^ Naw, we have to class music like this so the punters know what to buy at the music store after seeing avicii.
I have this argument with a buddy of mine all the time about rock music. I consider most lofi garage style diy rock punk, he says it’s all rock, and to a point, he’s right. Deep, tech, electro, it’s all house. If its got that simple 4 on the floor house groove, it’s probably house, and if it isn’t, call it house anyways.
My problem is when I want to find some grimey electro house, I don’t want to have to dig through terrible Dutch house to find it.
sorry 031999 i cant agree with you on this one. It think its a bit more then that
I think its wrong if you as an artist or dj, or performer EXCLUDE YOURSELF from other genres and
try to stick to just one of them
yeah thats what i was saying. I would never exclude myself from a certain genre. When a promoter asks me what kind of music I play, I really have no answer except “Dance Music”, because I play whatever I want.
very true.
maybe its not use as djs who think music is dead
maybe its not us as djs who are being shafted actually either.
maybe its just the way things are proposed to us?
for example. A promoter shouldnt ask you “What kind of music do you play” and instead as
“I have a night set for A,B,C… can you take care of that for me?”
See what im saying?
I mean if you give a child a choice to play with 10 toys, he will play with them all
If you give him two, and tell him to pick their fav, youll get a specific answer, but thats because you imposed
a more detailed question.
i dont know… i might be onto something here
and this might be the next big article i post here on DJTT like the podcasting 101 article i did already
Actually i did just submit another article about “How to get into record labels” but i havent heard back yet
Not being funny, but people know what they’re told nowadays. Listen to, for example a Dusky or George Fitzgerald tune, and you HAVE to call it deep house, because no one else knows otherwise.
Stop being such chin stroking bell ends and vibe off it. Who cares what the genre is… “Do you like deep house?” “Well that depends… Do you mean like…”
It’s just unnecessary confusion, and chances are, people are going to know what is considered to be deep house NOW rather than what it WAS.
Look at DJ’s like Doorly. He plays literally all kinds of music in every set that he does. I remember seeing him live before he hit the big time and was just blown away; because of how he uses so many different genres and ties it all together so perfectly he has definitely become someone who I would say is one of my major influences.
The Ibizan Balearic style was this. Alfredo did this kind of thing. 1987 and 1988 were great years there.
You find a real mixture of House styles in the Deep House section of Beatport, etc, and I like that. It probably should just be called House. You get Garagey sounding tracks and all sorts. I think a lot of Nu Disco sounds like House to me, lol. I don’t actually browse the House section on Beatport since much of it seems to be cheesey shit that I wouldn’t call House music.
uh yesss, i know. I wish this style was still around, but its getting a little weak. a few weeks ago I was listening to really old Paul Oakenfold mixes back before trance stuff when he used to do balearic style, he was just straight up dropping like 50s jazz stuff in there, really dope.
Oh it is still about - just this last weekend there was a fantastic Gig with Chris Coco, Nancy Noise and Justin Robertson playing full Balearic sets. In the UK there are regular gigs in this style and its one where I feel most comfortable as its my background too
I’m over genres…they don’t stick around long enough anymore to even build up a decent music collection. To a certain extent its all just a recombination of previous sounds or sounds normally heard at a certain BPM and then they are used at a slower/faster BPM than traditionally.
I have yet to find a decent definition for each genre (including deep house!), so I just create my own. If I think it’s deep house, I call it deep house.
Until you give me a better alternative that’s it, wether you like it or not.
It specifically fits 4/4 music that is around the 110bpm mark that has a slight funky edge to it. Not strictly downtempo, not particularly rowdy - just ‘bumpin’ … something to use when I’m coming out of hiphop into house and making that transition into picking the tempo up (I never play just one tempo from the start).
…I know…I’m bitchin’ right..? You all wanna use it cus…who doesn’t like ‘BUMPIN’
