yeah house has a bad image of complete cheesy smoothness, when more often than not it couldnt be any further from the truth. Some of the best house music ive heard has been the rawest most loosely produced music ive heard, yet it seriously gets under the skin and stays there.
id put my last tenner on the line and state that practically everyone will have danced to at least 5 house records in their time whilst out in a club and thought it was techno