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The Deep House Soul
Six hours, one DJ, and a vocal that sounds like it came from a church.
Designed rarity: about 11% of takers
You are drawn to the long night and the warm record. House music got its name from the Warehouse in Chicago, where Frankie Knuckles played from 1977 for a room that existed to look after the people in it, and you still go out looking for that feeling. You trust a slow build, you like being in a crowd without being lost in one, and you would rather hear a singer who means it than a drop that was engineered to work.
You tend to arrive early and stay late, because the best part of a deep house night is usually the third hour, when the DJ has earned the room. Larry Heard's Can You Feel It is your kind of record. You like one DJ playing long, a good sound system at a sensible volume, and a floor where people make room for each other. A few rooms in Itaewon do this, and you treat them like home.
Your strength
You hear the difference between a warm record and a merely slow one.
Your blind spot
You can treat the years from 1987 to about 1995 as the standard and hear later records as falling short.
Key takeaways
- Your sound is the long, warm, vocal house night.
- You trust the DJ who builds slowly over the one who peaks early.
- The golden years were real, and so is this year.
Genres to start with
Records to start with
In Seoul
House in Seoul lives mostly in small rooms in Itaewon and Haebangchon, including rooms such as Soap and Modeci that are known for house programming, and the best nights are the ones where one DJ is booked to play the whole thing.
Your first night
Find a night this weekend billed as an all night set or an open to close, arrive at opening, and stay for the first three hours before you decide anything.
Rooms to try in Seoul
- Modeci, Sangsu: A small room above Sangsu where you can hear Detroit and Chicago legends like Patrice Scott play long, patient sets built for real dancers.
- Hertz, Itaewon: This Itaewon room books selectors who dig deep, from John Talabot to local diggers, so you get warm house with real heart and soul.
Rooms to try around the world
- Smartbar, Chicago: You get Chicago house at its source here, with Derrick Carter holding down his long running Queen party in a room that has hosted this music since 1982.
- Sub Club, Glasgow: This Glasgow basement institution has run Subculture for decades, and the low ceiling and famous sound make every soulful vocal feel close enough to touch.
- Joule, Osaka: This Osaka club brings Detroit deep house figures like Marcellus Pittman for full nights, so you hear the music the way it was meant to unfold.
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