Can You Feel It (Larry Heard song)
"Can You Feel It" is a 1986 song by Larry Heard, released under the Mr. Fingers moniker and is 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" on Detroit techno. Production. Larry Heard created "Can You Feel It" by using the Roland Juno-60 synthesizer and the Roland TR-909 drum machine. In a 2017 interview with "Vice", he recalled, "I had two cassette decks—there were no digital recorders or even multi-track recorders—and I did  one take, one pass, on one tape, then ran it back to the other one, played some other parts by hand that I wanted to add, and that was pretty much the recording process." Release. "Can You Feel It" was originally released as an instrumental on Mr. Fingers' 1986 EP "Washing Machine". The song later appeared on Fingers Inc.'s 1988 album "Another Side". There are two mash-up versions of the song: one using Chuck Roberts' speech from the a cappella version of Rhythm Control's "My House", and another using Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a  Dream" speech. Impact and legacy. In 1995, American DJ Pierre picked "Can You Feel It" as one of his "classic cuts", saying, "When you hear this it feels like you're on cloud nine. The track uses an organ which is played like strings – long chords which are held and not stabbed. Everyone who hears that song just mellows out and goes back to a time when things were perfect in their lives." Also another American DJ, Joey Beltram chose it as one of his favourites same year, adding, "I also heard this when I was about 14, maybe it  was the following week. Mr Fingers was on the radio being played by the same DJ. It was a whole other vibe." In 2014, "Rolling Stone" included the song on the "20 Best Chicago House Records" list. In 2015, "Pitchfork" placed it at number 76 on the "200 Best Songs of the 1980s" list. Patric Fallon wrote: "Vocalless in its original form, the 1986 single has no hook and eschews all semblance of pop structure, completely surrendering to an endless groove built on jazzy hi-hats and sumptuous chords." In 2017, "Mixmag" included it on the "Best 20 House Classics  from Before 1990" list. In 2018, "Time Out" placed the song at number 5 on the "20 Best House Tracks Ever" list. In 2020, "NME" included it on the "20 Best House Music Songs" list. El Hunt stated that the song is "commonly regarded as one of the first examples of deep house thanks to its meditative, ambient undercurrent." In 2020, "Slant Magazine" placed it at number 68 on the "100 Best Dance Songs of All Time" list.