*All the following is solely my personal completely biased opinion, but I do bill myself as a "deep house" DJ for what it's worth.
Some Deep House artists... Detroit: Rick Wade, Moodymann, Theo Parrish. Also some tracks by Delano Smith, Mike Huckaby, Scott Grooves, Kyle Hall (Ghosten), Omar S (Set It Up). New York: DJ Qu, Fred P, Jus-Ed, BODY AND SOUL type music Chicago (or formerly Chicago): Chez Damier, Ron Trent, Larry Heard There's some good European stuff too, I like labels such as Smallville, Dial, We Play House, Dial, Sushitech, and of course some Rush Hour. My personal opinion, just like techno implies an approach that generally sounds futuristic, sci fi, and uses more synthetic sounds, "deep house" usually signifies an approach to making records that have more musicality, are open to organic sounds, and often get quite complex in their arrangement--they opposite of super tracky music in most cases, Often deep house records have soulful vocals as well. If Ron Hardy's approach leans toward the techno side, Frankie Knuckles approach would represent the deep house side. Anyway, a deep house DJ isn't going to play only explicitly deep house records. They may play some techy and tracky stuff, but usually there will be lots of disco, jazz, and soul influence. Also, deep house isn't something different from jazzy house, disco house, and microhouse, normally all those things would be included under deep house, unless the production is too "ravey" or "big room", deep house isn't about huge buildups and the like. Also deep house tracks are typically rather long, 6-8 minutes is pretty normal, usually DJ's let those records play out more because they have the musicality to sustain interest over longer time periods. ~David On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 9:03 PM, darnistle <[email protected]> wrote: > This probably isn't the forum for such a question, but could someone give > some examples of "deep house" in contradistinction to other styles of house? > > The term seems to be thrown about very often, but I still have no real sense > of what "deep house" sounds like as opposed to (for example) jazzy house or > disco house or micro house or whatever.
