the new deep

The kids are alright, don’t worry.

I’ve been thinking about a quasi-style that I’ve been hearing out and about for the last year or two — a mix of early 2000s prog, minimal from five years after than, Tenaglia-style New York “tribal” house, kinda dubby London tech house, etc. I think of this as “the new deep” — sometimes it is boring, some times it is really strong (see Craig Richards’ set at Nowadays Nonstop, say).

I am of the opinion that we’ve got this sound for a few reasons: a reaction to the 2021-2023 Big Tune era, a reaction to the electroclash revival, a way of doing passagework during longer DJ sets, and way of playing well produced, often older records on really nice soundsystems, often on vinyl. It’s worth noting that reaction has happened before — see Communicate in 2001, etc.

The kids also keep making weird things: https://www.zig-zag.fm, https://cosine.club, etc. One of the better things about the LLM apocalypse is that people can in fact “just make things” — which we could do in 2006, but it is faster and weirder now, which is nice.