Chicago Deep House - The Name "Deep House"

The Name "Deep House"

Since these songs were being played and kept "alive", in the house music clubs of Chicago, the term "Chicago Deep House" was given to that style of music. The rationale behind Deep meaning that the more obscure the song, the "deeper" the DJ had to dig into his/her record collection to find that particular song.

"Deep House" were tracks that were not played on any of the radio stations house mixes in Chicago and you only heard these "Deep House" tracks in the clubs. There were also a lot of 'house' tracks that were played exclusively in Chicago only and the only way one could hear those tracks was to be in Chicago at anyone of those clubs. Also, DJ's such as Ron Hardy or Frankie Knuckles could re-edit a track to make it deeper than the original. For example, when Ron Hardy did the re-edit for Nightlife's Unlimited, "Peaches & Prune" that track (the re-edit) became a "Deep House" Chicago style house track. You only heard Ron Hardy's version at the Muzic Box and you could not hear or find the re-edit outside of Chicago during those times.