r/deephouse

Lovely 90s deep house with some sweet diva vocals and groovy drums! 👌🏽https://youtu.be/Ct8CZ3JXWgM

So here’s something I’m curious about.

A few people have said deep house really makes the most sense inside a DJ set, where the tracks are selected and blended in context rather than just played one after another.

Fair enough.

But now the big Swedish music app lets you control transitions between tracks and choose where one song starts giving way to the next.

Obviously that is not the same thing as a DJ actually mixing a set.

But does it change the equation at all?

If somebody deliberately curates 50 or 100 tracks, thinks about contrast and pacing, and manually sets the transitions so the whole thing flows rather than just hard-cutting from song to song, is there something to be said for that as its own listening format?

Not a replacement for DJing. More like a middle ground between “here’s a pile of songs” and an actual set.

Curious how people who really know this music think about that.

Alright, I learned my lesson. Calvin Harris is not deep house. Y’all made your point, so now I’m sitting down for class.

I’ve realized I’ve probably been using “deep house” too loosely, so I want to strip this back to the basics.

Forget the edge cases. What are the absolute essentials?
I mean the songs where, if somebody says they like deep house but somehow missed them, you’d be like, “No. Go back. You fucked up.”

Old, new, obvious, underground, I don’t care. I’m trying to understand the center of the genre first.

What are the songs that are unmistakably deep house and that somebody who genuinely likes the genre should know?

I think music gets boring when everything stays in exactly the same lane for too long.

I’d rather have some contrast. Something atmospheric here, something with more energy there, maybe something unexpected that changes the texture for a few minutes before bringing you back.

To me, that makes the stuff around it hit harder. If everything has the same general sound and energy from beginning to end, eventually my ears just stop noticing it.
I’d rather have a cohesive experience than perfect consistency.

Anyone else feel this way?

Guys, Im visiting NYC this weekend and im looking forward to visit a proper bar to listen to some good beats. Any suggestion?

Looking for a deep house/dance track, probably from around 2015–2020.

The vocal is male but heavily edited/processed, giving it an eerie/haunting sound. I remember the lyrics being something like:

"I came here on my own, standing here all alone, waiting for you waiting for you waiting for you"

It has a dark/eerie deep-house vibe rather than commercial EDM. I heard it fairly recently but I think the song itself is from the late 2010s.

Any ideas?

1. Why is neo expressionism art, specifically, so popular within the deep house music scene? It’s personally my favorite art style but I haven’t really reflected on why they’re so “linked”…

2. My favorite track all years has always been Xinobi’s Far Away Place (Rampa Remix). Anything recommendations?

Thanks!

Created a playlist with my favorite house songs, perfect for chill summer vibing and focus. No AI-slop, just real artists. Please follow and listen if you like deep emotional edm and house music, and wanna discover songs regularly :)