…I have a playlist for lower-tempo house, (refuse to refer to it as downtempo. as that means a million other things), tracks that appear on albums/ep’s that don’t generally fit the tempo of the music I play when I DJ, but that I nonetheless really love. For quality recent tracks in the style you describe above, listen to Derun, Wild Dark or Coeo, which IMO go really well with stuff that’s perceived as being more ‘housey’ like Compost Black stuff.
I have a massive problem with the labelling of this music though… WTF is ‘organic house’? Its basically a lazy way of lumping together anything that is vaguely ADID-related, and has some hippy-house, Burning Man connotation. Problem with that is, it makes people who are predisposed not to like that, completely disregard many really good artists/labels, often based on completely inaccurate biases. I’m totally guilty of this myself too… I’ll not listen to anything that calls itself ‘progressive’ these days, because in my head it is a dilution of what I first heard in 1993 (and was also v different from what was called that in 1999).
Not really sure what I’m trying to say here, except that I much prefer describing music based on the artists that make it, rather than some meaningless tag a Beatport employee has come up with.
Think I first heard the term ‘ethnic house’ in about 1990, probably referring to something like Djum Djum’s ‘Difference’ or something with congas by Fabi Paras 😄
