Originally posted by nefardec
That's unfortunately what modern deep house has become, but it used to be really uplifting and soulful. very far from the stolid muzak that passes for deep house these days. I think it suffers from the same sceney malaise that trendimal house suffers from, and the people making modern 'deep house' (sascha dive, and all these others) are the same people who were on the minimal house bandwagon.
Those were some sweet tracks nef! That Braxton Holmes track has a sweeet moving bassline. Thanks, deep house is one of the few things i stil enjoy from EDM (i used it as a example in my previous post) this is what im talking, its like that kinda "blue-note" feel that those tracks have is "forced" artificially into modern productions because "deep house" "should" sound like that, not because i "feel something and i make deep house to express it". This is a problem with the vast majority of modern EDM, the real question is whether those modern productions are "poor", "by-numbers" and "plastic" or whether its me getting bored of the sound. Maybe-and probably is-both. But those tracks that you posted sounded very raw, soulful and organic, the way good house music should be. I have to say that the "classic italian deep house" set that you once posted is occasionally on my i-pod. Its really good!
Nov-29-2009 22:49
nefardec
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Originally posted by Leniu
^^ Call me crazy, but those tracks are neither clubby nor epic. Especially the last one, fails on both accounts to me...
im calling you crazy
all of these have leveled dancefloors for years
Nov-30-2009 07:31
nefardec
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quote:
Originally posted by PETRAN
Those were some sweet tracks nef! That Braxton Holmes track has a sweeet moving bassline. Thanks, deep house is one of the few things i stil enjoy from EDM (i used it as a example in my previous post) this is what im talking, its like that kinda "blue-note" feel that those tracks have is "forced" artificially into modern productions because "deep house" "should" sound like that, not because i "feel something and i make deep house to express it". This is a problem with the vast majority of modern EDM, the real question is whether those modern productions are "poor", "by-numbers" and "plastic" or whether its me getting bored of the sound. Maybe-and probably is-both. But those tracks that you posted sounded very raw, soulful and organic, the way good house music should be. I have to say that the "classic italian deep house" set that you once posted is occasionally on my i-pod. Its really good!
yeah definitely agree on the by-numbers comment - i think that the method of production makes it very easy to copy the sounds that one is seduced by. the modern stuff is a simulacrum of a simulacrum - there is something lost in the translation. it's like if someone were translating an italian poem into english, and decided to focus on keeping the same number of syllables or alliteration at the cost of the meaning.
i almost posted one of the tracks from that italian set, 'ore: nove nove' by gio canepa (aka mbg). that is some FUN deep house.
