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Deep house is a subgenre of house music that fuses elements of Chicago house into the 1980s jazz-funk and touches of soul music. In the early compositions (1988—89), influences of jazz music were most frequently brought out by using more complex chords than simple triads (7ths, 9ths, 13ths, suspensions, alterations) which are held for many bars and give compositions a slightly dissonant feel. Later deep house tracks (1993—94) were also heavily influenced by disco and even merged into a disputable disco house genre.^{[citation needed]}

The use of vocals became more common in deep house than in many other forms of house music. Sonic qualities include soulful vocals, slow and concentrated dissonant melodies, smooth, stylish, and chic demeanor. By the late 1990s, deep house also replaced diva house as worldwide gay club music.^{[citation needed]}

Artists, DJs and record labels

Deep house artists and DJs include:

Popular record labels of the genre include Giant Step Records, Lost My Dog Records, Naked Music, Om Records, Peacefrog Records and Seasons Recordings.

See also

• List of electronic music genres

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