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well it gets difficult to determine what's house and what's electro house
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yes, I hear you on that my friend... the lines have indeed become blurry, as every genre from prog to techno has embraced the synth sounds that gained popularity through the electroclash of the late 90s/early 00s.
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are certain sounds considered house and others electro?
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yes. Absolutely. Going back to what I said above, this is all a lot more clear if you look at it from historical perspective. When the whole electroclash became hugely popular, the signature sound that was associated with it was that 80s new wave synth sound. After the genre had its peak and was slowing down, around 2002/2003, people like Alter Ego started to use those same synth sounds that had made electroclash so hugely popular, and incorporated into more house/breaks like tracks... The end result sounded closer to electroclash, but it was not "clash" like, so people started to call it electro for a little while, to group both electroclash, and this new stuff that was like electroclash, but it was not. Alter Ego's Rocker and tracks similar to it from 3 years ago lead to production and sounds by artists like Mylo, who kept moving away from the "clash" part, and more towards music played at raves, i.e. house and prog! And here we are today, much closer to the house formula, and further from the electroclash... The signature synth sound still remains though, and makes any electrohouse track stand out immediately, and that cliche electrohouse sound is making me almost want to puke, cause it is getting to be too much. The same thing is true of Epic and Hard Trance... all the tracks use a very similar synth... as soon as you hear that "sound", you know what is going to come. Goa trance is also the same, etc...
I find that a lot of online shops don't categorize well... Juno does a decent job, but sometimes they get so many new things, and some of them have different remixes that can make that track fit into multiple categories, so they list them under several genres.
I hope this helps...
-f.