microhouse

plural microhouses

1. uncountableentertainmentA subgenre of house music strongly influenced by minimalism and 1990s techno.First known use 2001

   Matthew Dear (Saturday) This experimental microhouse D.J. and producer channels Detroit techno in his reedy, subtly dystopian brushes of beats.

   2015 June 25, “Pop & Rock Listings for June 26-July 2”, in New York Times

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   And for the greater part of the noughties, the connoisseur consensus sound has been a German invention, microhouse—nowadays an unsatisfactory umbrella term for an increasingly diverging array of sub-styles, but originally a useful and era-defining concept coined by techno writer Philip Sherburne in 2001.

   2013, Simon Reynolds, Energy Flash, updated edition, Faber and Faber, →ISBN, pages 626–627

   Synonyms: clickhouse

2. countableSynonym of microhome.

   Synonyms: microhome