Can You Feel It? (Larry Heard song)
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| Single by Mr. Fingers | |
| from the album Washing Machine EP and Another Side | |
| B-side | "Beyond the Clouds" |
| Released | 1986 |
| Format | 12" |
| Recorded | Chicago, Illinois, United States |
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| Label | Trax TX127 |
| Songwriter(s) | Larry Heard |
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30 second sample of "Can You Feel It"
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"Can You Feel It" is a 1986 house record released by Larry Heard (also known as Mr. Fingers). It is regarded as one of the first deep house records. Its seminal impact on deep house has been compared to that of Derrick May's "Strings of Life" (1987) on Detroit techno.
In 2006, Slant Magazine ranked the song at number 51 in its list of the 100 Greatest Dance Songs. And in 2011, The Guardian featured the song as part of its A history of modern music: Dance.
The track was produced using Roland's Juno-60 polyphonic synthesizer and TR-909 drum machine. The Juno-60 produced the six-note bassline, while the TR-909 produced the drumline. Striking pads were also used.
"Can You Feel It" was originally released as an instrumental on Mr. Fingers' Washing Machine EP in 1986 on Trax Records. It became popular in the Chicago club scene and was often mixed with Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech. The song later appeared on the 1988 Fingers Inc. album Another Side.
In 1987, Rhythm Control released a track called "My House," which contained spoken word vocals from Chuck Roberts discussing the feeling and meaning of house music. In 1988, the speech from the a cappella version of "My House" was later used in a remix of "Can You Feel It" and overlaid over Heard's original instrumental (with samples from The Jacksons' "Opening/Can You Feel It" off their 1981 The Jacksons Live! album used in the introduction). This speech version of the track was a bootleg and was dismissed by Heard, who has always been vocal in his disapproval of sampling the work of other artists without their permission. Regardless, this quickly became the most well-known version of "Can You Feel It" Both the instrumental and vocal versions have appeared on many house-music compilations.
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