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Bleak House is a theorized subgenre of house music characterized by a repetitive four-on-the-floor beat, a tempo of 120 bpm, and a merging of positive, uplifting sonics with a perverse existential angst that addresses Weltschmerz by leaning into Schopenhauerian pessimism. * Reference made to Charles Dickens’ 1853 novel, Bleak House * Term coined by Projekt Records’ Sam Rosenthal on June 13, 2023, in reference to VEiiLA
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