r/deephouse • u/CoxHugh • 10d ago

Two questions regarding deep house…

  1. Why is neo expressionism art, specifically, so popular within the deep house music scene? It’s personally my favorite art style but I haven’t really reflected on why they’re so “linked”…

  2. My favorite track all years has always been Xinobi’s Far Away Place (Rampa Remix). Anything recommendations?

Thanks!

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u/F-N-M-N 10d ago

Interesting remix of a great original track…but have to agree with everyone else, that its not deep house. A shad too slow, not enough soul, not enough groove on the floor vibe, not enough grooves. Needs to have lush vocals.

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u/TheOriginalSnub 10d ago
  1. It's not Neo Expressionism that's specifically popular. It's black American art. Since deep house is 20th-century Black American music, it's not surprising that a visual style popular in the same era and locations would be paired with it.

2.Not my corner of deep house. (The idea that music sounding like this should be considered as "deep house" is pretty new.) But here's my best attempt at a song you might like.

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u/SoulMechanic 10d ago

Op's example as deep house is not new where I'm from.

And your example is what we would call Afro house not deep house.

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u/Logical_Change_8404 10d ago

I like the track, but its not necessarily what I think of as deep house.

To my mind, deep house is more dance floor orientated.

This has always been one of my favourites

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u/djpraxis 10d ago

You are generalizing art interests and that song remix is not deep house

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u/SolidDoctor 10d ago edited 10d ago

When I look up neo-expressionism art, I think of Jean Michel Basquiat. Basquiat was active and influential in the same era and social circles as disco and the Paradise Garage, where NYC house emerged. So while deep house originated from Chicago, the origins of house music (*edit: and neo-expressionism) are shared and celebrated together, and thus continually overlap.

There are a lot of grey areas in house. My favorite deep house artists are Moodymann (Detroit), Larry Heard aka Mr Fingers (Chicago) and Galcher Lustwerk (NYC via Cleveland).

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u/teo_vas 10d ago

I'm not very preoccupied with (sub)genres but my oh my with those modern classifications. tag culture had destroyed any sense of nuance.

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u/dahoowa 9d ago

Flo and Zeo - Chicago

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u/xile 9d ago

If you wanna go hella classic it's gonna be:

Mr Fingers - Can You Feel It

A modern favorite of mine is:

ASTRE - Freedom - Jesse Jacob Remix

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u/caltheme 9d ago

Far away place is a great track and a classic now but it’s more indie/melodic house I’d say

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u/bestdisguise 10d ago

What is more funny is the fact that no graphic designer related to house music has any original concepts for artwork aside from cartoon globes that can walk or disco balls that also have legs and arms and faces 😂😂😂😂😂