Carnival House
Carnival House, Prog. House, Tech House, Trends
Not to be outdone by Cor and Flicker’s recent Electro Swing posts, I’d like to bring my own bouncy house sub-genre to this party: Carnival House!
Like many EDM sub-genres it’s a bit hard to describe what makes a House track Carnival, but you definitely know it when you hear it. Does it call up images of carnival rides whirling around, lights blazing against the darkened sky? Probably Carnival House. Does it make you think of clowns on acid dancing?? Definitely Carnival House.
In reality a lot of the tracks have Balkan, Latin, and Swing influences, rely heavily on the up beat and often feature horns of some kind… but I just like to think of them as cotton candy and Ferris Wheel influenced. Check it:
Carnival House:
Milk & Sugar - “Hey (Nah Neh Nah) Vs. Vaya Con Dios”
Ian Oliver - “Bucovina feat. Shantel” - Ian Oliver’s Clubovina Mix
Sebastien Leger - “Balkamania”
Progressive Carnival House:
You know it’s not REALLY a proper EMD genre ’till you can put “progressive” or “tech” in front of it.
Enzo Siffredi - “I Don’t Care”
Ronald Christoph - “Underground Limbo”
Gabriel Rocha - “Drunken Russian” - DJ PP Edit
And this all brings us to Pleasurekraft, the dynamic due of dark, bouncy progressive/tech house that I was yapping about before. They have taken this whole Carnival house thing to the next level with their most recent single, you’re not gonna believe this title: “Carny”. I won’t include the link here because it was in the last post, but they made a video for it and everything:
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Tsk tsk, Jay. How did you miss the #1 carnival house track of all time? DJ Cor circa 2000 is rolling in his.. er, college dorm room.
http://youtu.be/X1ojInsHF5k
I’m happy for you Cor, and I’m gonna let you finish, but the #1 carnival house track of ALL TIME is this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0&feature=fvst
Oh snap, Kayne-Roll’d! That’s a double-meme slap to the face. I’m surprised it wasn’t delivered by an auto-tuned Chuck Norris.
I love it, Jay! Thank you for letting me know about a new kind of music I totally dig.
Yay, glad you enjoyed Kat! I’ll have to make a Carnival House podcast.
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