By: DJ Visualize | www.Djvisualize.com

Throw the term "house music" into a conversation and you are bound to get a strong reaction. Someone might come back with, "That's computer music, heard it all already," someone else with, "It's only the greatest music ever conceived by man." But house music is a canvas, a launching pad from which mind-boggling divergent musical pieces are created, it is hard to call it a mere genre -- it is too big to be a genre. It takes elements from all other styles and restates all other musical statements. It is a freedom to play, explore, mix, merge, separate, distort, meld, twist and turn whatever that is at your hands; Classical music, blues, jazz and their respected worlds are just as fair game as heavy metal or current pop. But not even there lay its limits; throw in children's tunes, sci-fi movie themes, gangsta rap, dog food commercials. Imagine all these are pieces to be used, and not just a riff in isolation to explore on its own. House has greater ambitions; the DJ might take a part from here, a chunk there and mold it together until a whole new expression is formed. House music has so much freedom of innovation that any creation can strive to be its own entire new world. ...........