01 — what this is
what this is — a hand-picked deep house playlist
Deep End Grooves is a listening project maintained by an anonymous curator that would rather keep the spotlight on the records.
The scope is deliberately narrow: deep house, deep tech and minimal deep tech, dub techno, dub lounge. Different rooms in the same building. What connects them is a preference for restraint — music built on repetition and space rather than incident, where the interest sits in the low end, the shuffle of a hi-hat, and the way a chord decays into reverb, rather than in any obvious hook.
Selections are made by hand and by ear. A record from 2012 that sold three hundred copies sits next to something released last Friday; the year is not a useful sorting mechanism. Much of what ends up here surfaced from long sessions in the back catalogues of small labels — Romanian minimal imprints, the long tail of Basic Channel, the deep house operations that have run quietly for two decades without troubling anyone's chart.
The standard is simple. Everything deep. All the time.
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05 — follow
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weekly additions, sleeve notes and the occasional record shot. no reels, no dance edits of someone else's song.
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