not sure who wrote what, but in Asia sure you arent confusing this
with trance -
this came up more than deep house on my far east trip in may.
Having lived in San Fran till 88 where like a few others on this
list I dj'd & wrote about music when I moved to the uk, I can say
that "deep house" is a term that didnot originate in San Francisco.
At least not then. An interview I did with Jesse Saunders on KUSF
circa 1984 attempted to define the difference between house & garage
and put it more in context of sound as opposed to the names of the
clubs.
Back in those days, 86/87 San Francisco had deep house scene but it
was at a in a club in Oakland called Silks, but very few white
people ever went there, and it wasnt trendy, cool or written about in
xlr8r, jockey slut, the Face or surface - not that any of those mags
excluding the Face were even born then!! And the Face has long lost
its credibility over here - even as a style mag.
Deep house was music with a deep powerful bass, quite minimal where
the bass would make your spine vibrate. There were few clubs/rooms
that could duplicate this effect. And still are.
deep house clubs i've been to where i could feel the bass in my body:
Larry Levan = paradise garage - deep house circa 87
Bruce Forest - Better Days - a room where the bass might have killed you 87
The Saint - but I cant remember the djs or the year in nyc
Zanzibar, Newark New Jersey, Tony Humphries 1993 before he got minis-tried
Hacienda Tenth Anniversay Party - Manchester with Mike
Pickering/Graeme Park - musta been 93/94.
Anyone on this list whose been to any of these will know the sound of
deep house. nice to know the terms still kickin around & people are
still claiming
their town thought of it first. awwwww. politics of dancing
>
>>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.
>>
>
>"deep house" is actually the more or less International house sound
>(only in Europe they get more fickle with the subgenre). When I was
>roaming around Asia, deep house was hard to get away from in the
>clubs there.
>
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