Deep house

This article is about the style of music. For the human dwelling-structure, see List of house types.

Deep house
Stylistic origins	House, Soul, Funk, Jazz, Chicago house
Cultural origins	Late 1980s, United States
Typical instruments	Synthesizer, Keyboard, Drum machine, Sequencer, Sampler
Derivative forms	Tech house, tribal house
(complete list)
Regional scenes
Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Europe, Ibiza & Japan
Other topics
Funky house

Deep house is a subgenre of house music that fuses elements of Chicago house into the 1980s jazz-funk and touches of soul music. In the early compositions (1988—89), influences of jazz music were most frequently brought out by using more complex chords than simple triads (7ths, 9ths, 13ths, suspensions, alterations) which are held for many bars and give compositions a slightly dissonant feel. Later deep house tracks (1993—94) were also heavily influenced by disco and even merged into a disputable disco house genre.

The use of vocals became more common in deep house than in many other forms of house music. Sonic qualities include soulful vocals, slow and concentrated dissonant melodies, smooth, stylish, and chic demeanor.

Artists, DJs and record labels

Deep house artists and DJs include:

Blue Six Booka Shade Charles Webster Colette DJ Spinna Deep Dish Fish Go Deep Frankie Knuckles Fred Everything Gaelle Global Communication Gregory Del Piero Ian Pooley

Jay Tripwire Joe Claussell Joey Negro Julius Papp Kaskade Kenny 'Dope' Gonzales Kerri Chandler Larry Heard Little Louie Vega Mark Farina Martin Iveson (Atjazz) Masters At Work Miguel Migs

Milton Jackson Moodymann Mr. Scruff Nadirah Shakoor Osunlade Pépé Bradock Rhythm Plate Roger Sanchez Scope St. Germain The Messenger (Heim & Jones) The Rurals Tom Middleton Trentemoller

Popular record labels of the genre include Giant Step Records, Naked Music, Om Records, and Peacefrog Records.

See also

• List of electronic music genres