Before the misleading Beatport charts, the YouTube videos filled with semi-nude girls and the badly-curated Spotify playlists, deep house actually meant something. Slower tempo, brooding bass, droning ...

This article was originally published in SPIN on November 25, 2013. Way back in the mid-1980s, when the disco gods appeared over the Chicago skyline and proclaimed, “Let there be house,” his acolytes ...