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DEEP HOUSE
I noticed that my appreciation for deep house really grew as I got older. The genre always interested me as a teenager browsing music forums but I didn’t really get into it until my junior year of college.
I feel like this song really helped me get out of a rut when I was going through a rough patch in my life, I'll always be appreciative towards the genre for the meditative state it can put you through with the longer, deeper tracks.
The last 4 minutes of this track are truly something else. I loved the middle section with the weird synth loop and repetitive vocals from Moodymann, building up to the last track, hidden behind 5 minutes of noise. It kind of reminds me of Beach House's “Irene” with the huge blank middle section hiding a beautiful song at the end. Check it out
(i’m kinda tight cause I wrote out a huge paragraph for this song but it ended up getting deleted cause I accidentally switched pages, but anyways I’ll just write what I can remember. it’s a really rainy day and i’m in a tech office in the heart of paris, so why not.)
I remember discovering this song during my mid 2010-s underground soundcloud rap phase, I was digging through UnoTheActivist’s catalog when i stumbled upon “parkin lot pimpin”, some dude in the comments sample-snitched and I ended up here. Upon hearing this song for the first time, I honestly didn’t get it. I had only consumed dance music subconsciously, through the radio or what my parents were showing me, but never really paying attention to the different elements that made these tracks so special. Looking back, it’s clear that this is a masterpiece of house music, a timeless classic. Beautiful chords, beautiful vocals, lots of emotion in one track. But now, i’m faced with a dillemma. See, now that I remembered how I felt when I first listened to this track, this experience only raises a bigger question:
did I force myself to like dance music?
let me break this question down to help you better understand my POV, there are a couple of possible theories but i limited them to two:
1. i did, in fact, force myself to like dance music
when I was 18, i was essentially a “beatmaker”, making beats for other rappers in the hopes that they’d use them and drop a song with them, basically trying to get placements. after 2 years of grinding out beatmaking, I decided to detach myself cause I quickly realized that
a. the market was saturated, too many beatmakers, the term was also becoming derogatory
b. i never wanted to count on another artist to get my music heard agian.
why would I waste my time making hundreds of beats only to get a handful of placements every year? i was sick of counting on other artists to get myself heard, honestly I feel like if you’re a beatmaker reading this, you need to find a way to drop your shit without having to count on a rapper. use acappellas or something, turn your
I didn’t wanna be “the dude who made the beat for that guy’s song”
I wanted to be THAT GUY.
why else do y’all think i’m grinding everything out so hard, albums, collective, clothing, vinyl & cd pressing, album covers, mixing & mastering ? i already know i don’t wanna do a 9-5 my whole life so i’m grinding this shit out as much as possible to live from this shit soon.
anyways, to conclude, I think I might have subconsciously chosen a more “independant” genre of music to actually give myself a voice and express myself musically as much as I’d like without having to count on anybody else.
2. taste grows with age.
now as much as i’d like this to be the case, I can’t confidently say that’s the case. i got into house music cause I knew there was some gas out there, but i was gonna have to dig to find it. but honestly a lot of people follow trends blindly, like certain things cause other people like it too, so honestly, is it even really that bad?
it’s not like dance music was completely foreign to me, I was listening to jungle music as a kid, I just wasn’t able to pinpoint everything back then.
nowadays, i practically ONLY listen to dance music, i might listen to some rap here and there but i haven’t really been into rap music for like 2 years now.
well anyways, back to the music. =)
1. i did, in fact, force myself to like dance music
when I was 18, i was essentially a “beatmaker”, making beats for other rappers in the hopes that they’d use them and drop a song with them, basically trying to get placements. after 2 years of grinding out beatmaking, I decided to detach myself cause I quickly realized that
a. the market was saturated, too many beatmakers, the term was also becoming derogatory
b. i never wanted to count on another artist to get my music heard agian.
why would I waste my time making hundreds of beats only to get a handful of placements every year? i was sick of counting on other artists to get myself heard, honestly I feel like if you’re a beatmaker reading this, you need to find a way to drop your shit without having to count on a rapper. use acappellas or something, turn your
beats into songs.
I didn’t wanna be “the dude who made the beat for that guy’s song”
I wanted to be THAT GUY.
why else do y’all think i’m grinding everything out so hard, albums, collective, clothing, vinyl & cd pressing, album covers, mixing & mastering ? i already know i don’t wanna do a 9-5 my whole life so i’m grinding this shit out as much as possible to live from this shit soon.
anyways, to conclude, I think I might have subconsciously chosen a more “independant” genre of music to actually give myself a voice and express myself musically as much as I’d like without having to count on anybody else.
2. taste grows with age.
now as much as i’d like this to be the case, I can’t confidently say that’s the case. i got into house music cause I knew there was some gas out there, but i was gonna have to dig to find it. but honestly a lot of people follow trends blindly, like certain things cause other people like it too, so honestly, is it even really that bad?
it’s not like dance music was completely foreign to me, I was listening to jungle music as a kid, I just wasn’t able to pinpoint everything back then.
nowadays, i practically ONLY listen to dance music, i might listen to some rap here and there but i haven’t really been into rap music for like 2 years now.
well anyways, back to the music. =)
I actually got this track from gum back in the summer of 2020, he had dropped a series of mixes and this was one of the tracks he included so shoutout to him.
this shit right HERE man. i’m so so grateful this song exists, just a beautiful piece of music, my go-to for when i’m feeling down, i remember playing this after some shit had gone down back home. just going out for a walk in the middle of the winter, 2 am, streets empty & shit, no cars, just this song blasting in my old sony headphones while i reassure myself that everything is gonna be alright.
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