What caused deep house to blow-up recently?

[fat8ack]

Bro, Deep House (or whatever you wanna call it) is HUGE in Dance Music at the moment.
That's not a "fanboy" statement, LOL......though I am a fanboy for the sub-genre

Taylr Swft isn't HUGE, though I wish it were!! My boy, Kill Frenzy, could use the recognition he deserves

Recently bought this Kill Frenzy and man is it hot as fuck!!!

[blackavenger]

Recently bought this Kill Frenzy and man is it hot as fuck!!!

Oh yes.....I have all his 'ish in Lossless! <3 IT!

Love just about everything ever released on Dirtybird, ****** back to the beginning.

Every so called "deep house" mix is the same Oliver heldens/MK 90s garage style throughout the entire mix with the same bass lines, same kick, same break, same piano keys, same everything. It's the epitome of "formulaic".

I totally get what you're saying, but to be fair, every genre of Dance Music is formulaic.....that's kinda' the point.

I guess I'm just oblivious to it's popularity here in the South. Down here they are still churning out Trap like there is no tomorrow.
I was looking forward to a shift away from that. But, if what is catching on is solely that Hot Creations sound, then that won't
be any better. Don't get me wrong, I love that sound, but it can be dull when overdone.

[fat8ack]

I guess I'm just oblivious to it's popularity here in the South. Down here they are still churning out Trap like there is no tomorrow.
I was looking forward to a shift away from that. But, if what is catching on is solely that Hot Creations sound, then that won't
be any better. Don't get me wrong, I love that sound, but it can be dull when overdone.

Im in Jacksonville and all anyone gives a shit about down here is EDM and Trap. It is very annoying when you are trying to score gigs and they ask if I have a trap. I like to spin trap dont get me wrong, it can be fun with the right people. But I really have enjoyed a more house sound a really prefer mixing it. You can mix tracks for more than just 30 secs and really get creative....

[blackavenger]

I don't like to spin, or even listen to Trap.
I actually hate the shit!

Not knocking what others may like, or are into, but I feel that trap has no place in Dance Music.
That's why I was looking forward to a shift from Dutch-Electro-Trap-Step into some 4/4 flavors!
Sure, Deep House (Bass House) might be kitsch to some degree as well, but at least it would be
a change of pace from the years of Trap and Brostep domination.

[disparate]

I totally get what you're saying, but to be fair, every genre of Dance Music is formulaic.....that's kinda' the point.

Cop-out of 2014?

[blackavenger]

Cop-out of 2014?

KMA!

You knew exactly what I was saying.
Tell me how that statement is inaccurate?

[disparate]

KMA!

You knew exactly what I was saying.
Tell me how that statement is inaccurate?

I'm just saying there's a slight difference between ultra formulaic music (i.e. the 'deep'-pop-future-house-whatever that Colione was referring to; or other very formulaic forms of dance music like "big room house", bro-step, a lot of big-room techno, etc) and things like tempo, speed and the types of sound used that identify one genre from the next.

It strikes me as one of these statements that attempts to neatly defuse an argument but actually completely oversimplifies the reality. To me 'formulaic' implies that from one track to the next there is a structure, a combination of sounds, and an aesthetic that is very much in common, and more than just simple stylistic constraints.

The majority of deep house is 110-125bpm and features a 4/4 kick drum and some amount of disco and soul influences. Is this formulaic? I wouldn't say so, there's plenty you can do with this, and I'd be very hesitant to define 'deep house' in any more specific terms than this.
However if you take 10 deep house tracks that all have similarly processed soulful vocals, boompty basslines and upfront, compressed production, I'd say that's formulaic.

[fat8ack]

I don't like to spin, or even listen to Trap.
I actually hate the shit!

Yeah not something I would just play in my free time, or even listen to a mix of, but I have been known to get dirty and nasty with some late night/early morning trap....

I play a mix of Deep and Tech house as well as techno. Deep house if deff blowing up, but it seems to me like maybe the scene is adjusting for the better.

[RDRCK]

It's the latest fad. Give it a year and it will have petered out. Most of the Deep House that I hear people play isn't what I would call Deep House anyway. Almost all the stuff I hear these days categorized as Deep House is either melodic techno (albeit stripped down and "housed up"), or Disclosure style two steppy stuff (a la Dusky, Bicep, Citizen, Huxley, etc.).

I, for one, am digging the first incarnation, really reminds me of the chiller Progressive of the late 90s and early 00s. The second type was exciting for a bit, but it got old for me pretty quickly. Nothing beats those guys basslines though (huxley, dusky, et al).

[blackavenger]

Most of the Deep House that I hear people play isn't what I would call Deep House anyway

I totally agree. That's why I often put quotations around the word. I think they call it G House in the UK.
Fuck, who knows what to call it? House & Bass, Bass House, Deep House, G-House.....
whatever you wanna call it.....it's just Bass Heavy House Music.

I'm just saying there's a slight difference between ultra formulaic music (i.e. the 'deep'-pop-future-house-whatever that Colione was referring to; or other very formulaic forms of dance music like "big room house", bro-step, a lot of big-room techno, etc) and things like tempo, speed and the types of sound used that identify one genre from the next.

It strikes me as one of these statements that attempts to neatly defuse an argument but actually completely oversimplifies the reality. To me 'formulaic' implies that from one track to the next there is a structure, a combination of sounds, and an aesthetic that is very much in common, and more than just simple stylistic constraints.

The majority of deep house is 110-125bpm and features a 4/4 kick drum and some amount of disco and soul influences. Is this formulaic? I wouldn't say so, there's plenty you can do with this, and I'd be very hesitant to define 'deep house' in any more specific terms than this.
However if you take 10 deep house tracks that all have similarly processed soulful vocals, boompty basslines and upfront, compressed production, I'd say that's formulaic.

Fair enough. That's a solid argument. I concede.