Tropical House
Tropical house is a relaxed, sunny style of house music that uses steel drums, marimba, flutes and soft synths at a slower tempo than most club music.
It took off in the early 2010s, and the name started as a joke by Australian producer Thomas Jack before it stuck. Tracks usually run at 100 to 120 beats per minute and keep the steady beat of deep house while leaving out the tense build-ups and heavy drops of festival EDM. It became a dance music trend from 2013 and had its biggest hits in the mid-2010s.
Artists it is known for: Kygo, Thomas Jack, Matoma.
- Family
- Electronic & Dance
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A genre
- From
- Early 2010s
- Also called
- trop house
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 9%
About 7,300 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have tropical house among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Tropical House artists
Zara Larsson
The Chainsmokers
Zedd
Clean Bandit
Kygo
Martin Garrix
Petite Meller
Tiësto
Major Lazer
Jonas Blue
The tropical 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.