Splice Data Shows UK Garage and House Revival Leading 2027 Trends

Speed Garage and UK Club Sounds Surge

Electronic dance genres grew their combined share of all genre searches by roughly 3% on Splice between September 2025 and August 2026. Searches for speed garage rose more than 160%, and queries pairing it with UK garage nearly tripled. Bass music is turning up beside UK garage, dubstep and hyperpop with growing frequency, and Splice expects the cluster to keep expanding at a calmer pace.

House Music Fractures Into Revival and Bubble Territory

House music is splintering. Melodic house saw search share climb 63%, with downloads growing faster and demand spread across many releases. French house gained 38% in search share while the number of producers downloading its sounds rose more than 80%, a steady climb that Splice reads as a real revival.

Afro-house still draws heavy searching, up over 50%, but downloads have started to flatten, which points to a potential bubble-burst. The genre's search volume surged by 96% in 2025 alongside a 778% explosion in downloads, per Splice and MIDiA's Sounds of 2026 report.

Hard Styles Gain Ground While Drum & Bass Specializes

Hard techno gained 27% and has held level in recent months while hard dance jumped 68% over the year, cooled off and then swelled again lately. Splice expects hard techno to rise gradually in 2027 but cautions that hard dance's rebound needs a bit more time before it's a sure thing.

Drum and bass offers a lesson in specialization. The umbrella term lost about 6% of its search share, yet jungle rose 16% while jump-up and liquid each grew their share of downloads by more than 50%.

Festival-Era EDM Continues Its Decline

Hyperpop gained 38% across dozens of new packs and increasingly appears next to bass music, indie-electronic and future bass. Splice anticipates that the genre's processed vocals and exaggerated sound-design will keep seeping into neighboring genres.

The slide of 2010s EDM festival-era sounds continues. Tropical house fell about 35% in search share. Future house, future bass, big room house and trap all lost ground too. Splice stresses, however, that the production ideas behind them remain in circulation and that only the labels are losing currency.

Production Techniques Shift Away from Vocals

Searches for plucks, pads, arps and leads grew 14% to become the largest category while vocal searches fell about 24%. Music producers also relied less on broad crossover filters such as hip-hop, pop and R&B, and rage emerged as the strongest riser among narrower tags.

The sample marketplace released the new report after examining how its users searched for and downloaded sounds between September 2025 and August 2026.