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Merenhouse (also called merenrap, electronic merengue, or mambo/mambo de calle in some contexts) is a hybrid dance style that fuses Dominican merengue with house, hip hop, and dancehall. It keeps merengue’s brisk two-beat feel and percussion colors (güira and tambora), but places them over a four‑on‑the‑floor house pulse, adds sampled breaks, rap verses, and dancehall toasts. The style took shape among Dominican and broader Caribbean diasporic communities in New York City in the late 1980s and blossomed in the 1990s club era. Bright synth hooks, driving bass lines, and chantable call‑and‑response choruses made merenhouse a crossover club staple that moved easily between Latin radio, hip hop programs, and mainstream dance floors.