Inspired by productions such as "Can You Feel It?" by Larry Heard aka Mr. Fingers, deep house emerged from Chicago around the year of 1988. Producers such as Masters At Work and DJ Pierre helped define the genre leading up the 90's. Deep house tracks had a slightly dissonant feel as the jazz elements in many of it's tracks were brought out by using more complex chord structures than previous house music songs.
At the start of the 90's there was much more happening all around the country, particularly in the New England & Mid-Atlantic region spanning from Boston to New York to Washington, DC and also Pittsburgh. The sounds of hardcore had ripped through all of suburban America. In New York Frankie Bones was pushing Storm Raves which had their final party in 1992. In Pittsburgh in 1991, a shop called Turbo Zen was opened by Joel Bevacqua aka Deadly Buda. Turbo Zen kicked the Pittsburgh rave scene into high gear with the production of Power Rave in 1992 which featured Richie Hawtin, John Acquaviva & Adam X.
Across the Mississippi a man named Kurt Eckes was pioneering the hardcore sound into massive rave productions. Hardcore was a perfect taste for Milwaukee as the town had an insatiable taste for heavy metal, from thrash to death. The promotion headed by Eckes was known as the Drop Bass Network. In Milwaukee it was not rare to see ravers dancing under giant goat heads and pentagrams. People in this area found rave music's most popular drug ecstacy to be "too soft." The drug of choice in Milwaukee was LSD.
With the passing of the Summer of Love, the rise of hardcore and the spawn of the American rave scene there were plenty of people trying to find the style that suited them. Many of the house and techno heads continued to stick to those genres because it was what they knew electronic dance music to be. Groups of New York, San Francisco, and Chicago house music producers continued to either beef up or tone down their productions. During this time artists like Mark Farina continued to provide warmer, more ambient and jazzy sounding melodies as the deep house music scene flourished.
This podcast introduces several deep house tunes from 1991 through 1994. We will embellish on house music and it's role in the rave scene in the coming episodes.
Mystic Phases - Don't You Feel It
Angel Moraes - I Like It feat. Octavia Lamber
Suburban Soul - Do My Thing
Balance - The Dance (Off Da Beat Dub)
Funky Green Dogs - Reach For Me (De Dum Dub)
Mark Walker & Joe Issa - Better Place
Enrico Mantini - Kill & Go
Enrico Mantini - Everday & Night
Bass is Base - The Spirit feat. Syndicate
Last Americas - Look Listen Love (Robotman Mix)
Nick Jones & Acei Carter - Shake It
K.E.L.S.E.Y. - This Way (Deep Mix)
Joey Negro - Feel It
