tech-YES!
We've thrown aside the pretty and the cute, the love bells and harmonic chords, the "raise your hands praise the Sanctuary my love is for real can you feel it" veneer of house music lately. Not to say those things don't have their place. They do. Some beautiful deep/soulful house sounds just right some Wednesdays at Cielo for the Roots party, or maybe at Marques Wyatt's long-running L.A. party Deep. It's just been a dog's age since we dropped anything like this at Deep See, at least, in prime time.
This past week I opened up. My first track was "I Found Love" by Blaze. Sometimes you can't start banging at 11pm; people just aren't ready for it. Here's where the deep and the soulful and all that vocal stuff you think of when you think New York, Masters at Work, Ricanstruction etc. works for US. I emphasize "us" because I'm not making any claims as to the quality or validity of these producers/labels/sounds. This is about where Deep See is at at this point in time.
So things started out with "I Found Love" which for me, carries a lot of memories, but that's another story. From there, I went to Osunlade, some early 2000s stuff that was on the "Tokyo Calling" compilation that Wave put out, and I gradually over the next 60 minutes built up to the techier, edgier, jackier sounds we've been banging at the party as of late.
The point is, though, that here, early, these sounds warmed up the crowd just right. Then as the evening progresses, EMan and I will have different sounds. EMan tends to go more broken beat, funk-based, sometimes straight up tech and weird, Detroit, and some house and occasional jazz. I'll go towards techno, tech-house, tribal, Detroit beatdown sounds, and just wicked bangers of any style. So long as E and I are both playing on our A games, the night is going to be insane. Sometimes one of us is hotter than the other, but usually it works out.
Our dancers are the backbone of the night. Hideki, Shuho, Tone, Byron, Linda, Dan, Jesus, Concep, whoever's in the house on any given night, without our dancers we wouldn't have been able to build the sound we have. They push us; we push them. It's the most beautiful symbiotic relationship that is creatively growthful for both. We are thanksful to them for they've helped make Deep See what it is today.
Some of the labels and artists we're feeling right now: Poker Flat, Trentemoller, Ovum, David Duriez, Steve Bug, Abe Duque, Ibadan, Carl Craig, Planet E, John Tejada, Coco Machete, to name a few.
For more information, check our website deepseenyc.com or see us on Mypsace at our page there.
This past week I opened up. My first track was "I Found Love" by Blaze. Sometimes you can't start banging at 11pm; people just aren't ready for it. Here's where the deep and the soulful and all that vocal stuff you think of when you think New York, Masters at Work, Ricanstruction etc. works for US. I emphasize "us" because I'm not making any claims as to the quality or validity of these producers/labels/sounds. This is about where Deep See is at at this point in time.
So things started out with "I Found Love" which for me, carries a lot of memories, but that's another story. From there, I went to Osunlade, some early 2000s stuff that was on the "Tokyo Calling" compilation that Wave put out, and I gradually over the next 60 minutes built up to the techier, edgier, jackier sounds we've been banging at the party as of late.
The point is, though, that here, early, these sounds warmed up the crowd just right. Then as the evening progresses, EMan and I will have different sounds. EMan tends to go more broken beat, funk-based, sometimes straight up tech and weird, Detroit, and some house and occasional jazz. I'll go towards techno, tech-house, tribal, Detroit beatdown sounds, and just wicked bangers of any style. So long as E and I are both playing on our A games, the night is going to be insane. Sometimes one of us is hotter than the other, but usually it works out.
Our dancers are the backbone of the night. Hideki, Shuho, Tone, Byron, Linda, Dan, Jesus, Concep, whoever's in the house on any given night, without our dancers we wouldn't have been able to build the sound we have. They push us; we push them. It's the most beautiful symbiotic relationship that is creatively growthful for both. We are thanksful to them for they've helped make Deep See what it is today.
Some of the labels and artists we're feeling right now: Poker Flat, Trentemoller, Ovum, David Duriez, Steve Bug, Abe Duque, Ibadan, Carl Craig, Planet E, John Tejada, Coco Machete, to name a few.
For more information, check our website deepseenyc.com or see us on Mypsace at our page there.
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