First Club Gig...Good Deep House Set..Help!

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First Club Gig…Good Deep House Set..Help!

okay so ive finally gotten my first club gig,
the promoter asked me to play a good deep house set, i have a lot of tech house
but can anyone share some good deep house tracks??
i dont really know where to start and i have a week and a half to buy some and learn them..
any help would be really appreciated

cheers :slight_smile:

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Three mix’s on my soundcloud they all have a track list… Ull be able to tell the tech house from the deep house!

Most of the tunes are quite well known so a deep house crowd will love them… Good way to get into it! Have a listen thought the track lists

Good luck m8

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No worries, my sort of stuff :slight_smile:

Lots of cross over between Deep & Tech House, what sort of Tech House do you play? Is the promoter after the current flavour of Deep House i.e. Eats, Tsuba, Local Talk, Seven, Large i.e. the Future/UK Garage/Bassier Deep House for want of a better expression?! Or more on the Soulful tip?

Best place to look for some instant gratification is Traxsource.com, they’re by far the best for House music IMHO and unlike Beatport their genre tagging is pretty much spot on.

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I agree with backtothefront there’s a big cross over with tech and bass!

I must admit I play more or the uk bass type!

Will check out tracksource not been on that b4

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thanks for the help guys!
ive just started playing a bit of tech house in the last few weeks, really enjoying it..
https://soundcloud.com/nathan-ernst-tessari/insidious-promo-mix-march-13

theres the mix i sent through to the promoter and he said he enjoyed it, but asked if i can play him more of a deep house set next weekend.. so im really unsure haha sorry i dont have more info!
im trying to find the stuff with more bounce and vibe than the soulful chilled out deep house thats all over beatport if that makes sense :s hopefully ill get my head around all the sub genres pretty soon.. coming from playing commercial bangas at parties this is a big step for me!

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i know this could be horribly wrong… but does deep house just have more of a bassline than tech house ?

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One of my current deep house favourites.

Don’t forget the commercial stuff as well, it’s famous for a reason.

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YES!!! I’ve been trying to find the name of that song for ages now!!

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Few tracks from the list i just bought.

http://www.beatport.com/track/fallout-original-mix/4076796

bit older but very nice: Aki Bergen, Carmen Sherry - Into My Soul (Spiritchaser Remix) [Papa Records] | Music & Downloads on Beatport

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Haha no problem. There’s like 5 versions, but that is most definitely the best one. I’m not a fan of deep, but when that bass comes in, it’s just euphoric.

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Check out some Duke Dumont too. The giver and Thunder Clap. Maybe a little too bassy though

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they should be fine… i can be in the middle of the most minimal deep set, but thunder clap absolutly gets the crowd going… i think its the insanly chilled/spooky build!!! Brilliant song!

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I play only commercial events atm (all I can get) and been playing shitty pop acapellas over thunder clap just so I can get away with playing it

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I like your style Sam!!

Better play it somehow then not at all.. Sometimes it works really well though

I had to do the same once with - Julio bashmore’s - battle for the middle, layered the vocals from sean pauls - temperature.

It worked ace, and now i use it at all my gigs, even the uber cool kids who hate the slightest commercial trak get down, i suppose for a crowd like that its slightly like a breath of fresh air.

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Bashmore’s Au Seve and Dumont’s Need U (100%) are commercial enough to play alone, surely? I play them and they go down fine. That and Disclosure’s White Noise, the three most commercial deep tunes I can think of. I guess it’s different if you’re across the pond though.

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There’s lots of different flavors of deep. I tend to play a lot of the deep moody kind of house mixed with a tech and nu-disco kind of sound for added spice. My last 20 or so shows have all followed this recipe.

EDIT: There’s also some techno, disco, Christmas music and punk rock mixed in there. :smiley:

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I play in a small city where top40 is all thats wanted, if its not taylor or rihanna, its not danceable. White noise goes down ok though.

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Same, but I can just push Au Seve and Need U before it’s too much. For me, anything that sounds like early Chicago house with modern production techniques is deep, and anything that’s Detroit house with the same production techniques is tech, but might as well be deep.

And, my mum likes deep house, cause it sounds like the whole 90’s detroit house movement. That’s how uncool it is. Or how cool my mum is. Whichever.

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haha THIS - exaclty.

Also Disclosure - Latch, and the Jessie Ware Remix.

Waze & Oddessy’s - bump and grind remix

also

Hector Couto’s - here we come (brilliant track)

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+1 on the Waze & Odyssey stuff, putting out some great tunes at the mo.

OP; For instant collection; Deep House: Get Deep House Tracks on Traxsource. It’s not something I always suggest to do (as better to dig as well) but as time is short, just go through the latest releases and Top 20, take a listen and pick out the tracks you like and think might fit in with what promoter is looking for, then check the labels/producers to widen your search. That will at least get you out of jail for this gig, best of luck :slight_smile: