Rally House

Sugar, Spice, and everything nice. These were the ingredients chosen to create the perfect little girl. But Professor Utoni What is Rally House exactly? I make mixes here on YouTube that are across the board, just EDM, electronic music, and Rally House has sort of become synonymous with my channel. Mostly because it was one of the first mixes that I made on YouTube. It's kind of a new sub-genre, and I get a lot of questions asking, what is Rally House, what does it sound First off, I want to preface this by saying that genres splinter off into sub-genres of sub-genres and develop over time and evolve based on the communities and the environments that they sort of develop in. So you use this as a guide to inform your genre exploration. If you enjoy this video, make sure you leave a I'm hoping to hit 100k subs this year, so that would be super helpful. Rally House at its core can kind of be defined by a few things. A 4x4 beat, pianos or synth stabs is sort of what people call them. And usually some sort of rap or vocal acapella, something going over the top. And this is all sort of mixed through a lens of early PlayStation racing video games, which I'll explain in a moment. The earliest and probably most popular example of Rally House is Parker's Marlborough Club, which was released on November 3rd of 2023. And then you've got a song produced by a guy called ProdDTM, which is titled Rally House, and that was released on January 23rd of 2024. So then you've got this track called Vent by Noite. This was released on March 1st of 2024. Officially, but prior to that, it was a unofficial bootleg of Baby Keem's event. And it also featured a intro sample from GTA V's non-stop pop radio station, which had Cara Delevingne talking over the top and doing ad break, ad libs kind of thing. And it featured one of those samples and that seems to have gone viral on TikTok. I'm not sure exactly who added the ad lib. I'm not sure if someone on TikTok added that on top of Noite'song or if Noite added themselves. That seems to have had a lot of connection with the Rally House stuff because GTA is all driving. It's a radio station. It sort of added a bit of video game vibe to it. So it sort of helped, I think, push this sound a bit more into the racing video game stuff. So with all these tracks, they all sort of feature 90s vocals, piano stabs, 4x4 beats, TAUS music. And it's all sort of pushed through this Think of this genre as sort of the Chiller older brother to the funk, hyperchad TikTok edits that you see all over the place. When I came across these sort of tracks, I had just started creating mixes for YouTube and I'd been following a few other YouTubers The combination of piano stab sampling and the rally car racing aesthetics that had been used in the previous songs that I mentioned, it sort of just made sense to me to combine this new sort of genre with racing video game footage from the early 2000s, late 90s sort of era. The reason this made sense to me was because video game producers in the late 90s, 2000s, had very limited space to work with on top of the sound effects and the graphics and everything that's in the game. You had to make music and so with this limited amount of space, by using samples where you pitch them up and down rather than having different samples for each note, you're stable a lot of space and so this is how you get that. Early 2000s break core jungle aesthetic because it all sort of works off the same principles. When I started to dive into the rally house sort of genre and look for more music, it seemed They sort of lent a little bit too hard into the funk TikTok style and they kind of ended up just being rearrangements of themselves, taking the same piano stab sample and putting it in a different order essentially. Something I find really important when making mixes is the ebbs and flows of the mix. So the ups and downs, they're kind of just as equally as important as each other. And so when I got into these rally house tracks, I noticed that a lot of them don't have breakdowns, that they sort of fade in and they fade out whenever they want. They're incredibly hard to mix and after an hour of it, you kind of just end up feeling And this is where I sort of got excited because I was I started to come across a lot of cool artists Gabba, Obscure, Kaisui, Jack Marlow. And this is where it sort of informed and developed the mix a bit better. These artists all take inspiration from incredible record labels Their tracks just sort of had a bit more energy and they explored more diverse piano rhythms and piano synth sounds. And they overall just had more of a groove to it, which in turn made the mixes way more interesting for me. As I started to explore the sound and develop it a bit more across the nine mixes that I've put out of rally house, I started to incorporate a bit more of the UK garage and the new KG that's coming out of the UK and various other places. We actually quite have quite a lot of it in Australia. Shout out, Osmosis Jones. And this sort of started to open up the sound a bit more to not strictly this four by four house beat. And it kind of became a little bit more about the vibe rather than very specifically these sounds. With all this in mind, you can kind of just say that rally house is a subgenre of a subgenre inspired by Detroit, Chicago house with new KG elements thrown in there. And you've even got its own little flavor of video game nostalgia, CRT h I think someone who's doing it quite perfectly right now is an artist called New Fori. Their track called Bring It, I think is Piano stabs, UKG elements, house music, video game, aesthetic sound, bit crushed, vocals from rap, Memphis stuff. It's all sort of thrown in there, but they do a really good job of making it concise and interesting at the same time. At the end of the day, I think rally house is just a really fun genre. I don'think it should be taken too seriously. It's very new. It's only a year old. And it's going to be interesting to see where rally house ends up in a year's time, five, 10 years time and who's championing it. This is my first sort of talking educational video on the channel. I usually make rally house, French house, Glopi beats, mixes. I plan to do more of this sort of stuff if I love music. I love exploring genres and I love history in itself. I'm interested to deep dive a bit more into sub genres and stuff So if you enjoyed it, leave a They'd be very appreciated and I'll see