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 and is still a popular track in the deep house scene today.
"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.
In 1987, Rhythm Controll 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 capella version of "My House" was later used in a remix of "Can You Feel It?" and overlayed 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.
A rarer alternate mix was also made with soul vocals from Fingers Inc. vocalist Robert Owens.
audio link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFuujExs03A
Robert Owens vocal mix
audio link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFbCgnMrV3M
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