Deep House
The warmer end. Larry Heard as Mr. Fingers, 'Can You Feel It' and 'Mystery of Love', the chords and the pads, and the records that made house something you could listen to sitting down.
Part of Chicago House
29 moments in this segment.
- - Mr. Fingers - "Mystery of Love". Larry Heard’s foundational deep-house record.
- - Mr. Fingers - "Washing Machine" / "Can You Feel It". The two-sided deep-house cornerstone.
- - Mr. Fingers - "Can You Feel It" (1986). Larry Heard’s "Can You Feel It" is one of the most beautiful and influential records in all of house music, the birth of deep house.
- - Mr. Fingers - "Washing Machine" (1986). Larry Heard’s hypnotic, machine-soul deep-house classic.
- - The It (Larry Heard & Harry Dennis) - "Donnie". A dark, hypnotic deep/acid record.
- - Jungle Wonz - "Time Marches On". Marshall Jefferson & Harry Dennis, deep, spoken-word house.
- - Mr Fingers / The It - "Set Your Mind To It". Larry Heard & Harry Dennis’ deep, dark project.
- - Larry Heard / Mr. Fingers - the deep-house master. A tribute to the man who invented deep house.
- - Mr. Fingers - "What About This Love". Larry Heard’s lush, emotional deep house with Robert Owens.
- - Fingers Inc. - "Distant Planet". Larry Heard’s Fingers Inc., cosmic deep house.
- - Robert Owens - "Bring Down the Walls". Robert Owens’ soulful vocal defined the emotive side of Chicago house.
- - Fingers Inc. - "Can You Feel It" (vocal). The Robert Owens vocal version of the deep-house cornerstone.
- - Kariya - "Let Me Love You for Tonight". A lush, much-loved vocal-house record.
- - Jungle Wonz - "Bird in a Gilded Cage". Name: Jungle Wonz - Bird In A Guilded Cage Label: Trax Records - TX 315 Country: USA /Subgenre: Deep House / Year: 1993
- - Fingers Inc. - "Music Take Me Up". Robert Owens’ soulful vocal house.
- - Mr. Fingers - "Bye Bye". A wistful Larry Heard deep-house cut.
- - Ten City - "That’s the Way Love Is". Marshall Jefferson-produced soulful house, the sophisticated, song-led Chicago sound.
- - Virgo - "Free Yourself". Marshall Jefferson & Adonis’ Virgo project, deep and dubby.
- - Ron Trent - "Altered States" (1990). A teenage Ron Trent’s hypnotic, era-defining deep record.
- - Robert Owens - "I’ll Be Your Friend" (1991). Robert Owens & David Morales, a soaring vocal-house anthem.
- - Vincent Floyd - "I Dream You". Lush, dreamy Chicago deep house.
- - Cajmere ft. Dajae - "Brighter Days" (Underground Goodies). The Cajual/Relief Records sound, Curtis Jones’ deep, soulful second wave.
- - Cajmere - "Percolator". Curtis Jones (Cajmere/Green Velvet)’s "Percolator", a Chicago staple.
- - Cajmere for Dajae - "Brighter Days". Dajae’s soulful vocal over Cajmere’s deep house, a Cajual classic.
- - Mr. Fingers - "Stars". Larry Heard’s lush, jazzy deep house.
- - Glenn Underground - Chicago deep house. A pillar of the deep, jazzy second-wave Chicago sound.
- - Boo Williams - "Home Town Chicago". Relief / Cajual-era deep house.
- - Gemini (Spencer Kincy). The brilliant, prolific, enigmatic Spencer Kincy.
- - Larry Heard / Mr. Fingers. Larry Heard, as Mr. Fingers, brought lush chords and emotion to house, "Can You Feel It" and "Mystery of Love" essentially invented deep house. The subject dates from 1986; this photograph was taken in 2010.
