club culture
8 tracksThe world of nightclubs, DJs, dancers and their rituals in which house, techno and much dance music were made and are judged.
Rhythm
house groove
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What it is
The rhythmic signature of house music: a four-on-the-floor kick, off-beat hi-hats and claps on two and four, at roughly 118 to 128 beats per minute.
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four-on-the-floor
14 tracksA steady kick drum on every beat of a 4/4 bar. It is the pulse of disco, house and most techno: the body always knows where the next beat lands, so everything else can move around it.
off-beat
5 tracksThe points halfway between the main beats. An open hi-hat on the off-beat, the classic house pattern, lifts the groove because it answers each kick drum.
Hear it in these tracks
Yoko Duo, Stimming
Close These Curtains (Stimming Remix)
Stimming wraps Yoko Duo's fragile song in velvet: a slow, organic deep house remix full of soft textures, a hushed vocal and the feeling of a room going quiet.
The Supermen Lovers, Jay Lamar, Jesse Oliver
Moments (Jay Lamar & Jesse Oliver Remix)
The Helsinki duo Jay Lamar and Jesse Oliver stretch Moments, a 2013 single by the French producer behind Starlight, into a warm, unhurried deep house glide of soft chords, rounded bass and wistful melodies.
The Avener, Ane Brun
To Let Myself Go
The Avener wraps Ane Brun's fragile Scandinavian folk confession in a slow, rolling deep-house groove, turning a private surrender into a sunset dancefloor moment.
Solomun
Friends
Nine minutes of Solomun's signature deep house, released on his experimental label 2DIY4: Friends rides a supple, swinging groove and moody chords that keep rising just enough to keep a dancefloor leaning in.
Santé, Richard Judge
Awake
Santé lays a deep, rolling groove under J.U.D.G.E's grave, soulful voice, six minutes of dark-room house that feels like the first clear thought after a long night.
Platinum Doug
Move On (Original Club Mix)
A punchy, no-nonsense club mix from the Swiss house producer Platinum Doug on Enormous Tunes, where a repeated vocal hook and a bouncing bassline push the dance floor forward bar after bar.
Marcus Marr, Nick Murphy
Birthday Card
Nearly eight minutes of sleek, disco-tinged house: Marcus Marr's springy production and bright synths carry Nick Murphy's smoky voice towards a long dancefloor release, the opener of their 2015 EP Work.
Klangkuenstler
Soul Digger (Original Mix)
A rolling tech-house groove with classic house warmth underneath: Soul Digger finds the soul in the machine and keeps the floor moving for almost seven minutes.
Klangkuenstler
Jam Master Jack (Original Mix)
A six-minute house workout from Klangkuenstler's early, groove-first years, built for the long middle stretch of a club night when the floor just wants to jack.
Klangkuenstler, Alice Phoebe Lou
Man On the Moon
KlangKuenstler wraps Alice Phoebe Lou's soft, folk-tinged voice in a warm, unhurried deep house shuffle that feels like a slow drive home under a full moon.
Kele
First Impressions
Kele Okereke opens his after-hours record Trick in a whisper: a cool, late-night house groove about the electricity of meeting someone new, sung with Yasmin.
Kav Verhouzer, BullySongs
Get What You Came For
Sunny deep-house chords and a warm, raspy BullySongs vocal: Get What You Came For is an easygoing dancefloor invitation that never pushes, only pulls you in.
Him_Self_Her, Kieran Fowkes
Gone Too Long (Original Mix)
A slow-rolling deep house groove under Kieran Fowkes' soulful, yearning vocal, the Leicester duo's Crosstown Rebels release made for the last, emotional hour of a night.
Gorgon City, Katy Menditta, WEISS
Imagination (Weiss Remix)
WEISS stretches Gorgon City's Imagination into a six-minute, groove-led house workout for the 2015 remix EP, leaving Katy Menditta's voice to flicker in and out over the bass.
Gorgon City, Katy Menditta
Imagination
A sleek, sunlit house cut where Katy Menditta's soulful vocal floats over a rubbery bassline and crisp garage-tinged drums, built for the moment a club exhales.
FKJ
Lying Together
The neo-house track that introduced FKJ: chopped vocals, warm filtered chords and an elastic bassline wrapped into four and a half minutes of slow-burning, sunlit intimacy.
Claptone, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Ghost
Claptone sets Alec Ounsworth's fragile, quavering indie vocal over a patient deep house groove, a dancefloor track that sounds like it is mourning something.
CLAAP!, S.A.N.T.A.N.A.
Dimanche
A slow Sunday-afternoon deep house cut from a Paris duo's debut EP on La Belle Records, all warm chords, an unhurried beat and Santana's soft vocal drifting in and out of the haze.
Axwell, Max C
I Found U (Radio Edit)
Axwell's piano-lit house anthem distilled to under three minutes: a rolling bassline, a gospel-tinged vocal from Max'C and a chorus built for arms in the air.
Alle Farben, Graham Candy
Sometimes
Alle Farben's sun-warmed deep house meets Graham Candy's quivering, unmistakable high voice in a wistful Berlin summer song about the days that do not go to plan.
Bakermat
The River
'The River' is a short, warm house track from Bakermat's second album The Spirit (2021), a record the Dutch producer built from gospel, soul and folk material: a two-and-a-half-minute sketch of uplift rather than a club epic.
Gorgon City
Hard On Me
Gorgon City's sleek, late-night deep house meets Maverick Sabre's raw, soulful voice on Hard On Me, the closing track of their 2014 debut album Sirens: a plea for gentleness carried by a steady, rolling groove.
Nina Simone
Sinnerman (Felix Da Housecat's Heavenly House Mix)
'Sinnerman (Felix Da Housecat's Heavenly House Mix)' sets Nina Simone's ten-minute 1965 recording of a traditional spiritual about a sinner with nowhere to hide inside a four-and-a-half-minute house groove, for Verve Remixed 2 in 2003.
Klangkarussell
Moments
A warm deep house song from Klangkarussell's 2014 debut album Netzwerk, sung by Will Heard, the English voice of the Austrian duo's UK hit Sonnentanz (Sun Don't Shine).