry Levan The resident at New York's Paradise Garage for ten years. The reason “garage” is a… Start-here tracks, story…
- Marshall Jefferson He made “Move Your Body (The House Music Anthem)” and produced Phuture's “Acid Tracks”. Two records, two… Start-here…
- Masters at Work Little Louie Vega and Kenny “Dope” Gonzalez. Latin, soul, jazz and hip-hop drums, all through New York… Start-here…
- MK Marc Kinchen. His remix of Nightcrawlers' “Push the Feeling On” is one of the most played house records……
- Peggy Gou Incheon-born, Berlin-based. “(It Goes Like) Nanana” turned a DJ's DJ into a global… Start-here tracks, story and facts.
- Ron Hardy The wild one. Resident at Chicago's Music Box, where the rawest early house records were tested on the…
- Todd Terry Todd Terry: Brooklyn sample king who brought hip-hop attitude to house and remixed Missing into a global hit.…
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Manifesto
Charts ≠ the best.
The best house music is happening in small rooms, on small labels, at 4am. We find it before the charts do.
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FAQ
Questions people ask
Who are the best house music artists of all time?
Start with the pioneers: Frankie Knuckles, Larry Levan, Ron Hardy, Marshall Jefferson and Larry Heard. Then Masters at Work, Kerri Chandler and Daft Punk from the 1990s, and Black Coffee and Honey Dijon today.
Who are the most popular house artists?
By monthly listeners, the biggest names right now include Fred again.., Disclosure, FISHER, John Summit, ANOTR, Cloonee and James Hype. Popular is not the same as essential: start with the roots (Frankie Knuckles, Larry Heard, Marshall Jefferson), then work forward.
Who is the queen of house music?
There is no official crown. The title has been given to several vocalists who defined the sound, most often Ultra Naté, Crystal Waters and Barbara Tucker.
What’s the difference between house and EDM?
House is a specific genre born in Chicago in the early 1980s: four-to-the-floor drums, usually 118–130 BPM, built on disco, soul and gospel. EDM is a broad marketing umbrella from the 2010s that covers big-room, dubstep, trap and some house.
Who invented house music?
No single person. The name comes from the Warehouse in Chicago, where Frankie Knuckles played from 1977. Jesse Saunders’ “On and On” (1984) is often called the first house record, and Ron Hardy, Larry Heard and Marshall Jefferson shaped the sound that followed.