Tune into Dino Michael's radio show "The Godfather's House" on Good Hope FM in Cape Town tonight, Saturday February 2nd, 10pm - 2am (local Cape Town time) to hear an exclusive DJ mix by Lars Behrenroth.

Lars features three exclusives in this set, starting out with a brand new remix forthcoming on Boddhi Satva's "Offering Recordings" as well as two tracks from the next two upcoming Deeper Shades Recordings releases.

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

Yesterday I wrote about the new Traxsource website and showed you how to "FOLLOW" Deeper Shades Recordings and stay updated when I add new releases to the store.

Today you can see how to "FOLLOW" my Lars Behrenroth artist page on Traxsource.com.
Visit my page, login and click the "FOLLOW" button as shown below. This way you never miss anything I'm involved in as an original artist, collaborateur or remixer.

My friends at Traxsource just rebuilt their entire website from the ground up in HTML 5 and I'm really enjoying it. Nice updates, sleek design and intuitive navigation.

You can now "FOLLOW" labels and artists through the new profile pages and be immediately updated when said artists or labels make new music available. This way you have all your favorites in one view.

To "FOLLOW" Deeper Shades Recordings, simply visit the Deeper Shades Recordings label page on Traxsource.com, login and click the "FOLLOW" button as shown below.

There are many other new features for you to explore, for instance you can now create your own DJ Top 10.
Get started by heading over to the Traxsource blog and dive into this post to learn more.

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.

Happy New Year 2013 and all the best for the new year!

I'd like to thank you all for your continued support of my music, radio show, label and other endeavors in which I was involved. The new year is bringing some enhancements to the show, the website as well as the label. Just like you'd expect.

We're starting out with MORE live broadcasts from Deeper Shades Headquarters and what better way to begin than to help you all soothe your hangover.

Join us live at Deeper Shades Studios with music by LARS BEHRENROTH *Deeper Shades Of House* & RITESH *Adult Contemporary* 

THE LOVE HANGOVER
live audio & video stream

January 1st 2013 ...
1pm Los Angeles / 10pm Berlin / 11pm Johannesburg / 4pm New York / Jan 2nd 6am Tokyo / Jan 2nd 8am Melbourne

Live audio & video stream at deepershades.net/live

The video streams work for most mobile devices while the audio stream is for all who are still on Blackberry's or other phones which might not show the video or whose connection is slow.

Party safe, don't drink & drive and don't let your friends listen to bad music!

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.