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Usually 115–130 BPM

House

The four-on-the-floor sound most club music grows from. It came out of Chicago's Black and queer underground clubs in the early 1980s, when DJs began reworking disco records into something more mechanical. Steady, repetitive and built for dancing.

Tempo guide

Usually 115–130 BPM

A steady dancefloor pulse. Subgenres and individual sets can sit outside this range.

Tempo guides: iZotope · genre tempos

BPM means beats per minute. These are listening guides, not limits on a track or DJ set.

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