Cleared House Samples for Commercial Use
Public domain, CC0 & CC-BY — with a license certificate per download
House runs on a deceptively simple engine: a four-on-the-floor kick, an off-beat open hat, a rolling bassline, and a chord stab or vocal hook that pulls you onto the floor. The problem for producers has never been the idea — it’s the loops. Most “royalty-free” house packs are paid, locked behind a subscription, or vague about what you can actually release on. Selekt’s house material is CC0 and cleared: loops, drum hits, basslines, and stems you can chop, rearrange, and put out, each with a certificate naming the source and license.
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What “cleared” means here
Every house sample in the Selekt catalog comes from a named, verified source — public domain, CC0, or CC-BY — not an anonymous “royalty-free” upload. Each download ships with a license certificate naming the source, the exact license, and any attribution required, and samples from less-authoritative sources are fingerprint-screened against 150M+ commercial recordings. So you can build releasable house — grooves, basslines, and chord loops — from CC0 and cleared sources instead of a subscription you have to keep paying — with documentation you can keep, not just a label that says “cleared.”
How to flip house samples
Cleared source is only half of it. Every track is analyzed for BPM, key, and mood, separated into stems (vocals, drums, bass, and more), and ready for the free browser tools — chop it, re-pitch it, build a beat in the Drum Kit, or re-voice a melody in Stem Lab. And modifying melodic loops is good practice anyway — it lowers the odds of an automated Content ID match (more in our guide to avoiding Content ID claims).
House styles and where they sit
House is a family of styles, each with its own tempo and feel. Use this as a quick map when you’re hunting for the right loop — the BPM and feel tell you what to search for and how to layer it.
| Style | Typical BPM | Signature |
|---|---|---|
| Classic / Chicago | 120–127 | The original: raw TR-909 drums, a jacking kick, soulful disco and vocal samples, stripped-back chord stabs. |
| Deep house | 120–125 | Warm Rhodes and Juno pads, soft sub-bass, lush seventh chords, intimate vocal phrases — the laid-back end of the family. |
| Tech house | 124–128 | Tighter, drier drums, a driving bassline, minimal percussion grooves; more focus on the low end than on melody. |
| Acid house | 120–130 | Built around the squelching, resonant Roland TB-303 bassline — hypnotic, raw, instantly recognizable. |
| Funky / disco house | 120–126 | Filtered disco and funk loops, slap bass, brass stabs, and chopped vocals — house at its most sample-driven. |
| Future / bass house | 124–128 | Modern and aggressive: detuned synth leads, vocal chops pitched into hooks, a bigger drop-oriented arrangement. |
Browse cleared house samples
Listen, filter by BPM and key, and download with a license certificate per track.
How to verify house samples before release
A few minutes of due diligence saves headaches later: how to verify a sample is really cleared, royalty-free vs public domain vs CC0, and screen your finished mix against 150M+ commercial recordings for a signed audit log.
