Electro House
Electro house is a loud, heavy style of house music built on distorted, buzzing basslines and prominent melodic riffs, usually at 125 to 135 beats per minute.
It took shape around the turn of the 2000s, with roots shared with electroclash, and broke through in the mid-2000s to become one of the main club and festival sounds of the years that followed. Compared with tech house or minimal techno it is more energetic and aimed at party crowds, and the dirty, sawtooth bassline is usually treated as the key to the sound. Big room, complextro and Dutch house all grew out of it.
Artists it is known for: Benny Benassi, deadmau5, Wolfgang Gartner.
- Family
- Electronic & Dance
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A genre
- From
- Late 1990s and early 2000s
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 10%
About 8,600 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have electro house among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Electro House artists
Calvin Harris
Alan Walker
Zedd
John Summit
Swedish House Mafia
Justice
Martin Garrix
Major Lazer
Fcukers
Dom Dolla
The electro house artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.