Deep house

Deep house is a slower and more melody-oriented style of house . Musically, the danceable, straight 4/4 time dominates . The speed is in the range of about 100 to 127 beats per minute .

History and characteristics

In Chicago , Larry Heard produced as Fingers Inc. with the singers Ron Wilson and Robert Owens from 1986 percussive house tracks with soulful vocal interludes. The Deep House stood out from the New York Garage House, which was popular at the time, with its jazzy, sometimes vocal arrangements .

Deep house has a speed comparable to disco , but with more reduced grooves , and was a reaction to the prevailing “party house music”. The spectrum of current tracks is very large, it ranges from soul influences to jazz to tech house , but everything at a moderate tempo mostly around 125 BPM.

There was a real deep house wave in Chicago in the late 1980s . Most house producers were now producing deep house tracks such as Fast Eddie's Can U Still Dance (1988) and Marshall Jefferson's Truth Open Your Eyes (1988). The style-defining albums include Promised Land by Joe Smooth .

From a musical history point of view, the development of Deep House was a continuation of Chicago House , which combined with Garage House from New York to create a new common sound and a union and convergence of the two previously very separate and self-sufficient scenes.

The regional differentiation and further development of the original house led in 1986 not only to the development of the deep house but also to the development of another style in Chicago: the acid house , which, apart from a huge hype in England in 1988, never led to the long and constant popularity of the deep House reached out.

In the early 1990s, a disco-inspired form of deep house developed, which was sometimes summarized under the term Disco House or later Nu Disco.

With the commercial success of projects such as DJ Wankelmut , Klangkarussell or Klingande , a mainstream-oriented variant of (tech) house became popular in the 2010s, which was also marketed as "deep house", but has little or nothing in common musically.

Typical tracks

Ce Ce Rogers - Someday
Joe Smooth feat. Anthony Thomas - Promised Land
Marshall Jefferson vs. Noosa Heads - Mushrooms (Salt City Orchestra Out There Mix)
Pascal, Livo & Mr. Day - Vision of a New World (Vocal Mix)
Westpark Unit feat. Victor Davies - Fade Away
Azymuth - Space Jazz Carnival (Global Communications Space Jazz Mix)