microhouse

English

Etymology

From micro- +‎ house, in the music sense attributed to Philip Sherburne.^[1]

Noun

microhouse (countable and uncountable, plural microhouses)

1. (uncountable) A subgenre of house music strongly influenced by minimalism and 1990s techno. [from early 2000s]
   • 2015 June 25, “Pop & Rock Listings for June 26-July 2”, in New York Times‎:

     Matthew Dear (Saturday) This experimental microhouse D.J. and producer channels Detroit techno in his reedy, subtly dystopian brushes of beats.

2. (countable) Synonym of microhome

References

1. Christoph Cox, Daniel Warner (2004) Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 319: “Writing for The Wire in 2001, Sherburne coined the term “Microhouse” to describe prominent minimalist tendencies in contemporary House and Techno.”

Further reading

• microhouse on Wikipedia.Wikipedia