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Proper House/Deep House - Can You Feel It?

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cwmbrancity Grand Master

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given the way folks like Legowelt have really boosted this electronic music genre and the explosion of re-edits ever since Harvey's "Black Cock" imprint, what tickles yer fancy along these lines, or is house not summat the kids feel an affinity with/to these days?

 

Still cane the fuck out of US masters such as Ron Trent, Chez Damier, Blaze, Glenn Underground, Boo Williams, Jovonn, Theo Parrish, Kenny Dixon Jnr, Gemini & Jamal Moss. But then the same applies if you traverse through Chris & Cosey's Dancing Ghosts, the whole French scene (thinking Silver Network here rather than Daft Punk), the better end of British labels like 20:20 Vision & DiY Sound System's legacy, the dubby side of Basic Channel, or some of the recent Mark Fell/DJ Sprinkles releases (sampling Arthur Scargill coal union speeches of all things). Selected Ambient Works has ambient-House that can still define real soul music, even if wasnt necessarily designed for dance-floors & Floating Points/Cottam showed theres life in the olde dog yet

 

if 4/4 goes down a storm a la acid techno, if its pitched down & grooved up does that affect appreciation/participation/relevance?

 

There's so much good music in this genre (thats admittedly still 96% bunk), so even after nearly 30years there are still records worth buying records and cash to fritter on hunting lost gems. At its best if can produce M00G solos that defy description and thump til you HAVE to shake yer aching bones.

 

How do you hear yours?

 

Couple of starters,,,,,

 

Blaze's "Moonwalk". M00Gs, grooves, deep & dubby, not an oz of misplaced fat on it and still fresh after 20+years:

 

 

Point G's "Underwater" - guaranteed dancefloor chunkster conjuring for ahem purest of face-melts:

 

 

Hieroglyphic Being's "Je Suis Musique" - tougher, almost (almost) techno, but damn that shit swings:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I was listening to loads of deep house years ago - of course all US names mentioned in the first post and many more, a lot of sticky tunes you can't unhear once you hit the repeat button, then my attention migrated to more dry and minimal manifestations (early Omar-S, late Baby Ford-like).

 

Of the more non-obvious examples i recall listening to a Chicago duet Solid Gold Playaz with magnum opus LP on Kanzleramt, which i think people mostly missed coz it was released far from the usual house circles. Kinda mainstream non-mainstream, fat, no-nonsense pumping Chicago house, not even shy of these tribal drums in mid-00s.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XDhKJ_PewY

 

I also recall Pepe Bradock mid-career to have very odd version of deep house

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRdoFU9mTmA

 

On the more disco side of things i still enjoy Soundhack cuts a lot

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO6hrFtqLdc

 

One of the catchiest sugar pop songs i heard, happy-end so instant that it works

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MlkrzjTQVQ

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cwmbrancity Grand Master

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Funkaholic, that KoT track above just woooshed in a bit of flashback to say the least

 

Juan Atkins bridged so many genres, but this is proven 4am trance-inducing mission on House:

 

 

 

this took a while to surface after being performed live for years, gotta love that KDJ sound and the theme of a Peeping-Tom on the prowl

 

 

 

The Fog's "Been a Long Time" is still in me rust encrusted box, just this side of vocal overload:

 

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Love this track. But the youtube recording is really unfortunate. Way too much highs and the bass is almost completely lacking. Really doesn't do much service to the actual track, I'm afraid.

 

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Nice self-made video for freshly released track by STL. He's based in Harz mountains and over the years has developed his Something vinyl series into european twin of Sound Signature label by Theo Parrish, which is the epitome of Detroit beatdown style, but since he's German there's more dubtech in his tracks.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrgQ8gTIZC0

 

I'm not a superfan of Theo Parrish, yet i think he's one of the rare kind who remain as deep as 10-15 years ago. Everybody keeps doing the same shit over and over, it's how house music works.

 

Almost 20 years passed between these early and starkly different masterpieces:

 

https://youtu.be/2w1JB5YpHYE

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HUgzZgGHrU

 

and this recent hit (shorter edit of a track):

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70CeiEJi1OI

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STL has put out some quality gear in the last few years, similar to Vakula, in that transplanted Detroit beatdown sound morphing onward

 

Any recommendations on where to start with Vakula? Really like those four tracks.

 

Theo Parrish vibe with the first Soul 223 (Stasis) 12", he really needs to release more music.

 

[youtubehd]j9P6Hp5suaQ[/youtubehd]

 

[youtubehd]xodKVAk7nYA[/youtubehd]

 

Worth checking out the other releases on the Five Fold, enjoyed them all, quite varied.

 

[youtubehd]WljELQTaXkE[/youtubehd]

 

[youtubehd]rvOkBPZzzcs[/youtubehd]

 

[youtubehd]zTaY1j9WyDU[/youtubehd]

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what I've heard from that power house label is really good/ relevant to this thread

I really like what the dirty bird crew is doing, honey soundsystem, maya jane coles, maceo plex, scuba.

theres also the LA thing with Sonny Fedora, DJ Dan, Doc Martin, Marcus Wyatt, those cats have soul

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