This posting is a little music lesson: Back in the good old days of the mid and late 80’s, when the electronic music scene of Chicago house already brought a few classics that are still played today and Detroit techno was in it’s infants, the three guys Larry Heard, Robert Owens and Ron Wilson produced the track “Can you feel it” under their synonym Fingers Inc. Released in 1988 the track expresses the feelings and the passion of the whole underground scene, a little movement in the area of Chicago and Detroit that should fastly influenced other musicians in Europe back in these days. Today “Can you feel it” stands for the addiction and devotion of people for house music and Heard, Owens and Wilson are legends of the electronic music of Chicago house.
Unfortunately I’m not allowed to show you the video with the original recording with some photos of the three guys, but I show you how this record still works today. Presented you by no one else than Steve Bug, who - in the video - played it as the last track in his set:
At Sunday, March 30th Larry Heard will be playing an afternoon set in the famous Berghain/Panoramabar in Berlin. I think we can expect an outstanding set of house music, maybe bringing this passion back for a few hours.
That this track also influences producers and musicans can be seen in the outstanding case of the Christian Prommer. The Munich based producer recently released his album “Drum Lessions” on Sonar Kollektiv, where he succesively proves to transform well known tracks of electronic music of the last 20 years into the space of Jazz with the help of drums and percussive elements. Part of this experiment is of course “Can you feel it”. Last Thursday Prommer and his live band were playing in the Lido in Berlin.
The second video shows Prommer and his band performing “Can you feel it” in their interpretation and without losing the charme and the soul of the original. Pretty awesome! The performance was made at the 10th anniversary party of the Sonar Kollektiv record label.
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