It was (initially) intended as a joke by its inventor, 20-year-old Australian producer Thomas Jack. Known also as 'trop house' (but not to be confused with house and dance hybrid, trouse. Obviously) tropical house is a sub-genre of house music. But where deep house and EDM use synthesisers and compressed mixes to create 'big room' sounds, tropical house employs horns, marimbas and steel drums and takes the tempo down a few beats per minute