I'm not much of a house head--been on a bit of a 2-step tip, but,
here in the San Francisco Bay Area, I would say that 'deep house' is
more of the current San Francisco sound--or at least reading Jockey
Slut and listening to the local house radio shows, that's the sound
here. (check http://kzsu.stanford.edu and look for the 'Big Love'
show on Monday afternoons for an idea. Though I have heard that
there is a weird I think psychedelic sound from the local labels
(i.e. Red Melon.)
erik g
>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
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>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
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Wm. ERROL PACE [mailto:wm_errol_pace@hotmail.com]
>>Sent: November 22, 2001 9:05 PM
>>To: downtempo@yahoogroups.com; acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
>>Subject: Define Deep House with Examples
>>
>>
>>Tempo of the Doo
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>>Define Deep House with Examples.
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>>Semper Motociclismo,
>>
>>Pace'
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