{"id":1162,"date":"2025-03-18T13:57:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T14:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wetpainttools.com\/?p=1162"},"modified":"2025-03-20T17:45:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T17:45:55","slug":"valentino-khan-reflects-on-10-years-of-deep-down-low-and-tracks-unexpected-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wetpainttools.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/18\/valentino-khan-reflects-on-10-years-of-deep-down-low-and-tracks-unexpected-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Valentino Khan Reflects on 10 Years of “Deep Down Low” and Track's Unexpected Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

A decade ago, Valentino Khan<\/a> didn\u2019t set out to make a hit. In the quiet hours of a January night, he crafted “Deep Down Low” in his bedroom, blissfully unaware that he was piecing together what would become one of the most inescapable club records of the decade.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Released in 2015 via Skrillex\u2019s OWSLA imprint,\u00a0the track wasn\u2019t originally designed with dreams of mainstage greatness in mind. In Khan\u2019s own words, his only goal was to make something his peers would play at an afterparty.<\/p>\n

But when Miami Music Week rolled around that year,\u00a0“Deep Down Low”\u00a0seemingly took on a life of its own. A flood of support from superstar DJs propelled it onto global dancefloors, eventually making it the most-supported dance record for two years straight, according to 1001Tracklists<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

“Whether you played it at a local bar or the main stage of Ultra, I\u2019m eternally grateful\u2014your love helped catapult what I was doing into a real career,” Khan said in a celebratory Instagram post.<\/p>\n

The track\u2019s hypnotic vocal\u2014a warped, pitch-shifted chant that burrows deep into the brain\u2014became its signature, a defining soundbite of mid-2010s dance music. But its surrealist music video, directed by Ian Pons Jewell, took things even further by searing its twisted energy into visual form.\u00a0<\/p>\n