Deep Soulful House
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Deep Soulful House is warm, vocal, musically rich house with deep chords, jazz/soul harmony, gospel emotion, live-feeling percussion, and patient grooves. It is deeper and smoother than classic vocal house, more songful than minimal deep house, and more spiritually open than many club subgenres. The sound is made for long sets, community floors, and grown-up release.
History
The style developed through New York/New Jersey garage, Chicago deep house, soulful UK scenes, South African deep house, and labels/DJs that prized vocals and musicianship. Masters at Work, Blaze, Kerri Chandler, Dennis Ferrer, Louie Vega, Kenny Bobien, Joi Cardwell, Monique Bingham, Tortured Soul, Miguel Migs, Atjazz, and Osunlade all shaped its vocabulary. It remains one of house music's most durable global scenes.
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Essential listening
Sources
- Pressure Radio soulful house history
- Masters at Work coverage
- soulful/deep house label histories
- Traxsource soulful house references