Fundamentally, house music got its name from where it was born. With DJs like Frankie Knuckles picking up stone cold disco classics after the ever so slightly racist and homophobic backlash of Disco Demolition, they began to cut breaks for effect, started to use 808’s to perform live edits. After a while, artists started picking up “cheap toy synths” like they 808, 101 and 303 to make their own tracks. People started asking for Warehouse music, the music Frankie was playing at the ‘house. House music.

Synth based music did arguably use a lot of the same machines, but the artists moved in diffeeent circles and developed differently over the years. House and techno’s founding fundamentals were definitely rooted in the black, gay disco sound.