The deep house spectrum ranges from heavily electronic cuts that draw influence from tech house, to tracks inspired by African and South American music, via classic-sounding workouts that doff a cap to soul, funk and disco. Today deep house is more popular than ever, though the sound is arguably harder to define than ever before.
Over the decades that followed, deep house became popular on both sides of the Atlantic, first through the releases of North American producers – think Chez Damier, Ron Trent, Moodymann, Theo Parrish, Kerri Chandler, Dream II Science, Bobby Konders and Frankie Knuckles – and later via British and European artists like DIY, Charles Webster, Sueno Latino, Pepe Bradock, Dixon, Ame, St Germain and Chateau Flight. About Deep House: Deep house can trace its roots back to Chicago in the mid 1980s, when pioneers such as Larry Heard and Marshall Jefferson began to deviate from the more driving 'jacking' sound of early house music by including more melodious, atmospheric and musicallt advanced elements inspired by a combination of jazz, soul and jazz-funk.