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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>From: Wm. ERROL PACE [mailto:wm_errol_pace@hotmail.com]
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>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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