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So it’s probably the end of the big room sounds dominating festival mainstages all over. After the soulful, groovy sounds of Deep House found an eager audience ready to consume more of the genre and ready to move on from the big room, commercial sounds, Ultra Music president Patrick Moxey, who recently sat down with Wall Street Journal‘s  SpeakEasy to talk about the next big thing in dance music.  And according to him, it’s Deep House.

Taking about the whole thing, he said “The great thing about electronic music is every time people want to put it in a box, it changes. Anytime one part of it becomes commercialized, new parts start to reinvent themselves. It’s in a constant process of refreshment.

Of late, Deep House has been gaining more and more attention in the dance music word, with young producers like Kygo, who’s been championed by Pete Tong himself, Klingande, Dusky and Duke Dumont all getting their due recognition with some really brilliant productions. Kygo of late has been earning a lot of plaudits for himself, after his remix of Ed Sheeran‘s ” I See Fire” and Marvin Gaye‘s “Sexual Healing” saw him being approached by Coldplay front man Chris Martin to make an official remix of their single Midnight.

Read the full interview here

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