House classic "Follow Me" could soon become the theme song for an internet phenomenon that has reached the news and is gaining more and more users each day. Microblogging platform Twitter let's you create status updates - limited to 140 characters - to let the world know what you are up to. Receiving these updates is easy, too. Just create your own Twitter account and start following.

You might have seen Twitter updates for my personal account @LarsLB in the right column of this site. Recently I have created a new Twitter account @DeeperShades for posting Deeper Shades of House & Deeper Shades Recordings news, freebies, links to Deep House mixes and much more.

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This is the first batch of Deeper Shades of House wallpapers for your computer and / or your iPhone.
1024x768 | 1280x1024 | 1440x900 (Macbook Pro) | 320x480 (iPhone) <- select your size and save as..

It'd be boring to just post the links to the wallpapers so I give you a bit of background of how edition #1 came about.

Kathy - for those who still don't know, my wife and creative brain behind most artwork and images you see on deepershades.net and Deeper Shades Recordings - discovered wordle.net, a web app that creates pretty cool images based on text used in RSS feeds.
After playing around with it a bit, I posted my first result via my Twitter and my buddy @mika73 suggested it'd make a pretty cool wallpaper. I didn't wanna blow it up in size because it would be quite blurry so he hinted that I should just create different size images with a black background and copy the wordle image in the center of it. Simple and easy and the first sizes (1280x1024 and 1024x768) were completed. Another Twitter buddy @we5 sent me 2 more sizes (320x480 for the iPhone and 1440x900 for Macbook Pro's) after I posted the previous ones and here we are.

The first Deeper Shades of House wallpaper generated out of the text included in the podcast RSS in four different resolutions. These are completely free downloads for you, so get 'em, put 'em on your machines and send 'em to your friends who dig Deeper Shades of House as much as you do. :) ..

{xtypo_dropcap}I{/xtypo_dropcap}n the last two weeks the second highest amount of vistitors to deepershades.net has come from South Africa. More and more people from Johannesburg, Auckland Park, Pretoria, Durban and 44 other cities stopped by to check out the show 'Deeper Shades of House' or the label 'Deeper Shades Recordings'. Thank you to those who have also written me emails and very nice messages on MySpace and Facebook and joined my Deeper Shades of House Facebook group.

I figured why not say "hello South Africa", welcome to deepershades.net and thank you for listening. The plan is to spotlight more countries like this in the next few months.


This image shows you the 'hot' parts of the country. The highest number of visitors ( 305 ) came from Johannesburg.
If you feel like it, let me know what city / country / continent you represent in the comments.

The DEEPER SHADES OF HOUSE T-Shirts in action.

We just added pictures of the second and brandnew design to this gallery.
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THIS PAGE WILL BE UPDATED SHORTLY . MANY NEW STATIONS NEED TO BE LISTED . STAY TUNED

Currently Deeper Shades of House is syndicated on several FM and online radio stations all over the world.

{xtypo_dropcap}M{/xtypo_dropcap}any of you frequent visitors of deepershades.net and avid listeners of my radio show Deeper Shades of House helped me reach yet another magic mark. A few days ago, on October 3rd 2007 to be exact, the Deeper Shades of House Podcast reached over 100,000 downloads since I started making it available on November 14th 2006. This number is according to my statistics at feedburner.com (a service that allows keeping track of your podcasts and other RSS feeds) ONLY INCLUDES ACTUAL PODCAST DOWNLOADS. Not counted are the many many downloads directly from the site deepershades.net.



This screenshot above shows the number of downloads as well as the top 5 shows downloaded. Deeper Shades of House show #185 leads the chart of Item Popularity with 3159 downloads. I know someone blogged about it somewhere :) . . . Followed closely by the 2nd hour of Classic House Special DSoH #200 and so forth. The additional views and clicks in this screenshot show how many people clicked back to the site from the podcast (via Itunes or other podcatchers). Since I redesigned my site those numbers have gone up dramatically and I am sure the possibility to download the guestmixes / 2nd hour of each show is helping as well.

So, if you haven't subscribed to the podcast yet, why don't you consider taking advantage of having the newest shows downloaded automatically to your computer once I uploaded them to the server.


THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH for enjoying what I do and for spreading the word. I know that a lot of people find their way to this site because music lovers like you told them about Deeper Shades of House.