In this new Native Instruments video you can get a deeper insight into Marc "MK" Kinchen's approach to his productions, remixes and DJ sets. Marc uses NI's Maschine to chop up a vocal sample and build a remix, then drags the parts straight into Traktor's Remix Decks.
My order for a NI Maschine is going in shortly, I can tell you that much.
I started Deeper Shades Of House show #409 with the Pablo Bolivar & Maurice Aymard remix of "More for the Less" produced by Mario Basanov featuring Jeremy Glenn on vocals. Check out the official music video for the original version below.
The vinyl is out now on Apersonal Music, mp3 and wav will be available on March 4th 2013.
FaltyDL's new single "She Sleeps" featuring Ed Macfarlane is out on February 11th 2013 through Ninja Tune. Enjoy the official music video of this feelgood tune and watch people getting down on their rollerskates in Central Park, NYC
The critically acclaimed awards show, which will take place during the Winter Music Conference in Miami, USA at the end of March, is one of the leading award shows in the Electronic Dance Music scene and after first being nominated in the same category in 2011, this is now my 2nd nomination.
The voting ballot, inviting ALL dance music lovers from anywhere in the world to vote for their favorites, is open until March 1st.
The majority of nominees fall into the commercial side of dance music, so you're not only voting for "Deeper Shades Of House" (Best Podcast category 27) but also for Deep House as a genre you like, considering all other nominated podcasts are either Trance or Commercial House shows.
Please make sure to get your vote counted by clicking the confirmation link in the email you'll receive shortly after voting. Vote >>> www.deepershades.net/idma
Wow, wow, wow. I just came across this highly inspiring live video by Bulgarian producer KiNK, creating a track pretty much on the fly with a simple but super effective set up.
Deeper Shades of House fans know how I feel about KiNK's music and watching this makes my hands sweaty and my heart beat faster. It is another example that as a producer you "just" need to know what tools you're working with, study them inside and out, and you can create amazing tunes.
Check out the video right below.
From the YouTube description:
When I was a kid, I used to create loops on records by sticking tape on the grooves. Recently I found this one and one of the loops inspired me for a live jam. I plugged the turntable into MFB Synth II (the blue box) so I can filter the vinyl. I made a beat with MFB 522 (the red box) and I beatmatched the record to the beats by hand, as the pitch control of this turntable is very limited. In order to get richer sound, I plugged the instruments through a portable Mackie mixer with FMR - RNLA compressor on the inserts and Electro-Harmonix Memory Man with Hazari on the Aux.
As a long time fan I was super excited to see that German DVD magazine "Slices" did a feature on classic producer and house legend Romanthony. Find out about his production ethics, the silence after his collaboration with Daft Punk on "One More Time" and hear a short acoustic version of "The Wanderer".
Check out the video right below.
The dance music portal Resident Advisor's "Real Scenes" feature series potraits the dance music scene in different cities worldwide. After Bristol, Detroit, Berlin and Paris, RA just released "Real Scenes: Johannesburg".
Interviews with Black Motion, Kid Fonque, Jullian Gomes (of Deeper Shades Recordings' "G.Family"), Oskido, Shimza, Black Coffee, Culoe De Song and more describe the status of House Music in SA as well as their appreciation for the city and its scene.
2012 is coming to an end and our friends from Traxsource issued their "Best Of 2012" lists featuring the best selling releases. Deeper Shades Recordings is featured on #20 in the "Top Singles 2012" with Liquideep's biggest song of the year "Feel It". 
The Shur-I-Kan Vocal mix of Liquideep's "Feel It" can also be found on #75 in the "Top 100 Soulful House 2012" alongside Jack Son's "Thrill Her" on #81
To complete the hattrick, Andre Lodemann's of Liquideep's "Feel It" is featured on #28 in the "Top 100 Deep House 2012" 
Panorama Bar resident DJ and music producer Steffi is probably known to most of you Deeper Shades of House listeners for her song "Yours". German DVD magazine "Slices" has produced a nice collection of her views about her own integrity, production, the "rockstar DJ" phenomenon and more.
Check out the video right below.
“When people were going out when I was 20 years old, they were going out to hear this new sound. They wanted to know everything about it,” he says, when I ask how he’s seen things change over the last 20 years. “Today people are maybe not 100 per cent dedicated to it, or some are but the rest are just there to have a good time. And that’s a little bit harder for a guy like me, a weirdo who’s obsessed with this. It’s a criticism of myself, that sometimes I need to be more basic.” DJ Deep interviewed by Tom Banham (2012)
