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 dayyou 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".
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.
{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.
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.
This is straight up for the old school heads.
UK DJ Nicky Dungeons compiled a best of mix and video featuring many Acid House classics from 1988 / 1989. Some of the tracks were hits in clubs all over the world, others were pretty particular for the UK scene. Even though I was never lucky enough to check out any of the UK raves back then, I remember the clothes, the dances & the songs from a few parties I got to check out in Germany. I tried to play some Acid House in my hometown back then but that didn't stick. Cuxhaven is just way too small to be cool :)
You can check out the full tracklist of this mash up and links to Nicky Dungeons in the extended.
Wow. This just left me speechless and my mouth wide open in awe.
Carl Craig worked with pianist Francesco Tristano to arrange his compositions for a classical orchestra. The result is stunning and 1h 7min and 45sec long. This concert was recorded on October 18th 2008 at Cité de la Musiquein Paris, France.You can read a more extensive review on Grandcrew.com.
{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 dayyou 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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