5 Reasons to Drop Everything and Listen to House Music

Burgess Powell
5 min readMar 12, 2020

House music feels like dopamine. It’s almost guiltily un-intellectual: the bass, the drums, the vocals — repetitive, shallow, or nonexistent. But in spite of (or maybe because of) its simplicity, deep house music can infuse a subway ride with meaning — a long drive to nowhere with pedal-pumping adrenaline.

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Burgess Powell

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