Microhouse replaces house's kick drums, hi-hats and drum-machine samples with clicks, static and glitches

The most audible thing that separates microhouse from ordinary house is its percussion. Built like house and techno around a 4/4 time signature at 115–130 BPM, microhouse swaps out the usual house kick drums, hi-hats, and drum-machine samples for clicks, static, glitches, and small bits of noise — fragments that are often stretched out and made to last longer during drops. The result is a groove assembled from near-imperceptible, textural percussion rather than recognisable drum hits, which is why the genre reads as ‘micro’.

Examples

Where a house track has a punchy sampled kick and crisp hi-hats, a microhouse track builds the same 4/4 pulse from clicks and static bursts, sometimes elongated across a drop.

Assessment

State microhouse’s typical BPM range and time signature, and describe how its drum sound differs from standard house percussion.