Alex Reece - Feel The Sunshine Mp3

Another classic track from those SPEED days back in 1995 (Fabio and Bukem's night that used to be held down at the Mars Bar on Sutton Row just off Soho Square in London)... It was the Original Mix (http://youtu.be/u0j738ia9lg) that Fabio used to drop down there. In fact I remember hearing it being played several times in a month once, and then several times later on Fabio's Kiss 100 FM show on Wednesday night.

All in all, I still really dig this track... Tough slamming Step-Off beats, Alex Reece's production style really works with that slightly quirky bass line that pumps through the groove. Then the slick, panting vocals of Deborah Anderson kick in... "Listen to me... I feel the sunshine..." repeated over and over again... In my humble opinion they work really well over the top of this driving purcushion... To add to this minimalist arrangment, there is some layering of sparse flute-ish stabs, along with a harmon-muted effect drizzled over the top. In fact, this beat is a very similar beat to the one used on Jazz Juice's "Detroit", which was released on Precious Materials the same year (http://www.discogs.com/Jazz-Juice-Detroit-Back-To-Back/release/70408).

I think at this time in 1995, we could all feel the sunshine down at SPEED... It was holiday from all the Jungle that you couldn't help but hear day in and day out... There we found ourselves grooving to simple Jazz licks like this between 10.00pm and 2.00am every Thursday.