First and foremost, we are "pure" Deep House lovers. People who recognise that Deep House is not just a sound or sub-genre of House music, but a way of life, a language, an experience.
Our aim is to bring you that incontrovertible pure Deep House experience through mixes, radio shows and events, whilst occasionally dialoguing with producers, DJs, listeners; you, on topics such as the effect the music has on our being or the psychology of the creative process behind producing a certain track.
Beyond the surface...
"It's an interesting feeling to lose when you feel that you should have won, and others tell you likewise. Frustrating. I am not completely in my pocket and flow here, but I'm not outside of my body either. I am controlled and composed. There is detail and depth in this round that goes beyond the surface layer of house. It's more than a feeling. It's deep house."
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But, what do we mean by "pure" Deep House?
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For some, Deep House is experienced as the intelligent side of House music because of its sensuous and sophisticated warm groove, musical structure, and emotive soundscape through which you can experience a range of feelings and states deeply alongside the need to undulate and/or dance and/or express...something.
Artists who typically produce this sound and experience include BDTom, D.M.P. Da Kine, Fred P, Deepfomin Chaos in the CBD , and much, much more. And, whilst this artist list merely scratches the surface (and we mean merely) the example tracks remain true to the described soundscape and experience (which by the way is not exhaustive), and indicates what pure Deep House feels like to us. Thus, the well-known phrase “House music is a feeling” becomes truer to us through Deep House music as well as its capacity to take us beyond.
But beyond what...?
Well for us, and based on feedback received from others, this beyond can include a certain transcendence of the everyday sense /layer of self (ego) towards a deeper connection with our being (or true selves), signified by the experience of a sense of expansion, awe and joy, and/or grounding and introversion.
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With experiences including feeling the "you' that you are all the more deeply, Deep House can also evoke feelings across the emotional spectrum to include those we may not typically allow such as melancholy, true connection with others, our hearts and bodies and more. Through a depth psychological lens (because we like to go deep) we recognise that allowing ourselves to feel things as they arise, ensuring not to suppress one over the other, is vital to our mental health. And as we relish playing those sounds which evoke feeling across the spectrum whether it be hope and/or melancholy, joy and/or sadness, we feel that music can offer a space and container which facilitates the ability to feel everything. It is at this point that we wonder "is there a way we can evolve our use of Deep House to enable this?"
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With that being said, House music continues to evolve in response to human need, creativity and culture, resulting in the birthing and/or popularisation of sub-genres such as Deep Tech, Afro House and Amapiano in the London House music scene and beyond. Meanwhile, the presence of true Deep House music has diminished at a local level.
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What would it mean to create a space, a movement, a community dedicated to Deep House where "deep" becomes both sound and experience?
Well, The Church of Deep House is dedicated to doing just that.
And with that said, welcome!