Darren Emerson: Underwater Episode 5

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Originally Posted by King of Snake

i think his roots always were in house music...

well if you take the history of house, its roots are in early disco, then electronica (ala Kraftwerk) then Detroit Techno then House, then it diversified (into the over hyped genres of today), any decent DJ should be able to dig into all of those elements to construct a set, and i think Emerson has shown that he can play most sounds. Any Decent DJ is a house DJ at heart.

at the moment i think Emerson is playing the funkier / darker side of 'funky house' from artists signed to his label... if you look at Underwater over the years the output has gone from Tech House, to Commercial, to Funky to the obscurer stuff by Pnau, but the artsist roster is pretty diverse and includes names like Paul Woolford, Paul Jackson, Tim Deluxe, Mutiny & Gus Gus

most of his mix compilations have catered for and utilised the key sounds of the time, take the Techno Mix he did for Mixmag, then the Pyschotrance mix he did a bit later, to the Underwater Episodes...all catering for the sounds of the time...