Rees Urban from Chicago's 5 Magazine called me sometime in early January for a fairly comprehensive interview. His edited version was printed in the February edition and since beginning of March the 5 Magazine website features the four page 'director's cut' of our interview.
Rees did a great job covering my musical and DJ background, my move to the US, views about DJing and House Music, the Deeper Shades of House radio show, XM Radio, the Deeper Shades Recordings label and much more.

If you're ever in Chicago make sure to grab a copy of this free House Music magazine. 5 Magazine can be found at boutiques, cafes, and stores around Chicago. I also suggest you follow @Chicagourban and @5Magazine on Twitter for some interesting updates.

{xtypo_dropcap}I{/xtypo_dropcap}nauguration Day - January 20th 2009.
Since Barack Obama won the election to become the 44th president of the United States, this day has been highly anticipated and is now only a few hours away.

In celebration of this day you were able to download the Deeper Shades Recordings release 006 "Now Is The Time" by Matt Flores at no charge.
 
1511 people downloaded "Now Is The Time".

The time for free download has now expired, but you can still purchase the track right here for us$1.39 or download the Deeper Shades Ringtone package including 'Now Is The Time'.

"Now Is The Time" is a driving deep house track which features excerpts of Barack Obama's speech in Berlin, addressing 200,000 people before the Victory Column in Tiergarten Park on July 24th 2008.


If you haven't heard Matt Flores' "Now Is The Time" yet, please click on the play button below.
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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.

follow @DeeperShades on Twitter

Are you on Twitter?
Please post your own Twitter account in the comments so I can find more Deep House lovers to follow.

{xtypo_dropcap}M{/xtypo_dropcap}erry Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or what else it might be you are celebrating during these last days of the year 2008.

I hope your year has been healthy, successful & prosperous and 2009 will allow you to continue even stronger.
Lars Behrenroth - Deeper Shades of House 

As a little holiday gift for all members of deepershades.net and the Deeper Shades of House Facebook group I created ring tones based on Deeper Shades Recordings releases for iPhone & Blackberry (and other phones that allow mp3 as a ringtone format).

All ring tones are around 30 seconds long and FREE to download for said members. If you haven't already, you can register right here, then log in and download your ring tones.

The free download period is over, you can soon purchase these ringtones on our site.

Hi everyone,

just a quick heads up that Deeper Shades of House show #273 will not be available on Tuesday Dec 9th since I am still out of town and won't be able to record it on Wednesday. So, this one time only the new show featuring an exclusive guestmix by JOJOFLORES will be available for download and listen as off Wednesday, Dec 10th 6pm PST.

Thank you for your understanding.

{xtypo_dropcap}O{/xtypo_dropcap}n November 4th 2008 the next president of the United States of America will be elected.

In celebration of this day you will be able to download the current Deeper Shades Recordings release 006 "Now Is The Time" by Matt Flores at no charge.

It was an exciting and historic day.
BARACK OBAMA is the next president of the USA!

1099 people downloaded "Now Is The Time".
The time for free download has now expired, but you can still purchase the track right here for us$1.39.


"Now Is The Time" is a driving deep house track which features excerpts of Barack Obama's speech in Berlin, addressing 200,000 people before the Victory Column in Tiergarten Park on July 24th 2008.

If you haven't heard Matt Flores' "Now Is The Time" yet, please click on the play button below.
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You can still purchase the track right here.

A few of you might have already discovered the new link right underneath the LISTEN NOW button, suggesting iPhone users to click if they want to listen to the show.

When I finally got my iPhone a few weeks ago, I realized that with the missing flash player it was almost impossible to listen to the Deeper Shades of House show just by visiting www.deepershades.net.
Of course, you could subscribe to the DSoH podcast, have iTunes sync with your iPhone and then listen to the show using the iPod player, but I wanted something a bit more immediate and something which also allowed new visitors to the site to get a taste of the show right away.

For that reason, I created a simple, fast-loading page that allows anyone with an iPhone to listen to anyone of the listed shows and stream it using wi-fi, 3G and even the Edge network (the latter is quite slow as you might know, so I don't really suggest it). Point your iPhone to http://www.deepershades.net/iphone and click on the desired show.

I also created a phone number for you to call to leave comments, suggestions, and shout-outs. Click on the number and the iPhone will dial it for you. This phonenumber is naturally available for all of you to use, iPhone owner or not. Feel free to leave a message at +1 (419) 844-6217.

If you own another type of smartphone, please let me know if you can stream the show using the same page, or - if you can - provide me with some more information about how I could enable you to listen to the show on your phone.

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.
Please scroll down to purchase.

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