Has Deep House Taken Over?

[floridaorange]

Re: Has Deep House Taken Over?

I heard Skrillex is starting to play deep house.

[unkle]

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I heard Skrillex is starting to play deep house.

Who ????

[gizze]

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Deep house used to be called garage, but garage became house, and then house became tech and progressive and deep, and now we are getting back to where it all was 20 years ago.
I swear I could play a couple of mix tapes from 1992 that would pass today in a club as deep house.

Todays deep house is just slowed down progressive some of which have a few soulful vocals or basslines in them, which is back to early house, or garage.....that is garage before garage changed of course......oh fuck it, where are my new romantic cds I've had enoug of all this!!

[floridaorange]

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awesome^

[unkle]

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Todays deep house is just slowed down progressive some of which have a few soulful vocals or basslines in them, which is back to early house,

Interesting point, in all your comment,
but I do not think that the "deep house" is the "progressive"
of our days, but slower. every genre has its qualities in addition to the bpm.

[gizze]

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I always label my sets 'Deep Progressive House' these days as I really don't know what to call them.

I guess Deep House to me is almost rare groove, in the early days deep house was called garage over here, and the Nothern Soul guys were playing it, the dance scene was acid and hardcore, so when you heard something funky with vocals and an almost Motown groove going on it was classed as deep.
The house sound to me was defined by a very obvious 4 4 beat, with influences from all the genres blended in, it then obviously drifted with the Deep House sound, Tech sounds, electro house sounds and of course the Prog sounds with labels like Guerilla and Perfecto putting out some Epics.

Right now I guess we are just combining it all again, and to be fair the deep funky stuff with vocals is always going to do well as it puts a smile on peoples faces. I know if I played a set with stuff from Maceo it would appeal to more people than a set playing Maetrik tracks, in the same way I would probably dare walk into a club I don't know and play Crosstown Rebels tunes only and expect to do OK, where as just playing Bedrock tunes is going to be dodgy, a few who are really into it will love it, many will just look a bit puzzled.

Deep house is also going to appeal to an older crowd, problem with the stuff the youngsters are listening to most people would think it is shit. I know many of the 40+ guys couldn't get the stuff we were listening to in '89-'91 but then they were all on amphetamines while we were taking ridiculous amounts of mdma, and it is because of that the music worked.

Also, the production of house has got so good that deep now really works. A few of my mates, and their partners, are enjoying some of the stuff I am playing now because it is deep, girls in particular love it, it is like a cross between house and swing, and they can dance to it, and I mean properly dance, not heads down and let's go!!

Deep will be hear for a while, because let's face it, it makes you feel pretty good.

[sbando]

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DJ Fail too now plays "Deep House" sets and look at his results.

[sbando]

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[DIDI]

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They are so cute

[sbando]

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I love the little marsupial. Hey, Didz!

[DIDI]

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^^^ Did I tell you I will be in Florence for a couple days early september ?? Be afraid, be very afraid

[sbando]

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Yes, I knew, you told me before the last fight, lol.

[gizze]

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:d

[floridaorange]

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I always label my sets 'Deep Progressive House' these days as I really don't know what to call them.

I guess Deep House to me is almost rare groove, in the early days deep house was called garage over here, and the Nothern Soul guys were playing it, the dance scene was acid and hardcore, so when you heard something funky with vocals and an almost Motown groove going on it was classed as deep.
The house sound to me was defined by a very obvious 4 4 beat, with influences from all the genres blended in, it then obviously drifted with the Deep House sound, Tech sounds, electro house sounds and of course the Prog sounds with labels like Guerilla and Perfecto putting out some Epics.

Right now I guess we are just combining it all again, and to be fair the deep funky stuff with vocals is always going to do well as it puts a smile on peoples faces. I know if I played a set with stuff from Maceo it would appeal to more people than a set playing Maetrik tracks, in the same way I would probably dare walk into a club I don't know and play Crosstown Rebels tunes only and expect to do OK, where as just playing Bedrock tunes is going to be dodgy, a few who are really into it will love it, many will just look a bit puzzled.

Deep house is also going to appeal to an older crowd, problem with the stuff the youngsters are listening to most people would think it is shit. I know many of the 40+ guys couldn't get the stuff we were listening to in '89-'91 but then they were all on amphetamines while we were taking ridiculous amounts of mdma, and it is because of that the music worked.

Also, the production of house has got so good that deep now really works. A few of my mates, and their partners, are enjoying some of the stuff I am playing now because it is deep, girls in particular love it, it is like a cross between house and swing, and they can dance to it, and I mean properly dance, not heads down and let's go!!

Deep will be hear for a while, because let's face it, it makes you feel pretty good.

good stuff - interesting accounts there, thanks!

[gizze]

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I have just looked through my sets over the last 3 years, I have 103 sets, and only one is what I would class as Deep House.
Lots of them are using tracks now labeled on Beatport as Deep, and I guess they are to people who are into Techno, but as I said only one of those sets is what I would call Deep, and I did that for my wife for Christmas a couple of years ago as she was always moaning that I never play music that she likes, Now, to be fair she does like a lot of the stuff I play, but she meant I never buy something thinking "I will get this as I know Fiona will love it."

I will upload it somewhere and you can tell me if you class it as Deep.