RE: Define Deep House with Examples

From: philip@cs.adfa.edu.au
Date: Mon Nov 26 2001 - 03:39:31 CET

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    deep house is just, well, house music that's deep, not just one particular
    style. from phuture in 88 to moodymann & norma jean bell in 01. you can
    even hear it in basic channel. plenty of pretenders out there and i think
    dan's description will do just fine. i can remember when uk press were
    scared to use the term acid house so they started calling it deep house
    too...which even included stuff like ten city. i digress.

    p

    At 08:53 PM 25/11/01 -0500, you wrote:
    >Strictly speaking, 'Deep House' is the name give to classic house from
    >Chicago and New York in the same vein as Frankie Knuckles' 1987 LP 'Deep
    >House' from which the name originates. Though I am undoubtedly venturing
    >into highly controversial waters, I will venture to say that currently, deep
    >house has meaning mostly as a counterpoint to more aggressive house
    >sub-genres like hard house. As a name referring to a stand-alone genre, I
    >therefore find 'Deep House' quite meaningless. In Montreal, for example,
    >calling music 'deep house' is generally an appeal to an upmarket, older
    >clientele, who see it as the cool soundtrack to their drinking and cruising.
    >This version of 'deep house' entails saccharine melodies, insipid beats, and
    >mercilessly stupid vocals. More soulful, complex house is called garage
    >house (although often without appreciation for the name's roots and what,
    >strictly speaking, garage entails) or afro-latin house. Relative to hard
    >house, which is almost all you can hear in MTL, these sounds are all 'deep'
    >and would therefore be considered 'deep house' by most, but are very
    >different and reveal the ambiguity of genres names.
    >I'll genre examples to others more qualified.
    >
    >Dan
    >
    >
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    >Sent: November 22, 2001 9:05 PM
    >To: downtempo@yahoogroups.com; acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
    >Subject: Define Deep House with Examples
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    >Tempo of the Doo
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    >Define Deep House with Examples.
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    >Semper Motociclismo,
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    >Pace'
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