Styles
Every style Monsieur A.C. makes
- House House music is electronic dance music built on a steady four-to-the-floor kick, with roots in 1980s Chicago clubs.
- Deep house Deep house is a slower, warmer branch of house built on jazzy chords, soft pads and rounded basslines.
- Tech house Tech house blends house grooves with techno's stripped-back sound: rolling basslines, crisp percussion and a steady pulse.
- Techno Techno is driving, machine-made dance music that grew out of 1980s Detroit, built on hard kicks, repetition and texture.
- Trance Trance is euphoric electronic music known for long builds, big breakdowns and soaring melodies.
- UK garage UK garage is a British dance style from the late 1990s with a skippy two-step beat, shuffled hats and chopped vocals.
- Chill out Chill out is relaxed electronic music made for listening and unwinding, with warm pads and gentle grooves.
- Piano house Piano house puts rolling piano riffs at the centre of a four-to-the-floor groove, a sound made famous by late-1980s and 1990s Italian house.
- Progressive house Progressive house builds slowly over long arrangements, layering melodies and textures towards emotional peaks.
- Acid house Acid house is the squelching, hypnotic sound of late-1980s Chicago and the UK rave scene, built around a resonant synth bassline.
- Electro house Electro house pairs a house tempo with big, distorted basslines and bright synth leads.
- Melodic house Melodic house is emotive, melody-led house music with arpeggiated synths, lush chords and long builds.
- Afro house Afro house combines house music with African rhythms: layered hand drums, chants and marimba over a steady kick.
- Afro tech house Afro tech house blends tech house's rolling bass and crisp groove with Afro house percussion and vocals.
- 3 Step 3 Step is a dance style that emerged in South Africa in the early 2020s, with a three-kick bar pattern instead of four-to-the-floor.
- Stadium house Stadium house is big-room, crowd-powered house from the early 1990s rave era, with offbeat stabs, crowd noise, sirens and chanted hooks.
- Pure trance Pure trance is the hypnotic early style of trance: one insistent riff, sparse drums and slow-moving filters.
- 90s dance 90s dance recalls the stadium-sized club records of the 1990s, with big stab chords, anthemic hooks and a pounding beat.
- 90s Future 90s Future is Monsieur A.C.'s hybrid of 1990s hooks and modern club production.
- Retro rave Retro rave is Monsieur A.C.'s take on early-1990s rave: breakbeats, distorted basslines and hard-hitting energy.
- Groove Groove is laid-back, funk-inflected house with jazzy chords, swing and warm basslines.
- Acid chill Acid chill slows acid house down to a relaxed pace: bare-bones grooves, a squelching bassline and plenty of space.
- Ambient Ambient music is beatless and atmospheric, built from slow pads, long notes and field sounds rather than a dance beat.
- Sleep music Sleep music is slow, beatless electronic music designed for winding down and falling asleep.
- Hard house Hard house is fast, driving dance music with a relentless rolling bassline, hard kicks and pounding energy, a sound rooted in UK clubs of the late 1990s.
- Organic house Organic house is warm, earthy house music that swaps synthetic sounds for acoustic ones: real strings, harp, flute, upright bass and hand percussion.
- Proms in the House Proms in the House reimagines Last Night of the Proms classics, from Land of Hope and Glory to Jerusalem, as house and trance tracks.