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  • What is house music, and what are its different subgenres?

    House music is an electronic dance genre built on a steady four-on-the-floor kick drum, typically around 120 to 130 BPM, layered with synth basslines, repetitive samples, and often soulful or vocal hooks. It has branched into many subgenres, including Tech House, Tropical House, Organic House, Afro House, and Tribal House, plus historically important regional styles like French house and Chicago house.

  • What’s the difference between royalty-free and copyright-free house music?

    Copyright gives an individual property right over what they created while a royalty is a payment that is made every time copyrighted material is used. Epidemic Sound made this process easier by supporting our artists and making licensing easy. Together we built our music catalog and made it smooth for small creators to find and use high-quality music.

  • Where and when did house music originate?

    House music originated in Chicago in the early 1980s, growing out of disco and early electronic dance music played in underground clubs. It takes its name from The Warehouse, a Chicago club where DJs like Frankie Knuckles helped pioneer the style by blending disco records with drum machines and synthesizers. There's no single inventor: the genre developed through a community of Chicago DJs and producers before spreading to Europe by the mid-1980s.

  • What is the difference between house music, EDM, and techno?

    House, EDM, and techno are all electronic dance genres built around a steady, danceable beat, but each has its own sound. EDM tends toward big, anthemic drops, techno leans into repetitive, hypnotic, darker rhythms, and house is generally warmer and more groove-driven.

  • What's the difference between house and deep house music?

    House and deep house share the same steady, danceable foundation, but deep house is slower and more atmospheric, built on deep basslines, soulful chords, and spacious, minimal percussion rather than the more upbeat, driving rhythms of mainstream house. It's one of house music's earliest and most enduring subgenres, well suited to relaxed, moody, or late-night content. Epidemic Sound's Deep House genre page has a dedicated catalog of tracks in this style.

  • Is Epidemic Sound's house music royalty-free?

    Yes. Epidemic Sound's house music is covered by a direct license, so subscribers can use any track from the catalog without separate copyright clearance or per-use royalty payments. The house catalog is part of Epidemic Sound's full catalog of 55,000+ tracks, available to download and use in your content with an active subscription.