can you love deep house if you hate disco?

[kara]

there seems to be such a great connection between house and disco ... i love deep house, disco drives me crazy after 2 songs ... i mean, some of those disco mixes on DHP main site ... omg total headache.

[i'm gonna be shot for saying i hate disco aint i?]

i mean, really, i like a mix set that combines all sorts of sounds - too much of anythinig is annoying, but skewed to the disco side ... blech. ching ching disco beat blah. but a whole disco set is like a painful punishment IMO.

maybe someone can recommend some good disco mixes .. i'm open to changing my opinion.

[liL Ray]

actually, I find alot of the younger women share your viewpoint...it bugs me out.

['Magic' Juan]

i think they go hand in hand, so no

[dekmusic]

i think they go hand in hand, so no

here here

[Pang]

yes

[liL Ray]

i think they go hand in hand, so noI use to say this, until I thought about it...I cannot play a long disco set for my wife...she starts to yell at me to take that old ass music off!

[kara]

i also feel the same way with 'classics'. we have a weekly classics thang here in dC every sunday and to be honest the music gets on my nerves around the 2nd hour of it, so i always go late b/c they tend to start mixing in some deep house by then.

i mean i love some tracks, same with some disco tunes, but its just so monotonous after awhile - total headache.

deep house, though, see i dont mind 8 hours of some good POJI tunes [though like i said, i prefer a medley of tunes, ranging from rock to house to whatever, i.e. how doug smith of 95 north plays]

[Phyllis Hyman Cherry]

Ive seen this at some parties.The younger circle freaks back packs in tow sit down when disco come on.I dont get either Ray im 29 and i live disco and classics.You know what it is,i think it depends on how early you were exposed to the music.My uncles were djs so when i been listening to dance music since i could walk.More importantly while i respect kara's position alot of house music just doesnt stack up to disco.Disco was about exquisite production,not someone sitting in a studio just making a mind numbing track to get drones to dance to it.

[kara]

so anyway, like i said, i'd LOVE some good suggestions of 'disco' themed mixes from some disco experts on here

[Phyllis Hyman Cherry]

Yeah anyway like you said keep it cute sweetie.

[kara]

Ive seen this at some parties.The younger circle freaks back packs in tow sit down when disco come on.I dont get either Ray im 29 and i live disco and classics.You know what it is,i think it depends on how early you were exposed to the music.My uncles were djs so when i been listening to dance music since i could walk.More importantly while i respect kara's position alot of house music just doesnt stack up to disco.Disco was about exquisite production,not someone sitting in a studio just making a mind numbing track to get drones to dance to it.

i never heard 'dance' music of any kind, or not in any large amount, until i was 18. that was 1992. :) i got into house while i lived in Atlanta during college, between '92-'96. then really heard and learned about deep house once i move to DC after that.

[djklas]

there's nothing wrong if you don't like it.... how can a personal music preference be wrong?

[djklas]

i never heard 'dance' music of any kind, or not in any large amount, until i was 18. that was 1992. :) i got into house while i lived in Atlanta during college, between '92-'96. then really heard and learned about deep house once i move to DC after that.

I got into house music around the same time.... at that time I really thought that I did not like disco and drew no parallels between the two.... I later started buying some records to sample for house tracks and started to like some of the songs on their own.... then I heard some of these songs played in a party people environment and realized that disco didn't have to equal cheese.... just like any genre the digger you deep the more stuff you will find that you like.... same with house or anything... my musical tastes have definitely been a journey... I didn't like everything I like now when I started out.... that's for sure...

[JR JAM]

so anyway, like i said, i'd LOVE some good suggestions of 'disco' themed mixes from some disco experts on here

Check out 'Lil Mo Disco' by me :biggrin:. It's on the main page under G-Man presents.

[Christophe]

No problem, if you don't like it, where's the problem. But if you're curious, just ask yourself, what 'classic' or 'disco' songs you really like? That's the best way to start imo

[simon b]

Depends on which disco you are talking about. If it's the usually tacky and base record company marketing term "disco" or the amazingly lush and percussive mixture of uptempo R&B, Orchestral and Latin that's just wicked dance music "disco."

I'm not a fan of the term, precisely because too many people always assume it's the former.

[deepsouth]

thank god for disco, or we wouldn't have house.

you have run of the mill disco and then you have the bomb ass underground disco.

to me, the bee gees are a bad example of disco.

[Doug]

deep house, though, see i dont mind 8 hours of some good POJI tunes [though like i said, i prefer a medley of tunes, ranging from rock to house to whatever, i.e. how doug smith of 95 north plays]

:blush: :hug:

[kara]

:blush: :hug:

DC misses you (and needs you) greatly.

*sniffles*

[Armento]

like what you like kara.... just know there is great music in every style... I share your ADD


listen to the 3 hour long Ron Trent birthday mix somewhere in the archives.

[Charliee]

Lloyd Dev, Dj Izrail, Boo Williams - RHC on the Mainpage. Heat!

[Dolemite73]

I think you can love deep house, but not like disco. I like disco, but only in small doses. Too much of it gets on my nerves as well.

[kara]

I share your ADD

i know, heh heh, tis why i like you.

[ebot9000]

I'm not sure most systems are really tuned right for 70's disco records any more.

Current music packs in so much more bass and is mastered so loud that i'm guessing club systems aren't tuned right for older music, where the bass is kept quieter (helped reduce hiss and noise caused by tape and analog systems). I find that older records can sound a little harsh in clubs sometimes, but I'm guessing clubs in the 70s pumped the bass up so that shit kicked hard.

Any takers on this?

btw, I recommend this mix by DJ Whyteout called "Not The Same 30 Disco Tunes" I don't know where it is, but maybe someone on here can host it..

[The White Shadow]

i also feel the same way with 'classics'. we have a weekly classics thang here in dC every sunday and to be honest the music gets on my nerves around the 2nd hour of it, so i always go late b/c they tend to start mixing in some deep house by then.

i mean i love some tracks, same with some disco tunes, but its just so monotonous after awhile - total headache.

deep house, though, see i dont mind 8 hours of some good POJI tunes [though like i said, i prefer a medley of tunes, ranging from rock to house to whatever, i.e. how doug smith of 95 north plays]

It's funny to read you saying that, cause I think quite the opposite. I can listen to Classics for years, but more than about 2 hours of straight House and I get bored cause I think it gets too monotonous, and I think most House tracks aren't as memorable as the old stuff. Most of the new stuff is.. in one ear, then out the other, then I forget about it. It's just a matter of personal taste tho I guess, but I do find it a little weird that people who likes House don't like the classics since a lot of the new stuff's just sampling the old anyway, and often the difference is just harder drums on the House versions, but to each his/her own, and variety is always good regardless :)

[Adam Cruz]

it's not about disco vs. deep house. we all are lovers of the boom chi boom chi.

That transcends any genre. :D

[emuzik]

That depends on what you call" deep house "this has been brought up before i do believe.to me Deep house is house that has a jazzy feel IMO. i.e the music that is made by these peeps "Needs, G U, ron trent,and blaze some examples.

[Bongo Rock]

It's funny to read you saying that, cause I think quite the opposite. I can listen to Classics for years, but more than about 2 hours of straight House and I get bored cause I think it gets too monotonous, and I think most House tracks aren't as memorable as the old stuff. Most of the new stuff is.. in one ear, then out the other, then I forget about it. It's just a matter of personal taste tho I guess, but I do find it a little weird that people who likes House don't like the classics since a lot of the new stuff's just sampling the old anyway, and often the difference is just harder drums on the House versions, but to each his/her own, and variety is always good regardless :)

:thumbsup:

[The Crazy Life That Is Alarick T]

there seems to be such a great connection between house and disco ... i love deep house, disco drives me crazy after 2 songs ... i mean, some of those disco mixes on DHP main site ... omg total headache.

[i'm gonna be shot for saying i hate disco aint i?]

i mean, really, i like a mix set that combines all sorts of sounds - too much of anythinig is annoying, but skewed to the disco side ... blech. ching ching disco beat blah. but a whole disco set is like a painful punishment IMO.

maybe someone can recommend some good disco mixes .. i'm open to changing my opinion.
Yes IMO. I know people who feel the same way you do...

[Chris Chase]

I later started buying some records to sample for house tracks and started to like some of the songs on their own.... then I heard some of these songs played in a party people environment and realized that disco didn't have to equal cheese....

YES! I have had a similar experience where I started buying older music just to sample and realized that some of that older music is excellent. I have turned around from a sampling focus to an actual songwriting focus in part because of the classics!

[Myron]

I think people's feelings towards Disco depends on how they are exposed to it. While New Yorkers and Chicagoians deep heads see both as connected, people coming at it from other areas don't. There's a lot of people who are deep into Disco who don't particularly care for Deep House.

Myron

[Chris Conrad]

how do you explain the many many people who found house in its prime from around 1988 onwards? when i got into 'house' back then, nobody was forcing classics down my throat like they do now...

or other house jocks, progressive jocks who maybe have been into this for just as long...i've seen disco classics in their collections, but strangely, no 'deep' house...hhmmm....