This article was originally published in SPIN on November 25, 2013. Way back in the mid-1980s, when the disco gods appeared over the Chicago skyline and proclaimed, “Let there be house,” his acolytes ...
Before the misleading Beatport charts, the YouTube videos filled with semi-nude girls and the badly-curated Spotify playlists, deep house actually meant something. Slower tempo, brooding bass, droning ...
Three tracks, all untitled, all iconic enough that any house head will know what you mean if you say, “KMS 49, the B1.” Take your pick, really, depending on the time of night. The A-side cut comes ...