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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J There were only really two times when prog trance and house sounded much the same. The first was about 1995, and the second was about 2001.

Blue Amazon, Marc Mitchell, Way Out West, BT... were all releasing records which are hard to classify in the meantime (1997, 1998, 1999). Even today you have people like Eelke Kleijn and Luke Chable who are doing prog. house that sounds like prog. trance and can be played in every other prog. trance set. I would say from 1995 onwards it's really hard to distinguish these two...

I associated Deep House with slower bpm house (let's say < 122bpm) with soulful elements and deep moody melodies (ie not peak time in your face stuff). It can have vocals or not and it can have some subtle bass work (not necessarily the kick) that makes you feel good.

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Originally posted by unripelemon I knew mnml wouldn't stay for long. Neither will deep house, or any other sub genre...

Er... Deep house has been around longer than nearly all forms of dance music. It's just seeing a bit of a resurgence lately due to the fact all the kids that got into electronic music in the late nineties have begun to mature in their tastes, seeking for a refined sound with soul, funk, jazz, etc.

It does get coined 'Dad House' for a reason.

Sykonee, its not about shitty mainstream.

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Originally posted by sljiva Way Out West, BT... were all releasing records which are hard to classify in the meantime (1997, 1998, 1999).

Were they?

this thread will get good.

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Originally posted by DJ Dingel are people jumping off the minimal bandwagon and onto deep house?

same music, different "label"

Like any genre Deep House is flooded with a bunch of generic tracks. But if you dig through well enough you will find some awesome stuff.

My personal favorites that I have discovered so for:
Slope Feat. Desney Bailey - Keeping It Up (Henrik Schwarz Remix)
The Rhythm Slave - The Light You Will See (Trentem�ller's Dub Mix)
JohNick - A Breath Of Fresh Air (Henry Street Reprise)

Three true beauties

Thanks for all the comments and examples guys

well minimal sucks, so i guess anything is better then that.

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Deep House is jazzy, soulful groovy stuff made by black people in Chicago and San Francisco. Progressive House is drolling, monotonous stuff that's too stiff and unresponsive to be deep, soulful or funky, made by white people in Europe.

haha, pretty much.



progressive house is a terribly broad and non-descriptive term. Basically I would say that progressive house is house music which gave up its blackness for whiteness. Kind of like if a genre of music could be Michael Jackson.





also, deep house sucks, don't listen to it - real cool kids listen to minimal
psst listen the vintage italian set i posted

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Originally posted by Sykonee It's just seeing a bit of a resurgence lately due to the fact all the kids that got into electronic music in the late nineties have begun to mature in their tastes, seeking for a refined sound with soul, funk, jazz, etc.

No, that's not the reason. It's mainly because elements of deep house have started appearing in productions of the 'minimal' (or tech-house) guys and some sort of hybrid between these two was a result. For the case in point see: Solomun & Stimming - Eiszauber or Patrick Zigon - Soultray

Thus the growing interest in pure deep house. People noticed, magazines noticed and... let the hype begin.

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Originally posted by paulandrews No, that's not the reason. It's mainly because elements of deep house have started appearing in productions of the 'minimal' (or tech-house) guys and some sort of hybrid between these two was a result. For the case in point see: Solomun & Stimming - Eiszauber or Patrick Zigon - Soultray Thus the growing interest in pure deep house. People noticed, magazines noticed and... let the hype begin.

I s'pose that's true too. My own experience with folks noticing the genre, though, tends to stem from associates jumping on the sound when they tire of music that's more obvious. Of course, this was at a time when minimal wasn't even heard of, beyond the proper stuff anyway.

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Originally posted by nefardec progressive house is a terribly broad and non-descriptive term.

Agreed, I think I have an easier time determining what isn't Progressive House than what it actually is.

What's with that sudden animosity towards prog. house? I just hope we're hating new kind of prog. here (especially that awful mixture of prog. and electro), because IMO even the best deep house tunes can't compare with soulful, deep and fresh house music that was coming from Guerilla, Cowboy, Limbo and Stress at the beginning of the 90s

whenever there's a discussion about deep house it ALWAYS drifts toward progressive house and prog trance because trance is more closely related to it and people are more familiar with it

anyway why describe it when you can listen to it?
http://www.ssradiouk.com/

and i would hardly call white room prog house. it's simply trance

here's an example of soulful house
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3CKhe8XrOk

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