Baltimore Club, also known as “Club Music” is a genre of ‘house’ and ‘dance’ music that originated in Baltimore in the early 1990s. The genre combines a blend of hip-hop and chopped, or staccato house music. It was created in Baltimore in the early 1990s by artists such as Scottie B., Frank Ski, Miss Tony, and DJ Spen.
Baltimore Club is based on an 8/4 beat structure and tempos at or near 130 beats per minute. It combines repetitive, looped vocal snippets similar to ‘ghetto house’ with vocal samples that can be humorous and/or can be simple repeated calls and chants. The instrumental tracks include heavy backbeats with call and response stanzas similar to those found in the Go-Go music of Washington, D.C… The backbeats are often pulled from records such as “Sing Sing” by disco band Gaz, and “Think (About It)” by Lyn Collins… Much like the rave-era sub-genre of Techno music known as Breakbeat Hardcore, Baltimore Club sounds as if the music was purposefully produced in a hurried manner as each song is made with a limited palette of sounds and is based on a similar framework.
Derived from the definition of Baltimore Club from Wikipedia
